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* [[Billing Displacement]]: Dee Wallace as Elliott's mother Mary.
* [[Cast the Expert]]: The doctors are real doctors. Spielberg mentioned that this was necessary as they would be better at rapidly spitting out terminology that required years of medical school to
* [[Classic Movie, Commercial Sequel]]: In 2019, E.T. returned to visit his friend Elliott, now grown up with his own family, in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdgk3ERKdug a four-minute minifilm] to advertise Xfinity.
* [[Colbert Bump]]: Sales of Reese's Pieces candy '''skyrocketed''' after their inclusion in the film.
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Played straight with E.T. in the original version and in the Japanese dub, but averted in the Mexican Spanish dub.
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** On the other hand, jock older brother Michael's introduction has him playing ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' without hinting at him having any geeky or creative [[Hidden Depths]], which firmly grounds the film in the early 80's (the height of ''D&D'''s popularity as a fad) for fans of the film who are roleplayers.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** The first choice to play Gertie? [[Juliette Lewis]]. Her father made her turn down the role, and Barrymore was cast instead.
** Shelley Long was approached to play Elliot's mother. She turned it down as she was already signed on for the comedy ''Night Shift''.
** [[Stan Winston]] turned down the opportunity to work on ''E.T.''. He would regret doing so.
** The book "E.T. from Concept to Classic" features many plot points and scenes cut from the script. One subplot from an early draft was to have a rival to Elliott named Lance who wanted to expose E.T. The spaceship was going to land in a parking lot, but it was changed to a forest because that sounded more magical, amongst many others.
** Spielberg mentioned once there was an idea for a sequel called ''Nocturnal Fears'', which would be a horror movie. Yes, ''a horror movie''. Supposedly, this [[Darker and Edgier]] continuation of the story would see Eliot and his family terrorized by far more malevolent aliens until E.T. returned to Earth to help his friends. Probably not a bad thing that this idea didn't get past planning stages.
* [[Word of God]]:
** [[Steven Spielberg]] stated that E.T.'s species is more similar to plants than any other creature and is genderless. Also, a series of trading cards from the 1980's list the family's last name as Taylor.
** [[Steven Spielberg]] has also stated that this movie is a [[Stealth Sequel]] to ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
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[[Category:Trivia]]
[[Category:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]
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