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'''Stairway to Heaven''' is the second episode of [[ALF (TV series)|''ALF'']]'s [[Season 3|third season]]. It originally aired on Oct. 10, 1988.
 
'''Stairway to Heaven''' is the second episode of [[ALF (TV series)|''ALF'']]'s [[Season 3|third season]]. It originally aired on Oct. 10, 1988.
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==Summary==
 
In this episode, [[ALF]] accidentally injures [[Willie]] while playing croquet (although [[ALF]] was playing by the rules of [[File:Alf-referee.jpg|thumb|300px]]"[[mucksucking]]," the Melmacian analog to croquet).
 
   
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==Plot==
[[ALF]] begins to regret his ending up with the [[Tanner Family|Tanners]] and says that he wish he'd never come here and flings the croquet mallet up in the air, which then hits him in the head knocking him out.
 
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The episode starts with the Tanners outside getting ready to play croquet. Willie announces that he and Kate are going to compete against the reigning Tanner croquet champions, Brian and Lynn. ALF accidentally injures Willie while playing croquet although ALF was playing by the rules of "mucksucking". The family helps Willie into the house while ALF reflects on the fact that today he broke Willie’s windshield, then Willie’s power saw, and now he broke Willie. ALF then wonders what life would be like if he’d never come to Earth and accidentally conks himself on the head with the croquet mallet.
   
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When ALF gets inside the house, he rubs his head and enters the dining area. The Tanners are eating without him, and for a while it seems as though they’re just ignoring him to teach him a lesson. He has a dream that an angel named Bob comes to give him a new life. ALF tells Bob that the poor Tanners must be miserable without him, and Willie gushes about how perfect their lives are, which is timed perfectly and strictly should be. The non-existent anonymous neighborhood kids disappear into the back yard to see Brian’s new pool slide. ALF comments that the yard isn’t big enough for a pool, and Bob says that the Tanners bought the Ochmoneks’ house and demolished it. Angel Bob takes ALF to see what his life is like without the Tanners. Because the world doesn’t and never did exist outside of the living room set, we’re taken to a cosmetics factory. These two run out the clock by talking back and forth in non-humorous circles about the boss of Cosmique Cosmetics, drawing it out long and painfully before Angel Bob takes them into the boss’s office. Then, Angel Bob goes into an even longer explanation of how ALF got the job.
[[ALF]] has a dream that an angel named [[Bob]] comes to give him a new life. [[Bob]] gives him a sneak preview, in which he sees that the [[Tanner Family|Tanners]] have a life of good fortune due to the absence of expenses that ALF made for the family. [[ALF]] is the CEO of a corporation called [[Cosmique Cosmetics]] selling fluids from his spaceship as health and beauty products. He then sees the Tanners again, and they are so rich that they don't interact with each other. Willie and Kate play chess all day, they lose their sense of humor, their kids don't talk to them, and they either break things or ask their maid to belch for them since they get bored.
 
   
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ALF wonders how he’s able to operate in public without the Alien Task Force hunting for him. Angel Bob explains that ALF paid off the national debt with his fortunes, so the president called them off. Angel Bob snaps his fingers and they go to Heaven. Then he’s informed that he won’t remember the Tanners in his new life, and he becomes worried because he’ll miss them. Bob agrees to take ALF down to see the Tanners one last time. ALF notices that there are some changes at home. Willie smokes on a pipe, Kate plays chess, Brian plays golf, and Lynn plays the bassoon. ALF tells Bob that he tells him it was a mistake because without ALF, The Tanners are not only bored, but they are boring people who don’t spend time together and don’t know how to have fun. He wakes up and realizes he's home and Willie apologizes to him for yelling out loud to him.
In the end, [[ALF]] decides that he doesn't want a new life, because it would mean never seeing the [[Tanner family|Tanners]] again. [[Bob]] says that it is too late to change his mind, but [[ALF]] then wakes up to find that he had simply been unconscious for the past few hours.
 
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The short scene before the credits actually has a pretty clever idea: ALF calls Bloomingdales and tries to sell them on the idea of his radiator fluid perfume.
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==Cast==
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* Paul Fusco – [[ALF]] (puppeteer, voice)
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** Lisa Buckley - ALF (assistant puppeteer)
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** Bob Fappiano - ALF (assistant puppeteer)
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* Max Wright – [[Willie Tanner]]
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* Anne Schedeen – [[Kate Tanner]]
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* Andrea Elson – [[Lynn Tanner]]
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* Benji Gregory – [[Brian Tanner]]
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* Liz Sheridan– [[Raquel Ochmonek]]
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* Joseph Maher – [[Bob]]
   
 
==Title Reference==
 
==Title Reference==
 
"Stairway to Heaven" is the name of a song by Led Zeppelin.
 
"Stairway to Heaven" is the name of a song by Led Zeppelin.
 
 
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
   
 
*ALF has another story concerning his fate when he is captured by the government in [[Project: ALF]]. However, he became an ambassador and was released to freedom. ALF possibly does wish to stay with the Tanners and could be searching for them after Project: ALF, unless he rather decided to wait for Rhonda and Skip, which was his plan that would have been carried out in [[Consider Me Gone]] if the government hadn't intercepted and decoded the radio transmission and captured him.
 
*ALF has another story concerning his fate when he is captured by the government in [[Project: ALF]]. However, he became an ambassador and was released to freedom. ALF possibly does wish to stay with the Tanners and could be searching for them after Project: ALF, unless he rather decided to wait for Rhonda and Skip, which was his plan that would have been carried out in [[Consider Me Gone]] if the government hadn't intercepted and decoded the radio transmission and captured him.
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*The plot is a parody on the film'' [[wikipedia: It's A Wonderful Life|It's A Wonderful Life]]''. Both this episode and the film are about the main character regretting to have made a wish that was granted by his guardian angel.
 
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*'''Antagonist''': [[Bob]]<br />
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Stairway to Heaven is the second episode of ALF's third season. It originally aired on Oct. 10, 1988.

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Plot

The episode starts with the Tanners outside getting ready to play croquet. Willie announces that he and Kate are going to compete against the reigning Tanner croquet champions, Brian and Lynn. ALF accidentally injures Willie while playing croquet although ALF was playing by the rules of "mucksucking". The family helps Willie into the house while ALF reflects on the fact that today he broke Willie’s windshield, then Willie’s power saw, and now he broke Willie. ALF then wonders what life would be like if he’d never come to Earth and accidentally conks himself on the head with the croquet mallet.

When ALF gets inside the house, he rubs his head and enters the dining area. The Tanners are eating without him, and for a while it seems as though they’re just ignoring him to teach him a lesson. He has a dream that an angel named Bob comes to give him a new life. ALF tells Bob that the poor Tanners must be miserable without him, and Willie gushes about how perfect their lives are, which is timed perfectly and strictly should be. The non-existent anonymous neighborhood kids disappear into the back yard to see Brian’s new pool slide. ALF comments that the yard isn’t big enough for a pool, and Bob says that the Tanners bought the Ochmoneks’ house and demolished it. Angel Bob takes ALF to see what his life is like without the Tanners. Because the world doesn’t and never did exist outside of the living room set, we’re taken to a cosmetics factory. These two run out the clock by talking back and forth in non-humorous circles about the boss of Cosmique Cosmetics, drawing it out long and painfully before Angel Bob takes them into the boss’s office. Then, Angel Bob goes into an even longer explanation of how ALF got the job.

ALF wonders how he’s able to operate in public without the Alien Task Force hunting for him. Angel Bob explains that ALF paid off the national debt with his fortunes, so the president called them off. Angel Bob snaps his fingers and they go to Heaven. Then he’s informed that he won’t remember the Tanners in his new life, and he becomes worried because he’ll miss them. Bob agrees to take ALF down to see the Tanners one last time. ALF notices that there are some changes at home. Willie smokes on a pipe, Kate plays chess, Brian plays golf, and Lynn plays the bassoon. ALF tells Bob that he tells him it was a mistake because without ALF, The Tanners are not only bored, but they are boring people who don’t spend time together and don’t know how to have fun. He wakes up and realizes he's home and Willie apologizes to him for yelling out loud to him.

The short scene before the credits actually has a pretty clever idea: ALF calls Bloomingdales and tries to sell them on the idea of his radiator fluid perfume.

Cast

Title Reference

"Stairway to Heaven" is the name of a song by Led Zeppelin.

Trivia

  • ALF has another story concerning his fate when he is captured by the government in Project: ALF. However, he became an ambassador and was released to freedom. ALF possibly does wish to stay with the Tanners and could be searching for them after Project: ALF, unless he rather decided to wait for Rhonda and Skip, which was his plan that would have been carried out in Consider Me Gone if the government hadn't intercepted and decoded the radio transmission and captured him.
  • The plot is a parody on the film It's A Wonderful Life. Both this episode and the film are about the main character regretting to have made a wish that was granted by his guardian angel.
  • Antagonist: Bob