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On September 22, 1986, NBC viewers were introduced to an extraterrestrial character in a titular sitcom who would be parodied, referenced, and even featured in many future series and movies: ALF, which stands for Alien Life Form — a nickname given to one Gordon Shumway, a short, furry creature with an anteater-like nose. He was self-serving, loud-mouthed, sarcastic, and because of his eight stomachs, he was perpetually hungry for pizza and cats. Younger and older audiences alike loved him and collected related merchandise for many years, such as plush toys , T-shirts, lunchboxes, caps, pins, stickers, and posters.

This fuzzy extraterrestrial fled the nuclear destruction of his home planet, Melmac, only to crash-land on the su

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