P.E.T. is E.T.'s alien cousin made of polyethylene terephthalate

For those of us who survived the 80’s we fell in love with a latex/polyurethane puppet that had an extendable neck, glow-in-the-dark bulbous finger tips, and the capacity to make bicycles fly. This puppet was an alien that got stranded on Earth, and needed help from a pre-teen boy to get back home. You can imagine how this pitch must have sounded to the producers, but … it worked! And E.T. grossed more than triple what it cost to make. Not a bad ROI either.

E.T.’s cousin P.E.T. had a similar experience, only he was a boston round made of polyethylene terephthalate. He didn’t have glow-in-the-dark bulbous finger tips, but he could make pre-teen boys on bicycles fly, as is shown in our parody poster below. We named our film, P.E.T: Polyethylene Terephthalate and Its Adventure on Earth. Kind of catchy, isn’t it?

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