A Mid-Goomer Night's Dream

Season 2, Episode 4 of ALF: The Animated Series.

The holiday of Goomer is upon Melmac, and Larson Petty is intent on getting his gift of foam—but while trying to kidnap the real Goomer, he ends up capturing Bob Shumway in a Goomer suit. Gordon and his sister Augie must then journey to find the real Goomer and rescue their dad.

Summary[]

Teaser[]

ALF notes similarities between Christmas and Goomer's Day.

Story[]

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Background information[]

Production history[]

Premiere airdate: October 1, 1988

Continuity[]

The episode title is a snowclone of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
ALF is typing on a computer keyboard rather than a typewriter.
ALF says Goomer’s day was a holiday a lot like Christmas.
None of the Shumway Family pets appear in this episode.
The background music sounds like “Jingle Bells.”
Goomer's Day occurs "When the moons are in alignment on the 30th of Kilmer."
Flo says this is the first day Augie knows what Goomer’s Day is about. This implies that she is still very young, even by Melmacian standards.
When Rick and Skip visit, Gordon tells them to “come in out of the goop.” It rains something other than water on Melmac.
Larson Petty lived in an orphanage when he was younger. He claims that the Goomer drove him to a life of crime, since he gifted foam to the other orphans, but not him.
The Goomer says that Larson Petty is evil, likes long walks in moldy places, has a history of mange, and his favorite show is “Nuts and Bolts.” The other kids called Petty “Stinky” when he was a kid, and he hated the nickname.
Larson Petty says that no one showed up for his 523rd birthday party, so he blew up a small planet. After that, he did some pillaging. If this episode takes place in 1951/1952, Petty was born around 1428/1429. Since all Melmacians die at 650 years of age, Petty has 127 years or less remaining in his lifespan. With a date of natural death at 2078/2079, it is possible that Petty was still a threat to the Orbit Guard in 1986 when Melmac was destroyed.
The Goomerscope display resembles the Pac-Man video game.
On a previous Goomer’s Day, Larson Petty’s piranha got foam and he didn’t.
The Goomer’s foam present for Augie resembles a Melmacian Troll.
This is the first of three episodes that do not have a live-action epilogue. The other two are "The Bone Losers" and "Hooray for Mellywood."

Links and references[]

Cast[]

Rob Cowan as Skip
Michael Fantini as Curtis Shumway
Paul Fusco as Gordon Shumway (ALF) and Rick Fusterman
Paulina Gillis as Augie Shumway
Peggy Mahon as Flo Shumway
Thick Wilson as Bob Shumway and Larson Petty

Additional voices[]

Eva Almos
Harvey Atkin
Len Carlson
Jayne Eastwood
Don Francks
Ellen Ray Hennessey
Ray Kahnert
Michael Lamport
Maria Lukofsky
Greg Morton
Nick Nichols
Stephen Ouimette
Linda Sorenson
John Stocker
Greg Swanson
Debra Theaker
Noam Zylberman

Unidentified voice actors[]

Doctor Boltz
Goomer
Sloop

References[]

animal; answering machine; bike; birthday; blood; cat juice; catstrami; costume; dance; East Velcro; flower; foam; fur; Fusterman Family; Gates of Foam; Goomer Cave; Goomer Day; Goomer’s Eve; Goomer Night on Melmac; Goomer Song Book; Goomerscope; holiday; house; keg; mammal; Mellow Pages; Melmac; Melmacography Volume 1; Nutz & Boltz; Orbit Guard; paint; party; Persian feast; piranha; planet; police; private; reform school; restaurant; restroom; resuscitation; shave; slug juice; Snark Forest; spaceship; spear gun; spore; sweet katato; Tabby; TV; Turkey Roost Road; Twangle Bunny; VCR; Wheel of Cheese; wire

Framing sequence references[]

Christmas; foam; Goomer’s Day; holiday; Melmac; "Melmac memory;" tea

External links[]

A Mid-Goomer Night's Dream at the IMDb