It's Alf facts time

the set of Alf was filled with holes and trenches so they could maneuver the puppet around and actors regularly stepped into them and sometimes fell into them. The set was five feet above the floor in a warehouse

the actor who played Alf stayed in character the whole time and would sometimes go into racist tirades when they werent shooting, as Alf

the late Max Wright actually hated Alf, the show, the character, the whole thing, his onscreen persona of being just kind of tired and angry with it was very, very real. He hated that puppet, and being on that show

Max was a theatre actor who wasnt told he'd be costar to a puppet until the puppet showed up for filming. So you were an actor on a sitcom where all the best lines when to a fucking puppet, and not even a good puppet

a single episode took 20 to 25 hours to shoot because of how much time it took to move Alf around, if he had to cross a room in a scene it was basically an hour of shooting

at one point in the fourth season Max attacked the puppet during shooting, screaming 'PUT US ALL ON STICKS! WE'RE ALL PUPPETS!'

when the show ended Max left without saying goodbye to anyone, the kids on the show still talk about the overall production being a hellish traumatic experience

this is from a 2010 vulture article and it's exhausting thinking about how how much we all need to grow up and get over racism according to sitcom people tends to be contingent on how many black people are dying on camera at any given time

I'm pretty sure racism existed in the 80s??? I think Richard Pryor did a bit on it once