ABSTRACT

The opening to Episode 609 (July 2002), “Free Hat”, of the TV comedy cartoon South Park1 has four South Park kids sitting in the Bijou cinema watching previews for forthcoming fi lms. The booming voice of the announcer proclaims:

Coming this summer, it’s the classic fi lm that changed America, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, the new, redone version for 2002. All the E.T. effects have been digitally upgraded. All the guns have been digitally changed to walkie-talkies. And the word “TERRORIST” has been changed to “HIPPIE”.