Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a new Xfinity commercial that is tugging on people's nostalgia heart strings by using E.T. and then Andy shares a few of his thoughts on E.T. and why he is doesn't like him.
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00:00By now you've probably seen Xfinity's new four-minute commercial called A Holiday Reunion
00:08featuring E.T. returning to Earth to chill with Elliot,
00:13played by, once again, I believe the drunk-driving superstar, Henry Thomas.
00:18Yeah, I don't know.
00:19He was just busted for drunk-driving.
00:20Oh, was he?
00:21I'm sure that Xfinity was like,
00:22Oh, come on!
00:23We just spent $42 million on this commercial.
00:26He's in some good movies every once in a while, that guy, though.
00:29Is he?
00:29Henry Thomas?
00:30Yeah, the guy who played Elliot in E.T.
00:32There's a movie called Suicide Kings he's in.
00:34That's great.
00:35Basically, if you haven't seen it, we put it up at DaveAndChuckTheFreak.com.
00:38It's a four-minute rehash of the original movie, except this time with Elliot's kids.
00:42They are the ones that discover E.T.
00:45Here's a little taste of it here.
00:51Oh, it's chilling.
00:55Chilling.
00:55Elliot.
00:56I forgot you're afraid of it.
00:57I don't like it.
00:58E.T. gets around a lot better these days.
01:17Lots changed since you were here.
01:19Forgot how much his skin's like a scrotal skin.
01:21That's exactly what he's designed after.
01:26It's no good.
01:27Looks like a burnt scrotum.
01:29Like it was in a meth fire.
01:31Yeah.
01:32Methy burnt scrotum.
01:34How much would they have spent?
01:35That's what it is.
01:36How much would they have spent to make this, to get the licensing to this?
01:39Because they use the music.
01:40I don't know.
01:42I don't know.
01:43Do they own the movie now?
01:44Do they own the rights to the movie?
01:46Probably.
01:46Well, Xfinity owns NBC Universal, right?
01:49Yeah.
01:49So like, was it a Universal picture?
01:51I think it was a Universal.
01:52Oh, yeah.
01:52Because they had the Universal Studios.
01:54So it cost them nothing to have E.T.
01:56They just got E.T.
01:57Exactly.
01:57They own E.T.
01:58Let me look in the attic here.
01:59What do we got?
02:00Dust it off.
02:01Oh, we got E.T.
02:03Oh, I got an idea.
02:04What about E.T.
02:05comes back, visits Elliot, but he's got a family.
02:08I love it.
02:08They got Xfinity.
02:09I love it.
02:10And they got cable, and they got all the cool things that cable allows you to use the
02:13voice remote.
02:14That's just looking for 20 seconds.
02:15I don't know what else is out there.
02:18The fat kid from Goonies is out there.
02:20Oh, no way.
02:22We got Chunk.
02:23Yeah, Chunk's there.
02:24He's not doing good.
02:25Oh, no.
02:27He's not doing that.
02:28He's not doing too good.
02:30Oh, no.
02:31We just own E.T.
02:32I will say this, though.
02:33Yeah.
02:34I didn't even bother watching it, and the reason I didn't bother watching it is I saw
02:39so much feedback about how people were bawling.
02:44Yeah.
02:45So many people said it made them cry.
02:46Like, they're bawling.
02:47What?
02:47Everyone was, like, bawling about E.T.
02:49because it was, like, hitting all the right things for these people.
02:53Those people need help.
02:54Right.
02:55So, but I was like, I'm one of those people that needs help.
02:58You cried?
02:58So, I was, like, not going to watch it.
03:00I'm not going to know.
03:01I was like, I'm not watching it.
03:02I know I will cry.
03:04I already know.
03:05I will cry.
03:07I mean, I cry at weird stuff, too.
03:09But I just, I don't know.
03:10You cried at Godzilla.
03:11Yeah.
03:12Yeah.
03:13I did.
03:14You did.
03:15I'm not one to judge on TV.
03:18No, so I didn't even bother.
03:19I was like, you know what?
03:20I'm sure it's lovely, and, you know.
03:22E.T. freaked me right out, man.
03:24Yeah, that's clear.
03:25Yeah.
03:25I don't know.
03:26You think he's a scrotal.
03:28It freaked me out.
03:28I didn't like him.
03:29Yeah, the scrotal skin thing.
03:31Yeah, yeah.
03:32Yeah, I didn't like, I had a thing, weird thing with, like, Reese's Pieces because of it,
03:36I think now.
03:37Oh, I love Reese's Pieces.
03:38If I drop one, I piss myself.
03:41Well, the only person chasing you is me.
03:44It's just me.
03:45Yeah, it's like, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
03:47You get me to go wherever you need me to go.
03:49I catch you in that hat and the dress.
03:51Hey!
03:52What are you doing to my clothes?
03:54Peces, peces.
03:56He followed me because I dropped Reese's Pieces.
03:59Damn it.
04:00You scared the crap out of me.
04:02Chuck him that hat and that dress.
04:03Yeah.
04:04Ah!
04:06What are you doing?
04:07Where'd you find those clothes?
04:08I don't know.
04:09I just, they were on another doll.
04:11Oh, my God.
04:13You better phone home, bud.
04:15I will.
04:17Al Beck says he's the same.
04:18He had the same fear that Andy.
04:20You were afraid of E.T., Al?
04:21Oh, terrified.
04:22I never really thought of him as a scrotum, but I guess I can't unsee that now.
04:26No, you can't.
04:27No, us can.
04:28Walking, talking, burning scrotum.
04:30Yeah, I guess.
04:32Burnt scrotum.
04:32Yeah.
04:33Burnt scrotum.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Burnt scrotum.
04:34Burnt scrotum.