Here's what happens in this episode. It starts off with ALF trying to eat the cat. Let's just assume, for the sake of watching this show, that this is not a crazy statement in and of itself. Really, if you are going to try and watch ALF, you are going to have to accept a lot of things. So, trying to eat the cat--not crazy. ALF likes to eat cats. Sure. But he tries to do this by hypnotizing the cat into thinking it's food.
Let me repeat that, but louder this time: HE TRIES TO HYPNOTIZE THE CAT INTO THINKING IT'S FOOD. This makes no sense at all. Not even a little bit. The cat's sitting there, trying to sleep or something. He's not running away. So if ALF really wanted to eat the cat, he could just eat it.
Okay, moving on. The family goes out to a movie or a show or something, and when they come back, ALF has trashed the house. Utterly trashed it. Apparently he got hungry, and ate everything in the house. Sure, fine. But then he also throws furniture? Was he looking for more food? Maybe? Now, personally, if this were me, if this were my family and my house, this would probably be the point where I throw ALF out and call the government or something.
But this is not my beautiful house, this is not my beautiful family. And what they do is accuse ALF of eating the cat. Which is, given everything we know about ALF, a completely reasonable accusation. But you see, he didn't eat the cat. At least, uh, he doesn't think so. He's not quite sure.
He certainly doesn't make a very good case for himself, and then when the cat can't be found, he runs away from home to try and prove his innocence. ALF gets himself locked up in a pound, then gets himself freed, but not before he takes a cat he thinks is the family cat.
Meanwhile, the family is increasingly upset about how they treated ALF, an alien who just crashed in their house and started eating their food. They think it was unfair of him to accuse him of eating their cat, literally the only thing he talks about doing on a regular basis.
Anyway, they reconcile, of course, and now they have two cats.
TWO CATS! Oh boy, what's ALF gonna do now?!
Anyway, this episode was pretty bad. I did laugh at one part. When ALF is in the pound, a father and daughter come in, and the daughter is very snotty and the dad just wants to placate her. And the girl mentions to the guy who works there that her dad is an agent. Turns out this guy is an actor, he just does the dog pound thing part-time. And then he keeps trying to get the agent to take his info. “I was just in a community production of Extremities.” That made me laugh way more than it should. So yeah, those characters were funny and I would watch a show about them and all the struggling actors they meet.
But this is not that show. This is ALF. And ALF sucks.
Shout by FinFanBlockedParentSpoilers2023-11-03T00:28:39Z
The Bob Seger number is a blast. One of the highlights of a show that has many.