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Unbelieveably, And Gloriously, We're One Step Closer To An ALF Live Action/CG Hybrid Film!!
A few months ago we posted a piece about the hopes for/possibility of an ALF movie. For those who don't recall, ALF, which stands for Alien Life Form, chronicles the adventures of irrtascible, huggable, cat-hungry alien Gordon Shumway - who lands hooks up with an Earth family.
Per THIS piece at THR, it's sounding like said movie is closer to happening...
Sony Pictures Animation has closed a deal to acquire rights to the classic 1980s sitcom ALF and will develop the property into a hybrid CG/live action feature.
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No writer or director is attached.
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(Paul) Fusco voiced the title character on the show and is expected reprise his role for the movie.
I'm not sure what tine the film will take - given the climate of soft-shoeing and political correctness which seems to prevail in much modern cinema, I fear an ALF movie may end up being watered down. But there was a certain, subtle edge to the original NBC television series which ran from 186-1990. If even a hint of that can be ported to the big screen? This could be a lot of fun...
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mila kunis + natalie portman + ALF threeway = box office gold
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Please let me be alive long enough to see this happen. My whole life has been leading to this.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:11 a.m. CST
Did this even ever achieve the 'so bad it's good status'? Is it a beloved property at all?
by chifforobe
Hasn't ALF always sucked?
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:15 a.m. CST
Ran from 186 - 1990?!? Before the dawn of electricity, TV? Wow!
by irishraidersfan
Or, you know, you could proof-read. Just sayin'. :)
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Can we get some scenes on Melmac, or is that too much to ask?
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Damn, it's true. There's nothing new under the sun.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:20 a.m. CST
I want "8 is Enough" the movie now. Or a pet rock movie. Now.
by Darth Macchio
Wait...is that too 70s? We're in the 80's recycled fartsauce caserole now right... How about Snorks?!?! Remember them? Onion headed smurfs basically? I'm sure people will start remembering if you make a movie about them. How about Mon-chi-chi, Mon-chi-chi? Awfully soft and cuddly? Do we blame this on "Ted"? Or the recent muppet movie? It seemed like they were done recycling old 70s/80s tv shows for the more pure reboots/prequel/sequel tropes? I didn't want to be a hater but reading the above sure sounds like hater-talk... ...sigh...
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comes on The HUB (also known as that channel that shows The Wonder Years and Batman:TAS). Naturally he loves it.
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Don't you remember the old Alf tales your granparents used to tell you in front of the campfires. Alf tales have been passed down from generation to generation before being vislized on the small screen in the later 80's. The year 186 was indeed hard times for many, but the tales of Alf, an angel from the heavens who ate the demon cats that plagued the flat planet was what made many a man sleep comfortable at night.
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As much as I love the puppet,CGI would enable them to show a lot more. Cant wait for this!!!
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:26 a.m. CST
given the climate of soft-shoeing and political correctness which seems to prevail in much modern cinema
by Pete Michaelson
Did you see Ted? Being that that flick is about as close an analogue as you could get to ALF, and that Ted was about as un-PC as you can get, I don't understand that comment at all. If you can make a movie about a pot-smoking, cursing, fucking teddy bear, ALF could probably go balls to the wall and tear up the box office. Will they do that? Is Sony brave enough to take a family-friendly series and make it into a crass adult comedy? I imagine that the box office returns that Ted continues to see might be a pretty big incentive to give it a shot.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:27 a.m. CST
Break out your Alf pogs, they're about to skyrocket in value
by Autodidact
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:28 a.m. CST
Alf ? In the UK we had Metal Mickey. It was really really truly spectacularly bad.
by higgledyhiggles
But it had Irene Handl, you little fruit-bat.
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As opposed to using CGI when a puppet would do, I'll wait until I see some screens before I pass judgement. I mean CGI Yoda and Gollum were pretty damn good.
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He's coming back for more pussy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM4xv62ngJg
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Ok, MAYBE if he's a CGI puppet, it could be ok, like the way Ted is a CGI teddy bear. But if they try to make him look "realistic", it'll be an epic fail.
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So say we all.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:48 a.m. CST
I know AICN has a sloppy charm, but two glaring typos in one small article?
by Skyfly
"Tine" instead of tone, and "186" instead of 1986
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:53 a.m. CST
I thought the show sucked but when Alf does interviews he's actually funny for some reason.
by MST3KPIMP
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Jumped the shark has jumped the shark. Like comparing people to Hitler. Get over it.
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This is gonna suck enlarged hirsute testicles, i know it, you know it, they know it. ALF is memory tinted as it is and it worked fine in the tv sitcom format but I don't see this becoming anything more than a Smurfs/YogiBear/Garfield non-event. Colour me uninterested.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:55 a.m. CST
This show was on the other day and it is the joyless heroin fueled suicide inducing nightmare it always was.
by UltraTron
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The reason he's funny in interviews and not on the show is that the guy who played ALF is a funny guy who was hampered by shit writing on the show. Hopefully if this moves forward he gets more input into the character instead of spouting lines written by some hack.
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While Garfield sucked to most of us, it made a shit-ton of money... so if the execs see people saying "This=Garfield" that translates to bank, son. You say it like it's to their detriment, but it's really not. It IS a business after all. Garfield and ALF were simply not for you.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:57 a.m. CST
I prefer a big screen "Small Wonder" adaptation
by Clarence_Boddickers_Optometrist
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Vicki. Will Ferrell as dad. As for Jamie.... Jaden Smith!
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Aug. 9, 2012, 10:58 a.m. CST
Alf is the muppets for suicide fence sitters to rally that final courage
by UltraTron
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Aug. 9, 2012, 11 a.m. CST
Or hell how about live action Turbo Teen?
by Clarence_Boddickers_Optometrist
Starring Andrew Garfield transforming into a red Shelby Mustand GT500 convertible!
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If ALF can make money, then the public's a no brainer...
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Aug. 9, 2012, 11:07 a.m. CST
ultratron "joyless heroin fueled suicide inducing nightmare"
by DarthBlart
ever watch 'permanent midnight' with ben stiller. based on a heroin addicted television writer, who wroter for an Alf like show (in the movie) and wrote the funeral episode after his mother died? good stuff.
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it's a sad world where you are right. All i'm saying is that it probably won't be anything to get excited about , excited headline of this (typo ridden!)article notwithstanding. (seriously: I get that most talkbackers are still struggling with the complexities of the English language but journalism, in any form, should at least be free of stupid errors. Proof reading folks, it saves lives!)
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Is that irascible? Ah Enntglish, the most difficultest of languages.
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I used to love this show when it was first on and we used to get it on sundays at about 5pm in the uk. Went to rewatch it about a month or two ago and the pilot was so bad i couldn't believe it. I didn't watch any more so it could have been just that the pilot was bad but it had aged so badly i couldn't be bothered with the rest. Not to say it couldn't be turned into a great movie as the character and story are pretty decent. With a top notch comedy writer who knows.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 11:32 a.m. CST
When do we get the Wayland Flowers and Madame movie?
by Inexplicable_Nuclear_Balls
In a stunning twist, Madame will be an actual puppet while Wayland is resurrected via CGI. Directed by the Wachowski who isn't a guy anymore.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 11:33 a.m. CST
Because of Ted, this will be R-rated, with Alf saying "fuck" every other word,
by openthepodbaydoorshal
and dry humping the cat, instead of trying to eat it. Wait a minute...that, I might actually want to see....
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Aug. 9, 2012, 11:37 a.m. CST
This will be a retarded movie for little kids like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Yeah, let's get excited.
by Mel
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..and the cartoon spin-off ALF Tales was even funnier. The animation was high quality too.
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Directed by Tarantino. FX by KNB.
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ALF wasn't funny back in the day, just a stupid '80s take on "My Favorite Martian," which was too stupid in itself to reboot. As said above, it's not nearly as good as people remember. But try explaining that to dimwitted, shortsighted H'weird producers.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 12:01 p.m. CST
ALF was edgy? A mild joke about threatening to eat the family cat each week is considered edgy?
by Al
I watched it when I was a kid so I don't remember exactly anything edgy or subervisve about it. All I remember is the damn series ended with ALF being captured by the military so I had to wait years and years for a conclusion. Which was the TV movie "Project ALF" starring Martin Sheen as a military guy!
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Aug. 9, 2012, 12:02 p.m. CST
Come on, man. Sometimes, you have to proof-read your work too.
by JudasPriestly
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Aug. 9, 2012, 12:02 p.m. CST
Theres a funny video floating around on you tube where ALF gets raped in the bathroom..
by paul burnett
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The studio will turn this into a fucking kiddies movie ... Only in an alternate dimension would an ALF movie actually be cool, but I'll happily eat my words (but not my cat) if I'm wrong ...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZERfeh7n4Q
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Aug. 9, 2012, 12:47 p.m. CST
ALF is actually really funny. But the "TV show" isn't (if that makes sense).
by sweeneydave
Aside from the dad, the family was boring. And the writing was the same every week. I bought the first two seasons for my kids recently. After the first couple episodes, it becomes more formulaic than Full House. Sure, ALF remained funny. But he learned a lesson every week, only to have forgotten it by the beginning of the next episode. I know that's really nitpicking. After all, character growth wasn't the point of the old fashioned sitcom. But as an adult, I grew tired of it quickly.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 12:53 p.m. CST
ALF, then hopefully Sledgehammer!, then Misfits of Science!
by Barrymore
Three of my favorite shows when I was a pre-teen...rock on, 80s!!!
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Aug. 9, 2012, 12:59 p.m. CST
ALF, the best "castrated cat-eating talking tiny deformed bear" sitcom there is!
by Ricardo
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Maybe they'll write in his penchant for gay sex and crack
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It'll save our souls from this POS.
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srsly wish the 80s people would just go back to the 80s and stay there. oh wait-
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Mickey Dolenz of the monkees
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He'd have to need the money really badly to agree to return.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2 p.m. CST
why isn't AICN talking about Bryan Singer's H+ digital series, now out on youtube?
by georgecauldron
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2:02 p.m. CST
186-1990?!?! Well, that just blows that HACK of a show 60 Minutes' claim straight outta the water!!
by Dogmatic
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2:03 p.m. CST
It should have been cancelled in the 1890's though...the last 100 years had really lost its glow.
by Dogmatic
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2:03 p.m. CST
It should have been cancelled in the 1890's though...the last 100 years had really lost its glow.
by Dogmatic
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2:04 p.m. CST
Early ALF reviews: "What is this magical image in front of me?!" - Emperor Constantine
by Dogmatic
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2:06 p.m. CST
Early ALF reviews: "Four Score and seven huzzahs for me, though I do wish they'd hurry and create the dvd so I can watch seasons 1-1680" - Abraham Lincoln
by Dogmatic
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Remember watching Alf as a kid and liking it because he was a puppet. He seemed like a smartass which I liked. Watched about 10 minutes of it on Hub the other day and it didn't really hold my attention. Alf and Willie were stuck on a train with a hobo. Having said that I would check this out if the trailer looked good/funny.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2:21 p.m. CST
Yawn call me when we get a double-feature of "It's a Living" and "Jennifer Slept Here."
by Chuck Miller
Ann Jillian could use the work. And we could all use more Ann Jillian.
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There's a photographer out there with the same name who takes pictures of Chernobyl mutants. It make me sad in pants.
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Aug. 9, 2012, 2:58 p.m. CST
What only silly tv shows from the 60s and 70s can be made into god awful movies?
by Ingeld
Future denizens if AICN will cry out that Hollywood is dead when they hear about the proposed Married With Children movie, to be followed ten years later with Friends The Movie. Can you believe the arguments people will get in when 25 years from now they announce who will be playing Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory the movie?
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for gods sake why?!?!
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WHY?!
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love that film. based on the auto-biography of the same name i believe, jerry stahl? indeed he wrote alf though they had to change him to Mr. Chompers in the movie for copyright reasons heheehe. some scenes will live long in the memory.
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Has anyone seen how much money TED has made? This movie is banking!
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Aug. 9, 2012, 3:42 p.m. CST
I followed seeneydaves advice and now I'm a sad panda. :(
by kindofabigdeal
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One of us! One of us!
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...with Archie Bunker in it. And, fuck Alf. Unless they do it like Ted (which they won't), it has no chance to be better than Garfield, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Smurfs and the like. Did we get a Knight Rider movie yet? How about Kung Fu? Well, at least no one will care when they find a way to 'ruin' Alf.
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I can wait.
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I would love to see a movie based on the old Kung Fu show. Years ago there was talk of but nothing ever happened apparently.
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It's such a no-brainer. I would probably prefer a "Muay Thai,"show staring Tony Jaa or a worthy desciple, in the Kung Fu formula, but even a straight adaptation would work. Their are so many Asian action stars that are still relatively unknown to our audiences, I would think this would have been capitalized upon by now.
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As a kid and thought this was a shitty tv show back then and could care less now. Take your time Sony, very few will be standing in line for this shitravaganza.
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Wah-ooh Gordan, ooh-ooh-ah
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Where's our SMALL WONDER big screen treatment? I'm sure Joseph Gordon-Levitt would jump at the chance to play a grieving single father who has the chance to bring back his daughter from the dead.
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Forget the network crap! Cheap ass, half-remembered crap from the bowels of 1980's syndication is the way to go!
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Aug. 9, 2012, 7:53 p.m. CST
small wonder: the motion picture. make it happen now please.
by dahveed1972
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Have a gag where he molests little boys.
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Where dad keeps sneaking out to blow homeless guys under overpasses for crack, gets arrested, and then stays up until dawn every morning with a pistol against his temple praying that this time, this time he'd be brave enough to pull the trigger. It becomes a classic ALF moment when he finally pulls the trigger, instantly killing him AND the cat. Alf feasts over the still twitching body, as the rest of the family shuffles in to confirm what they already know to be true. Hey, it's a reboot, it's dark, and metafiction. I'm picturing Daniel day Lewis for alf and Channing Tatum as homeless drifter#3
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Feel good movie of the year
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Aug. 9, 2012, 9:14 p.m. CST
Hey, Hollywood... Four simple words: B.J. And The Bear
by Inexplicable_Nuclear_Balls
Big rigs, a chimpanzee with a hat and 1/2 of the Landers sisters. You're welcome.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3pmEN3Wt_o Alf Tales was cool too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dC5Dh-OW4
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Aug. 10, 2012, 1:06 a.m. CST
i remember the pogs..one thing is for sure though..
by Balkin Flabgurter
ALF is a master of staying slightly relevant in a world that could really give a fuck less about him. Defender of the sun.
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He definitely needed the money for crack and homeless gay prostitutes, which brings up a question: Is it really gay if you're getting paid?
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Aug. 10, 2012, 6:40 a.m. CST
a CHIPS movie with Justin Bieber and Jayden Smith chasing illegal immigrants on the highway
by millermeusa
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I'm not kidding. If you do some digging you learn that the guys who did The Smurfs and Scooby-Doo movies is making this. WILL. NOT. BE. GOOD.
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Jordan Kerner who produced The Smurfs is producing this. Got my wires crossed.
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Aug. 10, 2012, 9:51 a.m. CST
When did we start celebrating every shitty piece of 80's mediocrity?
by blackmantis
Alf was a horrid show. Didn't even deserve to be on TV, let alone a movie screen.
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irrtascible??????
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At least get the jingle right if you're going to claim you remember all these weird offbeat 80s shows/toys. =)
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Aug. 10, 2012, 10:35 a.m. CST
Fuck this. Where is Steve Muther Fucking Austin? Where is the I-Man? He should have every conceivable gadget including a phalanx of nanite probes
by UltraTron
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Aug. 10, 2012, 10:37 a.m. CST
Should have a hole on the back of his head to look through his eye.
by UltraTron
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The only way this could be of any interest to me at all is if they turned it into a sci-fi/horror movie and Alf went on a killing rampage, leading to the subjugation of a ravaged Earth by Melmac.
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factor of 10x worse movie. Just by the concept of this, the entire country's collective IQ dropped by a tiny percentage, tiny but it happened
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HA! HAAAAAAAAA... HAAAAA... I kill me!
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Aug. 10, 2012, 7:52 p.m. CST
This could go one of two ways: it's either gonna be like "Ted", or it's gonna be like "Garfield"...or...
by Elgyn6655321
...they might foolishly try to find a middle-ground and end up with something like "Howard the Duck": too kiddie-ish for grown-ups, and too adult-humored for kids.
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