Alf's Special Christmas (1987)
First of all, I'd like to send a very special "thank you, but I thought we were FRIENDS" to Jeff Burns for sending us the link to this delightful holiday classic. I actually remember seeing this when it first aired. Hey, I was a child of the 80's, and Alf was a part of that. I remember Gordon Shumway, Melmac, and even that music video he made for the Tanners' daughter. I have good memories watching this show as a child. Yes, Virginia, children are stupid. That editorial, by the way, gets read twice during the special. It's the abridged version you hear everywhere, of course, with all the great fairy references omitted. The "plot" of the hour-long special revolves around Alf getting in a fight with the Tanners and winding up trapped in the back of a van with a bunch of Christmas presents on their way to the hospital. He winds up getting handed over to a dying girl, who teaches him the true meaning of melodrama in a long, drawn out, sapp