Because E.T. eventually went home!
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None. There never was any light bulb.
Notes: Probably the only really good light bulb joke of 1984.
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Snow balls!
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It wanted to be a watermelon.
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Twenty. One to hold the bulb, two to turn the ladder, and 17 to be on the guest list.
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By renaming it Trump University.
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