[The Nerd discovers a hidden message in the credits reading "FUCK OFF BIN LADEN"]
You know, if you thought I was jokin' around, I don't blame you. You are welcome to try it yourself. Try it out, because it is real. There is actually a message in E.T. Interplanetary Mission on PlayStation 1 that says... "Fuck off Bin Laden". I didn't know his name would come up. I mean, just to clarify, I agree with telling him to fuck off. He was a terrorist leader. A pretty awful person. He deserved it. PlayStation really showed him! E.T. told him off!
Fuck him.
But look... I can make sense of this, okay? You just gotta put it in the proper context. The game came out in 2002. That was only a year after 9/11, Bin Laden was still at large, tensions were high. So you can understand why... why... [sighs] why... [sigh] why? Why? WHY IS IT IN THE FUCKIN' GAME?! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! If you're gonna tell Bin Laden to fuck off, you'd think it would happen in a different game, like... I don't know, Call of Duty or somethin'. I mean, of all the characters you could use as your spokesperson to counter terrorism, you're gonna use E.T.?! Even back in the early 90s, there were games comin' out like Operation Secret Storm. But it's not like there was a code in Mario Kart where Mario says "Fuck you, Saddam!". WHY is it in the game-- no no no, a better question is, how is it in the game? Even though it's a hidden screen, it still made it in. "Fuck off Bin Laden" successfully got an actual PlayStation 1 disc, which was packaged inside this case, which was sold in stores! WITH AN ESRB RATING OF "E!" They slipped the word "fuck" past the Entertainment Software Ratings Board! That's ingenious. So, how did this happen? Well, there's a story. I mean, who knows if this is true. But, it's been said that the developers were forced by the higher-ups to remove the standard credits scene, so, they basically put it into an easter egg instead and used the opportunity to vent their frustrations towards... their boss? Towards the head of Sony? No, towards the fucking leader of Al-Qaeda. That makes sense.
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