This puzzle is about Paul Rudd's appearences on Conan, in which he sets up a clip promoting his most recent project, only to bait-and-switch the audience with a clip from the E.T. knockoff movie, Mac and Me. Each review in the puzzle describes one of Paul Rudd's projects that he has promoted on Conan, except at the end it contains a part of the Mac and Me scene.
In the comment sections at the bottom, quotes are given with a fill-in-the-blank. These quotes are all from the actual interviews between Paul Rudd and Conan O'Brien from the segment where Paul Rudd promotes one of the projects that are found in the above reviews. The star ratings below the reviews give an index and enumeration of what goes in the blank of the quote that matches the Paul Rudd project in the review.
| Paul Rudd project | Matching quote | Blank | Indexed Letter |
| Anchorman 2 | “I wanted to do it at least one more time, I mean, Atlanta, I had to at least, you know, get it out there” | ATLANTA | A |
| Role Models | “I just felt so weird about it. I just lied to Bruce Springsteen!” | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | S |
| Living With Yourself | “Anybody can do it, this show is the cornhole of TV” | CORNHOLE | E |
| Our Idiot Brother | “Ugh I feel horrible, I just realized all I ate today was a bunch of croissants” | CROISSANTS | O |
| Ant-Man | “I’m so excited that everybody seems so excited for the movie!” | EXCITED | T |
| The 40 Year Old Virgin | “Yeah I live in the West Village. You know a unique thing happened to me last night, I was approached by a male prostitute” | MALE PROSTITUTE | M |
| Friends (Series Finale) | “You’ve gotta give the pitch a little razzmatazz” | RAZZMATAZZ | T |
| Three Days of Rain | “It’s amazing: Santo Loquasto, the set designer, is a genius. That almost looked like it was outdoors!” | SANTO LOQUASTO | L |
The above table is in the order given by the reviews, where the extracted words are in alphabetical order. Reordering by the order given by the comments section, gives the answer ALMOST ET.