ALF Tales is an animated American series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. The show was a spinoff from the series ALF: The Animated Series. The show had characters from that series play various characters from fairy tales. The fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner relational to Fractured Fairy Tales.
Each story typically spoofs a film genre, such as the "Cinderella" episode done as an Elvis movie. Some episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where ALF is backstage preparing for the episode, and Rob Cowan would appear drawn as a TV executive to try to brief ALF on how to improve this episode. For instance Cowan once told ALF who was readying for a medieval themed episode that "less than 2% of our audience lives in the Dark Ages".
Ramez and co-host Jean-Claude Van Damme trick the stars into thinking they’ll shoot an action-packed movie/ad with the superstar before the actual stunt begins.
The star horse of Neko Jockey is Mannen Billy, a prize racer who has lost 30 races in a row despite having an excellent physique and bloodline. To solve the problem, the horse's owner hires a brand new jockey... who, as far as Mannen Billy's trainer can see, is just a normal cat.
In Zokie of Planet Ruby, quirky 10-year-old vlogger Ruby discovers her only video channel follower is a tail-zapping space alien from the planet Pudge named Zokie Sparkleby, and they quickly become best friends. Along with their friend Earl, a talking con-man squirrel, Ruby teaches Zokie about her version of Earth, while Zokie learns to control his unpredictable powers.
Three wizards, Vivian, Deris and Aphere are chosen to fulfil a quest. Every century, citizens of their realm must journey to the ordinary world to discover their true loves. If they fail to complete their mission in thirty days, they'll be transformed into animals for eternity. Fortunately, they'll each have an assistant to help them along the way.
Crunch Time begins when four grad students accidentally open up a black hole that could be the end of the world. After recklessly handling cutting-edge tech in their school lab, this brilliant team of jackasses creates a small, but potentially earth shattering, black hole that grabs the attention of government operatives. Since the “wanna-be” scientists can’t pinpoint exactly where their experiment went wrong, they must work with the secret government agency sent in to save the day by detailing EVERY illegal thing they’ve done in the lab thus far.
An updated version of the 1979 game show of the same name. The object of the game was not to laugh at the comedians. Various comedians would have one minute each to make the contestant laugh. If the contestant were able to keep a straight face, he or she would win prize money and go on to face another comedian, and so on until at last they met a joke they couldn't resist.
Oksana from Krasnodar Region flies to her fiancé in Moscow, but he leaves her. The girl stays to conquer the capital and accidentally gets a job as a nanny in the family of a widower restaurateur Ivan Samsonov, who has three children.
Mason is an expert on queer relationships and a matchmaker with a booming success rate. When it comes to love, he knows all...except why his own relationship is on the rocks.
Pavarchin is an Iranian television comedy serial. It was broadcast for the first time by the IRIB in September 2002 until March 2003. It could usually be seen every night at 8:00 p.m. Tehran time on Tehran TV, also known as Channel 5 in Iran. Later due to the popularity of the show, episodes were shown in syndication on various Iranian provincial channels as well as IRIB 1 & IRIB 2 for those living out of the country. The show stopped airing in March 2003. It was directed by Mehran Modiri.