*TEASER* Was E.T. Slimy or Dry?

I think it was someone from The New York Times asked the very critical question, "Is E.T. slimy or dry?" [laughs]

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And now it's everywhere.

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So I-

Now I can't stop thinking about it

... well, actually, I wanna, I wanna know Brian's answer and my answer, and then I want you to give us the canonical Spielberg answer.

Okay.

All right, done.

I will-

Or you can-

The real answer is he was dry because he was a puppet.

So he-

Oh, come on

...

he was-

No, like in universe, is he slimy or dry?

In universe, uh...

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I think I'd still probably gonna say dry just because-

This is what you pay for on the After Dark.

Yeah.

Thank you, patrons.

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Yes.

I'm going dry.

You're going dry?

Yep.

I think he's slimy because when he starts to dry out and he turns like white at some point, like when he's like-

Yeah

... his life force is draining, and like Elliot is like in peril, and he starts to get all like pasty white, he looks drier.

So I think he's like s- he's in, he's like in a slimy-ish state, I think.

Okay.

All right.

So Brian and I are split, split decision.

So Philip, you were on the right track.

So he said, and I quote-

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... "ET was a little moist but never slimy." [laughs]

Oh, a little moist.

That, that, I, I would've gone with that.

He said it.

I would've said a little moist.

I was like-

And-

... it's like skin.

It's like skin.

It gets a little moist-

And-

...

but it's not slimy

... and then he said E.T. was only dry when he got sick, so-

Oh, there you go

... yeah.

Hey.

Delores said, there we go.

You were on the right track.

Look at that.

I never, I just like, look at that, by the powers of reason and deduction.

Reason.

[laughs] What do you know?

The magic science.

There you go.