Q 01/05

What is ALF's real name back on his home planet?

A) Gordon Shumway

B) Melvin Fusterman

C) Skip Cantfayl

D) Rick Petty

Answer · why

A) Gordon Shumway

Willie Tanner hands out the ALF nickname in the pilot; the alien had been going by his birth name for a couple of centuries before that.

Q 02/05

The name ALF is an acronym. What does it stand for?

A) Alternate Life Form

B) Alien Life Form

C) Astral Life Force

D) Alien Landing Failure

Answer · why

B) Alien Life Form

Willie coins the nickname because he has no idea what else to call the creature that has just crashed into his home.

Q 03/05

ALF crash-lands into which part of the Tanner family's property?

A) The backyard pool

B) The living room

C) The garage

D) The garden shed

Answer · why

C) The garage

He followed a shortwave signal from the house to Earth, and spends the rest of the series hiding from the Alien Task Force.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the Tanner family cat that ALF keeps trying to eat?

A) Whiskers

B) Mittens

C) Felix

D) Lucky

Answer · why

D) Lucky

ALF eventually comes to respect the cat, and when he later adopts a new one to eat, he ends up letting the Tanners keep it.

Q 05/05

What is Willie Tanner's job?

A) Social worker

B) High school teacher

C) Insurance adjuster

D) Postal carrier

Answer · why

A) Social worker

Willie is the kind but perpetually overwhelmed head of the household, and ALF spends four seasons wrecking his attempts at order.