42 - E.T. - A Search for Weed Goes Terribly Wrong

The Rabbit Fighters hop on their BMX bikes and pedal past the full moon as they examine this beloved Steven Spielberg movie about a blobby, hammerheaded alien with googly eyes and glowing fingers that fix boo-boos and geraniums. E.T.'s ship lands in Los Angeles to gather California kindbud for their condom garden. When men with jingly keys approach, E.T.'s comrades ditch him on Earth, where a lonely boy named Elliott lures him into captivity with free candy. From there. E.T. makes a phone out of a Speak-N-Spell, gets drunk on Coors Banquet beer, brings fame to Reese's Pieces, telepathically forces Elliott to free hundreds of frogs, bumbles around the house in front of Elliott's clueless mom, and finally dies and comes back from the dead...destroying the hearts of Gen-X kids and preventing them from ever crying again as adults. This episode brought to you by special guest, #1 E.T. fan, and professor of Xenobiology and Exobiology: RYAN! Next Week - Greg's pick: Johnny Dangerously [Published November 5, 2024] And as always, you can check out the RF's ongoing companion playlist on ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠Youtube⁠.