Try Not To Remember This: ALF’s 1987 Bouillabaseball Cards

If you're a regular reader of our Sports On TV column, it'd be possible to mistake me as a guy with great taste in television. I like to throw the "best show ever" tag around for 'The Wire' or season 2-8 of 'The Simpsons', giving me that learned balance necessary to be a true, objective authority on what people should watch.

Yeah, no. When I was 7, my favorite show was 'ALF'. If you're not familiar with 'ALF', it's about an alien who lands on Earth in puppet form, lives in the laundry room of a suburban family and cracks wise with them so much you start wondering why they don't just throw him in a garbage bag and drop him off on the front steps of the FBI. Oh, and he wouldn't stop trying to eat their housecat.

Anyway, ALF's home planet was a place called Melmac, and Melmac had its share of unique sports, including 'Bouillaball'. I'll let the surprisingly-in-existence ALF Wiki fill you in on the details.

Bouillabaseball was a sport played on Melmac which resembled baseball, but instead of throwing a ball, fish parts were thrown.

Bouillabaseball fans often collected trading cards, which were sold in a package with a stick of gum. The gum came in one of two flavors: Tabby or Persian.

At the height of ALF's popularity, Topps put out two (two!) sets of bouillabaseball cards. I HAD THEM ALL. Now, thanks to the Internet (and the aforementioned ALF Wiki), you can have them, too. They're a mix of the Garbage Pail Kids and stock photos of ALF. I don't know. Here's a gallery of every bouillabaseball card I could find, and I urge you to flip through and try to find every inappropriate joke or image you can. I'm pretty sure at least one of these players is supposed to be ejaculating.