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February 14, 2023 • 38 mins
Hey Willie! The SuperCast Crew is gonna talk about everyone's favorite cat-eating alien, Gordon Schumway, aka ALF! The animated series takes place on Melmac, and Jeff has fond memories of it. Does it hold up? You'll have to listen to find out. But first, the gang discusses Cirspy Critters cereal, which was revived in the 80s for...about a month and a half. But you probably remember the commercial. Trust us.
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It's time to PLoP down in frontof the TV and the Way Back Machine
with a bowl of your favorite cerealto relift the cartoons that made it worth
waking up early on the weekend.It's the Saturday Morning super Cast. Hello,

(00:33):
and welcome to the Saturday Morning superCast, where it's always Saturday morning
and the cereal bowl is always full. I'm Jeff, I'm Corey, and
I'm Olivia, and we are back, folks. We did take a little
bit of an extent to hiatus,and we appreciate you giving us a time
off. You know, folks,we're can I tell you A third of
our cast is a teacher. That'sOlivia who stays busy. Another third of

(00:58):
our cast, me and Corey alwayshas about seventy two irons in the fire
and nine plates spinning in the air. So h and I just started a
new job. That's my only excuse. But you know, we just you
know, life finds a way tous. No, that's a different way

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to use that that line from JurassicPark. Okay, thank you, yes,
thank you that yeah. But sobut we are back and we hope
everybody enjoyed there the time that whilewe were away if you celebrated the holidays,
We hope you enjoyed the holidays.But we are back, and we're
here today to discuss ALF, theanimated series, which I'm actually pretty excited

(01:45):
about. But before we get tothat, I wanted to talk about a
serial called Crispy Critters, which Ihad forgotten about. And when I was
doing research because ALF aired and startedin nineteen eighty seven, and I was
trying to find cereals that were onshelves around that time time, and I
came across an image for Krispy Crittercereal and I immediately remembered the commercial.

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I remembered the word indubitably. Dideither of you have any any recollection of
this before we after I sent youthe the research for it, not a
bit. I do remember the resurgenceof Krispy Critters in the mid eighties was

(02:27):
that what eighty seven? I didnot have it, but I do remember
it trying to make a comeback.I did not ever have it either for
because it was only on shelves forit it was it was a an unsay
called an unsuccessful revival, so itdidn't last that long on shelves. But

(02:47):
I remembered the commercials, and thething I remembered was a The guy looked
like one of the Fraggles to me. Okay, yeah, you know,
and you kind of see that withlike the free pom pomp thing. Yeah,
exactly. And his name was Crispyand he sang in the voice of
Jimmy Duranti, including his phrase yeah. And I remembered that. Like I

(03:10):
said, I remembered that, justvery vividly. And Corey, it doesn't
surprise me. I'm going to stopasking if you remember anything, because I
know your mind is like cheese.Yeah, you think you'd know by now,
It's many years we've been together.I'm not going to stop asking,
but I'm gonna stop expecting. ButKrispy Critters was first introduced by Post Cereals

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in nineteen sixty three. It's madeof oats and consisted of animal shape pieces
similar to animal crackers, so itwas basically animal crackers cereal back then.
The commercials featured a cartoon lion namedLioness the Lion Hearted, voiced by Sheldon
Leonard, and the slogan was theone and only cereal that comes in the
shape of animals. You know.They weren't as catchy and pithy with the

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slogans back then Yeah, well,sung to the tune sung to the tune
of Tripak from Chaikowsky's a Nutcracker Belly, which I'm not familiar with my head,
Olivia, can do you want tohum a little bit of that for
us? Which part is that ofthe nut Okay? So this is Act
two of the Nutcracker. So thisis where all of the sweets and treats
are dancing to entertain. Um.This is depending on what version of the

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Nutcracker you're seeing. Um, thisis either like Russian Russian bobbas or sometimes
a different sweek it's attached to it, um them, but try pack is
um? Okay? Hear it allthe time in Christmas advertising. Yes,

(04:40):
it makes me think of Christmas.I love it when I hear that,
I think Christmas. So yeah,that's good, okay good. Yeah.
Gets used in a lot of alot of like up up, tempo,
perky advertising, a lot of carcommercials. Yes, okay, So so
thank you for that, Olivia.So after that, in nineteen sixty four,
Lioness was spun off into a Saturdaymorning cartoon show, which ran for

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two years, then re ran onABC for three more until nineteen sixty nine.
And after that point the popularity ofthe show and the serial declined and
the serial was discontinued, and ineighty seven, as I said, Post
attempted to revive it. And Iremember these commercials with the kids trying to
say indubitably and they couldn't say it, and they'd say, it's indubitably delicious,
and that's that's This is the commercialsthat taught me the word indubitably,

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which is one of my favorite wordson the planet in the English language at
least. And the serial may have. One thing that I thought was interesting
is that the original Linus, thelionhearted character was the first advertising character to
ever appear as a balloon in theMacy's Thanksgiving Day parade from nineteen sixty four

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to nineteen sixty nine when they discontinuedthe serial. That's a pretty good run
for a parade balloon, especially thefrequency now that they seem to rotate out
ate them out right exactly. AndI'm also amazed that this is not something
that we've ever heard of before,because that seems like something that you know,
trivia hounds like Corey and I willend Olivia, like the three of
us, Um would would know somethingthat would have come up, right,

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And I'm a big mate, I'ma big Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Day parade fans.
So um yeah, I'm actually kindof surprised that that that little factor I'd
hadn't crossed my awareness before exactly,so I was very surprised. Um.
They eventually added pink elephant pieces,orange moose pieces, and purple grape eight

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pieces to the original cereal I guessto look like some of like the frosted
animal crackers, but the one thatcame out in eighty seven did not.
And if you go watch the commercialsagain, it's it's Jimmy Duranty And they
even there were some golden books thatwere released featuring Crispy. There was one
called No Place Like Home, Sothat that's weird, right, Yeah,

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that actually that actually came with thecereal. That was one of the pack
ends that came with the cereal.So I thought I thought that was that
was interesting, but yeah, itwas. It's a it's a golden book
that that Cyria came in. Soum so neither but neither of you ever
did have it. No, um, the uh, the cereal when it
came back out, they had changedthe flavor of it a bit. It

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was it was less sugary. Um, it was built as being low sugar
with lots of crunch. And thenagain they you know, they readed the
uh, the mascot is this guynamed Crispy and uh it's it's funny.
As soon as it commercial started,I was like, Okay, I remember
this song and what were the whatwere the lyrics? Crispy critters? Um,

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it's already gone out of my head. A good wholesome bunch, A
good wholesome bunch, A low sweetcereal with lots of car runch. Yeah,
it's I've remembered it, just likeI said immediately. So, but
neither of you. So, Olivia, you do remember at Corey you just
you have no memory whatsoever of thesecommercials. No, not a bit.
M hmm. That's that's interesting tome. Just it just doesn't hold anything.

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So, Cory, are you goingto use the so the trivia that
you host? Do you do thequestions yourself? Or is it is it
gets you drink where they give youpre No? I do everything myself.
Are you going to add the linusA lionhearted trivia question into your rotation.
I mean, maybe I do someyou know, some niche categories. So
maybe I'll do like a breakfast cerealcategory or something that would be a good

(08:24):
way that would be and that wouldbe a good way to know if anybody
in the game is cheating, becauseif anybody gets at right, if more
than one person gets at right,you know, some people are looking stuff
up on their phone. Yeah,we could go into that whole thing.
But I've done a picture category aroundbefore with the box tops with the with

(08:46):
the names blurred out, and thatwould work pretty well. So maybe I
can do a serial one. We'llsee, Olivia, We're gonna have to
make a road trip and sit inand want of Cory's trivia nights. I'm
as now, especially because I didn'trealize you were doing all of your own
question generation. Yeah. I don'tplay around, buddy. That's why I

(09:07):
got Jackson, which I'm impressed withbecause just over time that just becomes a
lot of content. Well you shouldknow by now, Corey whole asses everything
he does. He does not halfass anything, now, yeah, anything
it is with his entire ass.So both cheeks, both of them all.

(09:30):
Donca whole set, I'd say,what's funny to me? Is there
the website in the eighties, dotcom has always has like a message board
for each each topic you look up, and it never fails. Anytime I
look up one of the cereals wetalk about, there's always at least one
person that says, Oh, thisis my favorite cereal in the world.
I miss it so much. Nobodyremembers it but me. Somehow they need
to bring it back. But thebest one that I have here is I

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remember being five years old sitting atthe dining room table for breakfast. My
dad had just got home from workinggraveyard shift and proceeded to make me and
my brother a bowl of Krispy Crittersbecause we love the cereal. What he
didn't know was that the milk hadgun sour, so when we took that
first spoonful, we thought that somethingwas wrong with the Krispy Critters. Needless
to say, that was the lasttime we ever ate the cereal. Okay,
these kids couldn't tell what was cerealand what was milk. Yeah,

(10:18):
but yeah, So if this madea comeback, I would definitely give this
a try, because it sounds likeit's not super super sweet. I imagine
it probably tasted like like circus animals, like animal crackers. Um, are
we all fans of animal crackers?Oh? Yeah, oh yes, yes,
you know. I like the frostedones too, But sometimes I just

(10:39):
like the uh the box of theplain red box of animal crackers. Yeah,
I get that, but I dolike more of a fan of the
puffed kind like you get in thered bag by Staffers, not the like
short bread kind that come in thePeat Barnum box. Oh. I'm not

(11:00):
familiar with these other types that youspeak of. I only know the ones
in the pt Barnum box. Yeah. I tend to like the Stuffer's brand
instead. I shall have to seekthis out, easily found in your local
grocer, in your in the cookieasle. Well, you say that,
but you've never been to Jackson,Mississippi. This is true, or at

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least never shopped in Jackson, Mississippi. I don't know. I would like
to think, though, that ifthere's anything that has some standard representation of
different brands, it would be theCookie Aisle. One would think, one
would yes, one would think I'mgonna paint with a broad grass here for
a second. Maybe not like theorganic section or the international section, but

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maybe the cookie aisle. Maybe speakingof finding things in your in your local
grocer's store, Corey, did youhave a chance to fo to try the
cinnamon what is it? CineMo CinnamojiToastcrunch? Yeah, it was so,
folks, Just to let you know. I was walking down the Walmart aisle
today and Cinnamon Toastcrunch has a newlimited edition box slash cereal cinnamojis is what

(12:16):
they're calling them, and so I'mprinted on each little square supposed to be
a face. I had a bowlof it. I would say maybe four
pieces of the cereal were legible enoughto notice that there was a face on
it. Everything else and just thinkit was more cinnamon. So I don't
know what they were trying to dowith it, but it's cinnamon Toastcrunch.

(12:37):
You can't go wrong with it.Let's say it's it's just the regular flavor
cinnamon Toastcrunch, right, Yeah,absolutely, And then it just kind of
I guess laser printed little lutradeor maskson them, and it's really bad.
Wow. Okay, So if ifthe emoji version is at premium pricing,

(13:00):
it's not worth it. Yeah.Luckily it was a family size and I
think I paid like five bucks forit, so it's not pretty standard yeah
these days. Yeah, So soif he's yeah, so this is the
content you come for, So thisis Corey, that is not a recommendation
unless it's the only kind of sentimentoscrunch you can find. Right, all
right, Well we'll take a shortbreak and we'll come back to discuss alf

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the animated series. Huh, indubitablyand we are back now. You know,
it struck me, Corey. Wehave not discussed ALF on the pilot
episode. Yeah. I was justthinking that the other day as well.
I find that kind of kind ofinteresting me too, because when I was

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a kid, I loved ALF,as I'm sure we all did, right,
Yeah, Yeah, if you watchit now, it maybe doesn't hold
up as much, But I stillthink the character of Alf is funny.
He makes me laugh. Paul Fusco'svoice makes me laugh. Right. So
ALF premiered on ABC, and Ibelieve it was nineteen eighty six, and

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so in nineteen eighty seven they starteda Saturday morning cartoon. It's also it
was known as alfi Animated Series oralf on Melmack Right, and it was
a Saturday Morning cartoon aired for twentysix episodes from September twenty six, nineteen
eighty seven to January seventh to nineteeneighty nine. And it was spun off
into a show called alf Tales,which we may talk about it at a
later date, which I was abig fan of as well, where they

(14:28):
took the characters and put them inlike fairy tales, they told fairy tales
with the characters, So we'll talkabout that at a later date. But
this was created by Paul Fusco,who was a creator and puppeteer of Alf
in the live action series. Andyou also might remember his name from when
we discussed space Cats. That wasa Paul Fusco production as well. That

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makes a whole lot of sense now. Unlike the television series, the live
action series, the animated series tookplace on Melmack prior to the explosion of
the planet, which I don't didn'tremember that Melmack exploded. It's been too
many years. I didn't remember iteither, and I didn't follow the live
action series close enough that I wouldknow. Oh interesting, okay, so

(15:16):
I thought I But for my firstthought of that is I thought that was
a great idea, because trying torecreate the live action series in an animated
form just didn't make a whole lotof sense to me. I loved this
take on it, and I wasactually a big fan of this show when
I was a kid. Did eitherone of you watch it when it was
on the first time around? Yes, Um, I pass I might have

(15:39):
seen an episode in passing. Yeah, I don't. I don't really have
a memory of it really sticking,you know, Um, but I'm I'm
sure I probably watched some of it. Okay, Corey, do you remember
enjoying the show when you were akid or is it just something that you
watched because it was on. Iremember enjoying the live action shows, so

(16:03):
this one was a lot of funtoo. And the hearing the theme song
again definitely sparked some earworms in me. So, yeah, you know,
the theme song to this I didnot remember at all, and I had
had lyrics. It was sung bya bunch of cats and it was in
the style of like a fifties kindof a doo wop song. And did

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you guys watch the first episode onYouTube or did you watch a couple of
episodes or just that first one,or did you not have a chance to
watch much at all? Just thefirst one see just the first guy,
and you can find there are acouple of different episodes available on YouTube,
but the first one is readily available. Did you notice at the very end,
over the closing credits that they dida Saturday and out live Joe?

(16:48):
Yes? Yeah, I had forgottenthat, and when it started I cracked
up. It's very rare that Iactually laugh at a show that we watch
for this for this po podcast,laugh out loud at it. As an
adult, I didn't remember that,and it obviously the joke didn't land for
me when I was a kid.I thought it was hilarious. It's proud.

(17:11):
It was pretty funny. It wasgood because especially they pulled back and
we see that you know, there'sthere's a there's a whole set and everything.
It's obviously a sitcom, um andthe studio audience saying like a character
standing around hugging and waving and um, which and you would only usually see
that on a sitcom if it waslike the final episode exactly. I remember

(17:34):
seeing that happen on and like seriousfinales there where there were a few that
Um, they would save a minuteor two at the end of the episode.
Um, and like do the curtaincall where they call the cast out
one by one and everybody, youknow, bows and embraces and waves and

(17:57):
and all that kind of stuff.So yeah, I found that very clever.
And I don't know. I wasa precocious little kid, like I
was very much nine going on thirty, but I don't know, I don't

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necessarily know that I would have likepicked that up or figured it out well.
And the only reason it dawned onme so quickly this time is because
when the music started, it wasat that sort of waltz, the type
that they do at the end ofSaturday Night Live with the horns and everything,
right, but the screaming jazz saxophonejazz breakdown solo. Yeah, and

(18:37):
the latest the latest season of MysteryScience Theater three thousand that's available on the
Gizmo Plex on their own app streamingapp does the same thing. At the
end of each episode. Over theclosing credits, they played this thing that
sounds just like the Saturday n atLive theme as they're doing all the credits
for the the kickstarter backers and everything. It's pretty funny. So as far

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as the content of the show goes, again, it was created by Tom
Fusco and our Paul Fusco and TomPatchett. Paul Fusco reprised his role as
alf U. We have several maincharacters, m Paul Well, I should
say he Gordon Shumway because that's that'sAlf's real name, which we find out
during the course of the live actionseries. Then of course they're not going

(19:22):
to call him Alf on this showbecause that is what they called him because
it stood for alien life for himon the live action show. But his
his family was voiced by His fatherwas voiced by someone named Thick Wilson,
works at at a mayonnaise factory andThick Wilson as an interesting career. Thick
Wilson was mister Brady and Tommy Boyand I'm trying. I think that's probably

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one of the people they went tovisit on their their sales trip, right.
He was also Gormand in The DarkCrystal, which I don't remember at
all because I blocked that movie frommy memory because it scares me. Which
one was that Corey was the chef, the one that brings up all the
little critters onto the table and theyall said they're eating and all the drool
and everything. Well, of coursehe was also in the Dirty Dozen.

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So just guys, got this guy'sgotta got some some legit credits on his
on his resume. His voice hismother, Flow was voiced by Peggy Mahon.
His brother younger brother Curtis, wasvoiced by Michael Fantini. His little
sister, Augie was voiced by PaulinaGillis, and I think she did mostly
noises hum. And they had twopats, Neep and Harry, neither of

(20:33):
which, as far as I cantell, we're voiced by um Frank Walker.
Yes, the name just left rightas I started to say thank you,
Andy Corey would help me out.Paulina Gillis. In true animation fashion,
the actor's voice multiple characters. RondaGordon's girlfriend was voiced by Paulina Yollis,

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who also voiced the little sister.Faul Fusco also voiced Rick Fusterman,
one of his friends. Rob Cowanvoice Skip his other friend, and Deborah
Thinker, who we didn't see inthis episode, voiced Madam Poughkeepsie, which
I think was funny. And LynnCarlson voiced Colonel Can't Fail and Sergeant Staff,

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both which I thought was interesting becauseI didn't think they sounded alike at
all. And in addition to that, his father, Thick Wilson, also
voiced the primary villain of the series, whose name I love this name,
Larson Petty. Yeah, that's apretty good one. It's like name yeah,
right, And they said it thefirst time and I thought, why,

(21:38):
why does this? And then Irealized what they were saying. It
was like, oh, I getit. So this to me, you
know, we talked about when wedid Space Cats, we talked about how
some of the humor was, ifnot sophisticated, was at least a step
a little wittier than your normal Saturdaymorning cartoon humor. And I think that,
to me is sort of an exampleof that as well. A name

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like Larson Petty Yeah. Well,and and start sergeant's staff too, Sergeant
Staff yeah, and can't and can'tFail yeah, Sergeant Staff. I didn't
even think about that, didn't evendidn't even donald ye staff yeah, and
coll cam't Fail. Yeah, that'sthat's great, that's great. And um,
as far as the show itself goes, it was very much to me

(22:21):
in in the vein of the Flintstonesor the jets Ands, where everything was
sort of had was analogous to somethingyou would see on Earth, but there
was just tweaked a little bit,or they called it something different and it
did something else slightly different. Didyou guys find that to be the case.
I don't know. I don't knowthat I necessarily got that same kind
of vibe. No, yeah,I didn't agree with Lebbia. I don't

(22:45):
think that I got the vibe.I didn't really feel that quite as much.
UM. I did find the umthe kind of the the setup or
the format of the UH pilot,specifically that had the live action wraparounds.

(23:06):
Oh that's every episode. Yeah,and that's consistent to health. Yeah.
And the conceit is that he's writinghis memoirs about life on Melmack and so
he's like, he'll start and hesaid, well, this is the story
I'm writing about, now, letme tell you about it. Then you
come back and he's finishing it,either finishing it up or in the case
of this episode, hadn't even started. It's so herky jerky when he's doing
these live action ones. You didn'tyou didn't like it, or I think

(23:32):
because it's written for studio audiences andhe's waiting for the laugh track that's not
there on these wraparounds. Okay,it just it hits like a lead balloon.
I can see that. I cansee that, and it's also there
They're they're sort of writing for adifferent audience as well, so I think
they were trying to keep that inmind as well. But yeah, I

(23:52):
did. I did remember that,and it didn't surprise me because you wanted
to have that connection with the liveaction series, so you kind of feel
like, oh, you're getting You'regetting a primetime character on Saturday Morning.
So I kind of get why theydid it. But I see what you're
saying, Corey exactly about that.So the first episode we'll talk a little

(24:14):
bit about. It's called Phantom Pilot, which I think he's funny because it
was the first episode of the showand it's the pilot, and this is
where we find that Gordon as friendsare in training for their first year in
the Orbit Guard, and during thecourse of the show, Melmack comes under
attack from Larson Petty Colonel Can't Failmistakenly takes Gordon onboard his fighter as co
pilot, but Gordon's incompetence puts himin danger and Rond ends up flying to

(24:37):
their rescue as the phantom pilot.Later on Larson, Petty invades again,
dropping bags of sticky liquid, andthe Phantom pilot picks Gordon up as a
co pilot but accidentally ejects her,but manages to trap Petty's fighter in a
giant rooftop donut sign and then youknow, ends up being the hero,
right. You know, we talkedabout Hubert on the show when we talked

(25:00):
about the Saturday Supercade. This sortof reminded me of Cubert maybe, and
maybe that's what I was thinking insteadof Flintstones with the Jetsons, it reminds
me a little bit of Cubert likeart style wise, you mean, just
the whole setup of the show again, you know, everything is sort of
Melmackian but has a you know,again, has an Earth analog. It's

(25:21):
probably just me, but I specificallylike the way the design of the characters,
and specifically Rhonda because she had thatvery eighties you know, pink singing
oppera looking hair. Yeah, andI can kind of see it in the
in the planes as well. Soyeah, I got you. Yeah,
But so what were your thoughts onthe show? Olivia will start with you,

(25:41):
since you didn't never see it before. What was your initial reaction to
the show? Was it what youwere expecting, was it better than you
were expecting, or did it evenregister? I would say in the first
I would say five to six minutes, I caught myself self kind of bristling

(26:03):
a little bit, just because theteacher and me always has a tough time
with humor that's based around stuff likejabs and and kind of poking fun,
but it sounds more like insults orname calling that just just always kind of
ruffles me the wrong way, youknow, especially because the primary audience for

(26:26):
this is kids, and you knowwhat if something teachers are constantly fighting in
the name of trying to instill likesome kindness into our children those things.
But I found that it took me. It took me a solid kind of
like ten minutes to sort of likeorient myself to it, and as I

(26:52):
got later into the episode, itI don't know, it's it's really hard
to describe. It's like it settledwith me more okay, okay, like
I got used to it. Igot acclimated to like the humor and the
dialogue style of the pattern and youknow all that kind of stuff. Um.

(27:18):
Visually, it wasn't too bad interms of animation of animation style,
right. I think the animation waswas pretty good. I mean, you
know, it's very much in thevein of of space cats. Um.
I think the design, you know, everything is sort of exaggerated a little
bit. Um And I think you'reright the art style is good. And
see that's not something I would haveever thought about, you know, the

(27:40):
mean spirited humor and that being somethingthat shouldn't be directed at kids, because
you know, I was a kidwhen I watched it. When you say
you sort of settled into it,was it that it stopped bothering you because
it got it lessened or did youjust sort of give up and say,
Okay, well this is what thisis. I'm gonna I'm gonna look at
it on its own terms, hm, or did you just size to it?

(28:02):
Could be a little bit of allof those. I do think part
of it though, was as theaction got on your way and you had
less character to character dialogue and yougot kind of into like the action sequences
of Gordon attempting to fly, Gordoninteracting with the phantom pilot, and then

(28:27):
them trying to stop Lars and Petty. I think that was just because it
was less dialogue, more action.It balanced out the front part of the
episode for me. That makes sense, right, I got you, Yeah,

(28:51):
it makes makes perfect sense. Makesperfect sense. So Corey, as
somebody who did watch the show tobegin with, how did it was it?
What you remembered? Was it different? Was it better what I remembered?
It's I cannot say if it's ifit's as good as it used to
be, because yeah, I justcan't. I can't get a pulse on

(29:14):
that with my brain stuff. ButI think it was cute. I think
it had some funny moments. Idon't think that I would go back and
watch more of it, but itwas a fun little time capsule. Oh
yeah, that was gonna be Mynext question was, you know, is
it something you'd want to revisit?And you know, I think the same
is kind of true for me.This came along late enough that my experience

(29:40):
with it is pretty much the samenow as it was then. I kind
of knew what it was other thanI'm getting some of the jokes more now.
So from that standpoint, I thinkit to me, it kind of
holds up a little better than alot of the shows that we've talked about
for that reason that there are somejokes in there that I didn't get the
first time around that I'm getting out. It's not really enough to make me
want to do a deep dive ora binge on it, but I can

(30:03):
see me checking out a couple ofother episodes just for nostalgia's sake. Now
when it comes to alf Tails,I want to make a separate show about
that, because that was the onethat I thought was ingenious and was a
lot of fun, and that isone that I am looking forward to seeking
out again. You know, I'mgoing through the episode list on wikipediot when

(30:23):
I'm not remembering any of the anyof these plots. But what I remembered
was everything Olivia talked about. Iremembered the design of the characters, I
remembered the look of the show,and I remembered the vibe it being,
you know, very much sort ofjust teenagers. It was sort of happy

(30:45):
days mixed with mixed with kind ofdukes of hazard a little bit, but
yeah, just sort of just ajust you know, teenagers, just like
a kid's show. Sure, butI don't know. To me, it
feels like this holds up a littlebetter than something like Peinte, Panther and

(31:07):
Son, or some of the othershows that we'd we talked about the Gary
Coleman Show, Harlem Globe Chargeries.It seems it seems like it flows a
littlettle bit better to me. AndI put that down to us go.
I think I'm probably just more attunedto his sense of humor. It sounds
like, did you guys kind offind the same thing with it? Yes?
Absolutely, I think it floated alot better than some of the ones

(31:30):
that we watched in the recent past. I agree. There are some elements
of this that stood out to meas not falling in the trap of so
many of the other shows that we'vewatched. I didn't feel the pacing issues

(31:51):
that so many other shows have hadin their episodes. The twenty two minutes
of the pilot did not feel likean hour, So that was that was
very noticeable for me, and Iappreciated that. Um. I appreciate too
that the the as I'm reading through, like the plot synopsis and the titles

(32:15):
it's all it's very punny. Umor some some puns. There's a couple
of like spoonerisms worked in for someof the references. Uh, there's things
that me now as an adult,I really appreciate. So like an episode
eight Pride of the Shumways. Uh, they're playing a game called bullya baseball.

(32:40):
Yeah, I remember that, Andthat was one of those jokes when
I was a kid that they saidbullya baseball And I was like, I
knew the word bullya base but Ididn't know what ad meant. But I
knew that was a joke, Right, I get it, And now as
an adult, I know what itmeans. And Olivia, if you don't
mind, give us a definition ofa spoonerism for any our listeners who may
not know. Oh okay, um. Spoonerisms are where, uh, some

(33:02):
humor is created by interchanging the firstfew letters of two different words. So
if you were going to say somethingis pretty funny, a spoonerism of that
would be that it's pretty punny.Right. And we had a we had

(33:23):
a show you know what, Wenever recorded that show. It was the
Trolkins. There was a there's athere was a that's the lost episode of
the Sunday Morning Supercast. Folks.We recorded a show that's Trolkins that contained
a character who used a lot ofspoonerisms, and uh, Corey and Olivia
refused to rerecord it, so you'llnever get to hear it. Yeah,

(33:44):
so do with that, folks,h straight up and refuse. That's how
miserable they were doing that show,folks. Uh so, but I'm not
sad. I'm not sad. Andthat In that same episode, there's a
character named Max dirt Ski, whichis a talent scout and you know,

(34:07):
again makes this real stuff. Ithink. Yeah, that's I was a
little surprised Corey when you said thiswas a one you would would seek out
or even just put on while you'rewhile you're working, because it does seem
like something that would play well inthe background. I'm sure it would play
well in the background. But yeah, I just got enough stuff and enough

(34:27):
podcasts to listen to that I don'tthink that I would. I would do
it. Okay, Olivia, whatabout you? Is this something you have
any desire to seek any of this? I mean, if you're not a
fan of alf to begin with,it's probably not gonna Yeah, And I
was one of those eighties kids thatwhile I remember watching ALF, I don't
remember that being one of those ohWe've got to get home to see you

(34:52):
know. Um My sister and Iwere much more die hard like muppet fraggle
rock kids, and then as wewere a little bit older, I remember
pretty consistently watching the TGIF lineup inthe evenings. Um. But yeah,

(35:16):
in terms like I remember it beingon, I remember watching episodes of it,
but I don't remember being a hugefan of it. So I don't
know that I would necessarily like seekit out. But if it, if
it happens to, you know,come across my come into my periphery,

(35:37):
I'm not going to poo poo it, all right, And I'm kind of
there with both of you. Idon't know that I will seek it out,
but you know, it's it's onethat I might. I'm looking at
some of these episodes. The verylast episode is called Skipper's Got a Brand
New Dad, and so that that'skind of amusing to me, So I
might try to seek that one out. There's a couple of individual episodes that
I vaguely remember in reading the plotsum and the fact that his dad works

(36:01):
at a mayonnaise factory still cracks meup. So I think that's probably one
that I will I'll try to geta hold up. There is an there
is an episode called the Slugs ofWrath, which is a parody of the
Grapes of Wrath that I'm rather veryinterested in revisiting. But Alf Tails,
when we talk about that, that'sone that I think we may get a
little more miloge out of. Sookay, well, there you have a

(36:22):
folks, that those are our thoughtson both Crispy Critters and Alf the Animated
series. I hope you enjoyed this, and I hope that if you had
forgotten about Alf the Animated series,maybe this will spur you to go look
it up, because I think thereare I think it's worth watching one episode.
Would you guys agree, Yeah forsure? Oh sure, yeah,
okay, yeah, I think it'sworth giving it, giving at least one

(36:45):
episode a chance and see if itif it holds up. Or if you
didn't see it to begin with,but you were a fan of Alph,
it might be you know, morealf lore for you. If you're a
sent sparks some nostalgia exactly. That'sworth ago. And mostly, like I
said, mostly I was just dowhat alf Lore alf loor? Yeah,
and so mostly like I said,I was always just very amused by the

(37:07):
concept. I thought it was agreat concept to set it on Melmax,
so we saw his life before hecame to Earth. I thought that was
very smart. So all right,so, unless you too have any final
thoughts on alf or Crispy critters,I'd say we can probably call it a
morning Yep, let's do it.I feel good, all right, So
once again for the Saturday Morning Supercast. I'm Jeff, I'm Corey, and

(37:30):
I'm Olivia, and it's time forcollege sports, so let's all go outside.
I'll put the dishes in the dishwasherso you guys don't have to worry
with him. You're a mench whata nice boy. Thank you for listening,
and don't forget to follow the showon Facebook It's Saturday Morning Super Cast

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