If so, settle this argument:
We all know that E.T. ate Reeses Pieces in the movie, and that it was product placement. But did E.T. ever *say* "Reeses Pieces" in the film?
I'm somehow now involved in a long-standing argument over this (which is hilarious, since it could be so easily settled by watching the movie, but nobody wants to.) Myself and several friends have a distinct memory of E.T. saying "Rees-ees Piece-ees", but according to my friend Travis, it's not in the script and he insists that E.T. never actually says the words.
(There's one other theory - that E.T. said it in a commercial, but not in the actual movie.)
Yeah, I think your recollection of "Rees-ees Piece-ees" is pulled from the accompanying commercials, not the movie.
Posted by: Rex | January 08, 2008 at 01:02 PM
It does appear to be looking that way. So you know what that means! WE'RE BOTH RIGHT! Yay!!
Posted by: lindsay | January 08, 2008 at 01:06 PM
I don't think he says it in the film; I'm pretty sure you're remembering a commercial. FWIW, I just looked at a script online; leaving aside for the moment that the script starts off by describing the title with "The letters are in soft-purple against a black background. Purple is traditionally the color of that which is sacred", there's no mention of Reese's Pieces in it...
note 1: I had the novelization of the screenplay when I was a kid (?!) and throughout it, they were referred to as "M&Ms"
note 2: my in-laws pronounce "Reese's" so that it rhymes with "feces" and maybe they should stop?
Posted by: Patrick M | January 08, 2008 at 01:12 PM
But wait: maybe we're not even remembering the right alien?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8jvLens3pM
Posted by: Patrick M | January 08, 2008 at 01:19 PM
I gotta go with the commercial only, but there's no way in h-e-double-hockey-sticks that I'm watching that movie to verify. Snopes has a interesting read on the marketing side of things.
http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mandms.asp
Posted by: | January 08, 2008 at 03:18 PM
Just the commercials!
Posted by: martha | January 09, 2008 at 09:15 AM
The script is inconclusive because it doesn't refer to anything other than "candy" even in stage directions...the script you can get online dates from before the product placement deal was struck with Hershey, so it's possible a line could have been introduced afterwards and included in the movie.
That is a funny note about the novelization calling them M&M's. M&M/Mars famously turned down the product placement deal before it was offered to Hershey.
I think the Atari game just called it "candy," but I'm not sure.
Posted by: tps12 | January 09, 2008 at 09:42 AM
In a book I read about Hershey's and Mars candy wars, the script called for M&Ms, but the Mars company (family) decided not to participate. Hershey's was not so foolish and sales of Reese's, which weren't that spectacular before, spiked significantly.
Posted by: Aileen | January 09, 2008 at 02:38 PM
Wow, I think the E.T. post set the record for comments!
Posted by: Jameson | January 10, 2008 at 12:20 AM
I always thought he ate M&Ms.
weird.
Posted by: Briggs | January 17, 2008 at 01:30 AM