Neil deGrasse Tyson reveals that Steven Spielberg described E.T. as a plant-based life form rather than an animal.

“I've had Steven Spielberg in that chair over there in my office tell me okay upon being asked something related that et what he imagined et as a vegetable and not as an animal so he's a plant based life-form plant based life that's correct”

Jake Roper argues that E.T. is not simply a cute creature but a potential biological threat that could cause contagious disease.

“you do have that whole segment we're like oh we need a quarantine because who knows what bacteria or viruses that's right and that is kind of interesting thing you have this foreign creature here on earth right we don't know what we have no idea I don't know what it is susceptible to”