A closer look
Extraterrestrial communication device built by E.T. to phone home was actually constructed using a literal coat hanger, a coffee can, and a children's Speak & Spell toy. Sound engineers then utilized the burps of a film professor to create the weird vocalizations of the alien when he was trying to communicate with his spaceship. It is truly inspiring that a highly advanced interstellar being capable of faster-than-light travel had to rely on a Texas Instruments learning toy and human gastrointestinal gas to send a distress signal across the vast emptiness of the galaxy
