ALF’s Special Christmas

<p><strong>Day 23:</strong> Remember ALF? He’s back, in podcast form. From 1987, “ALF’s Special Christmas” is the single most depressing Christmas special starring a wisecracking alien puppet of all time.</p> <p><strong>Content Warning:</strong> In this Christmas special, the goofy alien with the jokes meets a terminally ill child and a man contemplating suicide.</p> <hr /> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), an ugly little funny-looking thing.</li> <li><strong>Jeff Somogyi</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/sommerjam">@sommerjam</a>) of <a href="http://talkinchopp.libsyn.com">Talkin’ Chopp</a> and Nerd Lunch’s <a href="http://nerdlunch.net/podcast/down-the-rabbit-hole">Down the Rabbit Hole</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/heartbreaking-true-story-behind-alfs-special-christmas-215419797.html">The heartbreaking true story behind “ALF’s Special Christmas</a>.”</li> <li>A study in human ignorance: Gordon Shumway has a name, which he’s told everyone, yet everyone still calls him HEY ALIEN!</li> <li>A study in willful alien ignorance: ALF opens everyone else’s Christmas gifts and succeeds in convincing me it’s because he doesn’t know how any of this works.</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmb56XLFTtw">Talking ALF: The Storytelling Alien</a>, which a childhood friend of mine used as her answering machine message.</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.newseum.org/exhibits/online/yes-virginia">Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus</a>.”</li> </ol> <hr /> <p>You can visit the Advent Calendar House on the web at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house">adventcalendar.house</a>, on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/adventcalhouse">@adventcalhouse</a>, and on the <a href="http://christmaspodcastnetwork.com">Christmas Podcast Network</a>.</p>