If E.T. can make the bicycle fly at the end, why doesn't he use it in the beginning of the film to avoid pursuit?

Man, I just burned an hour reading about Fridge Logic and some of the cross links (like "What Happened to the Mouse" and "Plot Holes").

I experience Fridge Logic all the time - after conversations, after sermons I've preached or heard, after reading articles or books or watching stuff - you know, when you're thinking back on (the conversation, the TV show, whatever) and suddenly realize, "That didn't make any sense at all." I've made logical jumps in sermons that, when thinking back on what I said, I realize that I didn't connect the dots, for example - you know, I say point A and point D but don't make reference to B or C...sigh.

But usually it's TV or movies - and the website has all kind of examples of that like**:

In A Christmas Story, why didn't the powers-that-be use hot water to get Flick's tongue off the flagpole?

**(so, you have to click the link on "It Just Bugs Me" to get to the Fridge Logic examples - and there's hundreds)

Heh - Fridge Logic.

Then there's Fridge Brilliance: when, all of a sudden, you realize something brilliant - like this flash of insight into the TV show House:

House and Wilson = Holmes and Watson. House is hooked on Vicodin; Holmes, on cocaine. They both can't resist a good mystery, and always assumed that someone - or everyone! - was lying. But the best hint is in plain sight in some many episodes: House lives in apartment 221B. Holmes' abode? 221B Baker Street. Can't believe it took me well into the third season to get it.

Or then there's moments of Fridge Horror:

Remember, at the racetrack in Cars? The cars are sentient and are just like humans, right? That means those are body parts flying all around.

Or:

One Looney Tunes short had Bugs pull out a book called "100 Ways to Cook a Duck" and reading from it to encourage Elmer to shoot Daffy instead of him. Daffy responds by pulling out a book called "100 Ways to Cook a Rabbit". It gets creepy when you realize Daffy pulled if from Bugs' rabbit hole. In short, Bugs has a book about cooking his own kind...