Answer: Willie Tanner
Willie says that they have an ALF, or Alien Life Form, who crashed into their garage while Willie was in the middle of talking on his HAM radio.
From Quiz: Life in the Tanner Household
Answer: The Mayo Lodge
Since Mr. Schumway works in a mayonnaise mine, all the workers belong to the Mayo Lodge.
From Quiz: Clams Never Sang for My Father
Answer: Janet and LaToya
Cinderella spoofs Elvis movies. Her father met Tilly, the stepmother, in the frozen food aisle.
From Quiz: Alf Tales
Answer: Bob and Flo
Hi and Lois are a couple from newspaper comics. Rick and Rhonda are Gordon's friend and girlfriend, respectively. Ralph and Frieda are the parents of Rick Fusterman, one of Gordon's friends.
From Quiz: 'Alf' Cartoon
Answer: Kate's perfume
Everytime someone sprayed it with bug spray, it grew. ALF lucked out when he killed it with Kate's perfume.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Trivia
Answer: Alien Life Form
Alf is an alien. Paul Fusco voiced Alf for 34 episodes. When Alf made appearances, he was sometimes credited as Gordon Shumway, but Paul remained his voice.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Quiz
Answer: September 22, 1986
Just imagine how the Tanner family felt when that spaceship crashed landed on their roof. I really think that the reason for the great success of this show was due in part to the cute little alien!
From Quiz: The Melmackian Quiz
Answer: "Mom has a mean headlock!"
Gordon didn't want to go; he thought the whole thing was silly. But his mom demanded that he do it for his dad, who had wrestled the clam but couldn't make it sing.
From Quiz: Clams Never Sang for My Father
Answer: He stuttered
Rick even stuttered when he wrote: "D-d-d-d-dear D-d-d-d-dad."
From Quiz: 'Alf' Cartoon
Answer: Sold the gold from his spaceship
The car was $90,000.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Trivia
Answer: Melmac
The name of Melmac is an inside joke, referencing dinnerware from the 1950s.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Quiz
Answer: Alien Life Form
The show was titled "ALF", however, in the very first episode, the Tanners need to give him a name. Since he was an Alien Life Form, they called him ALF.
From Quiz: The Melmackian Quiz
Answer: San Fernando Valley, California
The Tanner family resided in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles in beautiful, sunny Southern California.
From Quiz: Life in the Tanner Household
Answer: Shovel saw it on Rumpelstilskin's vanity license plate
Rumpelstilskin does dance around and sing his own name, but Shovel can't hear him because the windows are closed. He tries to trick Rumpelstilskin with the "Package for you; sign here please" trick, but Rumpelstilskin signs as "Gnarl Dwarf Enterprises." I just threw in the one about the spinning guild for the fun of it.
From Quiz: Alf Tales
Answer: East Velcro
The Schmidlap Family, rejected 'Wheel of Cheese' contestants, were from Methanol Falls.
From Quiz: 'Alf' Cartoon
Answer: "Cats"
ALF thought it was weird to be going to a musical. The actors just break out into song. Willy said, "Hence the term musical."
From Quiz: 'ALF' Trivia
Answer: Gordon Shumway
Once he was living with the Tanners for a little while, he started to tell them about his life on Melmac. One of the things he told them was that his name on Melmac was Gordon Shumway.
From Quiz: The Melmackian Quiz
Answer: Wrestle a clam and make it sing
There are warm-up tasks, but the ultimate task in the clam-wrestle.
From Quiz: Clams Never Sang for My Father
Answer: He turns them into adoring teenage groupies
The ginii looks and sounds like Johnny Carson in his Carnak the Magnificent turban.
From Quiz: Alf Tales
Answer: A shoe phone
Curtis found the winning card for the Spy Club Sweepstakes Adventure. Gordon found James Bonzo's shoe phone.
From Quiz: 'Alf' Cartoon
Answer: "Haaa... I kill me!"
Everytime ALF made himself laugh, he said, "Haaa... I kill me!"
From Quiz: 'ALF' Trivia
Answer: Rhonda
Lisa Buckley played Rhonda, she was also off camera for more than twenty episodes, as Alf's assistant.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Quiz
Answer: Paul Fusco
According to the the website, ALF Online, the voice of ALF was done by Paul Fusco. Another interesting fact about this show is that although Paul Fusco was the voice of ALF, he was also one of the creators of the show.
From Quiz: The Melmackian Quiz
Answer: It was destroyed by a nuclear war.
ALF's planet was destroyed by nuclear war. It may be a sign of the fears of the times as it aired in the late '80s towards the end of the Cold War.
From Quiz: Life in the Tanner Household
Answer: Moot Point
Everyplace on Melmac has an odd name.
From Quiz: Clams Never Sang for My Father
Answer: Roger Cohen, Network Executive
Roger Cohen, Network Executive, often appears as Gordon is introducing the episode, spouting lines like, "Our research shows that less than 2% of our audience actually live in the Dark Ages."
From Quiz: Alf Tales
Answer: Rhonda
Rhonda also played the female lead in the 'Alf Tales' series.
From Quiz: 'Alf' Cartoon
Answer: Wayne Schlagel; Michigan Life and Casualty
Everytime someone called him ALF, he'd say, "Wayne Schlagel; Michigan Life and Casualty."
From Quiz: 'ALF' Trivia
Answer: Tanner
The Tanners kept Alf hidden from the people in the outside world because he was an alien.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Quiz
Answer: Rhonda
ALF also had another friend on planet Melmac, aside from Rhonda being his girlfriend, his best friend was Skip.
From Quiz: The Melmackian Quiz
Answer: Gardener
It was revealed in the series that ALF was a gardener on Melmac. He wasn't on the planet when it was destroyed because he was fulfilling his duties as a member of the Melmac Orbit Guard.
From Quiz: Life in the Tanner Household
Answer: He had failed at all the tasks and shamed his father.
Rick even stutters when he writes: "Ddddear Ddddad, I'm a fffailur. Ggggoodbye cccccruel Mmmmmelmac. Rrrrrrick."
From Quiz: Clams Never Sang for My Father
Answer: that they all go bowling
Going bowling ruins the prince's plans to start his career as a comic, because it makes him miss "open mike night" at the comedy club.
From Quiz: Alf Tales
Answer: Wrestle a clam and make it sing
Nat King Clam, the Singing Killer Clam, commented, "I just wanna sing. But you crazy mammals gotta make it into a contact sport."
From Quiz: 'Alf' Cartoon
Answer: A rock video
"I maybe an unknown from the Twilight Zone, but you're the one who's out of this world. You're the one who's out of this world, sweet baby. You're the one who's out of this world. I'm spinning in an orbit I ain't never been in. 'Cause you're the one who's out of this world." That was part of the song.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Trivia
Answer: Kate
Kate was played by actress Anne Schedeen.
From Quiz: 'ALF' Quiz
Answer: Eating cats
The Tanners' cat Lucky got the worst of it, he was not safe as long as ALF was around. You see on Melmac, they considered cat eating a delicacy. Thankfully, ALF came to love Lucky.
From Quiz: The Melmackian Quiz
Answer: The President of the United States
ALF put a call into then-President Reagan on Air Force One to try and explain to him the devastation of all out nuclear war on a planet. After all, he was speaking from first hand experience.
From Quiz: Life in the Tanner Household
Answer: They get comfortable at the resort.
As Gordon observed, "You can't beat dinner and a show for twelve werneks!"
From Quiz: Clams Never Sang for My Father
