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)
Whoa.
Stinky Cheese Man. That's what my 12 year old saw.
Oh ET! My condolences on your terrible flying bicycle accident!
Yes, I agree with the previous commentators about laying off the booze and I hope you have finally learned your lesson. No, no I'm sure Eliot forgives you for getting him kicked out of school last time.
Hehe! I thought he was made out of pie too! Oh, what a sad, sad cake. Or is it "cake"? I'm still not convinced...what the heck is it (and do I want to know)?
I was going to go for a Ghostbusters reference, but I couldn't figure out how to adapt 'that's a big Twinkie' into a joke about this cake and still make it recognizable to Ghostbusters fans...sort of like this baker didn't know how to make this cake recognizable to ET fans.
Only I knew not to go ahead and do it anyway.
Seriously, it's a hungover, fettucini-wrapped mummy hopped up on goofballs coming to murder us all as we sleep.
It'll bite your head off, man.
Oh, and he's an ugly little spud, isn't he?
Wow... that's all I got :)
I don't know, he looks kind of like a cute little fat-faced mummy to me. If you remove ET from the equation, I can see this being a Halloween party cake.
Apparently I am completely in the minority, though! LOL.
This really freaked me out when I first saw it - I thought that under the face was a little alien hand reaching out imploringly to the cake-eater. Eeeuuugh! Creepy! Turns out it's supposed to be his body.
Actually, I think that it is a Gremlin that got a little overzealous with a bikini wax kit!
Seriously, I don't think I can look at that cake much longer, much less cut into it. Looks pretty scary to me.
What in the hello was this decorator smoking to think this looks anything like ET?
I can take my glasses off, stand waaay back from the computer, squint and still not come up with ET. And what's growing out of his chin?
I'm going to have nightmares now!
I thought it was a beheaded Hamburgler! E.T? The decorator needs to phone home to get a clue?
Aaaugh! ET misdialed and was hijacked by the alien vampires of Plan 9 from Outer Space! It's now the sequel -- Plan 10: The Mummy Returns.
After purchasing this cake, my roommate and I couldn't help but cut into it to see what the eyes were made of... As it turns out, they are plastic rings that look like eyeballs marketed to children for Halloween
I desperately needed both the Ghostbusters quotes and the laugh after a very rough two days at work!
I think "E.T" might benefit from a proton stream or two.
Morgi
"What the heck is this? I told you to make a mummy!"
"This is a mummy... see, bandages?"
"It... it looks more like E.T. than a mummy. Just... I dunno, put an E.T. quote on there and call it a day."
"But it's a mummy..."
"Do you want to keep your job or not? Not that you're any good at it..."
This is amazing! They should sell these cakes to people dying to lose weight. Good motivation not to eat.
By the way, my girlfriend showed me your blog and it is now my official fave. I need to go over and vote for you at the contest thingie. Thanks for brightening my day!
Dan
Any reference to E.T. always makes me feel a little skiddish. My initials are E.T. so I got told to "phone home" a lot as a kid. :(
But you made me feel 10x better by bringing up the R.O.U.S.es!! That's my all-time favorite movie, but so many people have never heard of it... What gives?
That is the single most FRIGHTENING thing I have ever seen. Eating it would give me nightmares for weeks!
I am sure that is NOT ET and it is just a stoned mummy who wants to phone home cuz he forgot where he parked his ride!
Reminds me of the chicken pot pie I made last week. Pie was good, pastry was a bit of disaster, kept breaking up when I rolled it out so I had to cobble the bits together.
NO WAY is this ET! I agree with the Halloween-related comments. This looks like a warm-up act for a spookfest!
at first i thought that it was a rrrreeeeaaalllyyy bad wall-e. then i saw the phone home .. but, the body??? one of my co-workers looked at it and said "cute" ...obviously she and the cake artist(??) had the same special drink today ....
and please, enough with the R.O.U.S.'s now i have to go watch my favorite movie, again! (oh, the book is good too)
I agree, it looks more like a pie than a cake. But still, what's with the monstrous (and I mean that literally) head and itty bitty body??
I can't decide if that's a teeny tiny body under that huge head or his hand reaching out in the classic "phone home" gesture.
Either way it still looks more like the mummy.
I thought he was covered in pasta!! That is one unappetizing cake! Can you imagine the kids fighting over the eyeballs?
Maybe E.T. is phoning home from an extended stay at the leper colony?
Yipes!I think this E.T. needs Miracle Max's help and quick!
looks a little like stewie.
I thought it was WALL-E before I saw the phone home reference...
Ohhhhh, that's his body? I thought he'd puked ...
Dear god! It might look like E.T. if there were a scene where E.T. finds Elliot's brother's stash, gets really stoned, and ends up passing out face first in a plate of pasta.
Dooooood - that's more like the guy from The Mummy.....so wrong....
That doesn't really look like ET, but it does look kinda tasty, but at the same time it looks gross.
~Kaysie
Are you sure that it's not a freaky looking Wall-E cake instead? I mean that doesn't look anything like ET!
At least the quote wasn't "I'll be right here."
For the record, I never lost my love for E.T.
Ewwwww, that is just . . . Ewwwwwwww. It looks like someone decorated the poor cake with broken rubber bands that were melted into one giant shiny mass with a blowtorch.
I know E.T. was wrinkly, but those frosting strips remind me of those crispy dry noodles you get with your Wonton Soup.
Before I showed him the "hand" and inscription, Hubby said it looks like a snake.
EW... did he puke?
wow. I just got a cake today very cute it was frankenstine with the same eyes. Funny how one perosn saw the eytes and thought franksten and the other saw the same eyes and thought ET
ROFL at all the comments, but extra points to
**alexandra erin** for this:
they misspelled "Please Kill Me" as "Phone Home".
I had soda/nose problems from that one.
Is that *MERINGUE* ?
If so, that's the scariest meringue I've ever seen. *brrr*
E.T.'s eyes are supposed to be blue. Enough said. I gotta go wash my eyes out with sulphuric acid!!
Looks like a cherry pie gone horribly wrong!
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Looks like a pile of used Band-Aids.
-coffeeiv
OH GODS, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT HORROR?
*reads description*
I still don't see it. I think it must have been one of the monsters my D&D group fought in the past.
THE EYES, they will haunt me 'till I die.
Could be that E.T. has been mummified.
Janet
i like it, reminds me of home, and those corn chips sure look tasty...
looks more like floory from pee-wee's playhouse to me.
"This is not happening, Ray.
This is happening.
Please tell me it's not happening, Ray?
Ruuuuuuun!"
That might or might not be a quote from "Ghostbusters".
But still it's a better mistake than that cake.
Peace,
Clueuin