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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
We’ll...be….right….HERE. On today’s podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark discuss the 1982 Steven Spielberg classic: E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL! On this week’s show:
- More Alamo Drafthouse adventures from Mark
- Unoriginal cosplayers
- Our thoughts on the passings of Jerry Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton and Tobe Hooper
- The infamous unreleased Jerry Lewis film THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED
- Harry Dean Stanton should get a posthumous Academy Award nomination for LUCKY
- “Avenge me!”
- The 35th Anniversary of E.T.
- When did we first experience E.T.
- Probably the greatest family film of all time
- Last day of school movies
- The long stretches of time we went before rewatching the film
- How the film is entrenched in pop culture
- Experiencing it again for the “first time”
- The movie still works on 2017 audiences
- ET and Elliot going across the moon is the most iconic image in cinema
- Kids smoking and swearing in family films
- Why did you drop the pizza Elliot?!
- The origins of E.T. from the mind of a young Steven Spielberg
- How 1941’s production problems helped pave the way for E.T.
- 1941: Spielberg’s worst film
- Columbia passed on E.T.
- The tragic mistake of M&Ms
- Reese’s Pieces!
- Mark’s INCORRECT opinion on Reese’s Pieces VS M&Ms
- E.T. taught kids how to play hooky from school
- The cuteness of young Drew Barrymore
- Why don’t we see the adult’s faces for half the film?
- The trauma of frog dissection
- Henry Thomas delivers one of the great child actor performances
- Harrison Ford’s deleted cameo
- TV versions of movies re-adding deleted scenes
- The 20th Anniversary version
- Walkie Talkies are not guns
- Practical effects are always better than digital
- Why the film was shot in chronological order
- E.T. 2: NOCTURNAL FEARS
- E.T.’s cameo in STAR WARS
- The biggest movie of all time until 1993 when Spielberg beat the box office record again with JURASSIC PARK
- E.T. The Atari Game
- E.T. Adventure @ Universal Studios… kind of a lame ride.
- “Penis breath!”
- “Wolfman’s got nards!”
- We’re not ready for 4K yet
FILM REFERENCES IN THIS EPISODE:
- GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
- CITIZEN KANE (1941)
- THE QUIET MAN (1952)
- ARTISTS AND MODELS (1955)
- CINDERFELLA (1960)
- PSYCHO (1960)
- THE LADIES MAN (1961)
- THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963)
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
- COOL HAND LUKE (1967)
- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
- THE GODFATHER (1972)
- THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
- JAWS (1975)
- KING KONG (1976)
- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
- STAR WARS (1977)
- HALLOWEEN (1978)
- ALIEN (1979)
- 1941 (1979)
- ALTERED STATES (1980)
- THE SHINING (1980)
- ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)
- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
- THE KING OF COMEDY (1982)
- FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)
- POLTERGEIST (1982)
- TRON (1982)
- CHRISTINE (1983)
- PARIS, TEXAS (1984)
- RED DAWN (1984)
- REPO MAN (1984)
- INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)
- GREMLINS (1984)
- FIRESTARTER (1984)
- A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
- BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
- THE GOONIES (1985)
- PRETTY IN PINK (1986)
- FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986)
- STAND BY ME (1986)
- THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987)
- FULL METAL JACKET (1987)
- BIG (1988)
- STEPHEN KING’S IT (1990)
- JURASSIC PARK (1993)
- PULP FICTION (1994)
- JINGLE ALL THE WAY (1996)
- STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)
- THE LADIES MAN (2000)
- SUPER 8 (2011)
- THE AVENGERS (2012)
- MAX ROSE (2013)
- STRANGER THINGS (TV Series, 2016)
- IT (2017)
- LUCKY (2017)
- SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING (2017)
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