Thursdays With ALF

Preamble:

I wanted to call this new segment Growing Up Gen X until I found a blog with that exact title (good stuff btw). So now I’m trying to come up with another sweet name because I want to be individual like everybody else.

So here are a couple of potential names for your perusal:

The Gen X Generation

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Gen X Living

Gen X Flashbacks

I kind of like the first one, but none are as good as my first choice. Help?

Preamble over.

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How many of you can tell me what A.L.F. stands for? Give yourself double bonus points if you said alien life form. Call yourself my potential soul mate* if you said one of the most beloved TV shows from the late 1980s.

I loved ALF. The show only lasted four seasons but gave me lots of laughs. Besides Garfield, ALF was probably my first mentor in sarcasm, wit, and observing the quirks of human behavior which just happen to be three of my favorite things. I wasn’t exactly a Mary Poppins type of kid.

ALF aired Thursdays at 8, but we always missed it because that was the time each week when my sisters and went with our mom to clean a doctor’s office. Fortunately we had a VCR by then so we designated a blank VHS and recorded the show. We’d race into the house and watch the evening’s episode before getting ready for bed. I actually still have a tape I made of the one hour movie special in which ALF gets amnesia and thinks he’s a salesman for Michigan Life Insurance.

I bet you haven’t thought about ALF this much in a long time. Actually, most people probably never thought this much about ALF ever.