When Jerry came to Chris with the brilliant idea of comparing the tech of today to the technology portrayed in Back to the Future II, he says, “Why don’t we just watch all three?” Eureka! But wait… BTTF and BTTF3 have nothing to do with the theme of this episode.
Who the hell cares, it’s Back to the Future!
Stop right here if you haven’t had the privilege of watching all three. Especially all of you who saw them as children and maybe didn’t care for the sequels. Take these words from Jerry when he says you must watch this film as the pseudo-adult you are, it-holds-up.
Back to the Future
The Power of Love or Back in Time by Huey Lewis and The News
The Power of Love plays during the opening sequence with Marty McFly skateboarding through the town in a mad rush to get to school. Jerry wonders why when Back In Time is the more the appropriate choice; it’s concept the movie is predicated upon. Or is it [The Power of Love] a precursor to the mood and message of the film trilogy? Chris believes this was established this film, but Jerry begs to differ. The idea of the power of love will take precedence, yes, but in a later film to which Jerry has a theory surrounding the correlation between Back to the Future and Chris Nolan’s Interstellar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkAVfsw5xSQ
Doc and McFly
It’s always great to have that mentor in your life to whom you look up to and admire. For McFly it was Doc Brown and not his father, the passive aggressive life settler who never took risks and always questioned his intuition. Doc Brown was the complete opposite, a visionary whose ideas manifest as pure excitement… a genuine rush. A man who lived by the code that to fail is only is perfect.
The Arrogant Punk
McFly’s aggressive behavior come into question as Chris attempts to challenge Jerry on the nature of that chip Marty carries on his shoulder.
Back to the Future Part II
Marty and Doc travel forward to Oct 21,2015 with Elizabeth Schue now replacing Claudia Wells as Marty’s girlfriend, Jennifer Parker.
We Don’t Need Roads.
The movie starts out hitting the same marks as the first and gradually becomes it’s own movie.
Bionic Biff annoyed Jerry. A kink in his armor is Chris’s reasoning for Biff’s forced high pitch. Doc mentions Biff isn’t normal and may have many screws loose but this doesn’t take away the fact that they all, even M.J. Fox, sound ridiculous as their younger selves.
Future Tech
Biff’s Bionic Limbs – it’s a wonder what scientist and doctors are doing with prosthetics
Hover Boards – Impossible to keep your balance without sure death.
Hover Jeeps
Auto Lace high-top sneakers
Size Adjustable clothing – Young Marty is for some reason very sloppily dressed and Jerry hates this attribute of the f#$k it teen spirit.
Holograph poster cases and theater marquees – awesome but too expensive to maintain.
Depiction of the Future
Style is key when depicting life in the future tense.
Tech Jerry Missed
Chris and Adam mention the technological advances Jerry missed
Dehydrated Pizza and humidity-based oven – Adam loves this idea of a pizza cooked in less than 30 secs.
Home security system – eye, facial, thumb print recognition in every home with no additional cost to the homeowner
Flat screen Televis-ons
Floating garden beds
The 80’s Cafe
JAC recreate the 80’s nostalgia cafe with 2K Cafe: The true Y2K experience. Get plunged in to darkness and fear as the night reaches it’s pinnacle and the ceases to exist.
80’s Cafe, BTTF2
Biff Changes the Future
California looks like Detroit today… sad. Marty’s principal threatens to shoot off his wee-wee for stealing his newspaper.
Back to the Future Part III
“Clint Eastwood didn’t where anything like this.” In this scene, back in 1985, a poster of “Revenge of the Creature” hangs on the wall behind Marty.
Creature was Eastwoods first appearance in a motion picture.
“That’s a baby’s toy” Young Kid played by Elijah Wood in BTTF2.
Growth of McFly
“Don’t call me chicken.” Chris previously stated that McFly overcame his vulnerability in BTTF, but Jerry set him straight. In BTTF3, we watched as McFly uses thought and reason to defeat his foe while Doc is controlled by his emotions towards a Lady of the West.
The Plated Vest
Doc uses a bulletproof vest to save him from the Iranians in BTTF.
Biff used to plate to save him from a gunshot.
Marty uses a metal plate in a gun battle with Old West Biff.
The Power of Love Goes Full Circle
Spoiler Alert
Love over logic. Is love that much of a force that it can defeat all logic, scientific or otherwise? Christopher Nolan addresses the very nature of this question in Interstellar with Anne Hatheway’s character, Brand. Brand, a scientist, puts all her chips on love in a bet that could eventually kill her and her shipmates. Doc Brown becomes so head over heels with Clara Clayton that he becomes reluctant to understand the consequences his actions. He has already altered the future by saving Clara and now if he stays, he would never return home. It was at that moment in the entire trilogy where Marty was the logical person. He had to remind Doc that logic in this instance must overcome the emotions he has for someone who is, in all actuality, a dead woman.
The Fold
Fact is: We only referenced the Jetson towards the end of the recording and with very little interest. Not that The Jetson’s weren’t important but we just got so wrapped up into the Back to the Future Trilogy that we didn’t have time two embellish more upon that subject without losing focus and rambling on for an hour more.