ALF

Today I tried to make a pertinent reference to ALF. There's an episode when ALF becomes a famous and popular comedian, making all the rounds with his amazing wit. But after about a year of being famous, ALF is at some sort of show and he starts telling...the same jokes he's been telling for the previous year. Now nobody laughs--they just look at him.

Now, I don't know how he was wildly popular telling the same jokes over and over again, and then just suddenly everybody stopped finding it funny. But it's also a show about a puppet alien that eats cats and hides from nosy neighbor's like Jerry Seinfeld's mom, so whatever.

Anyway, today Cruelty-Free Mommy tried to show me a trick she did to our son: earlier, she said, he laughed like crazy at the trick, but now he just laid there and smiled. Here is the ensuing conversation:

PV: This is like that episode of "ALF" when--

C-FM: (quickly, purposely interrupting): I never saw "ALF"!

Cruelty-Free Mommy actively did not want to hear my reference to the moral tale of "ALF." She blurted out an interruption as quickly as possible to prevent my finishing the analogy.

One of the few pleasures we here at WHMFASS have is making completely obscure references to TV that nobody could possible get. Another of the few pleasures we here at WHMFASS get is preventing people from making completely obscure references to TV that nobody could possibly get.