335: Perfect Kid Logic

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Grab your flowerpot and engage the rainbow drive! It’s time to discuss Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,” the film that eclipsed “Star Wars” as the biggest grossing film of all time. What makes the film a perfect time capsule of being a kid in 1982? Does it hold up to modern eyes? Is it science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, or something else? Where did all those frogs come from? Hey, he’s an alien, we don’t know what he’s capable of.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 335, January 2017.
0:11.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.1	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.2	We are here to talk about a classic film this time, classic science fiction film from 1982.
0:24.0	It's E.T.
0:25.2	The Extraterrestrial, as directed by Steven Spielberg.
0:29.9	Joining us because they got lost while picking flowers are my following guests.
0:36.3	David J. Lour.
0:37.9	Hello. Elliot. Elliot. Lour. Hello.
0:39.1	Elliot.
0:41.2	Elliot's not here.
0:43.3	Chip Sutterth. Hello.
0:46.4	I look forward to this discussion of Et the extraterrestrial.
0:51.6	We'll be talking about Mary Hart, John Tesh.
0:53.5	Oh, not that E.T. Sorry.
0:55.3	He's been studying for this my whole life. Very confusing. David Sparks also joins us. Hi, David.
1:01.0	Hi, Jason. Remember years ago, I told you if you ever do E.T. You need to make me the most
1:04.9	excellent promise you've ever made that you would include me. Yeah, and here we are. See,
1:09.5	I keep my promises. Like when I told Ant Anthony, he would be on the alien episode.
1:12.5	It took years, but, you know, it happens eventually.
1:15.3	And Erica Ensign.
1:16.6	Hi.
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