ALF

Watching this blooper reel from ALF makes it seem like the cast and crew had a great time working on this show, but after doing some research about the show on wikipedia, I suddenly realized that the entire cast was dying on the inside and on second viewing the reel becomes much more ironic and way more uncomfortable.

FROM WIKIPEDIA…The production of ALF was technically difficult and demanding. All four lead actors - Max Wright (Willie Tanner), Anne Schedeen (Kate Tanner), Andrea Elson (Lynn Tanner) and Ben Hertzberg aka Benji Gregory (Brian Tanner) - admit that there was a high level of tension on the set.

Max Wright stated that he despised “supporting a technically demanding inanimate object that hogged most of the good lines.” He admits to being “hugely eager to have it [ALF] over with.” Anne Schedeen said that on the last night of taping ALF “there was one take and Max walked off the set, went to his dressing room, got his bags, went to his car and disappeared. There were no goodbyes.” Schedeen herself said “there was no joy on the set…A 30 minute show took 20, 25 hours to shoot.” While fond of her on screen children, Schedeen said some adults had “difficult personalities. The whole thing was a big dysfunctional family”. Elson, suffered from bulimia during the second season of shooting, stated “If ALF had gone one more year, everybody would have lost it.”

HERE’S MY FAVORITE TIDBIT…

Fusco is notoriously secretive about his character. During the show’s production, Fusco refused to acknowledge that ALF was anything other than an alien. All involved with the production were cautioned not to give away any of ALF’s secrets.










Max Wright, who played the father on the children’s show “Alf” apparently liked to smoke crack and have sex with homeless gay tricks in his “drug den” according to the National Enquirer who got home video of him doing so back in 2001 and published photos of the crack sex party outing Wright to the world. Tanner was unable to find work after the cancellation of “ALF” in 1986. His career stalled, Wright turned to drugs and alcohol and worked as a day laborer. In March of 2001, the National Enquirer published photos of Wright smoking crack cocaine and engaging in various homosexual activities with men he picked up from the street. After the article, he went into seclusion.