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Back to the Future
"It's About Time"
Back to the Future: The Game Episode 1
Telltale Games
Written by: Mike Stemmle and Andy Hartzell
Story Consultant: Bob Gale
Directed by: Dennis Lenart
Released:
December 22, 2010 |
The inexplicably intact DeLorean time
machine shows up in 1986, leading to the mystery of Doc's
whereabouts.
Read the story
summary at
Futurepedia
Watch the
video playthrough by Domstercool at YouTube
Notes from the Back to the Future chronology
This episode opens on May 14, 1986 and journeys to June 13,
1931.
Didja Know?
Back to the Future: The Game was a
video game produced by Telltale Games in five episodes released
from December 2010 to June 2011. The story takes place about 8
months after Marty returns to his own time at the end of
Back to the Future Part III.
Christopher Lloyd reprises his role as Doc Brown, providing the
character's voice. The other characters are mostly different
actors than the ones seen in the films. AJ LoCascio does a
particularly good imitation of Michael J. Fox's voice.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Marty McFly
Doc Brown
Einstein
Lorraine McFly
George McFly
Biff Tannen
Jimmy (mentioned only)
Edna Strickland
Stanford Strickland (mentioned only)
Jack (mentioned only)
Diane (mentioned only)
Tiff Tannen (mentioned only)
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (mentioned only)
Carl Sagan (an alias used by Doc in 1931)
Danny Parker, Sr.
Matches
Cue Ball Donnely
Mayor "Gentleman" Jack Thomas (mentioned only)
Irving "Kid" Tannen
Arthur "Artie" McFly
Judge Erhardt Brown
teenage Emmett Brown
Hampton (Brown family butler)
Didja Notice?
1986
During Marty's dream of temporal experiment number one, the
dialog is almost the same, with some additions, to the
dialog heard in the original scene in
Back to the Future.
In the dream, when Doc puts Einstein in the DeLorean and
fastens the seatbelt, there is no seatbelt! Doc makes the
motions of fastening a seatbelt and the click sound of the
buckle is heard, but no belt is seen. I guess seatbelts are
expensive to render in CG! Of course, since it's a dream, we can
chalk this up to surrealism.
In the dream, the Robinson's department store seen in the
background at the mall parking lot in
Back to the Future
is here called Rubarbison's and the JCPenney store is
JPPinney.
The top of Doc's tool box has a label reading "TOOL BOX" on
the top.
Doc's notebook has "Emmett Brown" embossed on the cover.
Marty has some different posters hanging in his room than he
did in
Back to the Future:
Frankenstein, Weird Science, and Miami
Vice. These are all entertainment properties of
Universal Studios, which also produced the
Back to the Future
films. He also has a "Greetings from the Moon" postcard
pinned up; presumably it's a novelty postcard, but maybe Doc
brought it back from the future and Marty got a hold of it
at some point?
Marty has several issues of Reference Quarterly (RQ)
magazine, a copy of which was seen in
Back to the Future.
Marty has the framed photo of himself and Doc standing next
to the Courthouse Clock in 1885 that Doc gave him at the end
of
Back to the Future
Part III sitting on his nightstand. How did he
explain the photo to his family? I suppose he'd tell them
it's a novelty photo they took at a studio or amusement park
somewhere.
Doc's lab has a stack of four volumes of the Collected
Works of Jules Verne.
The camera pan through Doc's laboratory shows the makeshift
model of Hill Valley that Doc made back in 1955, to
demonstrate to Marty how his return trip to the future would
be carried out, is still in the lab in 1985!
The clocks seen in Doc's lab here are a mix of those seen at the
beginning of
Back to the Future
and new ones not seen before. When did Doc have time to
modify his clock collection if he's been "gone" since taking
off in the time train with his family eight months ago? Also,
the giant amplifier that Marty essentially blew up in
Back to the Future
is also now seen intact! Are we going to learn that Doc
snuck back into 1985/6 and cleaned up his lab?
The bank is selling off Doc Brown's estate and the city
plans to build a parking garage on the land.
At the estate sale, Biff tries on Doc's mind-reading helmet,
though he doesn't know what it is. He has balanced a couple
of beer cans in the framework of the device while he drinks
a third. Maybe he is considering modifying it into a beer
helmet.
Biff is wearing an Adods sweatsuit that is essentially
identical to the
Adidas sweatsuit he wore at the end of
Back to the Future.
Marty turns on the TV set in Doc's lab and we hear someone
speaking from it in a robotic voice. It is probably meant to
be Dr. Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), a world-renown
theoretical physicist who spoke on many subjects, including
the possibility of time travel. The voice here asks, "Does
nature contrive it so that even with a time machine, you
can't intervene to prevent your own conception, for
example?" This, of course, goes back to Marty's own
conundrum in
Back to the Future.
A printout on tractor-feed paper is seen on a clipboard in
Doc's lab. It has capacitor discharge figures on it. The
header printed at the top reads:
UC BERKELEY PHYSICS DEPT.
USER: DR EMMETT BROWN
TEMPORAL DYNAMICS MODEL
Doc was seen to be a teacher at
CalTech
in
"Looking for a Few Good Scientists" before being pulled
into the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government. Maybe he
worked at
Berkeley for a time afterward?
Marty finds his
Erlewine Chiquita travel guitar in Doc's lab and saves
it before it goes up for sale. This is the mini-electric
guitar he blew out the giant amplifier with at the beginning
of
Back to the Future.
As Marty is about to play the Chiquita guitar on the amp,
Biff laughs at him and says, "Hey, look, it's Chuck
Butthead!" He is referring to Chuck Berry, whom Marty
emulated when he played Chuck's song "Johnny B. Goode" at
the 1955 Enchantment Under the Sea dance in
Back to the Future
(though Biff doesn't know that).
In Doc's notebook, Marty finds a sheet of "to do" notes for
the date of October 25, 1985, which was the day Doc was
prepping his time travel experiment seen at the beginning of
Back to the Future.
Included in the notes is "Bullet-Proof Vest!!!"
The red sticker seen on the front of the time circuits box
is seen here to read "Dr. E. Brown Enterprises" and has "ON"
and "OFF" printed at either end to indicate the position of
the circuits' switch.
After sniffing the woman's shoe found in the DeLorean,
Einstein leads Marty to Courthouse Square, where the owner
of the shoe, Mr. Strickland's sister, Edna, resides in an
apartment next to A1 Liquors on one side and Starbase Zero
arcade on the other.
Marty wonders if Jimmy has fixed the Wild Gunman
video game at the Starbase Zero arcade. Marty played a quick
round of Wild Gunman at the Cafe 80s in 2015 in
Back to the Future Part II.
Edna tells Marty he's making her miss Merv. She is referring
to the Merv Griffin Show (often popularly known as
just Merv), a talk show that ran in various
timeslots throughout its run from 1962-1986.
Edna has a copy of 1984 by George Orwell sitting on
a table in her apartment, a novel
in which a totalitarian, repressive regime rules over most
of the world. This is a foreshadowing of the world Edna will
propagate with her time alterations later in the game.
Even after Marty enters her apartment to return her shoe,
Edna continues to yell at young people out the window
through her bullhorn. At one point, she yells, "Jack!
Diane! I know what you're doing behind that tree!" This
is a nod to the 1982 John Mellencamp song "Jack & Diane",
which features the lyrics, "Jacky say, 'Hey Diane let's run
off--Behind a shady tree--Dribble off those Bobbie
Brooks--Let me do what I please." (Bobbie Brooks is a low
end brand of women's clothing.)
The Tiff Tannen mentioned by Edna may be the Tiffany who
makes an appearance (sans last name) in
"Continuum Conundrum" Part 1.
Valley Video sits on the site formerly occupied by a
speakeasy during the Prohibition era. Prohibition refers to
the ban on alcohol production, importation, transportation,
and sale in the U.S. from 1920-1933.
Edna refers to her brother, Vice Principal Strickland, as
Gerald, the name he has in the novelization of
Back to the Future,
but he is generally referred to as Stanford S. Strickland
elsewhere.
Edna says that her grandfather, Marshal James Strickland,
was gunned down by Mad Dog Tannen over a hundred years ago
and Marty remarks that's not how he remembers it. Marty met
Marshal Strickland in
Back to the Future
Part III, and the Marshal was still alive as
far as was known when Marty left 1885. The marshal also
turns up alive and well in the 1890s in a few of the comic
books.
Edna's photo of her grandfather depicts him in what
appears to be a U.S. Cavalry uniform. He must have been
an officer in the army before his time as a U.S. Marshal.

Doc used the alias of Carl Sagan in 1931. The name refers to
real world astronomer and astrophysicist, Dr. Carl Sagan
(1934-1996). The real Carl Sagan told Zemeckis and Gale that
he thought
Back to the Future Part II
was "the best movie ever made based on the science of time
travel." This may be why Sagan gets such an homage in the
video game. (Later, in
"Get Tannen", Doc Brown, after defeating Kid Tannen,
even says, "That's what you get for messing with Carl
Sagan.")
When Marty accidentally knocks
over a stack of Edna's collection of every issue of the
Hill Valley Telegraph since 1871, the headlines seen on
the various copies are all the same! That is, "LOCAL
SHOPKEEPER ROBBED BY ZOMBIES"...we see at least six copies
of the same issue! The zombie reference seems to be another foreshadowing of
the 1984-esque timeline that will be created under
the control of Edna in later episodes.
Edna appears to like cats, even though we don't see one in
her apartment. She wears a sweater with a cat silhouette on
it and has three cat trophies for articles written for
Cat Lovers Quarterly on a shelf. Cat Lovers
Quarterly appears to be a fictitious magazine.
Marty sets the DeLorean to take him to June 13, 1931 to
rescue Doc from his arrest for arson of a speakeasy.
1931
The slogan of the Hill Valley Police Department is "Serve
and Protect".
The license plate on the cop car in 1931 is CA 5A7109. The
gangster shooting at the cop car is using a Thompson
submachine gun, commonly referred to as a Tommy gun.
The cop driving the cop car is Officer Danny Parker, Sr., as
revealed later. He will become the grandfather of Marty's
girlfriend, Jennifer.
In 1931, Marty hides the DeLorean behind a billboard for the
"car of the future". It would seem to be the same billboard
(with a different advertisement) that he hid the DeLorean
behind in
Back to the Future,
judging by the "Hill Valley 2 Miles" sign next to it.
In 1931, the Western Auto store in Courthouse Square is
Eastern Auto Sales instead. This is, of course, a fictitious
company.
Posters for the re-election of Mayor Jack Thomas are seen
throughout the Hill Valley of 1931. Possibly, Jack Thomas is
the father of later Hill Valley mayor Red Thomas, whose
re-election campaign is seen in
Back to the Future.
At the Town Theater in 1931, the film Frankenstein
starring James Clive, Doris Evans, Edward Clark, and David
Wright is showing. This is a fictitious version of the film
with fictitious actors, though the names are a scramble of
the names of the actual actors in the 1931 classic film:
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, and
Edward van Sloan.
In 1931, the Elite Barber Shop of 1955 was the O'Malley &
Sons Barber Shop. The 1955 site of the Bluebird Motel is the
Majestic Arms Inn in 1931, a hostel for the homeless and
others who need a place to stay overnight (the comic book
adaptation of "Get Tannen" gives the address of the Majestic
Arms as 821 Main Street). The Sisters of
Mercy Soup Kitchen is seen located where Lou's Cafe will be.
The Law Offices of Gale, Zemeckis, and Fine is seen when
Edna Strickland approaches Marty in 1931 in the office that
will be Ask Mr. Foster in 1955. Gale and Zemeckis are the
co-creators of
Back to the Future.
I am unaware of any connection to a person named Fine with
the franchise.
Lamont's House of Ermine is seen next to the law offices.
Depending on what the game player chooses, Marty uses the alias
of Sonny Crockett (from Miami Vice), Harry Callahan
(the Clint Eastwood character in the Dirty Harry
movies), or Michael Corleone (a mob boss in the
Godfather films) in 1931.
On the sidewalk, a placard for the Essex Theater advertises
Shark coming soon. As far as I can tell, this is a
fictitious film, meant to be a nod to Jaws 19 seen
playing at the Holomax Theater (formerly the Essex) in 2015
in
Back to the Future Part II.
Edna works as a journalist for the Hill Valley Herald
in 1931. The paper normally seen in BTTF stories is the Hill
Valley Telegraph, so the Herald must have been a
competitor. Whether the paper still exists in 1986 is not
revealed.
Hill Valley Stationers has a poster for the Sober Society
taped to its front window with the slogan, "LISTEN TO YOUR
MOTHERS--STAY SOBER!" The Sober Society appears to be a
fictitious organization for the time, likely inspired by the
Temperance League (now known as the
American Council
on Addiction and Alcohol Problems).
Marty enters the Bank, but exits again as he doesn't have
any money, nor an account, in 1931. Notice that the front sign
indicates it was formerly the Bank of Italy, but "Italy" has
been scratched over. The Bank of Italy was an American bank
founded in San Francisco which became
Bank of America in 1930.
Biff's to-be-father, Irving "Kid" Tannen is introduced as a
local gang boss in 1931. In 1936, he is known as Thomas
Tannen in
"Biff to the Future" Part 5.
Possibly, he started going by Thomas Tannen after a stint in
prison for his crimes here in
Back to the Future: The Game,
to try to shed his criminal stigma. Maybe his full name was
Irving Thomas Tannen, but that is unconfirmed.
Marty's grandfather (George's father) is seen to be Artie
McFly. He looks and sounds a lot like George.
Kid Tannen remarks to Artie that the D.A.'s throwing around
subpoenas like Babe Ruth and Artie retorts that he doesn't
think Ruth is a pitcher anymore. Babe Ruth (1895-1948) was a
major league baseball player who achieved early fame as a
pitcher for the Boston Red Sox but went on to become a power
hitter and outfielder for the New York Yankees. He did some
back-and-forth between outfielding and pitching in his
career, so it's hard to say that Artie is exactly right
here.
Marty asks Doc how the DeLorean time machine could exist
considering it was smashed to smithereens by a train at the
end of
Back to the Future
Part III. Doc explains that it was a
temporal duplicate created when the DeLorean was struck by
lightning in 1955 (in
Back to the Future Part II).
At that moment, the time circuits were in flux (as we saw at
the time) and Doc and the DeLorean were sent back in time 70
years to 1885...but a duplicate DeLorean was also sent
forward in time 70 years to 2025. Doc discovered this during
one of his trips to the future and had to prevent Biff from
getting a hold of it and using it to vandalize the
timestream. The problem with this explanation is, if a
duplicate of the DeLorean was created, wouldn't a duplicate
of Doc have been created as well, considering he was inside
the car when it was struck? Is there another Doc running
around? Was the duplicate Doc killed at some point in 2025,
maybe by Biff?
Doc tries to reassure Marty that telling teen Emmett how to
balance his equation of Ivanov's Conundrum won't mess up the
timestream unless it turns out the universe is nothing more
than a holographic illusion created by the interplay of
subatomic particles on a vast 2-dimensional membrane. Doc is
referring to the holographic principle of string theory,
which suggests the universe may be only 2-dimensional with
the third dimension being only a projection of information
inscribed on the surface of its boundary, like the illusion
of three dimensions seen in a hologram.
The slogan on the Sisters of Mercy Soup Kitchen sign is
"Come for the Soup, Stay for the Salvation."
When Marty tries to convince teenage Emmet Brown in 1931
that he (Marty) is a scientist as well, Emmett challenges him to tell
him a science fact and Marty stumblingly responds, "Um...the
leg bone's connected to the thigh bone?" Marty seems to be
trying to quote from "Dem Bones", a spiritual song from the
early 20th Century about Ezekiel's visit to the Valley of
Dry Bones in the Bible. The actual line from the
song though is, "Knee bone connected to the thigh bone."
The phone number of the Brown residence in 1931 is Klondike
5-1038. In
Back to the Future,
Doc's number in 1955 is KLondike 5-4385.
Teen Emmett is heard to be muttering a scientific equation
he is having difficulty with. Doc recognizes it as Ivanov's
Conundrum and that young Emmett just needs to recognize that
H equals the Hamiltonian operator. Ivanov's Conundrum
appears to be a fictitious equation, but Hamiltonian
operators are a real concept in quantum mechanics, being the
sum of the kinetic energies and the potential energies for
all the particles in a system.
When teen Emmett mistakes Marty to be someone from the
U.S. patent office coming to see
him about his rocket-powered drill invention, Marty goes
with it and further prods Emmett to finish the prototype
drill tonight or the patent will have to be given to a
competing inventor named Dr. McCoy. Marty borrowed the name
from that of the chief
medical officer of the starship Enterprise in the
1966-1969 TV series
Star
Trek.
Teen Emmett worries that if they bother Kid Tannen, Tannen
could have them fitted for a Chicago overcoat. "Chicago
overcoat" is another slang term for "cement shoes", i.e.
weighing a body down with concrete in order to sink it to
the bottom of a body of water in order to dispose of the
body.
Kid Tannen has a stooge called Matches, just as his son Biff
will later have a stooge called Match. Is Match the son of
Matches?
When Matches polishes Kid's shoes, Kid complains that he got
Kiwi all over his socks.
Kiwi is
an Australian brand of shoe polish popular in the United
States.
When Marty steals Artie's hat from Kid, Kid chases him and
winds up stepping in some dog poop. Kid then heads for the
shoe shine stand again, calling for Al. Presumably, Al is
the proprietor of the stand, though we never see him.
Teen Emmett tells Marty he used to play sandlot football,
where he was known as "the Streak".
When Cue Ball tells Matches he's spicing up the soup at the
soup kitchen with his secret recipe, Matches tells him,
"Listen, this ain't the Savoy and we ain't here to feed
these bozos no fancy soup!" The
Savoy is a luxury hotel and restaurant in London,
England.
Cue Ball refers to his special soup as "scrole ribollita".
I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean, as it seems to
be a simple cabbage soup. "Ribollita" is a Tuscan bread
soup.
Cue Ball defends his soup with the remark, "All I've got to
work with is this two-bit soup-in-a-barrel and a spice rack
that hasn't been restocked since the Coolidge
administration." Calvin Coolidge was the president of the
United States from 1923-1929.
Edna mentions various locations in Hill Valley where she
delivers soup from the soup kitchen: Hill Valley Orphanage,
Saint Francis Xavier Ranch for Unwanted Children, Foggy
Mountain Home for the Incurably Insane, and the Shady Acres
Rest Home. Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) was a Catholic
priest and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
Marty volunteers to help Enda deliver soup, saying he
donates a lot of time to charities like the Mario Brothers.
The Mario Brothers are video game characters (plumbers Mario
and Luigi) who've appeared in a number of games published by
Nintendo.
When Marty volunteers to let the Stay Sober Society meet at
the Brown residence, teen Emmett exclaims, "What in the name
of Thomas Alva Edison do you think you're doing?" Thomas
Edison (1847-1931) was an inventor and businessman,
producing many electric products, including the light bulb.
Teen Emmett remarks that Albert Einstein was a patent
officer. This is true. Einstein worked for the Swiss Patent
Office 1902-1909.
Teen Emmett's rocket-powered drill runs on 190-proof grain
alcohol.
Valley Bakery, Hill Valley Apartments, and Hill Billiards
are seen. The bakery and billiards locations are in the
locations where A1 Liquors and Starbase Zero were seen in
1986.
Marty tells Artie that he and teen Emmett have come to offer
him a subscription to the Accountant Weekly. This
is a fictitious periodical.
Kid Tannen remarks, "They say rats always return to the
scene of the sinking ship."
Teen Emmett's lab has a ping-pong table in it on which he's
placed some of his experimental apparatus. In
Back to the Future,
the model of Courthouse Square the Doc builds in 1955 is set
up on what appears to be a ping-pong table.
In teen Emmett's lab, a 1931 calendar with the image of a
helicopter is seen hanging on the wall. In "Double Visions",
we can see the calendar was provided courtesy of MacPherson
Instruments. MacPherson Instruments appears to be a
fictitious
company.
Teen Emmett uses the epithet, "Sweet fancy Moses!" As far as
I can ascertain, this was first uttered in the 1996 "The
Little Kick" episode of the 1990-1996 TV series Seinfeld.
A gauge in teen Emmett's lab measures gas in flavens.
"Flaven" is not a real world unit of measurement, but does
appear in the geek-centric-character films of Jerry Lewis
and the Professor Frink episodes of the long-running animated TV
series The Simpsons.
Maybe the gauge was provided
by the aforementioned MacPherson Instruments!
While distilling the fuel they need for the rocket-powered
drill, teen Emmett exclaims, "Eureka!" Eureka is an
exclamation derived from Greek representing a personal
celebration of having made a discovery. The exclamation is
attributed to the aforementioned Archimedes.
Teen Emmett has a copy of Modern Inventions Monthly magazine
in his lab, with a cover story about the water engine (the
title is partially obscured here, but it is seen fully in
"Double Visions"). This
is a fictitious magazine, though water engines (similar to
steam engines, though with less pressure) have been in use
for hundreds of years.
The exhaust vents of Teen Emmett's rocket-powered drill
resemble the vents on the back of Doc's DeLorean time
machine.

The license plate on the paddy wagon in which Tannen abducts
Doc is CA 8T3024.
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Notes from
the comic book adaptation published by IDW
Back to the Future: Citizen Brown #1
IDW
Adapted by Bob Gale & Erik Burnham
Script by
Erik Burnham
Based on the Telltale Games video game written by Bob
Gale, Michael Stemmle, Andy Hartzell, and Jonathan Straw
Art by Alan Robinson
Colors by Maria Santaolalla
Letters by Shawn Lee
Cover A by Alan Robinson
May 2016
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issue
summary at
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Additional characters in the comic not present in
the game episode
Jennifer Parker
Danny Parker, Jr. (mentioned only)
Didja Know?
Back to the Future: Citizen Brown was a
five-issue comic book adaptation of
Back to the Future: The Game. The
Citizen Brown title of the series is
borrowed from that of episode three of the game.
Didja Notice?
1986
The beginning of the story presented here alters the manner
in which Marty finds the errant DeLorean from how it is
presented in the game and includes Marty's girlfriend,
Jennifer Parker, in the discovery, but does not include
Einstein.
In the comic, the errant DeLorean arrives on May 15, 1986.
In the episode, it was May 14. Also, the LAST TIME DEPARTED
display on the time console is operating properly and tells
Marty that it came from August 18, 1931. In the episode,
that display was not working and Marty eventually learns
from Edna Strickland that the date it must have come back
from was June 13, 1931, the day the Hill Valley speakeasy
burned down.
Seeing the DeLorean again, Jennifer tells Marty there's no
way she's ever getting into that car again.
The labels on the time display of the DeLorean are presented
in the red, green, and yellow colors of the three banks of
digital readouts. But the labels should be just white
lettering on black background.
On page 4, Marty visits the Hill Valley Public Library. In
"Emmett Brown Visits the Future",
Doc visited the Hill Valley Public Library in 2015.
At the library, Marty is looking for copies of the Hill
Valley Register from 1931, but the library doesn't have
them due to a fire in the 1960s. The paper normally seen in
BTTF stories is the Hill Valley Telegraph, so the
Register must have been a competitor. Whether the
Register still publishes in 1986 is not revealed.
If 1931 editions of the Register were lost, did
Marty check for the Telegraph? Or for the
Herald for that matter, the paper Edna tells Marty she
works for in the episode??
In panel 2 of page 4, a book called The Lost Squad
is seen on the librarian's counter. This was the title of a
graphic novel illustrated by the artist of this mini-series,
Alan Robinson.
Marty's narration reveals that Edna was the older sister of
Vice Principal Strickland.
Edna supposedly has a complete collection of the Hill
Valley Register, but the newspaper she pulls out for
Marty about the murder of "Carl Sagan" in 1931 is the Hill Valley Telegraph.
It seems like the writers of both the game and the comic
adaptation were getting mixed up about the name of Hill
Valley's major newspaper and it wasn't corrected in all
instances.
When Marty says, "What the heck is that?" on page 6, Edna
tells him to watch his language.
Page 7 reveals that Marty got the old clothes he put on before
going to 1931 were old clothes of Jennifer's dad's. But, in
"Get Tannen!", Marty says he got them at a costume shop at
the mall.
1931
The car of the future seen on the billboard
on page 8 is very different from the one seen in the video
game. |
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Car of the future in game |
Car of the future in comic |
Marty uses the alias "Don Corleone" in 1931. Don Corleone was
the title of the leader of the Corleone crime family in the
Godfather movies. In the game episode, Marty uses
the name Michael Corleone, who was the Don of the family in
the movies when his father, Vito Corleone, retired.
Doc does not tell how the current DeLorean came to be,
though he does say it is a temporal duplicate in the episode
itself.
On page 13, Marty offers to help teen Emmett with delivering
the subpoena. But, Emmett never mentioned that he was on his
way to deliver one! (In the game episode, Emmett does
mention the subpoena ahead of Marty's offer.)
Marty tells Cue Ball that he works for Robert DeNiro,
implying DeNiro is a gang boss. Robert DeNiro is an
Italian-American actor known for his crime roles in several
films directed by Martin Scorsese.
On page 16, Marty tells Cue Ball that he wouldn't like
DeNiro when he's not happy. This may be a bit of a play on
the 1977-1982 TV series The Incredible Hulk, based
on the Marvel Comics character, in the opening titles of
which Dr. David Banner said every week, "Mr.
McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm
angry."
On page 17, Kid Tannen has a book or magazine called
Pulp laying on his desk. This is likely a fictitious title
for the time, meant as a reference to the cheap "pulp"
magazines and books published from 1896 to the 1950s.
On page 19, the menu board at the soup kitchen reads:
Hot Soup
Hot Water
Hot Soup with Water
Hot Water with Soup
On page 22, teen Emmett lends Marty his bicycle to get to
the jail from the Brown residence. In the game episode,
Marty steals Edna's bike when she stops by the jail to
interview the chief of police for the newspaper.
Memorable Dialog
if it ever fell into the wrong hands.mp3
does nature contrive it.mp3
what's a flux catheter?.mp3
why couldn't Doc have invented a dog translator?.mp3
Jack and Diane.mp3
your generation doesn't hold a copyright on moral depravity,
you know.mp3
since the day it was founded.mp3
gangsters ruled the town.mp3
the end of the universe.mp3
rocket-powered drill.mp3
holographic illusion.mp3
that's a busy three hours.mp3
Dr.
McCoy.mp3
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