8 Popular Fan Theories That Completely Ignore The Movie They're About

8. How Can E.T. Be In Star Wars' Universe And Our Own?

When has an in-joke got taken too far? When the fans find it out and turn it into a massive theory, that's when. Steven Spielberg threw in a few Star Wars references in to E.T. The Extra Terrestrial in honour of his buddy George Lucas, something that was eventually repaid in The Phantom Menace, which featured several of E.T.'s species in the Senate sequence.

But wait, does that mean that the movies are in the same universe, with "home" really that galaxy far, far away? It makes some semblance of sense actually - when E.T. chases after a kid dressed as Yoda, he's not just doing it because it looks like an alien; he's doing it because he recognises the species.

Although the fact that a kid is dressed as Yoda for Halloween should really tell you everything there is to say about this theory's validity; Star Wars exists as a movie in the E.T. world. Those Easter eggs Spielberg put in his film were real action figures (there's even a scene where Elliot introduces E.T. to them), meaning the only way for E.T. and Star Wars to coexist is for George Lucas to have made an obscenely lucky guess, accidentally documenting galactic history. Or they really are just throwaway in-jokes. Yeah, it's got to be the latter, hasn't it.