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Willie imagines ALF as Dexter Lurch in his dream.
My Back Pages is the tenth episode of ALF's third season. It originally aired on Nov. 28, 1988.
Plot Summary[]
The Tanners find their Woodstock videos in the attack. After Willie explains the hippy movement, ALF accuses him of being a sell out.
Willie has a dream where he imagines ALF as his roommate "Snout." In the end, Willie decides that his decision to go into social services as a career proves that he is not a sell out.
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Brian is preparing ALF's breakfast. Willie says it's too much, and ALF comes in with clothes stuck to his fur, and says he wants a new room. Willie balls but ALF says to remember that if he ever complains about fur in his shorts
Act One[]
ALF is in the attic with a measuring tape and accidentally knocks over some boxes. Kate and Willie come up to investigate. ALF talks about wanting this space for his new bedroom. Willie then finds a box full of their hippie memorabilia with their beads, peace sign necklace, flower crown, and their 16mm home movies Willie took at Woodstock. Willie then suggests they watch them.
Willie sets up a screen and projector in the living room. Lynn comes home and asks if the cable is down. Willie the says they're about to watch the Woodstock movies. Trevor knocks on the door to return Willie's edger, and also asks of the cable is down. Raquel badgers him to get some bridge mix which the Tanners have none of. They leave. Willie has Brian start the projector. They watch the film and ALF makes a few jokes
Late that night , ALF is having a midnight snack, and Willie comes in. Willie then tells ALF that finally realizes who ALF reminds him of. His college roommate Dexter "Snout" Lurch IV who was a nonconformist that would go on late night food binges. ALF asks if he was a party animal, but Willie says these actions were attempts to end the war in Vietnam. Willie mentions that these things no longer happen because the war is over. ALF then accuses Willie of selling out and chides him for holding on to the stuff in the attic all these years
Act Two[]
Willie is pacing around the bedroom, pondering what ALF told him. Kate says not to take him too seriously. ALF comes in with a flower and to apologize, and that Willie had no choice but to sell out. Kate tells him to leave. Willie goes to sleep and dreams about his first day at college and going to the campus hangout with Kate. Willie is dressed like a real square. At the bar, Trevor and Raquel are the proprietors. He sits down, and everyone tells him to get out of Snout's chair. Kate explains that Snout is the campus guru, and later ALF as Snout shows up. Willie chides Snout for participating in a sit-in, and Snout explains about why he does it. Everyone present except for Willie concur, but Willie continues his within the system ideology. Willie then finds out that Snout will be his roommate. Willie's dream then moves to after his graduation. He's reformed form his old ways and talks about wanting to make Earth a better place and that Snout opened his eyes. Snout then shows up and says that he's going to work for his father's brokerage firm instead of the ACLU. Willie admonishes Snout for selling out. Willie wakes from his dream that he's not sold out. Kate tells him to go back to sleep, but Willie says he needs to do something first. ALF is in the kitchen singing his own version of "Down by the Riverside" and still eating. Willie comes into the kitchen to tell ALF about his dream and that he can have the attic, and that the things he saved in the attic.
Epilogue[]
The family is having dinner in the kitchen, but Willie wonders where ALF is. Lynn asks Willie he misses the 60'. He says he does but it's the last decade he'd return to. ALF then shows up dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, and playing a disco song. Willie says he'd like to take back what he just said.
Title Reference[]
"My Back Pages" is a song by Bob Dylan.