Alf starred in his own sitcom, cartoon show, and comic book series in the mid 1980s through the early 1990s and hosted his own talk show in 2004. His real name is Gordon Shumway, he was the captain of his high school’s Bouillabaisseball team, and he likes eating cats.
Richard Mulligan
Richard Mulligan played widowed doctor Harry Weston in the sitcom Empty Nest and looked very much like Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show.
Episode 21: Monday, March 20, 2006
In this episode:
- listener audio (The Transformers theme song by GT in Brooklyn),
- Uno,
- VH-1’s I Love Toys,
- The Godfather video game,
- an International Federation of Competitive Eating update (www.ifoce.com),
- celebrity deaths (Kirby Puckett, Peter Tomarken, and Slobodan Milosevic),
- old sitcoms (Empty Nest, ALF, and My Two Dads),
- Max Wright,
- The Old Jingle of the Episode (Tootsie Roll commercial),
- Tina Turner,
- and another interview with the fake Sean Connery.
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Episode 20: Monday, March 13, 2006
In this episode:
- Paunch in Time (Thomas Edison),
- the comic strip Conehenge: The Story of a Jersey Schlub by Richard Telofski (www.conehenge.com),
- the Rocket Racing League (www.rocketracingleague.com),
- Snazzy Nazz,
- a worthless gym teacher,
- demolition soccer,
- and misbehaving in the elementary school library (knocking over bookcases, faking epileptic seizures, mocking filmstrips, etc.).
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Optimus Prime: the human
top: Optimus Prime the human; bottom left: Optimus Prime in robot mode; bottom right: Optimus Prime in truck mode
In 2001, this U.S. Army Ohio National Guard firefighter changed his name to Optimus Prime, one of the characters in The Transformers, an animated series and toy line that was popular in the U.S. from 1984 to 1990.