ALF (TV series)/Tear Jerker

|ALF managed a few surprisingly effective dramatic moments over its run.


 * The episode where ALF finds out that Willie was a train hopper in his youth, and ropes him into hopping another one. Alone in the car, they end up discussing ALF's lonely existence as possibly the last of his kind. They both make a wish on a shooting star, and afterwards ALF says "I wished I had my planet back."
 * When a woman who claims to have an alien in her house turns out to be a scam artist. Willie tries to comfort the devastated ALF by saying lots of people feel like they're all alone at some point, and ALF replies "Feeling alone and being alone are two very different things."
 * Alf's Special Christmas. Dear God, Alf's Special Christmas. After destroying the Tanner's best laid Christmas plans (par for the course for Alf), . To top it all off, . For an Alf story, it is surprisingly dark.