Yeah, ALF was a serious childhood mindfuck for me. Did it annoy you how hard they were trying to beat the name Gordon into your skull in that theme song?
It was an ALF crazy time in America, you couldn't lose when it came to spearheading an ALF-related project. And it all rested on the shoulders of a crazy puppeteer/voiceover guy who was by most accounts...well, "extraordinarily difficult to work with" would be a gross understatement.
I tried submitting this as a multi-part but just got an error message,
Here's the "Melmackian" version: http://youtu.be/v8PcZiSXnzU
Otherwise identical to this version, except they changed that one word to keep it in line with the live-action sitcom version pronunciation of "Melmacian", which I guess had never been pronounced before when Shuki Levy wrote the cartoon theme song.
It's like the theme song "gaslighted" kids, making them think they were going crazy, sometimes hearing "Melmasian" and sometimes having "Melmackian".