# Aliens in the Family (1996, TGIF)

Aliens in the Family is the story of a big-hearted human dad, Doug Brody (John Bedford Lloyd), who was abducted by a spacecraft, fell in love with an alien single mom, Cookie (Margaret Trigg), and returned to Earth to marry her and raise their unusual brood of human and alien children. ( And that's the way they became The Brody Bunch! ) Doug's two human kids, the much-bullied 9-year-old Adam (Christopher Marquette) and the status-conscious 14-year-old Heather (Paige Tiffany), are alternately delighted and exasperated by their three extraterrestrial siblings — their wisecracking brother Spit, 14; brainy sister Snizzy, 10; and precocious but demanding baby brother Bobut, who acts as if he's Emperor of the Universe, and with good reason — he is. Rounding out the family is Bobut's nanny, Sally Hagan (Julie Dretzin), who is often the target of his imperious wrath, but who knows how to charm him with chocolate pudding. Regularly featured is Tiffany Kendall (Kristanna Loken), a popular girl who's hot for Spit. Includes guest appearances by a pre-famous James Van Der Beek, Hayden Panettiere, Allison Janney, and Aaron Eckhart, with a live-action cameo by Sally Jessy Raphael, and an amusing vocal cameo by Joanna Kerns. This deliriously goofy spoof of family sitcoms (a combination of " Dinosaurs " and " The Brady Bunch " that poked fun at shows of the era like " Full House ") was created by then-husband-and-wife team Andy and Susan Borowitz (" The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "), was…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1996
- By: Jim Henson Company
- Genres: Comedy, Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Aliens-in-the-Family)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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