History Film / MacAndMe

* BizarreAlienBiology: Let's start with the way the aliens' bodies can twist like Stretch Armstrong without harming the creatures themselves, to the point they can be ''sucked through vacuum hoses''... and allowing Mac to get flattened and squashed out of proportion against a car windshield, but seemingly not get the least bit hurt. Then there's their dependence on the unique chemical mixture found only in Coca-Cola to survive.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The heartwarming ballad "Take Me, I'll Follow You", sung by Bobby Caldwell, appears two times in the movie. The second time is in the credits after Jara Lane's "You're Not A Stranger Anymore". The first time? During a scene in which Mac is stuck on top of a tree with dogs barking at him, while Eric and his mom are jogging.

* AwardBaitSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIN1syF30Q Take Me, I'll Follow You]]" by Bobby Caldwell.

A clumsy scene in which Eric rolls off a cliff became a RunningGag on ''Series/LateNight with Creator/ConanOBrien'', and later ''{{Series/Conan}}'': Whenever Creator/PaulRudd is a guest, Rudd will play that clip instead of one from whatever film he's promoting at the time. ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' tackled this one at the top of Season 12 -- coincidentally, both show and subject turned 30 years old that year.

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The dance number at [=McDonald's=]. Would definitely qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment if the [[BizarroEpisode entire movie wasn't this crazy]].

* Main/{{Bowdlerize}}: WebVideo/{{Phelous}} did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1obYktp_Ilg an entire episode]] on the uncut Japanese ending of the film. Aside from the shot of [[spoiler:Eric]] being killed by a stray bullet being cut, a horrendously done silhouette of [[spoiler:Eric]] is inserted in front of the exploding building to suggest that the impact of the explosion is what killed him. A close-up of [[spoiler:Eric]] is cut that shows blood on the hands of the medic trying to revive him. All lines that use the word "dead" were dubbed over, though if you listen closely, Michael's line "He's gone?" is ''overlaid'' (not dubbed) over the line he originally said, "He's dead?" Finally, a shot of one of Mac's parents dislodging a bullet from [[spoiler:Eric]]'s chest is cut during the revival scene.

Shortly after being picked up by an unmanned space probe and taken to Earth, a family of humanoid space aliens escapes from a research lab. They get split up, with the youngest entering a van belonging to the Cruise family ([[HilariousInHindsight not]] [[Creator/TomCruise that one]]): single mom Janet (Christine Ebersole), 16-year-old Michael (Jonathan Ward), and 11-year-old and wheelchair-bound Eric (Jade Calegory), who are moving from Illinois to California. Of course, it's the youngest kid who discovers the alien first--HilarityEnsues as the creature's attempts to reunite with his family cause Eric's family to think he's going insane.

* DullSurprise: Arguably many instances of this; the human characters don't react with nearly as much surprise and horror as most probably would at the aliens' antics or the dangers they inadvertently cause.

!!This film provides examples of:

* PlotHole: Why would Eric think sucking MAC into a vacuum cleaner would work unless he saw what happened at the beginning of the film? This is called out in the ''MST3K'' episode, saying that is in fact how he knew.

* PlotHole: Why would Eric think sucking MAC into a vacuum cleaner would work unless he saw what happened at the beginning of the film?

A clumsy scene in which Eric rolls off a cliff became a RunningGag on ''Series/LateNight with Creator/ConanOBrien'', and later ''{{Series/Conan}}'': Whenever Creator/PaulRudd is a guest, Rudd will play that clip instead of one from whatever film he's promoting at the time. ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' tackled this one in Season 12, too.

A clumsy scene in which Eric rolls off a cliff became a RunningGag on ''Series/LateNight with Creator/ConanOBrien'', and later ''{{Series/Conan}}'': Whenever Creator/PaulRudd is a guest, Rudd will play that clip instead of one from whatever film he's promoting at the time. ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' tackled this one in Season 12, too.

A clumsy scene in which Eric rolls off a cliff became a RunningGag on ''Series/LateNight with Creator/ConanOBrien'', and later ''{{Series/Conan}}'': Whenever Creator/PaulRudd is a guest, Rudd will play that clip instead of one from whatever film he's promoting at the time.

* Main/{{Bowdlerize}}: WebVideo/{{Phelous}} did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1obYktp_Ilg an entire episode]] on the uncut Japanese ending of the film. Aside from the shot of [[spoiler:Eric]] being killed by a stray bullet being cut, a horrendously done silhouette of [[spoiler:Eric]] is inserted in front of the exploding building to suggest that the impact of the explosion is what killed him. A close-up of [[spoiler:Eric]] is cut that shows blood on the hands of the medic trying to revive the child. All lines that use the word "dead" were dubbed over, though if you listen closely, Michael's line "He's gone?" is ''overlaid'' (not dubbed) over the line he originally said, "He's dead?" Finally, a shot of one of Mac's parents dislodging a bullet from [[spoiler:Eric]]'s chest is cut during the revival scene.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The cops in the movie have ''terrible'' trigger discipline, including keeping his finger on the trigger of a loaded service revolver at all times. [[RealityEnsues Unsurprisingly]], this lack of safety gets [[spoiler: Eric]] gets shot when the cop trips.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: In the Japanese cut of the movie, a police officer trips while chasing the aliens and accidentally [[spoiler: shoots Eric]].

** Especially egregious is what happens right after when the police are called in to confront the aliens; when Eric charges forward to protect his friends, the pursuing officer flips over the corner of his cruiser when he has ''plenty'' of room to spare....And that's not even getting into the police actually causing an entire store to explode violently.

* ProductPlacement: This might be the all-time record holder, as some of the placement serves minor plot points. The products in question are:

This is to ''E.T.'' what ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}'' is to ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''. Both [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-reviews/mac-and-me.php Something Awful]] and [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/ronald-mcdonald-approved-case-file-151-mac-and-me,36033/ the AV Club]] provide detailed recaps of the film. It was also the subject of WebVideo/{{Phelous}}'s very first review on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, and can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0MDcUbwKtI here]]. Interestingly, ''Mac and Me'' was Creator/JenniferAniston's screen debut.

* CharacterAsHimself: Ronald [=McDonald=] is credited as this. He wound up winning the "Worst New Star" Razzie for 1988!

* DisappearedDad: We're not told why.