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.
Anyone remember the Animated Series where we learn Alf's name is Gordon? Anyone? I can't remember if it actually ended with the destruction on Melmac (which would be incredibly on-theme for this vid) or if it just foreshadowed it, but I distinctly remember images of the planet exploding.
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
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.
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
Last Man on Earth was meant to end with the characters meeting another group that had been living in the bunker. But that other group would be carrying the virus that killed everyone, so once they took their masks off, the virus would've killed them.
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.
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!!!
Shout Factory has released all but one episode uncut along with the animated ALF and ALF Tales series, and the Project: ALF TV movie in a DVD set. The episode "Try to Remember" originally started with ALF getting amnesia from accidentally dropping an electrical appliance in the bathtub. Because of concerns that children might try to copy this, the episode was altered in subsequent airings so that ALF gets amnesia from hitting his head. Apparently Shout Factory was unable to locate a high quality copy of the original version of the episode so went with the second version. You should also avoid the Project: ALF Blu-Ray put out by Liberation Hall, as they cropped the top and bottom of the image off so that it would be 16:9 (modern TV aspect ratio) rather than 4:3. They also did the same thing to the 1990s RoboCop TV series. And they once released an anime in Japanese with no English subtitles, instead including a PDF on the disc you were supposed to print out and read along with the show. That's just about the most braindead thing I've ever heard of a company doing.
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.
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.
Someone (I think Fusco) talked about what they were going to do if the series had been given another season, which was to have ALF interacting with on the military base, writing the Tanners out of the show..
@@KasumiKenshirou it is really sad that regardless of if season 4 got a proper ending or if it was a movie like what we got, the tanners get written out. Like i know the cast wanted out and the creator was an asshole to work with, but as someone who grew up watching this as a kid with really fond memories of the show it really is a bummer that it was never intended for Alf to ever get to live happily with the Tanners OR get back together with Rhonda in space.
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!
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).
Yeah, that's what I assumed when I watched it. This kind of crap with unresolved cliffhangers happened all the time back then, too, so I was disappointed but not surprised when the show didn't come back for another season. What I've read in the years that followed was that if there had been another season, ALF would've stayed on the military base rather than go back to the Tanners, since they were running out of ideas for stories about ALF in the Tanners' house. (All the other actors being miserable probably contributed to the decision as well.)
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, UA-cam you can almost hear the music from Mario games it’s everywhere!!
This is where fan fiction comes into play. In my head cannon, Alf's family were escorted away but were then contacted by Alf's friends! Together they come up with a plan to save Alf and at the end of it all, it truly is goodbye. And hey! to add to this I had brought in the VAs from the animated series to play the roles of his Melmac family, let the viewers know that they made it too! It could be a interesting if brief meeting of Alf's two families before Alf leaves forever.
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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.
Cartoon shows and sitcoms ending on a cliffhanger is the saddest way to finish a series and heck I know a lot of shows that ended with cliffhangers.
Sounds like NBC didn't care that they were punishing the fans all they cared about was punishing the creators for making them mad
Moral: Have season finales be open ended like Futurama.
Yeah, I don’t know about that. They should’ve discussed with the network if it was a good idea to end the show like it.
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.
Nah was the best imo Death always comes and tbh as i got older he kinda gave me a
stranger danger vibe,
Crash Bandicoot 4 from 2001 or the one from 2020?
If ending things on a cliffhanger meant there’s so many questions left unanswered, then maybe Alf’s one of those examples.
That's what I call a 'cliffhanger'! At least Mork and Mindy didn't end up like Alf with it's finale. Dinosaurs did similar but with everyone all dead.
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).
SPOILER ALERT Yeah dinosaurs ends with everyone dying
Yet Dinosaurs aired 7 more episodes after the ABC finale aired that premiered in syndication. But it was still the last episode filmed.
@@stephenholloway6893Like the SpongeBob SquarePants movie canonically being the end of the series, but every subsequent season takes place before it.
@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 grandfather liked Alf back in the day. Gosh, I miss him.
Him or Alf?….
@@Stroyer09 My grandfather.
Anyone remember the Animated Series where we learn Alf's name is Gordon?
Anyone? I can't remember if it actually ended with the destruction on Melmac (which would be incredibly on-theme for this vid) or if it just foreshadowed it, but I distinctly remember images of the planet exploding.
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
It’s funny that you mention that show…
Tune in next Saturday. 🙂
What is it with puppet shows and unsolved cliffhangers? I am still waiting for season 2 of Dark Crystal Resistance Netflix!
I hate it when show do cliffhangers but ended up getting cancelled.
Cello Green: There's our story Alph's dead. *American Dad reference to Hot Water*
Well done
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.
ALF did have a dark season finale and cliffhanger
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
This reminds me of the ending to “Last Man on Earth” as both shows end with our main characters in danger and no new season to tie up the loose ends
Last Man on Earth was meant to end with the characters meeting another group that had been living in the bunker. But that other group would be carrying the virus that killed everyone, so once they took their masks off, the virus would've killed them.
2:50 : And he's not the only one!
I learned something new today
ALF one of the best TV sitcoms about a puppet alien got the worst ending of television since ever.
the way it's shot makde it seem like they got screwed over by a cliff hanger. not that it was the actual finale to the series.
I say as much in the video.
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.
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!!!
Shout Factory has released all but one episode uncut along with the animated ALF and ALF Tales series, and the Project: ALF TV movie in a DVD set. The episode "Try to Remember" originally started with ALF getting amnesia from accidentally dropping an electrical appliance in the bathtub. Because of concerns that children might try to copy this, the episode was altered in subsequent airings so that ALF gets amnesia from hitting his head. Apparently Shout Factory was unable to locate a high quality copy of the original version of the episode so went with the second version.
You should also avoid the Project: ALF Blu-Ray put out by Liberation Hall, as they cropped the top and bottom of the image off so that it would be 16:9 (modern TV aspect ratio) rather than 4:3. They also did the same thing to the 1990s RoboCop TV series. And they once released an anime in Japanese with no English subtitles, instead including a PDF on the disc you were supposed to print out and read along with the show. That's just about the most braindead thing I've ever heard of a company doing.
Why does Paul look like Bob Odenkirk
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.
Late but I believe its not been confirmed if the gumball movie had been canceled I actually think there is gonna be another series for Gumball
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.
Someone (I think Fusco) talked about what they were going to do if the series had been given another season, which was to have ALF interacting with on the military base, writing the Tanners out of the show..
@@KasumiKenshirou it is really sad that regardless of if season 4 got a proper ending or if it was a movie like what we got, the tanners get written out. Like i know the cast wanted out and the creator was an asshole to work with, but as someone who grew up watching this as a kid with really fond memories of the show it really is a bummer that it was never intended for Alf to ever get to live happily with the Tanners OR get back together with Rhonda in space.
Music used at the end Please?
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!
The narrator sounds like Alf.
when i was a kid AUGH-
Pardon me, but is that Pac man world rally music that I hear? Good choice for this video
Didn’t that Project ALF movie in 1996 resolve the cliffhanger in the series finale?
Why don't you watch the video?
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).
Yeah, that's what I assumed when I watched it. This kind of crap with unresolved cliffhangers happened all the time back then, too, so I was disappointed but not surprised when the show didn't come back for another season. What I've read in the years that followed was that if there had been another season, ALF would've stayed on the military base rather than go back to the Tanners, since they were running out of ideas for stories about ALF in the Tanners' house. (All the other actors being miserable probably contributed to the decision as well.)
I wish you would have listened to the bullies in high school
Never heard of that band.
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, UA-cam you can almost hear the music from Mario games it’s everywhere!!
This is where fan fiction comes into play. In my head cannon, Alf's family were escorted away but were then contacted by Alf's friends! Together they come up with a plan to save Alf and at the end of it all, it truly is goodbye. And hey! to add to this I had brought in the VAs from the animated series to play the roles of his Melmac family, let the viewers know that they made it too! It could be a interesting if brief meeting of Alf's two families before Alf leaves forever.
Sorry but "tries to eat cats" = "not fit for this world." Period.
If Alf tried to eat my cat. I’d sell him out to the government, too
Give him a break he's a space dog.
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Sopranos finale was worse.