IFS Unlocked: History Box - ET Gets Drunk
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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(Rec: 18/6/24) One of the greatest moments in cinema history is assessed.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Top Flight Time Machine. I am Andy Hot Body Dawson, Pow, Pooh, bow. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Sam Mr Delaney. So what? |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome along, it's another history box, and I think this could just be a single episode, to be honest Sam, because the clip we're looking at is only two and a half minutes long. |
| 0:25.7 | Well, it might be a short episode. |
| 0:27.5 | Certainly, no. |
| 0:29.2 | It warrants in debt examination and has done for many years. |
| 0:32.9 | I don't know why the BBC haven't been all over this sooner. |
| 0:36.5 | This is true. |
| 0:38.1 | It is, of course, as you probably know, |
| 0:40.7 | from the title of this episode |
| 0:41.8 | that you've looked at before you've started |
| 0:43.2 | to play at E.T. |
| 0:46.4 | The scene when E.T. gets drunk |
| 0:48.3 | in the film E.T. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, two minutes, 40 seconds, it says, yeah, and that's with a trailer thing at the end of it. |
| 0:58.2 | Two minutes, 40 seconds that changed cinema forever. |
| 1:02.1 | Changed cinema, changed civilization, changed attitudes towards alcohol, I think. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah, I mean, definitely that. |
| 1:08.6 | The notion that extraterrestrial life finally makes contact with the human race here on Earth. |
| 1:16.8 | And one of the first things it does is get stuck into the cans out of some humans' fridge. |
| 1:25.8 | For decades, the question had been asked, |
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