Robot Chicken had a very good, if slighly nsfBAUT, interpretation of the ET movie somewhere in Season 2. It turns out ET's name is Kleeborp, and he's his species equivalent of Forrest Gump, except he makes Forrest Gump seem very literate and articulate. The jocks at his high school demonstrate their lack of anything worthwhile to do by abducting the very slowest kids (aka, Kleeborp) and stranding them naked on random planets.

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And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.