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* The season 3 episode "Promises, Promises" deserves a special mention. Lynn starts dating an older man named Eddie that Willie and Kate do not approve of. ALF later finds out that Lynn is still dating Eddie, but Lynn makes ALF keep the secret. Unfortunately, ALF lets it slip and Lynn ends up being grounded by Willie and Kate. This leads to a major falling out between ALF and Lynn. At one point, ALF can't take it anymore and decides to fix his spaceship so he can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Earth]]. This prompts Brian to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angrily confront]] Lynn. Lynn calls Brian a "baby" and Brian snaps at her to "grow up". This prompts Lynn to have a JerkassRealization and go try to make things up with ALF. While Lynn and ALF do eventually reconcile and patch things up, this is a somewhat emotionally charged episode due to ALF, Lynn, and Brian's fighting.
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* The season 3 episode "Promises, Promises" deserves a special mention. Lynn starts dating an older man named Eddie that Willie and Kate do not approve of. ALF later finds out that Lynn is still dating Eddie, but Lynn makes ALF keep the secret. Unfortunately, ALF lets it slip and Lynn ends up being grounded by Willie and Kate. This leads to a major falling out between ALF and Lynn. At one point, ALF can't take it anymore and decides to fix his spaceship so he can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Earth]]. This prompts Brian to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angrily confront]] Lynn. Lynn calls Brian a "baby" "baby", and Brian snaps at that [[NoYou she's the one being a baby]] and tells her to "grow up". This prompts Lynn to have a JerkassRealization and go try to make things up with ALF. While Lynn and ALF do eventually reconcile and patch things up, this is a somewhat emotionally charged episode due to ALF, Lynn, and Brian's fighting.fighting.
* Willie helping ALF realize his addiction [[GRatedDrug to cotton]] in "Hooked On A Feeling" stems from his inablility to leave the house, being the only one of his kind on the planet, missing all his friends, and knowing that he's never going to be able to have the kind of life the Tanners have, specifically a family of his own.
* Willie helping ALF realize his addiction [[GRatedDrug to cotton]] in "Hooked On A Feeling" stems from his inablility to leave the house, being the only one of his kind on the planet, missing all his friends, and knowing that he's never going to be able to have the kind of life the Tanners have, specifically a family of his own.
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** After the usual hijinks in other episodes, the doctor's WhamLine conveys just surprisingly dark this two-parter is going to be: "[[spoiler:I can't do anything for her. What are you supposed to say to a little girl who's not gonna see another Christmas?]]"
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** After the usual hijinks in other episodes, the doctor's WhamLine conveys just surprisingly dark this two-parter is going to be: "[[spoiler:I can't do anything for her. What are you supposed to say to a little girl who's not gonna see another Christmas?]]"Christmas?]]" Cut to ALF, his jaw dropping in shock and sorrow.
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* The season 3 episode "Promises, Promises" deserves a special mention. Lynn starts dating an older man named Eddie that Willie and Kate do not approve of. ALF later finds out that Lynn is still dating Eddie, but Lynn makes ALF keep the secret. Unfortunately, ALF lets it slip and Lynn ends up being grounded by Willie and Kate. This leads to a major falling out between ALF and Lynn. At one point, ALF can't take it anymore and decides to fix his spaceship so he can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Earth]]. This prompts Brian to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angrily confront]] Lynn. Lynn calls Brian a "baby" and Brian snaps at her to "grow up". While Lynn and ALF do eventually reconcile and patch things up, this is a somewhat emotionally charged episode due to ALF, Lynn, and Brian's fighting.
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* The season 3 episode "Promises, Promises" deserves a special mention. Lynn starts dating an older man named Eddie that Willie and Kate do not approve of. ALF later finds out that Lynn is still dating Eddie, but Lynn makes ALF keep the secret. Unfortunately, ALF lets it slip and Lynn ends up being grounded by Willie and Kate. This leads to a major falling out between ALF and Lynn. At one point, ALF can't take it anymore and decides to fix his spaceship so he can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Earth]]. This prompts Brian to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angrily confront]] Lynn. Lynn calls Brian a "baby" and Brian snaps at her to "grow up". This prompts Lynn to have a JerkassRealization and go try to make things up with ALF. While Lynn and ALF do eventually reconcile and patch things up, this is a somewhat emotionally charged episode due to ALF, Lynn, and Brian's fighting.
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**ALF silently weeping when Tiffany goes to sleep is an image that will break one’s heart.
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** After the usual hijinks in other episodes, the doctor's WhamLine conveys just surprisingly dark this two-parter is going to be: "[[spoiler:I can't do anything for her. What are you supposed to say to a little girl who's not gonna see another Christmas?]]"
*** For an added gut punch, [[spoiler:Tiffany reveals to ALF that she already knows. She talks about being afraid of going to sleep out of fear of never waking up again and wondering where she'll end up when it's time]]. ALF is quite comforting, all while clearly shaken.
** ALF is asked point-blank if he ever misses Melmac. His later attempt to see the bright side doesn't change just how defeated he sounds when he first answers.
--->'''ALF:''' Yeah. I miss it a lot. It was my whole world. Everything I... everybody I knew was there.
*** For an added gut punch, [[spoiler:Tiffany reveals to ALF that she already knows. She talks about being afraid of going to sleep out of fear of never waking up again and wondering where she'll end up when it's time]]. ALF is quite comforting, all while clearly shaken.
** ALF is asked point-blank if he ever misses Melmac. His later attempt to see the bright side doesn't change just how defeated he sounds when he first answers.
--->'''ALF:''' Yeah. I miss it a lot. It was my whole world. Everything I... everybody I knew was there.
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* The season 3 episode "Promises, Promises" deserves a special mention. Lynn starts dating an older man named Eddie that Willie and Kate do not approve of. ALF later finds out that Lynn is still dating Eddie, but Lynn makes ALF keep the secret. Unfortunately, ALF lets it slip and Lynn ends up being grounded by Willie and Kate. This leads to a major falling out between ALF and Lynn. At one point, ALF can't take it anymore and decides to fix his spaceship so he can leave Earth. This prompts Brian to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angrily confront]] Lynn. Lynn calls Brian a "baby" and Brian snaps at her to "grow up". While Lynn and ALF do eventually reconcile and patch things up, this is a somewhat emotionally charged episode due to ALF, Lynn, and Brian's fighting.
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* The season 3 episode "Promises, Promises" deserves a special mention. Lynn starts dating an older man named Eddie that Willie and Kate do not approve of. ALF later finds out that Lynn is still dating Eddie, but Lynn makes ALF keep the secret. Unfortunately, ALF lets it slip and Lynn ends up being grounded by Willie and Kate. This leads to a major falling out between ALF and Lynn. At one point, ALF can't take it anymore and decides to fix his spaceship so he can [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave Earth.Earth]]. This prompts Brian to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angrily confront]] Lynn. Lynn calls Brian a "baby" and Brian snaps at her to "grow up". While Lynn and ALF do eventually reconcile and patch things up, this is a somewhat emotionally charged episode due to ALF, Lynn, and Brian's fighting.
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* The season 3 episode "Promises, Promises" deserves a special mention. Lynn starts dating an older man named Eddie that Willie and Kate do not approve of. ALF later finds out that Lynn is still dating Eddie, but Lynn makes ALF keep the secret. Unfortunately, ALF lets it slip and Lynn ends up being grounded by Willie and Kate. This leads to a major falling out between ALF and Lynn. At one point, ALF can't take it anymore and decides to fix his spaceship so he can leave Earth. This prompts Brian to [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness angrily confront]] Lynn. Lynn calls Brian a "baby" and Brian snaps at her to "grow up". While Lynn and ALF do eventually reconcile and patch things up, this is a somewhat emotionally charged episode due to ALF, Lynn, and Brian's fighting.
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* "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide (after his beloved wife had passed away from a terminal illness just weeks earlier]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany (played by actress Keri Houlihan) is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
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* "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's ALF's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's Tanners' best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), ALF), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old eight-year-old in the hospital with a terminal illness who and "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide (after his beloved wife had passed away from a terminal illness just weeks earlier]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany (played by actress Keri Houlihan) is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf ALF story, it is surprisingly dark.
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* The entire outcome of the episode "We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert" if you think about it. [[spoiler: When Uncle Albert, Willie's uncle who is just starting to reform his former cruel ways, visits the Tanners, ALF is forced to sleep in a tent knowing nothing about the man besides that he used to be mean. When the two finally meet, Uncle Albert dies of shock. ALF at first celebrates in a humorous way, but we soon find out that on Melmac, deaths are happy occasions where the individual's life is celebrated. ALF thought this man was horrible and yet he still used what in his mind was a positive ritual to celebrate him. Not only that, but ALF soon blames himself for Uncle Albert's death, even though the rest of the family doesn't blame him. This entire episode when thought long and hard about is very sad not only for Uncle Albert who was reforming but ALF who had no ill intentions even though they couldn't have even been blamed due to his small knowledge of Uncle Albert. Don't forget the Tanners mourning for their lost family member, especially Willie.]]
* Basically the DownerEnding of the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: which ends with ALF being captured by the government, just as he's about to leave Earth, leaving ALF fate uncertain, had it not been for the MadeForTV movie, you would be left thinking that ALF was killed shortly after this.]]
* Basically the DownerEnding of the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: which ends with ALF being captured by the government, just as he's about to leave Earth, leaving ALF fate uncertain, had it not been for the MadeForTV movie, you would be left thinking that ALF was killed shortly after this.]]
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* The entire outcome of the episode "We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert" if you think about it. [[spoiler: When Uncle Albert, Willie's uncle who is just starting to reform his former cruel ways, visits the Tanners, ALF is forced to sleep in a tent knowing nothing about the man besides that he used to be mean. When the two finally meet, Uncle Albert dies of shock. ALF at first celebrates in a humorous way, but we soon find out that on Melmac, deaths are happy occasions where the individual's life is celebrated. ALF thought this man was horrible and yet he still used what in his mind was a positive ritual to celebrate him. Not only that, but ALF soon blames himself for Uncle Albert's death, even though the rest of the family doesn't blame him. This entire episode when thought long and hard about is very sad not only for Uncle Albert Albert, who was reforming reforming, but ALF for ALF, who had no ill intentions - and even though they if he had, he couldn't have even been blamed due to his small knowledge of Uncle Albert. Don't forget the Tanners mourning for their lost family member, especially Willie.]]
* Basically the DownerEnding of the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: which ends with ALF being captured by the government, just as he's about to leave Earth, leavingALF ALF's fate uncertain, had it not been for the MadeForTV movie, you would be left thinking that ALF was killed shortly after this.]]
* Basically the DownerEnding of the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: which ends with ALF being captured by the government, just as he's about to leave Earth, leaving
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* "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
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* "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide]]. suicide (after his beloved wife had passed away from a terminal illness just weeks earlier]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany (played by actress Keri Houlihan) is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
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* Basically the DownerEnding of the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler: which ends with ALF being captured by the government, just as he's about to leave Earth, leaving ALF fate uncertain, had it not been for the MadeForTV movie, you would be left thinking that ALF was killed shortly after this.]]
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* When a woman who claims to have an alien in her house turns out to be a scam artist. Willie tries to comfort the devastated ALF by saying lots of people feel like they're all alone at some point, and ALF replies: "Feeling alone and ''being'' alone are two very different things."
** "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
** "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
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* "Alone Again, Naturally": When a woman who claims to have an alien in her house turns out to be a scam artist. Willie tries to comfort the devastated ALF by saying lots of people feel like they're all alone at some point, and ALF replies: "Feeling alone and ''being'' alone are two very different things."
** * "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
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* The entire outcome of the episode "We're So Sorry, Uncle Albert" if you think about it. [[spoiler: When Uncle Albert, Willie's uncle who is just starting to reform his former cruel ways, visits the Tanners, ALF is forced to sleep in a tent knowing nothing about the man besides that he used to be mean. When the two finally meet, Uncle Albert dies of shock. ALF at first celebrates in a humorous way, but we soon find out that on Melmac, deaths are happy occasions where the individual's life is celebrated. ALF thought this man was horrible and yet he still used what in his mind was a positive ritual to celebrate him. Not only that, but ALF soon blames himself for Uncle Albert's death, even though the rest of the family doesn't blame him. This entire episode when thought long and hard about is very sad not only for Uncle Albert who was reforming but ALF who had no ill intentions even though they couldn't have even been blamed due to his small knowledge of Uncle Albert. Don't forget the Tanners mourning for their lost family member, especially Willie.]]
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* Try the series premiere on for size, when ALF first crash lands on Earth. It ends with him using Willie's ham radio to try and send a message to any other Melmacians out there, letting them know that he's all right and he misses of them. What ALF doesn't say, of course, is that he may well be the LastOfHisKind and that no one out there can hear him.
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''ALF'' managed a few surprisingly effective dramatic moments over its run:
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* The episode where ALF finds out that Willie was a train hopper in his youth, and ropes him into hopping another one. Alone in the car, they end up discussing ALF's lonely existence as possibly the last of his kind. They both make a wish on a shooting star, and afterwards ALF says: "I wished I had my planet back."
* When a woman who claims to have an alien in her house turns out to be a scam artist. Willie tries to comfort the devastated ALF by saying lots of people feel like they're all alone at some point, and ALF replies: "Feeling alone and ''being'' alone are two very different things."
** "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
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* The episode where ALF finds out that Willie was a train hopper in his youth, and ropes him into hopping another one. Alone in the car, they end up discussing ALF's lonely existence as possibly the last of his kind. They both make a wish on a shooting star, and afterwards ALF says: "I wished I had my planet back."
* When a woman who claims to have an alien in her house turns out to be a scam artist. Willie tries to comfort the devastated ALF by saying lots of people feel like they're all alone at some point, and ALF replies: "Feeling alone and ''being'' alone are two very different things."
** "[[ChristmasEpisode Alf's Special Christmas]]: After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), [[spoiler: he befriends Tiffany (who is an eight year old in the hospital with a terminal illness who "won't live to see another Christmas"), delivers a child (and talks the mother into naming her newborn daughter after Tiffany), and stops the hospital Santa from committing suicide]]. To top it all off, [[spoiler: Tiffany is based on (and named after) an actual child who died that year and the episode is dedicated to her]]. For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.
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