Line #122 Recap/FilmRerollETTheExtraTerrestrial


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4	-> ''We’re back with more [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] and his adventures on Earth! Pitr does an interpretive dance! Andy procures an orangutan! Joz learns what disarming means! Jon subjugates the mind of the leader of the free world!''
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6	Episodes 24-25 and 28-29 of Podcast/FilmReroll. Based on [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial the 1982 movie.]]
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8	Stranded on a foreign planet, the alien known only as E.T. makes contact with the local civilisations. Moving in with a trio of siblings -- Elliot, Michael and Gertie -- who hide him from their parents, E.T. and his newfound friends must figure out a way to get back to his planet and his people. But who is E.T. exactly? And should they really stop the government from getting their hands on him?
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10	There was a ten week hiatus between episodes two and three, partially because the players started [[Recap/FilmRerollAlien another campaign]] during that time. It was 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.
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12	Starring Jon Miller as E.T., Andy Hoover as Elliot, Dan Edwin and Barry, Kara Strait[[note]] credited as “Pitr Strait” [[/note]] as Michael, Ana Kopas and Bery, Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as Gertie and Jake Rauhe, and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.
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14	Intercepted by [[Recap/FilmRerollAlien Alien.]]
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17	!!Tropes:
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19	* ActionisedSequel: Sort of. It's not really a sequel as much as an adaptation [[AdaptationExpansion which goes on longer than the movie did]] by adding new, more action-heavy plot threads.
20	* AdaptationExpansion: Paulo created an elaborate backstory for E.T. describing who he is and what his ship was doing on Earth, which he initially shares with Jon but not the other players (or the audience). Part of it is revealed in the opening scene -- E.T. was deliberately stranded on Earth, not left behind accidentally -- and more starts coming out in the second and third episodes after E.T. learns enough English to explain himself.
21	* AdaptationNameChange: E.T.'s race, sort of. They were never named in the movie, but the sequel to its novelization referred to their home planet as Brodo Asogi, and later, half-serious attempts at introducing them to the Franchise/StarWars universe estblished their name as Asogians. Here they are called Baedelorians. Note however that Agogians was only one of many names ''other'' species referred to them as, all of which translated to "Children of the Green Planet", which could theoretically also be the case with "Baedelorians."
22	* AlienBlood: The We'agos have purple blood.
23	* AlienInvasion: E.T.'s people turn out to be at war with another alien race, who would likely destroy Earth if they ever got the opportunity. The remains of E.T.'s crew join forces with the American government in an attempt at preventing this from happening.
24	* AnArmAndALeg: E.T.'s second in command gets his arm blown off during the battle in the final episode.
25	* ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 A Class 1 apocalypse.]] The Moon explodes. 2.3 ''billion'' people die, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the song "Blue Moon" has to be renamed]] "[[RunningGag Blue Goo]]".
26	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Michael believes in the creatures from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, and in the HollowEarth theory, but refuses to believe in the existence of aliens. ([[GenreBlind Granted, his specific beliefs don't allow for their existence.]])
27	* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: E.T. actually assists in handing over "his" dead body to his enemies, [[DittoAliens who can't tell one Baedelorian from another.]]
28	* BaitAndSwitch: When two government agents visit the school after Michael is sighted with E.T., one announces that they are Agents Smith and Wollensky, and the other immediately drops into an impersonation of Agent Smith from ''Film/TheMatrix''. It is subsequently established that the second speaker is Agent Wollensky.
29	* BigRedButton: The firing control for the WaveMotionGun on the We'ago ship is a big red button.
30	* BowledOver: E.T. uses his telekinesis to do this on a group of attacking We'agos.
31	* CallBack:
32	** 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]]).
33	** When Michael talks to his biology teacher, Mr. Kotzenager, he brings to Michael's attention the three basic needs of every living creature, which prompts Jon to [[Recap/FilmRerollJaws do Andy's Ghost!Quint voice]]:
34	--->'''Jon''': ''Hooper... Hooper, E.T.'s makin' baby sharks..''
35	*** Another call back is made in Part 2: When the kids start being taken out of the plot, Jon points out they aren't the central characters, which makes Andy [[IronicEcho crack "The film ain't called 'Toms'."]]
36	* CaptainObvious: [-''"It's a car."''-]
37	* CensorshipBySpelling: Michael is concerned that the worst might have happened after their mother was taken into custody by the agents, but he doesn't want to set Gertie off, so he spells it out: What if she's D-E-D?
38	* ClosetGeek: Michael's biology teacher, Mr. Kotzenager, 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.
39	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jake, who -- among other things -- swallowed a lightbulb at the age of ''[[ManChild 20!]]'' [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Weirdly enough, it never came out again...]]
40	* ContestWinnerCameo: ObstructiveBureaucrat Steven Peckham is named after one of the team's Patreon supporters. [[LampshadeHanging They admit that it might be a bit thankless to have your name given to the antagonist.]]
41	* 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 her; 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.
42	* ContinuousDecompression: In the shuttle bay of the We'ago ship, after one of the Barrys inadvertently blows a hole in the hull. Another Barry is sucked out into space, along with various other loose items, before eventually one of the shuttles is pulled into the hole and blocks it.
43	* CutTheJuice: Barry and Bery decides to pull an unknown plug, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which turns out to have been providing power to the computer E.T. hacked]], [[DisasterDominoes which in turn makes the aiming cursor disappear from Jake's screen,]] causing him to accidentally [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the Moon.]]
44	* DeathByAdaptation: A large chunk of Earth's population. [[NominalImportance Though none of them were named characters, as far as we know.]]
45	* DecoyGetaway: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] When the gang runs into the agents, Elliot manages to distract them by saying "That's not the real alien! That's a decoy!" It confuses them long enough for our protagonists to escape.
46	* DecoyProtagonist: Michael, Elliot and Gertie end up becoming this. Part way through the second episode they are reunited with their mother and written out of the story. The players are instead given control of [[OriginalCharacter three members of the research team trying to help E.T.]] Even so, two of them are DemotedToExtra in the last episode. The only consistent main character through the entire story is actually... [[ProtagonistTitle E.T. himself.]]
47	* 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[[note]]Interestingly, [[Film/IndependenceDay another work]] about aliens coming to earth with (initially) unknown intentions also had the president (at least prepare to) go to DEFCON 3[[/note]]).
48	* DetonationMoon: The Moon gets destroyed by a shot from one of the hostile aliens' warships in the last episode.
49	* DisposableVagrant: After E.T. offers to help the researchers unlock the psychic potential of the human mind, Kara 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.
50	* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: When E.T. is speaking to his fellow Baedelorians after they return to Earth, the other players notice that Jon isn't doing E.T.'s characteristic croaky voice and eccentric syntax, and Jon explains that E.T. only speaks like that when he's attempting English.
51	* 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.
52	* EntertaininglyWrong:
53	** E.T. initially thinks that cars are living creatures, though he figures out that they are vehicles pretty quickly. (The players still joke that the car speak to each other in a honking language, and that the ones with sirens are party animals.)
54	** 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 behavior."]]
55	** Due to the UnusualEuphemism Mr. Kotzenager uses for "having sex", Michael (out of confusion) comes to assume people have sex in Congress.
56	--->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': Well, you gotta have sexual congress-
57	--->'''Michael''': They have sex in Congress?
58	** Michael -- who is a big fan of [[TabletopRPG Tabletop RPGs]] -- believes that E.T. is not an alien but rather some kind of creature from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons. When he sees E.T. blow a car apart, he becomes completely convinced that the alien is a "githyanki." (It doesn't help that he is high as a kite at that point.)
59	** When several trucks full of government agents show up at Michael's house, he believes that they are there to confiscate [[TheStoner his weed.]] Gertie, meanwhile, wonders if they are having a surprise party.
60	** Michael plans to steal one of the agents' cars, but E.T. misunderstands him and and crushes its windows with his telekinesis instead. This actually ends up working out pretty well, since it distracts the agents even more.
61	** When Jake manages to steer the space ship away from Earth, Bery thinks that it's the ''planet'' that's moving.
62	--->'''Bery:''' Sir! Sir! I think the Earth is getting away!
63	* EpilepticTrees: InUniverse. The players take a moment to discuss the conspiracy theories about whether or not [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfette]] is actually biologically a boy ([[AmbiguousGender and what this would mean for her gender identity]]), if the characters from ''Franchise/StarWars'' are actually bugs, [[FridgeLogic and why there are taxi cabs]] in the ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' universe.
64	* EveryoneKnewAlready: Variation: Even though Paulo narrated about E.T. discovering strange four-legged creatures with lights coming from their eyes, when he tries ''continuing'' it when describing a two-legged creature entering into one, as if bonding with it[[note]]translation: a human has opened their car[[/note]], Jon-as-E.T. bluntly states "I know what a vehicle is, Paulo."
65	* EvilAllAlong: Teased with E.T. throughout the campaign, but nothing ever really comes of it. WordOfGod is that E.T. is a nice enough guy, but also a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter who acted irrationally by overestimating the danger the We'Ago posed and, as a result, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero caused an unnecessary amount of bloodshed.]]
66	* FakeStatic: The "we're going through a tunnel" excuse is jokingly invoked at the end of the radio communication with the We'ago. For context, the characters are ''in space'' while making this claim.
67	* FakingTheDead: Our heroes' plan to deal with the hostile aliens is to claim that E.T. is dead and send up one of his deceased crewmates in his stead... with a bomb hidden inside.
68	* FanonDiscontinuity: InUniverse. Paulo Quiros makes it clear that the campaign is based on the original 1982 film version and that the 2002 special edition is non-canon.
69	** He also -- still InUniverse -- deliberately ignored the sequel novel E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle (who also wrote the novelization of the film) as he felt that [[FridgeLogic the premise didn't make that much sense if you really thought about it.]]
70	* FanSequel: A short story written by Spaceman 9800 [[https://www.reddit.com/r/filmreroll/comments/7othl6/epilogue_to_et_4_spoilers/ on the official Film Reroll subreddit.]] Set ten years after the campaign, it reveals what happens to both the [[KidHero Kid Heroes]] and to Earth itself. Our planet has become a part of the Baedelorian Empire, with humanity at large getting access to their technology and powers. Gertie has become a [[DisasterScavengers Disaster Scavenger]] (apparently a common career on post-apocalypse Earth) while Elliot and Michael have joined the army to participate in the still ongoing war against the We'ago ([[UncertainDoom with Michael having gone MIA.]])
71	* FantasyWorldMap: Paulo Quiros drew one of "known space," [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DI-iF1uWAAEyAoY.jpg:large which truly shows off just how expansive his worldbuilding really is.]]
72	* FinalSpeech: E.T.'s second-in-command gets one during the battle on the We'ago warship. He starts something that sounds like it might be going to turn into a DyingDeclarationOfLove, then changes his mind and does a parody of the stock "Tell my wife I love her" speech instead.
73	* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the middle of Part 4, while Jake is fiddling with the various buttons in the We'ago control room, Paulo makes a point of calling attention to the location of the Moon in relation to the ship.
74	* GoodAllAlong: While never outright revealed in the campaign, [[WordOfGod Paulo Quiros has confirmed this to be the case with the We'Ago.]]
75	--> '''Paulo Quiros:''' Jon's assumption that the aliens wanted to kill him and glass the Earth was wrong. They wanted a royal family member to add legitimacy. [[NiceJobbreakingItHero E.T.'s shoot first ask questions later strategy was real cause of the moon's demise.]]
76	* GoneHorriblyWrong: When confronted with a control panel in the We'ago control room Joz (as Jake) decides [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo to press various buttons]] just to see what he can do with the turret it controls (with Joz's intention to take out another warship). Eventually, Jake realizes what he ''thought'' was a window is actually a display, and a yellow cursor appears near the Moon, causing Jake to determine it's targeting a cloaked enemy ship. He then decides to fire the turret; however, it's (unbeknownst to Jake) charging up its shot, and as the ship is still moving, the Moon is being moved into the line of fire. Paulo then states that Joz needs to succeed an IQ roll at minus five in order to move the turret towards the cursor; if she fails by eight, she hits the Moon. She fails her first roll, but manages to ''barely'' miss the Moon. But when she tries again later, the cursor goes missing (due to the Barrys deciding to rip out some wires that power the displays of the ship)... and Joz proceeds to Crit Fail.
77	-->'''Paulo''': [[DissonantSerenity You blow up the Moon.]]
78	* HairTriggerTemper: Jake, whose first thought when confronting a Secret Service agent is to attack and disarm him, rather than using his wits.
79	* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Goes from being, well, ''[[ShapedLikeItself E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial]]'' to a GovernmentConspiracy / AlienInvasion story more along the lines of ''Franchise/{{Stargate\|Verse}}'' or ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
80	* HeroWithBadPublicity: E.T. himself, who is considered a threat by parts of the American goverment.
81	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A meeting of top government officials convened to decide what to do with E.T. includes FBI Director William H. Webster and President Ronald Reagan.
82	* HumansThroughAlienEyes: E.T. himself is treated like the primary protagonist, giving us a glimpse at how alien humans and their world appear to him.
83	* IronicEcho: Because of how poorly Andy was trying to explain biology as Mr. Kotzenager (due to a bad intelligence roll), [[Recap/FilmRerollJaws Jon cracks "You're the worst biology teacher."]]
84	* JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant: When Joz tries to disarm a Secret Service agent, it soon becomes apparent she wanted to distract him:
85	-->'''Joz''': Is that what disarming is? With my fists?
86	-->'''Paulo''': [[LateToTheRealization Disarming mea- (everyone at the table begins laughing in horror)]]
87	-->'''Kara''': ''[[OhCrap That's it! That's it!]]'' We're done! We're done! T-this is it! (to Jon and Andy) Suicide pact! Suicide pact, suicide pact, suicide pact? Guys, come on? This is it!
88	-->'''Jon''': I-I think that triggers it, yeah... ''Oh my God...''
89	-->'''Kara''': That's the magic words!
90	* JurisdictionFriction: The initial conflict in the third episode is about the U.S. military wanting to take E.T. away from the scientists and exploit him as a military asset.
91	* JustJokingJustification: When Michael (passing E.T. off as [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a creation for a DnD campaign]]) asks if something like it is possible to exist in the real world, Mr. Kotzenager states "Well, under the grace of God, anything is possible," [[VerbalBackspace only to then immediately backpedal]] and invoke this trope (namely because [[SeriousBusiness he can't mention God in school]]).
92	* 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, when the fact that E.T. can't properly speak English is brought up, [[TakeThat Mr. Kotzenager cracks that it's a game design problem.]]
93	-->'''Paulo''': ''[[SarcasmMode It's a shitty game, is your problem...]]''
94	* {{MacGyvering}}: When E.T. starts building a communicator to call his ship back, reference is made to how in the film he assembled one out of common household items, which he doesn't have to do in this version because he's fallen into the hands of government researchers who are happy to supply him with proper materials.
95	* MisspellingOutLoud: Michael is concerned that the worst might have happened after their mother was taken into custody by the agents, but he doesn't want to set Gertie off, so he spells it out: What if she's D-E-D?
96	* MysteriousPast: Ana has lock picking skills on her character sheet, and isn't telling where she got them.
97	* {{Namedar}}: During a conversation between E.T. and one of his alien colleagues in the opening scene, it's revealed that according to the backstory Paulo has created for him, E.T.'s name actually is (or at least is pronounced very much like) "Eetee". This gets an incredulous reaction from the players. Averted in-story, however, as the children in this version aren't able to agree on their mysterious visitor being an extraterrestrial, so decide instead to call him "George".
98	* NamedByTheAdaptation:
99	** The man in charge of the search for E.T., who is never named in the film, gets the name "Dan Edwin" here.
100	** E.T.'s species turn out to be named "Baedelorians".
101	* NearVillainVictory: An unintentional variation occurs in Part 3: Thanks to a successful roll on Steven Peckham's part, he manages to make a stirring speech in order to convince everyone to militarize the operation concerning E.T., and thanks to how reckless Joz was in playing Jake Rauhe, when trying to sneak E.T. past the Secret Service agent guarding the meeting room, Joz decides to try and disarm the agent... by ''punching him''. Kara, Andy and Jon quickly resign themselves on going on a suicide pact before Paulo makes Joz realize she wanted to ''distract'' him, allowing E.T. to sneak into the room and bond with Regan.
102	* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
103	** 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 TheMenInBlack.
104	*** The time table only accelerates further when Michael then decides to talk to his biology teacher about E.T. in order to get a better understanding... which only serves to allow Mr. Kotzenager to tell ''everything'' to Agents Smith and Wollensky when they show up soon after.
105	---->'''Kara''': ''[[OhCrap Michael fucked up real bad...]]''
106	** 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.
107	* NinetiesAntiHero: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with the Barrys, an small army of very [[LargeHam hammy]] gun-crazy Secret Service agents.
108	* NoEndorHolocaust: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] The destruction of the Moon causes massive damage on Earth, but maybe still not as much as it ''should'' have caused.
109	* NoodleIncident: The government apparently won't let Mr. Kotzenager teach Sex Ed. Although, [[ThatCameOutWrong given how Andy played him,]] it's easy to assume why.
110	* NormalFishInATinyPond: Paulo points out that the ability to slightly wiggle objects with their minds makes the experimental telekinetic soldiers the most incredible people to ever live... but it's still completely useless in the situation they're in.
111	* NoSocialSkills: Kara plays Ana like this.
112	* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The top secret goverment meeting soon derails into this.
113	* OffTheRails: As a friendly reminder, during this campaign based off of Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial, '''the Moon gets blown up'''.
114	* OneGenderRace: E.T. tells the scientists that the Baedelorians only have one biological sex.
115	* 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). One roll later, it's declared that in this go around, M&M's passed the legal department.
116	* ARareSentence: After Joz blows up the Moon, Paulo decides to roll some fright checks for the people back down on Earth, with Regan in particular succeeding his fright check.
117	-->'''Kara''': ''"Regan succeeds his fright check."'' ...what're we doing with our lives...
118	* RedShirt: Two of Jake's agents die during their takeover of the We'ago ship. Kara even name-drops the trope.
119	* RefugeInAudacity: Joz as Jake Rauhe manages to make a shitshow of the government meeting at the top of Part 3, in part due to being overtly aggressively protective of E.T. (and yelling at people for calling him dangerous, when ''E.T. himself'' said he poses a risk), in part due to not properly understanding the layout of the room (she keeps trying to have Jake talk to people who are ''not next to him''), and in part due to the fact she [[RocksFallEveryoneDies almost assaults a Secret Service agent]]. Kara outright compares the scene to ''Film/DuckSoup''.
120	* RightfulKingReturns: E.T. turns out to be the heir to the throne of his people -- the Baedelorians -- marooned on Earth. His ultimate plan is to [[InvokedTrope invoke this trope]].
121	* RocksFallEveryoneDies: Due to misunderstanding what "disarming" means in the given context, Joz almost causes an abrupt end to the campaign in Part 3 when she (as Jake) almost assaults a Secret Service agent.
122	* RunningGag:
123	** "''It's a car.''"
124	** Gertie saying "I'm 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.
125	** "Blue goo" also becomes one -- being a pair of InherentlyFunnyWords -- after a corridor filled with it is found on the We'ago ship.
126	* ShootEverythingThatMoves: The marines sent to infiltrate the We'ago warship are instructed that to be on the safe side they should shoot anyone they see who isn't a human or a Baedelorian. The roleplayers gleefully seize hold of this instruction, resulting in the Barry rampage that ends with a NiceJobBreakingItHero moment.
127	* ShoutOut:
128	** The players compare the description of Michael from the original screenplay [[note]]"Michael, Elliot's older brother. Fourteen, tall, lanky. Yearning for and nearing the rites of men: cars, women, power!"[[/note]] with Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's character in ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''.
129	** Possibly a coincidence, but the kids decide to [[AndCallHimGeorge call E.T. "George".]]
130	** One of the agents interrogating Michael's biology teacher is named "[[Franchise/TheMatrix Smith.]]" This is immediately [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded.]] Another reference to Franchise/TheMatrix is made when E.T. uses his telekinesis to knock over several agents.
131	** The other agent is named Wollensky, making them [[http://www.smithandwollensky.com/ Smith & Wollensky]].
132	** After getting sidetracked into talking about an ImagineSpot, one of the players drops an appropriate quote from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ("We were talking about chocolate?" "That was ten minutes ago.")
133	** When E.T. takes Michael's hand and flies away with him, Kara Strait asks if they can have a [[Film/SupermanTheMovie "Christopher Reeve / Margot Kidder-moment" and starts singing "Can You Read My Mind?".]]
134	** When E.T says that he wants something to read, the players suggest the next book in the ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' series.
135	** While flying through the air on their bikes, Jon Miller's accent [[OohMeAccentsSlipping starts slipping towards the UK.]] The other players then wonder if Series/DoctorWho just showed up.
136	** After Gertie tries and fails to imitate E.T.'s telekinesis, Paulo mentions that he'd considered giving her the psychic powers Drew Barrymore's character had in ''Film/{{Firestarter}}'' but decided against it.
137	** When Gertie starts nagging her brothers about being hungry, they say that they have to [[Film/{{Gremlins}} feed her before midnight or she'll turn evil.]]
138	** While discussing what they can get to eat for the money they have, the players note that at least it's 1982, so the money will have more buying power, and reference the RidiculousFutureInflation in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.
139	** When given new characters, the players suggest that Joz should still play a four-year-old and be "the [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Doogie Howser]] of the FBI."
140	** Ana Kopas compares E.T.'s powers with the Force from ''Franchise/StarWars'', which she is a big fan of. She also quotes one of Han Solo's lines from ''Film/ANewHope'' when her Baedelorian colleague tries -- [[BadBadActing rather poorly]] (but hey, it works) -- tricking the enemy into letting them aboard their mothership.
141	--->'''Ana Kopas:''' We're fine here. How are you?
142	** Ana also claims to having been a big fan of "Lithuanian WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}," which -- InUniverse -- actually came out ''before'' [[ForeignRemake the American show.]]
143	** The government scientists watch a movie in which someone's head goes [[Film/{{JFK}} back, and to the left. Back, and to the left]].
144	** Paulo's announcement that there's something significant about Saturn's rings incites a cascade of references to other works with significant rings, such as ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
145	** Joz refers to the hostile aliens that will likely attempt to devastate the planet as "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Vogons]]". Said aliens are also said to resemble [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]], only with six legs and fingers.
146	** When E.T. decides to join the fake funeral delegation in disguise as his second-in-command's second-in-command, one of the players compares his situation to Padme in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''.
147	** While Jake is trying to figure out a cryptic control panel on the alien ship, one of the players recalls the even more cryptic control panel on the alien ship in the short film "[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Lifted]]".
148	** E.T. accidentally quotes [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] when noticing that the ship has started to move.
149	--->'''E.T.:''' Did I do that?
150	** [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises "You adopted the goo. I was molded by it."]]
151	** The final episode, which revolves around a scrappy force fighting off hostile invading aliens, includes several shout-outs to ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
152	** When coming across the lone We'Ago gunner, (who DM Paulo Quiros accideantally refers to as "a man") Joz / Jake asks "Does he look like a Jeff?" This is a paraphrase (and a slight {{Bowdlerisation}}) of a line from ''Film/PulpFiction.''
153	* SmarterThanYouLook: It turns out that E.T. -- a character some viewers have interpreted as mentally deficient -- actually is an {{Omniglot}} with a very high IQ.
154	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Inverted: When Michael and Mr. Kotzenager recite the three basic needs of a living species, [[SayingTooMuch they clearly have different ideas about the third]]:
155	-->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': You gotta eat-
156	-->'''Michael''': Eat.
157	-->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': You gotta shit.
158	-->'''Michael''': (at the same time) Shit. And breathe-
159	-->'''Mr. Kotzenager''': (talking over Michael) And you gotta fuck. [[OhCrap I mean,]] you gotta have- make... [[UnusualEuphemism congress...]] with other-
160	-->'''Michael''': Congress?
161	* TechnologyUplift: At the end, E.T. promises to share his people's knowledge and technology with humanity to help them recover after the invasion.
162	* 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 Mrs. Jenkins, the French teacher, has a nervous condition, and unintentionally hits on Michael's mom.
163	* ThatsNoMoon: The rings of UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} turn out to be the remains of a planet destroyed in an interplanetary war several millennia ago.
164	* 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 ''exactly'' what you think it would cause.[[note]]Luckily, a ship winds up blocking the hole before the decompression causes massive problems.[[/note]]
165	-->'''Barry''': ''THE COLD VACUUM OF SPACE IS NO MATCH FOR BARRY!''
166	* TomatoInTheMirror: E.T. suspects that humanity are a cross between Baedelorians and some other type of creature, but realizes 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.''
167	* UnexpectedCharacter: President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan appears for a few scenes, and is even bonded with E.T.
168	* WaveMotionGun: Each of the We'ago warships is fitted with a main energy cannon that takes a minute or so to charge up and is capable of blowing up the Moon in a single shot.
169	* WeaksauceWeakness: It eventually is determined that the reason why Earth is toxic to E.T. is because of the trace amounts of argon in the atmosphere.
170	* WeNeedADistraction: Ana and Jake distract a secret service agent by gossiping and -- in Ana's case, doing an interpretive dance number -- so that E.T. can sneak into the meeting room.
171	* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: When Jake arrives to the We'ago control room, his plan is simply to randomly press every button he can find and hope for the best.
172	* 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 (thanks in part to E.T. deciding to use his connection with Regan to phase Peckham out).
173	* WhaleEgg: Baedelorians are oviparous.

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