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The way Alf ended reminds me of how Woody’s Roundup ended (albeit under different circumstances and with Alf of course being a real show). Both shows ended with a two parter finale where the second part was never released, despite part 1 stating that it would be released. It makes me wonder if the writers of Toy Story 2 were directly inspired by Alf when they came up with the backstory behind the Woody’s Roundup show.
*OH MY GOD.* Okay, normally I'd be *totally* in on kids learning heavy shit, but you have to handle it with tact. Dinosaurs, for instance, had everyone freezing to death at the end but it made sense because the rest of the show dealt with heavy subject matter within the context of its world. Blue's Clues dealt with none of that, but it also treated kids with enough dignity that its finale with Steve leaving for college hits harder. This is like Dora the Explorer ending with the government rounding up her family and talking monkey out of nowhere.
Then it's coming back it'll never just fucking REst in peace and tbh i just wished we never got the 3rd Reboot of the series. i loved the Radio Show they did as it was supposed to be The Last Futurama media for a long time well not anymore.
In my opinion this is one of the most depressing series finales ever, when I finished the series and watched the finale I felt really sad. This literally is one of the worst ways to end a series ever, especially when it’s a very light hearted series like ALF, and since the finale ALF has not really been able to be as big as he was in the 80’s aside from ALF’s Hit Talk Show which lasted only 6 episodes, some appearances on Mr. Robot, the Crash Bandicoot 4 reveal (for some reason) and others, a failed live action/animated movie by Sony Pictures Animation and Jordan Kerner, and a failed sitcom reboot. I hope one day we see ALF in a big project again cause I personally like this character but with Fusco I don’t know if we ever will.
Dinosaur's finale also works because the show, while still having lots of wacky dinosaur sitcom antics, did tackle heavy subject matters with tact from time to time. So ending off the series with a 'green aesop' about the dangers of pollution and climate change doesn't feel entirely out of left field. ALF, on the other hand, was mainly a simple wacky sitcom that occasionally had a more mature episode, like one of the Christmas specials, but those were few and far between I'd say. Plus, from what I recall, the first part of the finale is still the same lighthearted antics the show's known for, so the ending would've definitely been a huge swerve for them (even if the plan was always that it'd be a two-parter).
@Scott Grant Sort of. If they produced SpongeBob movie last but if they made the episodes after the movie then no. Whatever was the last thing they did regardless of airdate is the finalie.
my name is Earl got the same treatment the network had told Greg Garcia it was going a head with a 5th season so he did a cliffhanger ending then nbc went back on their word thus ending the whole series on a cliffhanger
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I wish they could still do Alf right have the Tanners replaced by actors who looked like the original family movie would be filmed as back in Time. In 1989. It would have Alf get rescued by the Tanner’s and as they go on a adventure across country avoiding area 52 agents to get Alf a presidential pardon so he could live on earth in peace. The ending would have Alf Rhonda and a couple other of his Alien friends living in a house together with the tanner family nearby. Also, at the ending Alf would explain all the things he was able to do like getting on different TV shows is because he got the presidential pardon and became a celebrity!
I’ve only seen some clips of the live action show I’ve only know about it though the animated series with the most catchiest theme song I have ever heard
Bottom line, NBC were complete assholes & robbed us of a proper ending, all because of low ratings!! I remember getting excited when my mom first told me about Project ALF, & I saw the tv ad for it. Then I watched it, & yeah, I agree, it sucks! I don't accept it as canon, even with the uber depressing ending of the series. Then, after getting screwed by NBC, we ALF fans got screwed over by Lionsgate Entertainment, too, after they'd bought the rights to ALF & released the DVD sets. Once again, we got excited, thinking that we had the entire series to watch whenever we wanted. Until we actually watched the episodes, & realized that these weren't the original versions of the episodes, but heavily edited, & chopped up, syndicated versions of the episodes with tons of scenes missing. Hell, in the episode Wild Thing, the scene of Willie building the wooden cage for ALF, shows up in the end credits, but is nowhere to be found, in the episode. Then they didn't even release the full series of either ALF: The Animated Series, or ALF Tales!! Now, all I want is to finally get that ALF reboot. PLEASE!!!
I'm honestly amazed that after all this time, no information at all about what the final episode was supposed to be like has ever surfaced. Like to the point I want to put on my Tin Foil hat and say the creator never even had a plan for the final episode. Like its wild to me that at no point in any interviews, fan events, anything that none of these actors/writers/directors have said anything about what was supposed to happen in the second part of the two part finale. Like I know Project Alf wasn't it, there is absolutely no way they planned on writing the tanners out of the second part of the episode completely. They would have been involved with helping Alf in some way, shape or form. Like I know we will never get the episode, it wasn't made and at this point I wouldn't want it to be made this many years later. It just wouldn't feel right. But like I want to know if the creator had any sorts of plans for what the plot of that next episode was gonna be about. I just wanna know how the show was supposed to end.
4:00 It was a season ending cliffhanger. Except the show was canceled. I'm not sure why "older fans" like Rodney C would have tuned in the following week expecting part 2 because part 2 was never intended to air the following week. Only an extremely young child or someone who knew nothing about television would have been expecting the conclusion to be the following week. Part 2 would have been the season premiere the following fall, if it hadn't been canceled. I was 10 and I knew that it was the season finale. What I didn't know was that the show wasn't going to be coming back the following season (not week).
After the last episode I looked for the 2nd part for the next couple weeks. Then figured they show it in the next season that didn't happen. I enjoyed the movie project Alf. But it would had been good to see the tanners one more time though.
Low ratings didn't get ALF canceled, it made it in the Top 20. It was a matter of agendas over numbers. According to Paul Fusco, an Antitrust Act that prohibited major networks from owning 3rd Party shows that they put on the air got repealed around 89-90, it shook up the entertainment industry, for they had the power to build their own production studios to produce & distribute their own entertainment IP. NBC Studio Productions was established, & they produced The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as their flagship show replacing ALF's time slot permanently. Brandon Tartikoff told Fusco that ALF might not come back for a 5th Season because of the network's new agenda for the upcoming decade - the 90s, so it was he who made the final order to end the series with a 1-hr special that would resolve the cliffhanger since he was stepping down as NBC's President, so Fusco was highly aware of NBC's ambitious enterprise in moving forward with their new venture capita. Tartikoff's successor was the one responsible for breaking Tartikoff's final order to produce the 1-hour finale special because NBC doesn't own ALF, and they're fed up with Paul Fusco & his creative control anyway, so they were happy with the leverage they had total revenue worth. That's why ALF got really cancelled.
Honestly somethings never change, and now Id like to mention the amazing world of gumball rather grim that all of them basically got sucked into a void where they are no longer needed and thus discarted forever since as far as I know the movie for the finale was CANCELLED. So yeah they are still trapped, lost, ugh.
Yeah, I am disappointed in the cancellation of Alf totally agree with the video. Another thing that I noticed how come every video seems to have some sort of super Mario reference. Super Mario has saturated, RU-vid you can almost hear the music from Mario games it’s everywhere!!
