Trevor Ochmonek tells Willy to contact his cousin, who is an immigration lawyer, by dialing a number and asking for inmate "24601". 24601 is also the inmate number for Jean Valjean, the protagonist of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
ALF befriends a cow and decides to name it "Bossy". This is an appropriate name for a cow as the Latin term/Scientific name for cattle is "bos taurus".