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Whatever Happened to Alf?
Direct from Melmac to your television Alf was prime time gold... for a while at least. Fame is, unfortunately, a fickle beast.
You might remember him by his given name, Gordon Shumway, or perhaps you recall Alf‘s penchant for cat meat, solid gold toilet, or maybe even his zeal to collect dryer lint.
But seriously…
What the hell happened to Alf after to show ended? I’ve done some research and based on Alf’s behavior patterns I derived some plausible solutions to the question:
Unable to return to Melmac, as it exploded due to nuclear war, Alf now lives on Pluto, which he used his money from NBC to purchase. Pluto then became a private residence, and that is really why it is no longer a planet. After breaking up with his girlfriend, Rhonda, Alf began production of his own reality television show, Making Out with the Melmacian, starring himself and ET as they pal around space in search of love. It is distributed only on planet Dave and Alvin so far, but he hopes to get it in the five largest galaxy markets by year-end.
After years of wishing to eat, Lucky, the family cat, Alf finally grew to accept that cats are friends and not food. He opened a cat sanctuary outside Santa Fe and became vegan. Now he lives amongst his former food and cares for them like he would his own children.
