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I Gotta Be Me is the twenty-third
episode of ALF's fourth and final season. It originally aired on March 10, 1990.
Plot Summary[]
Lynn announces that she is going to a ski resort with Robert, but Willie and Kate disallow it. Lynn states her intention to go with or without permission.
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ALF and Brian are playing Monopoly, ALF has won having gained possession of all the properties in the game and asking to be called Harry Helmsley with Brian as Leona. Lynn comes one with Robert, and ALF thinks Robert is no good because he's a mime. Robert has taught her a move "Woman riding escalator" and Robert needs to go because he's got a self-defense class for mimes in the morning. They kiss and Robert heads out. ALF is upset for never being kissed like that
Act One[]
ALF is reading the ingredients on a baby food label and jokes that there is sulfuric acid in it. ALF then mentions how his cousin Frieda finding a rat head in a can of rat head soup. Lynn comes home and mentions that she and Robert won a raffle, the prize being an all expenses paid weekend for two at a ski resort. Kate asks if she'll take Joni, and Lynn says she's going with Robert. Kate is upset that Lynn would do this without her permission. ALF starts interjecting but Kate asks him to leave. Lynn says that at age 19 she should have the right to do this. Willie comes in and asks about what's happening, and Kate tells him what Lynn's plans are. She says she'll do it with or without their approval.
Willie and ALF are in the kitchen and ALF is loudly eating something, and asks why Lynn didn't try to go through with her plans behind their back. Lynn comes in and ALF is sent away so Lynn and Willie can talk privately, Lynn tells Willie she was raised to think for herself, and that she doesn't want to make promises she can't keep. Lynn heads to bed, and ALF comes back and says if a like this with Brian ever happens to let him handle it
Lynn is in her room packing for her trip and ALF comes in asking her if he can stay there while she's gone. She says she's headed out first thing in the morning. ALF talks about how his mother didn't approve of his girlfriend Rhonda. In the morning ALF and Brian are at the dining room table, and ALF tries to get him to help him move into Lynn's room. Willie and Kate are up, and Lynn is getting ready to leave. Robert arrives and knocks on the door. In front of her parents, Robert tells Lynn the hotel giving them a suite with a fireplace and hot tub. Willie gestures "too much information" which Robert is surpised he doesn't know, being a mime. They leave and ALF walks by with carrying a paint roller and wearing a hat and overalls, humming the "Colonel Bogey March"
Act Two[]
Lynn arrives home from her ski trip, and Willie tells ALF to clean his stuff out of her room. Lynn walks in and apologizes to Kate and says she doesn't want people to be angry with each other. ALF asks in a double entendres "how did you make out?" Kate talks about how the mountains were beautiful and they talked about philosophy, music books his childhood and thinking about the future and living together. Willie thinks it was wrong for them to seriously talking about living together. Lynn says it should not be a big deal because some her high school friends are married already. Willie says that they feel she's not ready to make a decision like that, to which Lynn says that maybe its time they find out. She storms out of the house.
At Robert's apartment Lynn knocks on the door, and reminds him of about their talk about living together, and it might be a good time for them to start. Robert talks about having to cleanup the apartment first, but says he thought they were talking about at an indeterminate time in the future. Robert asks about what her mother did to get her this way and she mentions her mother overreacting to what she said. Robert convinces her to go back and let her mother know that they'll wait, and she heads out.
Back at the Tanner house, ALF is talking about what happened, and Lynn comes back. She asks to speak to Kate alone. Lynn then mentions to her mother that it was wrong of her to storm out, and that she's upset about her still being treated like a child. Kate says she wishes that she and Lynn, would have had a talk about the facts of life and other things that would happen when Lynn had her first intimate relationship. Kate then says she's upset that time was moving too fast for her. Kate asks Lynn if she's going to move in with Robert, but Lynn says she'll stay
Epilogue[]
Lynn walks in on ALF in her room and she asks him to leave. ALF tries to convince her to switch rooms, but Lynn rejects his idea.
Epilogue[]
Title Reference[]
"I Gotta Be Me" is a song popularized by Sammy Davis, Jr.