See E.T.'s Astronomically High Phone Bill For When He "Phoned Home"

"E.T. phone home" was a huge catchphrase back in 1982 thanks to Steven Spielberg's mega-hit E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and that was a time when long distance phone calls were a much bigger deal (and more costly) than they are today. Now, 34 years after the film debuted, TollFreeForwarding.com has put together an estimate of how much that iconic phone call from Elliott and E.T.'s makeshift communication device to E.T.'s home world of Brodo Asogi would cost, and the result is absolutely insane.

Based on research about how much a call would cost per mile from California, they figured out the film's call would have cost a mind-boggling $76,424,516,944,816,700.00. That's 76 quadrillion dollars. As the site's fun facts point out, that amount is more than 2 million times than Spielberg's $3.7 billion net worth. Click over to the site for a second and check it out for yourselves...it's pretty fun.

Back in August, we re-launched The Not Just New Movies Podcast as a monthly show, and our first episode back from our years-long break dove into E.T. Give it a listen here if you haven't yet, and while you're doing that, check out the other cool shows over at PodTyrant.

Via: io9