Remember Alf? He's back, in page image form.
Advertising- ALF is featured in a safety video from Delta Airlines centered around the 80's, where he is shown using an oxygen mask.
- ALF is featured in a commercial
for Mint Mobile, where he is seen writing a letter to Ryan Reynolds regarding one of his Mint Mobile commercials. - ALF is featured in the Radio Shack Super Bowl XLVIII commercial, where an employee shows him the features of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 phone.
- In Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, Pirate!Larry mentions that the show comes on in half an hour.
- Leo: During the montage going back through the decades to show how old Leo is, a calendar of ALF dressed as Santa Claus is shown in December 1987..
- In The Spy Who Dumped Me, a TV set is shown playing an episode of ALF dubbed into Lithuanian.
- The Golden Girls:
- In "Strange Bedfellows" when Dorothy told Sophia to stay in her room to not embarrass a politician that they were supporting, she then quips back "Who do I look like, ALF?"
- In "That Old Feeling", when faced with the possibility of making contact with aliens, an excited Rose mentions that they "could provide the end of war, cures for all diseases, new storylines for ALF."
- Saved by the Bell:
- Screech is a fan of the character, even at one point mentioning that he once won third place in an ALF lookalike contest.
- When tutoring Kelly in "Beauty and the Screech", Screech tells her that it will have to be held at his house, citing that his parents gave him a curfew of before the show goes off.
- In "The Election", during the race for class president, he is said to be one of the write-in candidates, gaining a total of seven votes.
- In "Cream for a Day" when Screech is trying to tell Zack bad news, the latter quips that he finally learned that the character was a puppet, much to the former's horror.
- In "Miss Bayside", when Zack is telling Screech exciting news (he's going to enter him in the pageant), the latter asks if "ALF flew back to Melmac?"
- Married... with Children:
- In the Running Gag of others getting the Bundy name wrong, one episode has a letter addressed to a "Mr. Alf Bundy".
- Another episode had Marcy consoling Peg, who believed that Al was cheating on her, citing that she did a poll of the neighborhood women and found that they ranked him less sexually attractive than ALF, meaning that they would rather sleep with a piece of cloth with a man's hand in it than with Al.
- Stargate SG-1 : In the episode "Sight Unseen", Colonel O'Neill tells a man that the giant insects he is seeing (that are invisible to most people) are actually aliens from the planet Melmac. Pop culture nerd O'Neill feigns ignorance when the man asks if that is the same planet ALF was from.
- Young Sheldon:
- In the episode "A Race Of Superhumans And A Letter To ALF" ALF appears via a Crossover Punchline answering Missy's letter.
- In "A Romantic Getaway And A Germanic Meat-Based Diet" Missy mentions once having a crush on ALF, in defense of her friend's crush being Bart Simpson despite the fact he isn't real.
- In "Weird Al" Yankovic's "eBay", an ALF alarm clock is mentioned as one of the items purchased from the titular website.
- In South Park: Chef's Luv Shack, one of the questions in the "Aliens, Asses, and Anal Probes" category is "TV's ALF was a pain in the ass. What planet was he from?", with the answers being A. Mars, B. Melmac, C. Tornokk, and D. Uranus.note
- In one level of The Simpsons Game, Homer and Bart are breaking into Kang and Kodos' spaceship after it lands on Earth. One of Homer's idle lines during this is "Why couldn't they be funny aliens, like ALF?"
- The Angry Video Game Nerd:
- On Day Two of "The Twelve Days of Shitsmas", the Nerd reviewed the ALF Licensed Game for the Sega Master System.
- In his review of the Commodore 64, one of the games the Nerd plays is ALF: The First Adventure. Upon playing it, the Nerd says it makes the aforementioned ALF Sega Master System game look awesome by comparison.
- The Nostalgia Critic:
- The crossover review between The Angry Video Game Nerd and the Critic for The Making of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Our Shells Tour featured the second theme song in their video's intro.
- In his review of The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, when Elmo is chased by a giant chicken, Critic thinks this scene could be saved “if a certain ‘dick-nosed’ puppet enters the picture.” As he says this a picture of Gonzo is about to be shown. However, it is quickly replaced by an image of ALF.Critic: Yeah, forgot there were two, didn’t you?
- The Tourettes Guy: In one episode, Danny is talking to his grandmother Jenelle on the phone, telling her he's watching the ALF Season 1 DVD, but becomes frustrated when she tells him she's never heard of that show. The episode playing on the TV during the conversation is "Looking Through the Windows".
- Cracked listed the series at number six on the list of "6 Beloved TV Shows (That Traumatized Cast Members For Life)" speaking about the creator's mistreatment of the human cast and the copious amounts of the infamous trap doors on the set.
- Alf appears in the Newgrounds flash game USS Enterprise: A Cadet's Adventure. He's the third roommate bunking with the Cadet and Wesley on the Enterprise, and he and the Cadet can play pranks on Wesley.
- Roger in American Dad!, being an alien being hid from the CIA in the Smiths' attic, is a clear homage to the show.
- Family Guy:
- In "I Never Met the Dead Man", ALF is seen in a dream sequence by Peter.
- In "To Love and Die in Dixie", ALF appears as the subject of an E! True Hollywood Story. In his interview, ALF reveals that by the third season of his show, he was completely wasted and lost control of his bodily functions, resulting in the crew having to cut the fecal matter out of his fur before filming each scene.
- In "Brian Goes Back to College", when Peter sees Brian wearing a tie at the television convention, he asks if he's ALF.
- The plot to "Ratings Guy" is very similar to the ALF episode, "Prime Time" where the Tanners themselves became a ratings family and ALF himself rigged the system to make his programs more enjoyable.
- Robot Chicken:
- A sketch from "But Not In That Way" features Lucky giving birth to a litter of kittens, and ALF asks if he could eat the afterbirth.note
- Three sketches from "Secret of the Booze" feature ALF in parodies of the trailers for the Alien film franchise.
- A sketch from "Your Mouth Is Hanging Off Your Face" has ALF show Brian a music video he filmed back on Melmac of him singing a rap song where he eats cats. This inspires Brian to try to eat Lucky, resulting in Lucky attacking him.
- The Simpsons:
- In "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", ALF is depicted on the cover of US Magazine, when the B-Sharps find out that they are in the "Not Hot" section of the "What's Hot and What's Not" survey.
- In "Bart Sells His Soul", when Bart tries to buy his soul back from Milhouse, Milhouse reveals that he sold Bart's soul to Comic Book Guy to buy ALF pogs.Milhouse: Remember ALF? He's back, in pog form!
- In "The Springfield Files", when Homer is asked to identify the alien he saw, ALF is shown in a police line-up, along with Kang (or Kodos), Marvin the Martian, Chewbacca, and Gort. Although none of the external characters were actually allowed to be used in this scene, the only official complaint that was reportedly made was from Paul Fusco, who was disappointed that he wasn't approached for this, otherwise he would've done the voice for ALF.
- In "Mayored To the Mob", ALF is advertised in a commercial for Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con.
- In "Mobile Homer", Homer picks up an issue of TV Guide with an angry ALF and the headline "Why ALF Hates Victoria Principal" on the front cover to toss at a spider. He misses and accidentally hits the garage door button, causing the garage door to close on his neck and leading to him becoming uninsurable.
- The Couch Gag in "The Many Saints of Springfield" shows the insides of the Simpsons' couch. One of the items there is an old TV Guide featuring ALF, who briefly talks to Homer. This time, Paul Fusco did get to reprise ALF.Homer: Oh, ALF, you were cancelled too soon.
ALF: No, Homer, I was cancelled at exactly the right time.
