Something’s Gotta Be Done About Your Kids

[Andrew]

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http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917317

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[pfm]

> Never gonna happen

Don’t count your rabbits till they…go at it like rabbits with another rabbit and produce some more rabbits that ‘hatch’ (are born). And don’t put all your smegs in one basket, or your fingers in the jelly, nelly, because Zemeckis could STILL make it with Crispin Glover in a role so there.

[p2p_productions]

> Never gonna happen

Hey, if there’s money to be made… :-))

>Zemeckis could STILL make it with Crispin Glover in a role so there.

Crispin Glover for Judge Doom Jr.

Also, completely forgot to mention this, but yours truly was actually featured in one of those sci-fi mags, sat in a replica BTTF DeLorean not so long back. The pic’s about as big as a postage stamp, but it’s a fact.

Now, I’ve just gotta remember what the mag was called…

[pfm]

Horse & Hound?

[Kris ‘Drivaaar’ Carter]

Fascist Dictator Monthly?

[Jo]

Mr Bull’s Big Book of Ladybirds?

[p2p_productions]

Morris Dancer Monthly?

[Andrew]

Jump Leads?

[Danny Stephenson]

A Match Made in Space?

[Ben Paddon]

Grays.

Sports.

Almanac.

[Danny Stephenson]

Funny. I never thought it would be you *cocks gun*

[p2p_productions]

Yeah well, Danny, you’re forgetting one thing… WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!

*throws matchbook tray*

[Ben Paddon]

Go ahead! Jump! The suicide’ll be nice and neat!

[Kris ‘Drivaaar’ Carter]

Sports statistics… interesting subject… homework, Tannen?

[si]

‘Ooh La La’??!

[peas_and_corn]

Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?

[pfm]

Does it piss anyone else off whe

[Danny Stephenson]

YES IT DOES

[Seb Patrick]

Why don’t you make like a tree, and get out of here?

[Danny Stephenson]

It’s ‘screen door on a submarine‘ you dork…

[pfm]

Lone Pine Mall.

[Seb Patrick]

It’s already mutated into human form!

[p2p_productions]

[pfm]

IMO the only real flaw in the entire series (from a non-technical pov) is that his family are way too ‘perfect’ in a broad obvious way when he comes back in BTTF1. I reckon they should have been pretty much the same APART from the Biff situation. Just a short scene showing George telling Biff to stuff it would have been OK. Also, a slow pan toward the wall and we see the framed covers of several George McFly novels (that’s right, several, it’s always annoyed me that it’s just his first being published, it’s not right!). Maybe don’t even include that. Have Marty ask him about his writing and then Marty tells him he should try and get them published. Yeah it would be too slow when you just want to get to the end at that stage, and you want to evoke that feeling of everything being great, but I think stuff like that would have made for better character moments. Oh fuck off.

There’s just something a little off about Marty’s family being perfect, him getting the 4×4 and everything. It kind of goes against the whole ‘your future is what you make it’ idea. It’s a good job that the Doc turns up and they go off in the DeLorean otherwise it would have been way too cheesy and easy an ending, him driving off in the 4×4 with Jennifer.

[Pete Part Three]

The only thing I would ever contemplate changing about BTTF, is the line “Lorraine, if you ever have a kid who acts that way, I’ll disown you”.

[pfm]

I would cut or at least change when Marty asks for a ‘Tab’ and then a ‘Pepsi Free’ at the cafe. Neither reference works that well because, for a start, does the Tab drink even exist outside of America? and Pepsi Free is long-defunct as a name. It used to confuse me that he was asking for a tab.

[ChrisM]

For some reason I interpreted ‘tab’ as ‘slate’. As in, put it on my slate… although that wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense either.

[Carlito]

Yeah, they used to sell Tab here.

[pfm]

> For some reason I interpreted ?tab? as ?slate?. As in, put it on my slate?

You mean as in ‘yeah Michael I’m just gonna get a Ginsters from the fridge, put it on the slate.’

The joke is that the guy thinks he means he wants to open a tab when Marty actually wants a Tab drink. Er, I think…

[Somebody]

> Yeah, they used to sell Tab here.

Wasn’t it some sort of clear coca-cola stuff? I have the vaguest of memories on the subject.

[Andrew]

> I would cut or at least change when Marty asks for a ?Tab? and then a ?Pepsi Free? at the cafe. Neither reference works that well because, for a start, does the Tab drink even exist outside of America? and Pepsi Free is long-defunct as a name.

But it wasn’t defunct when they made the film. It’s set in 1985. Why on Earth start editing things from films if they stop existing?! Pam Am is defunct, doesn’t mean we have to dump their commercial space travel stuff from 2001! (In fact, damn, 2001 didn’t come true at all – burn the movie!)

We had Tab Clear over here for a while. T’was nice, too. I have no problem with the whacky notion that an American kid order an American drink in America. Most countries don’t have ‘the Tube’, doesn’t mean you can’t mention it in a British film.

> The joke is that the guy thinks he means he wants to open a tab when Marty actually wants a Tab drink. Er, I think?

Yes, that is the joke.

[Jo]

I used to really like Tab Clear! Shame it disappeared :o( That is all.

[si]

I used to like Tab. But it wasn’t available over here when BTTF was first out, was it?

[Seb Patrick]

All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. Think I’ll order a Tab.

[JamesTC]

No time for that now, the computer’s starting.

[pfm]

Oh my god…they found me. I don’t know how but they found me. RUN FOR IT, MARTY! *rewind* Oh my god…they found me. I don’t know how but they found me. RUN FOR IT, MARTY!

Hang on a second. There’s another part that I always found confusing (really should stick to watching The One Show, shouldn’t I), when Marty is telling Doc how George laid out Biff, he says ‘he never picked a fight in his life!’ or something and the Doc asks ‘never?’ and there’s like a long pause for no reason as he looks at the photo. It’s been a while since I watched it but I don’t quite get that bit. If it means something please god someone explain it.

[Carlito]

Maybe it’s just to emphasise George’s youth at the time. Marty talking about him as if he’s a lot older than he is, still alien to a Doc who might still be skeptical about Marty’s claims of coming from the future?

Complete speculation, I don’t know, haven’t seen it for a while so can’t picture the scene.

[Pete Part Three]

It’s just to show that Doc is aware that the future will be changed slightly as a consequence of the fight that did not happen previously.

[Andrew]

> There?s another part that I always found confusing (really should stick to watching The One Show, shouldn?t I)

As Pete says, Marty’s caused his father to behave in a significantly different way, which Doc knows is likely to have implications for the future.

And now over to Gyles Brandreth with a report on the latest craze sweeping youth culture – the yo-yo.

[Seb Patrick]

Thanks, Andrew. Yes, it seems the kids are going wild for this latest craze, with its unique characteristic of being able to work in two distinct modes. In the first, you hold the string at the top and the shiny thing at the bottom. But the real selling point comes when you hold the shiny thing at the top, and the string at the bottom.

[si]

*applauds*

[Danny Stephenson]

Oh no! I dropped the Yo-yo, but that’s ok because it’s on a string that’s attached to the Yo-Yo.

[Jonathan Capps]

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo. Where’s my yo-yo?

[Ben Paddon]

Mother: What would you like for your birthday, son?
Child: I want a Yo-Yo, Ma.

[pfm]

> As Pete says, Marty?s caused his father to behave in a significantly different way, which Doc knows is likely to have implications for the future.

Yeah that’s sort of going to be it, but it just seems like a weird beat in the film for me, it’s almost as though Doc has some kind of other knowledge at that point.

[Seb Patrick]

Have just done the first part of a watching-all-three-films-athon, and two things jump out :

1. It’s never remarked upon that George, otherwise the lovable identifiable nerd, starts off as a peeping tom, is it?

2. At the end – “Yep, that Biff, what a character!” Yeah! Remember the time he tried to RAPE you?

Not that these are major things that in any way ruin a perfect film, but when you’ve seen it hundreds of times you start to notice stuff like that ;-)

[Seb Patrick]

>Yeah that?s sort of going to be it, but it just seems like a weird beat in the film for me, it?s almost as though Doc has some kind of other knowledge at that point.

Hmm, can’t say it comes off that way for me – it’s just that based on what’s already happened with Marty, the Doc seems to be aware that any sort of change like that will undoubtedly affect his future. But he seems to shrug it off with an “Ah well, can’t do anything about that now”.

[Pete Part Three]

>1. It?s never remarked upon that George, otherwise the lovable identifiable nerd, starts off as a peeping tom, is it?

Well, aside from his nervous twitch to the suggestion that he was “bird watching”. And I love that bit. You get the punchline to the joke before you get the opening line.

[Andrew]

> Well, aside from his nervous twitch to the suggestion that he was ?bird watching?.

“What Loraine? What?”

I like to think there’s a subtle suggestion that winning the love of Loraine changed the way George related to people, and specifically women. Original ’85 George – still a little sleazy. Revamped George – would never do such a thing again.

[Pete Part Three]

http://www.cracked.com/funny-454-back-to-future/

[pfm]

> ?What Loraine? What??

Lol, you beat me to quoting that. So brilliantly delivered. Also I really wish I could do George’s laugh, I don’t think I’d ever not use it. I’m gonna try and put it as my tone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wy4wq_lTbc

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