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* CrossCastRole: In the Elves and the Shoemaker episode, Sloop was cast as the Shoemaker's wife, and he makes it clear he was DraggedIntoDrag for this. The complaining gets to the point of Larson Petty (playing the Shoemaker) breaking character a couple times to scold Sloop for not being a professional about all this.
-->'''Sloop:''' I'm suing the writers!\\
'''Larson:''' ''[hitting him]'' Stick to the script!
-->'''Sloop:''' I'm suing the writers!\\
'''Larson:''' ''[hitting him]'' Stick to the script!
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* HighHeelHurt: In the Elves and the Shoemaker episode, the man's wife stays loyal to him for years, but the invention of flats sees her suddenly announce she's filing for divorce. She asserts she never loved the Shoemaker and only stayed by his side because it would've been really, really painful to walk away in spiked high heels.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The Emperor's New Clothes, naturally. After the moral is stated and the Emperor is satisfied with the tailor's real work, he still decides to disrobe, saying this is the only chance he'll ever have to walk around town naked.
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* DirtyCop: The police officers (played by Larson Petty and Sloop, naturally) from the Goldilocks episode, who take all the Three Bears furniture when offered it as a bribe by Goldilock's friends, then force Goldilocks to buy it all back from them at an outrageous price.
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* {{Trumplica}}: In "The Elves and the Shoemaker", Larson Petty plays "Donald Tramp", an initally down-on-his-luck shoemaker who begins exploiting the elves' labor to line his own pockets the instant their shoes prove popular.
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* LiteralMetaphor: In the Sleeping Beauty episode, the Princess, who is being held captive by the evil sorceress, is told by the three wizards that the truth will always destroy evil, as in, all she needs to do to escape and defeat the sorceress is read aloud from a fact book.
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* PerformanceAnxiety: Sam Shovel from "Rumplestilskin" suffers from crippling stage fright, due to a disastrous club performance. Being under anything resembling a spotlight completely immobilizes him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The repeated HeadlessHorseman hoaxes frustrate Ichabod into declaring he's done with the big city and moving back to his old home. Just before he and Katrina leave, the ghost turns out to be RealAfterAll, prompting everyone at the party to clear out.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The repeated HeadlessHorseman hoaxes frustrate Ichabod into declaring he's done with the big city and moving back to his old home. Just before he and Katrina leave, the ghost turns out to be RealAfterAll, prompting everyone at the party to clear out.
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* YankTheDogsChain: DaEditor in the Sleepy Hollow episode is introduced firing an employee for wanting to spend time with a sick son. He then takes it back and offers the employee a raise. Upon the offer being accepted, the editor promptly fires him, bragging about saving even more money now.
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* ClingyMacGuffin: In "The Wizard Of Oz", the Ruby Hightops are stuck on Alf's feet. He can't take them off, and when the Wicked Witch tries to take them, she gets electrocuted.
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* OffToSeeTheWizard: The "Wizard Of Oz" episode, of course.
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* XRaySparks: Happens to the Wicked Witch in "The Wizard Of Oz" when she tries to forcibly take the Ruby Hightops off Alf's feet.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The King Midas episode is mostly an Franchise/IndianaJones parody with very little mention of the Midas myth.
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* AdultsAreUseless: The father in "Cinderella" parodies this. Instead of being dead or missing, he's a riff on a '50s sitcom father and never questions how obviously awful the WickedStepmother and stepsisters are to Rhonda's Cinderella.
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* ChekhovsGag: In the Robin Hood episode, Rick thought they were adapting "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood" and dressed for the part, only to be told to change into the Friar Tuck costume. Later, at the archery contest, Alf's Robin Hood is wearing the red cloak as part of his disguise.
-->'''Alf:''' [[AsideComment Never let a good costume go to waste.]]
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* NoirEpisode: "Rumplestilskin" from Season 1. To entice a king into marrying his daughter (Rhonda), a father claimed she could spin straw into gold, but she'll be imprisoned in the dungeon for life if she can't actually do it. She makes a deal with the eponymous imp to get out of this, but she's told that if she can't guess his name in an allotted time, she'll have to give up her firstborn. She hires private eye Sam Shovel (Alf) to learn the imp's name before it's too late.
* ShaggyDogStory: Rhonda fights tooth and nail in "Sleeping Beauty" to overcome the evil sorceress so that she can kiss the sleeping prince, only for his clock radio to wake him up instead. She refuses to settle for this, though, and uses a magic wand to put him to back to sleep so that she can wake him up properly... several times.
* ShaggyDogStory: Rhonda fights tooth and nail in "Sleeping Beauty" to overcome the evil sorceress so that she can kiss the sleeping prince, only for his clock radio to wake him up instead. She refuses to settle for this, though, and uses a magic wand to put him to back to sleep so that she can wake him up properly... several times.
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* HeadlessHorseman: In the Sleepy Hollow episode, of course, as Alf's Ichabod Crane finds himself plagued by the ghost and warned to leave town or else. He even encounters multiple versions at once and discovers it's one ScoobyDooHoax after another (Brom scaring him away from Katrina, DaEditor wanting to boost newspaper circulation, another guy wanting to boost city tourism, etc.). However, just as Ichabod is about to leave town with Katrina, he sees the ghost is RealAfterAll.
* NoFourthWall: Alf and sometimes others would often break character to comment on a given development.
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* NoFourthWall
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* VanityLicensePlate: On the ''Rumplestilskin'' episode, this is how they find out the title character's name. Alf even says "His vanity will be is undoing."
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* VanityLicensePlate: On the ''Rumplestilskin'' episode, this is how they find out the title character's name. Alf even says "His vanity will be is his undoing."
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** This was parodied in the ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' episode, where Rhonda complained that she should have been Alice.
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** This was parodied in the ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' episode, where Rhonda complained that she should have been Alice.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Not confirmed, but a joke in the ''Sleeping Beauty'' episode implies that the show's "different genre" every episode was forced on the show because children would not find a Medieval Ages-based series interesting.
** The "ThreeLittlePigs" episode made the opposite joke, however; it started as a parody of TheTwilightZone, only for a cop to show up and force Alf to make the story like a traditional fairy tale.
** The "ThreeLittlePigs" episode made the opposite joke, however; it started as a parody of TheTwilightZone, only for a cop to show up and force Alf to make the story like a traditional fairy tale.
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** The "ThreeLittlePigs" episode made the opposite joke, however; it started as a parody of TheTwilightZone, only for a cop to show up and force Alf to make the story like a traditional fairy tale.
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** ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' parodies Creator/AlfredHitchcock thrillers, with {{Title Drop}}s to nearly all his movies.
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** ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' parodies Creator/AlfredHitchcock thrillers, with {{Title Drop}}s to nearly all his movies.movies and injokes (such as a pair of villains called [[Film/NorthByNorthwest Martin and Landau]]).
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* AnimatedActors: Each episode begins with the characters taking the stage while Alf introduces the week's story to the audience.
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* ManVersusMachine: Combined with CookingDuel in the ''John Henry'' episode, which turns Henry from a railroad worker to a celebrity chef battling a food-making machine.
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** ''Aladdin'' is a spoof of the ''Film/OnTheRoad'' movies.
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* VanityLicensePlate: On the ''Rumplestilskin'' episode, this is how they find out the title character's name. Alf even says "His vanity will be is undoing."
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* WickedStepmother: Played straight in the Cinderella and Rapunzel parodies; averted in the Snow White parody, where Snow White is the Queen's rival ski partner. Also averted in the ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'' parody, where Hansel and Gretel were just college students who are looking for money.
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"Alf Tales" was an animated SpinOff of {{Alf}} featuring the Alf characters in various classic stories, usually fairy tales. Alf's girlfriend, Rhonda, usually featured as the leading lady. Larson Petty often gigured as the villain of some episodes and Madame Pokipsi would often play a WickedWitch. Interestingly, most episodes would parody a different movie genre (i.e. Cinderella was an Elvis movie, Rumpelstilskin was a detective movie.)
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Not confirmed, but a joke in the Sleeping Beauty episode implies the show's "different genre" every episode was forced on the show because children would not find a Medieval Ages-based series interesting.
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** This was parodied in the AliceInWonderland episode, where Rhonda complained that she should have been Alice.
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*** Rapunzel is partially a parody of SunsetBoulevard
*** Cinderella is an Elvis movie.
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* WickedStepmother: In the Cinderella and the Rapunzel parodies; averted in the Snow White parody, where Snow White is the Queen's rival ski-partner. Also averted in the HanselAndGretel parody, where Hansel and Gretel were just college students who are looking for money.
*** Cinderella is an Elvis movie.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The King Midas episode is mostly an Indiana Jones parody with very little mention of the Midas myth.
* WickedStepmother: In the Cinderella and the Rapunzel parodies; averted in the Snow White parody, where Snow White is the Queen's rival ski-partner. Also averted in the HanselAndGretel parody, where Hansel and Gretel were just college students who are looking for money.
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