History Recap / FilmRerollETTheExtraTerrestrial

** The ''exact'' moment the plot starts [[OffTheRails spiraling out of control]] is when Kara (out of impatience) decides to have Michael try and take E.T. to the caves in the woods in the middle of the night... ''instantly'' attracting the attention of the MenInBlack.

* SmarterThanYouLook: It turns out that E.T. -- [[AmbiguousDisorder a character some viewers have interpreted as mentally deficient]] -- actually is an {{Omniglot}} with a very high IQ.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Due to not knowing what E.T. is, Michael decides to ask his biology teacher, Mr. Kotzenager, about to him to see if he's biologically possible to exist. But since he can't outright ''state'' he's an alien, he claims he's drafting a [=DnD=] campaign, and that E.T. is a creation of his. So naturally, then the fact that E.T. can't properly speak English is brought up, [[TakeThat Mr. Kotzenager cracks that it's a game design problem.]]

* DefconFive: When E.T. shares the news that his ship is heading back toward Earth, he suggests that they go to DEFCON 1. This is a correct usage of the low number as the high alert status, although something of an overreaction when it isn't known that the ship has hostile intent (as the other players point out, and in the end they go to DEFCON 3 instead).

--->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': You gotta eat-
--->'''Michael''': Eat.
--->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': You gotta shit.
--->'''Michael''': (at the same time) Shit. And breathe-
--->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': (talking over Michael) And you gotta fuck. [[OhCrap I mean,]] you gotta have- make... [[UnusualEuphemism congress...]] with other-
--->'''Michael''': Congress?

* EntertaininglyWrong:

** E.T. also believes that [[PornStash the pictures in Michael's closet]] are [[ExpospeakGag "biological diagrams of human anatomy" depicting "A very, very focused review of one particular kind of behaviour."]]

-->'''Bery:''' Sir! Sir! I think the Earth is getting away!
* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: E.T.'s telekinesis and mental-connection powers are explained as being the result of him having spent years as a monk in a contemplative order before being drawn into his people's struggle. It's later revealed that humans can unlock the same powers as well.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Due to the UnusualEuphemism Mr. Kotzenager uses for "having sex", Michael (out of confusion) comes to assume people have sex in Congress.
-->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': Well, you gotta have sexual congress-
-->'''Michael''': They have sex in Congress?

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Due to not knowing what E.T. is, Michael decides to ask his biology teacher, Mr. Kotzenager, about to him to see if he's biologically possible to exist. But since he can't outright ''state'' he's an alien, he claims he's drafting a DnD campaign, and that E.T. is a creation of his. So naturally, then the fact that E.T. can't properly speak English is brought up, [[TakeThat Mr. Kotzenager cracks that it's a game design problem.]]

* ThatCameOutWrong: Andy does a less-than-ideal job at portraying a biology teacher, to put it lightly: Over the course of his conversation with Michael, Mr. Kotzenager mistakenly makes him convinced people have sex in Congress, mistakenly insinuates that another teacher has an emotional problem, and unintentionally hits on Michael's mom.

** When the kids start being taken out of the plot in Part 2, Jon points out they aren't the central characters, which makes Andy [[IronicEcho crack]] [[Recap/FilmRerollJaws "The film ain't called 'Toms'."]]

* ClosetGeek: Michael's biology teacher is implied to be one of these. He claims to be very familiar with TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons due to having played it frequently during his childhood. Even though he's old enough to have been an adult when it first came out.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Steven Peckham]] is introduced in Part 3, and is set up to be one of the antagonists of the back half of the campaign due to wanting to militarize the operation... but after E.T. bonds with Regan, there's only one passing mention of Peckham following another TimeSkip before he's effectively dropped.

* HairTriggerTemper: Jake, whose first thought when confronting a secret service agent is to attack and disarm him, rather than using his wits.

* NinetiesAntiHero: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with the Barrys, an small army of very [[LargeHam hammy]] gun-crazy secret service agents.

* ContinuitySnarl: In Part 3, when Jon has E.T. bond with President Regan, he decides to have E.T. drop his bond with Gertie. The problem is that ''at no point'' was E.T. bonded to here; in fact, as he was being taken away by the government in Part 2, it was very clearly pointed out (after he fails to name her when naming the other kids) that he was (at the time, excluding Dan Edwin) ''only'' bonded to Michael and Elliot.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: [[invoked]] Jon can't help but be lowkey aghast in Part 2 as Michael starts making Gertie distrust the government.

* CallBack: When Agent Smith's first name is revealed, the players express surprise that it ''isn't'' Jeff, like several law-and-order-related [=NPCs=] in earlier episodes. Also, when Dan Edwin's team are waiting for at the landing site for the return of E.T.'s ship with a large contingent of soldiers as backup, the players want to know if any of the soldiers is a Jeff. They ask the same question about Jake's team of agents. Turns out that they're actually all named Barry ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS and Bery]]).

** He also -- still InUniverse -- deliberately ignored the sequel novel E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle (who also wrote the novelisation of the film) as he felt that [[FridgeLogic the premise didn't make that much sense if you really thought about it.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While the Barrys are rampaging around the We'ago warship blowing stuff up and being a distraction from E.T.'s and Jake's more serious attempts to take over the ship, they destroy a computer connection that breaks the control panel E.T. was using to hack into the ship's systems. Worse, this happens just as E.T. is helping Jake line up the ship's cannon to take out the other warship, so the shot goes wide, misses the other warship, and destroys the Moon instead.

* ProductPlacement: The product placement in the original movie is referenced when the subject of E.T.'s favorite Earth food arises, and the players ask Paulo to rule on whether this version of the story is set in a continuity where it's Reese's Pieces (as in the film) or M&M's (as in the novelization).

** Gertie saying "I am four." It happens so often that [[https://soundcloud.com/sean-williams-259/ger-t-the-four-year-old-part-one the other players start to wonder]] if she has a OneWordVocabulary.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Variation: While inside a hangar on the We'ago spaceship, the Barrys decide to commandeer one of the ships, and Kara's Barry decides to just push some random buttons... causing it to begin ''spinning and firing within the hangar'', blowing a hole in the side of the ship. This causes what you think it would cause[[note]]Luckily, a ship winds up blocking the hole before the decompression causes massive problems.[[/note]]

* OffTheRails / GoneHorriblyWrong: As a friendly reminder, during this campaign based off of Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial, '''the Moon gets blown up'''.

* TomatoInTheMirror: E.T. suspects that humanity are a cross between Baedelorians and some other type of creature, but realises after a while that it's ''his own species'' who are [[HalfHumanHybrid a mix between humans and another, unknown alien race]]. What's more, while the Baedelorian {{Telepathy}} comes from the unknown species, their {{Telekinesis}} comes from ''humanity.''

Starring Jon Miller as E.T., Andy Hoover as Elliot, Dan Edwin and Barry, Kara “Pitr” Strait as Michael, Ana Kopas and Bery, Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Gertie and Jake Rauhe, and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.

Starring Jon Miller as E.T., Andy Hoover as Elliot, Dan Edwin and Barry, Pitr Strait as Michael, Ana Kopas and Bery, Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Gertie and Jake Rauhe, and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.

* DisposableVagrant: After E.T. offers to help the researchers unlock the psychic potential of the human mind, Pitr suggests they try it out on a homeless person first before potentially risking the life of someone they care about. The suggestion is not acted on, however.

* NoSocialSkills: Pitr plays Ana like this.

* RedShirt: Two of Jake's agents die during their takeover of the We'ago ship. Pitr even name-drops the trope.

** When E.T. takes Michael's hand and flies away with him, Pitr Strait asks if they can have a [[Film/SupermanTheMovie "Christopher Reeve / Margot Kidder-moment" and starts singing "Can You Read My Mind?".]]

* HypotheticalCasting: The group discuss whether Jake should be played by Creator/JeremyRenner, Creator/ChrisPratt or Creator/ValKilmer.

There was a ten week hiatus between episodes two and three, partially because the players started [[Recap/FilmRerollAlien another campaign]] during that time. The players have said that this is a technique they will continue using for their longer campaigns.

At four episodes, it is one of the longest campaigns in the show, only beaten by [[Recap/FilmRerollRogueOne Rogue One,]] (consisting of five episodes.)

It is also the first campaign [[Recap/FilmRerollDoctorWhoDayOfTheMoon to feature a Bonus Scene,]] based on the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Day of the Moon", another story involving alien visitors and secret government agents.

* ActionisedSequel: Sort of. It's not really a sequel as much as an adaptation [[OvertookTheSeries which goes on longer than the movie did]] by adding new, more action-heavy plot threads.

It is also the first campaign [[Recap/FilmRerollDoctorWhoDayOfTheMoon to feature a Bonus Scene,]] based on the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Day of the Moon", another story involving alien visitors and secret goverment agents.