#alf brian

[detherun]

[your-fave-is-christian]

Brian Tanner from Alf

Brian Tanner from ALF is Christian!

[nerds-yearbook]

With a cover date of December, 1989, Marvel released the first of two Super-Sized Alf Holiday Specials (the second was released the following year with a cover date of December, 1990). The special contained multiple winter themed stories involving Alf and the Tanner family. ("Shop Around the Clock", "Snowman is an Island", "The Return of the Crazy Critter", "The Gift of the Melmagi", "WOTIF The Twelve Days of Christmas Happened on Melmac?" "23 Ski do's and don'ts", "Alf Lang Syne", Super-Sized Alf Holiday Special 1#, Marvel Comic Event)

[streets-in-paradise]

So, you already know I am a sitcom addict and I’m currently doing a family rewatch of Alf for nostalgia reasons ( it was the very first live action sitcom I watched as a kid, since my very first sitcom was The Simpsons). 

This time i landed on an episode i didn’t remember at all, one where Alf tries to help Kate’s mother ( the grandma of the Tanners by mother’s side) move on from the death of her husband. At some point of the episode after screwing things up, he sends himself on big box in the mail to her new place in an attempt of talking to her. 

She takes his advice, accepts the invitations of a guy who wants to go out with her, etc and at the end he sends himself on the mail back to the Tanners. 

@losersclubisms @series-thoughts​

Is the plot of Curse of Chucky, only in reverse XD XD

[brokenpiecesshine]

Paramore on Instagram, 03/02/2023.

One week till This Is Why.

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[grinchwrapsupreme]



read half a paragraph of a fic and wound up spending half an hour on wikipedia to see if something in the paragraph was based on real events

[streets-in-paradise]

LOVE THIS

Allow me a little addition matching the vibe:

Child's Play 1988, but is this

AU where Andy and Chucky are actually friends somehow and they're just these guys

[scotianostra]

December 3rd 1965 saw the Beatles launch their last concert tour of Britain with two nights at the Odeon in Glasgow.

They didn’t get off to a good start, on the way to Scotland for the first show, as they travelled up the M1 motorway, a passing lorry signalled to The Beatles’ chauffeur Alf Bicknell to pull over and were told an instrument had fallen from the roof rack on the car, it was George Harrison’s Gretsch Country Gentleman and was smashed to pieces. He later said

“Some people would say I shouldn’t worry because I could buy as many replacement guitars as I wanted, but you know how it is, I kind of got attached to it."

Due to bad weather Brian Epstein decided that The Beatles should stay in a hotel in the city centre, rather than the smaller one further out they had been booked to stay in. The was some concern that the location of the new hotel could have proved a security risk, but the visit passed without incident

In their dressing room at Odeon The Beatles also took the time to record a message for Radio Scotland, a new pirate station. Also on the bill were The Moody Blues. There was a heavy police presence at the event and though there were still the ear-tingling screams from fans’, it was largely reported that they did not seem as wild as they had been in previous years. John Lennon was singing lead and kicked things off with ‘I Feel Fine’.

The group played a total of 22 times in Scotland starting in 1962. One of the gigs was in the Highland town of Dingwall in front of a not so impressive 19 or so folk!

Despite their poor experience in the town of Dingwall before their rise to stardom, John Lennon continued to use the Highlands as a prime holiday escape for his family since visiting regularly throughout his younger years.

The ex-Beatle was to be a regular in Durness, Sutherland, where he spent vast amounts of time fishing, hunting and exploring due to having family links there, including his Aunt Mater. He considered his long summers spent in the areas among his happiest childhood memories, describing the capital as one of his favourite cities.

Today it is Paul McCartney who is more closely associated with Scotland, through his farm on the Mull of Kintyre that he purchased in 1966. The region became an escape for McCartney from the Fab Four prior to and following their break up in 1970, as well as acting as the inspiration behind his next music project and their hit Mull of Kintyre.

[javelinbk]

16th January 1964 - The Beatles song 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' reaches number one in America

Paul: We got a telegram, in the evening, after one of the shows when we were having a drink at the hotel. And it came... Capitol Records: 'Congratulations, lads - number one in US charts' or something. So we all hit the roof. I remember riding round on Mal Evans' back for about twenty minutes or so... "Yay-hey-hey! <whip>". And he was, you know, happy to bear me. It was just very high hysterics, you know. George: And Brian rang me, round about half past one in the morning, he said, "I know you won't mind being woken up," I said, "Well, I wasn't asleep anyway". He said, "Well, I've just heard from America... we're number one." "Fantastic!" He said, "Do you want to come round?" "Not 'alf." So we went round and had a great... drink-up, and it was lovely, super. We never went to bed that night.

Paul McCartney and George Martin recall finding out that The Beatles had reached number one in America. The Beatles Anthology (1995)

Paul McCartney and Mal Evans celebrate finding out that The Beatles had reached number one in America. Paris, 16th January 1964

[will80sbyers]

Holly Wheeler's room in season 5

We have a drawing of ballerinas (like if someone is getting Vecnad), one drawing of an owl (?) (owls in the background = bad omens theory) with a red balloon(?) like in IT and the one near the yellow I don't get exactly what it could be... She also has a blonde Barbie head that I feel like could be both because she's a kid that wants to play at being pretty and because for the symbolism it's an image of her mom I think

Lots of colours and happy vibes, she seems to be a very artistic kid, she also plays something (I think it's most likely a violin)

she loves rainbows, the plushie seems to be either a mouse or a bear but I'm leaning towards the mouse because she has the Fievel poster... I'm curious about that other smaller poster but I don't know what it could be about...

Then we also had this side of her room with the Alf poster

Alf is an alien that "likes to eat cats and comment on the stupidity of humanity" apparently... Demodog/Henry related imo

Plot of the show from Wikipedia:

Gordon Shumway is an alien from the planet Melmac who follows an amateur radio signal to Earth and crash-lands into the garage of the Tanners, a suburban middle-class family who live in the San Fernando Valley area of California. The family consists of social worker Willie (Max Wright), his wife Kate (Anne Schedeen), their teenage daughter Lynn (Andrea Elson), younger son Brian (Benji Gregory), and pet cat Lucky. ( Holly Wheeler as a cat... lol )

Willie gives Gordon the nickname ALF ("Alien Life Form"), and, unsure what to do, the Tanners take ALF into their home to hide him from the Alien Task Force, a part of the U.S. military that specializes in aliens, and their nosy neighbors Trevor and Raquel Ochmonek (John La Motta and Liz Sheridan), until he can repair his spacecraft. Though his culture shock, survivor's guilt, and loneliness often cause problems for the Tanners, as well as their fear of what could happen if others were to discover his existence, they grow to care for and love him as a part of the family.

It is later revealed that ALF's home planet, Melmac, exploded due to nuclear war, leaving him and other survivors of his species without a home, and that he survived its destruction because he was away as part of the Melmac Orbit Guard. In the season one episode "Pennsylvania 6-5000", ALF tries to convince the President of the United States to stop the nuclear program, as he fears that Earth could suffer a similar fate to Melmac, though a misunderstanding causes the President and national security to call the FBI to arrest Willie.

Episodes dealt with ALF learning about Earth and making new friends both within and outside the Tanner family, including Willie's brother Neal (Jim J. Bullock), Kate's widowed mother Dorothy (Anne Meara), with whom ALF has a love-hate relationship, her boyfriend and later husband Whizzer (Paul Dooley), the Ochmoneks' nephew Jake (Josh Blake), the psychologist Larry (Bill Daily) and the blind woman Jody (Andrea Covell), who never learns of ALF's true nature, but does know through touch that he is short and hairy.

Changes occur in the Tanner household over the course of the series, including the birth of a new child, Eric, who was added to the series because Anne Schedeen was pregnant at the time; ALF moving from the laundry room to the attic, which he and Willie convert into an "apartment", and the death of Lucky in the season four episode "Live and Let Die", which ALF accepts despite having previously attempted to catch and eat him due to having come to love and respect him. When ALF adopts a new cat with the intention of eating it, he grows fond of it and allows the Tanners to adopt it.

(Maybe Henry grows fond of Holly and doesn't kill her because of that???)

In the 1996 movie Project ALF, which follows ALF after his capture by the USAF, the Tanners do not appear due to moving to Iceland.

and some books of foreshadowing that we analyzed previously, Peter Pan, A royal Pain, Nancy Drew and the secret of the old clock... which tbh seems all related to Henry and seeing that he will take Holly at one point it makes sense

These are the covers, it seems she's in the middle of reading the Nancy book because she has a bookmark there

An important note is that one of these books, A Royal Pain, talks about someone thinking they've been switched at birth with someone else, and this switched at birth idea gets also associated with Nancy in season 3 when she talks to her mom...

Then we have obviously the "Nancy" book with the clock being related to Vecna's clock and there's a mystery connected to this clock and then Peter Pan which Henry is sort of a dark version of that when he takes children away to a land where they stop growing........... 💀

people have already talked about this and also about Petergate (the name Peter gets repeated in the show SO many times) and the belief that there might be someone important to the story called Peter that we don't know about yet, or maybe that has been mentioned only once in season 4 aka Owens son that seems to be both dead and somehow, the military thinks he may be related to how Chrissy died so maybe he died in the same way as her?

Because they take his things and put this line in the show for some reason

[private-g-shumway]

RIP Benji Gregory

It was reported yesterday that Benji Gregory, aka Brian Tanner from ALF, died last month on June 13. It is assumed that he died of vehicular heatstroke, along with his service dog, Hans.

As y'all know, I'm a huge ALF fan, so this comes to me as a pretty huge shock and tragedy. Brian was never the biggest character on the show, but he had some pretty memorable moments. My favorite may be his performance of the Asparagus song in "It Isn't Easy...Bein' Green".

RIP Benji and Hans. 🕊🕊 You will always been remembered. Many condolences to his family. And, while we're on the topic, be careful in the heat, y'all. Stay cool and hydrated.

[beardedmrbean]

Benji Gregory, the child star who appeared in ALF, has died aged 46

Gregory’s body was found on 13 June, with a cause yet to be determined.

According to TMZ, the actor was found in his car in a Chase Bank car park in Peoria, Arizona alongside the body of his service dog, Hans.

The actor’s sister Rebecca, speaking to the outlet about her brother, revealed that the child star suffered from bipolar disorder, depression and a sleep disorder that sometimes caused him to remain awake for days at a time.

The outlet notes that those close to Gregory believe he might have died of heatstroke after falling asleep in his car.

Gregory appeared in all four seasons of the 1980s sitcom ALF, which is an acronym standing for “Alien Life Form”.

The series, which aired on ITV in the UK, saw the alien crash land in the garage of the Tanner family, led by Max Wright and Anne Scedeen, with Gregory playing their son Brian alongside Andrea Elson, who played his sister Lynn.

Ahead of securing the role in ALF, Gregory, whose grandmother was his agent, appeared in TV shows including Fantasy Island, TJ Hooker and The Twilight Zone.

In the 1990s, he guest starred in the sitcom Punky Brewster and provided a voice for animated film Once Upon a Forest. Gregory also voiced the character of Biff Tannen in an animated version of Robert Zemeckis’s hit 1985 film Back to the Future. Tannen was played by Thomas F Wilson in the franchise.

The following decade, Gregory enlisted in the US Navy and, in 2005, receiving an honourable medical discharge. After officially leaving the Navy in 2006, he married his wife Sarah.

Gregory’s sister asked people to donate to The Actors Equity Foundation or the ASPCA on her brother’s behalf.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A 70-year-old Alberta woman was convicted this week of second-degree murder and indignity to a body for fatally stabbing her husband, removing his arms and dumping his body 150 kilometres east of her home on an abandoned farm in Saskatchewan.

The crime has no clear motive, but the details are outlined in Court of King's Bench Justice Dallas Miller's 34-page conviction decision, which was handed down following a trial earlier this month that saw prosecutors Jase Cowan and Brian Shantz call 18 witnesses over the seven days of evidence.

The victim was Alfred (Alf) Belyea, a 72-year-old Cypress County councillor who had served his community for six years and had recently told his wife and friends he was planning to seek another term.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[greensparty]

Remembering Benji Gregory 1978-2024

Very sad news came in tonight that actor Benji Gregory has died at 46. The fact that this former child actor is even younger than me is so upsetting. He played Brian Tanner, son of the Tanner family on ALF  (NBC 1986-1990). He had some great episodes including the one where Brian had a birthday and Alf was going to go back to Melmac and Brian was so sad saying goodbye. As a child of the 80s, I was a huge fan of Alf and watched the show religiously. Brian was a big part of the show and Benji did a great job! Even this past year I got the Shout Factory DVD box set of Alf and have been making my way through it (it's 24 discs, hence I haven't finished it yet!?!) and was reminded of what a fun show it was. Gregory also appeared in the 1987 TV special Alf Loves a Mystery.

Alf and Benji Gregory circa 1986

In addition to Alf, he appeared in a 1985 episode of Amazing Stories, the Penny Marshall film Jumpin' Jack Flash, and he was the voice of Biff Jr. on the animated TV show of Back to the Future (CBS 1991-1993). Ht left acting in the early 00s when he joined the Navy.

Around 2012, I stumbled upon a Benji Gregory on Facebook and sent him a friend request asking "is this the real Benji Gregory?". He didn't accept, but he wrote me back and said "Is this the real Eric Green? If so, I'm dying to meet you." I'm sure he got hit up by fans a lot over the years, so I didn't take that personally. He had some personal issues (he struggled with bipolar and depression over the years) but he seemed to have made peace with his child acting career enough to appear on some podcasts in recent years discussing his time on Alf.

The link above is the obit from People.