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After These Messages: ALF and D'Lil
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After These Messages: ALF and D'Lil

As a US Election week treat to follow up your Halloween treat, we’re unlocking the original After These Messages episode we made for Mr. Boogedy.

Please enjoy this glimpse back in time to the dawn of 2020 when we had NO IDEA what this year had in store.


We’re back to talk about stuff related to Mr. Boogedy, and wow, buckle up! This one’s wild!

Image Description: A still from “I Told Ya” by D’ Lil showing two tall women in tight black suits standing on either side of David Faustino, who is 5’3” and wearing black overalls with a white, long sleeved shirt. He is, at this point of the song, saying he wants “to get that pussy pussy pussy pussy pussy pussy cat, meow meow meow meow meow, how’s that?” Because of course he is.


Let’s Get Down to Boogedy Business!

Of course we had to start with the Michael Eisner opening for this movie

But then… we just had to know what David Faustino’s rap career was like. So we watched the video for D’ Lil’s “I Told Ya”

So David Faustino was one of the kids (Corwin), but Benji Gregory was another (R.E. or Aurie), and he was the kid on ALF. So naturally we had to watch an ALF cellphone Super Bowl commercial from 2014.

Radio Shack went out of business in 2015, so apparently not even an alien life form could save them…

This did lead us into a discussion of car phones, which we did not remotely look up any facts about when we were actually recording this. Here’s Wikipedia on the topic, in case you’re curious about their history. 

We also watched an ALF Department of the Interior Commercial from 1989.

Given the state of our planet at present, ALF’s warning hasn’t really helped with that, either. His home planet was destroyed. Ours is dealing with severe climate change. So that’s cool. 

This did also lead us to consider how ALF is similar to Superman and Princess Leia, though…

Okay, so we thought we should lighten up some after that, and since the Davis family moved to Lucifer Falls to open a joke shop, we did a search for joke shops and found a tribute to Don the joke shop guy in Quincy, MA. He apparently ran a joke shop there for 45 years!

We also watched a promotional video for a Joke Shop in Athlone, Ireland

That one mostly seemed to be costumes, though. 

After that, we returned to David Faustino, and watched a supercut of Grandmaster B jokes from Married With Children

Holy Toxic Heteronormativity, Batman!

And finally, Grandmaster B rapping.

Which is better, this or D’ Lil? You be the judge! 

This also led us to discuss the boy band Why Don’t We, and their performance on the Today Show.

We also watched the official video for this song, so here’s that, in case you are wondering what we’re talking about with the art gallery stuff.

Julia sends us home with a story about a New Year’s Eve from the early years of the 21st century that lives on in infamy to this day. 


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This Is Why We're Like This
This Is Why We're Like This
Boston area comedians Julia Rios and Geoffrey Pelton discuss the movies we watched as children that shaped who we are today, for better ... or for worse