What's on your Thursday Menu?

JB is still afraid of the flying monkees.

I have never once rolled up the carpets and danced.

It was mostly a 50's thing and you were not born yet Once they came out with wall to wall carpet, there was no more rolling up the carpet to get a bare floor.

I was your brother when we saw ET at the drive in. I flipped out at the chase scene through the woods when I was like 3. ET is a terrifying movie in my book because of that. We didn't get to leave, though. I think that was the only time we ever went to a drive in, so leaving wasn't happening!

We had to leave because the other people at the movie did not like his crying. At a drivein you can just close the car windows.

Grim's daughter is still traumatized by E.T. and we will never stop razzing her for it.

Michael Patrick Bilon was from Youngstown, Ohio. He was only 34 inches high and weighed 40 pounds. His ET costume weighed as much as he did. He was tiny, but a big personality here. He was a bouncer at several nightclubs, an undercover agent, and a high school basketball coach. Everyone loved to talk with him and was so happy when Spielberg hired him to be ET. Sadly he died of some type of blood infection when he was only 35.

Interesting facts. I thought ET was animation or a puppet.

No CGI in those days. Either someone was in a costume, or Jim Henson was pulling the strings.

ET will always be a horror movie in my book.