Tuesday
Oct142008
E.T. is back...
October 14, 2008 and he is piiiiissed.
Now, I love pop-culture references from old 80's movies as much as the next girl, ok? Make a crack about R.O.U.S.'s or use the line, "Back off, man; I'm a scientist." and I will love you forever. That said, turning E.T. - whose popularity peaked 25 years ago - into a ticked-off looking mummy and then marketing him to the under-12 set might be a bit too obscure for today's youth. Heck, without the "phone home" reference, I doubt any adult would get it. So props to the decorator for trying to keep the dream alive, but maybe next time he or she should make it a little more obvious.
Josh W., don't you have a phone call to make?
Reader Comments (117)
I'm so sorry to have to point this out, but feel I must, in light of your hilarious lampooning of misused apostrophes on wrecks:
R.O.U.Ss and '80s do not require apostrophes before the pluralized "s".
Keep on wrecking!
Rachel
Forget pissed.. what's up with the red eyes? He looks stoned? Et phone.. uh.. crap what was I doing.. haha look my finger is glowing.. ooo
I thought it was the Hamburgler as well - a very made one but still a Hamburgler.
Oh my gosh, it's like he was mummified! And also has a hangover or something! Maybe that brings new meaning to the message - "Phone home! I can't drive in this condition!"
D:
My first thought was, "Why is ET made of frosting french fries?"
Apparently ET is made of baked pasta. :D
Hey Rachel (who posted Anon)-
I can't comment on the ROUS, as I'm not famliar with that acronym.
If I'm not mistaken though, 80's does call for an apostrophe because it is something belonging to that decade. 80s would be an incorrect way of speaking about a multiplicity of an "80".
I think I'm right about that, but if not..then cheers!
That is clearly a sentient baked potato.
ET DOES look rather beat up, doesn't he? It's like there was an apocalypse on his home planet...
looks like he got into a bad fight with an ROUS!!
Or, what to do with all those leftover fried noodles you get with your Chinese Food but never eat.
Wow -- this one must be from "ET Two: Electric Bugaloo...the Leprosy Years."
Hey kids gather 'round for some leper loaf!
Oh my. Well, I was hungry..... until...... Well, it is Halloween today anyway :)
I know I'm necroposting, and slightly drunk, and oh yeah, it's 2:35am where I am, but WOW is that nightmare fuel. Freaked me out when I went to the next page.
it looks like his body got hit by a car and all his organs flowed up to make his head huge . . . in other words, gross.
He looks much more like the Stinky Cheese Man than E.T....