So, do you think George McFly ever wondered why his son Marty looked *just like * the guy his wife was all hot for back in high school? And she even gave him the same name. It’s especially curious as Marty was not their first child and was probably born quite a few years after that other Marty disappeared on the night of the Under the Sea dance.
Cuz, sometimes I wonder about it.
I believe they named him Marty as a tribute to him as he was leaving them at the dance.
Marty: Right, George. Well, good luck you guys. Oh, one other thing, if
you guys ever have kids and one of them when he’s eight years old, accidentally sets fire to the living room rug, be easy on him.
George: Okay.
Loraine: Marty, such a nice name.
Technically Marty is supposed to look like George, since he is son afterall. Marty back in time should of looked somewhat like young George. Fast forward to the future when Marty is born and grows up lookling like the old marty who looks like the young george, thus not really setting flares. Besides he was puss, he’d probably lie to himself and say young marty doesn’t look anything like old marty.
I know you’re mostly joking when you ask, but what the heck, I’ll throw my answer in there anyway…
My answer is: Do you really think you’d remember what someone looked 20 - 25 years ago that you only knew for a week? Furthermore, I think it would one thing if this person was suddenly to appear, but the fact that it’s a face you’ve seen develop since it was a baby. I don’t see how you could ever make the connection.
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I thought the same thing, but in retrospect it’s really not that unrealistic. If I met someone 20 years ago and just knew them for a few days, it seems unlikely to me that I’d remember their face all that well.
You also have to bear in mind that Marty McFly grew up with his parents. It’s not like he just walked in the door at age 17 looking like Michael J. Fox; they watched him grow from a baby to an adult, his appearance changing slowly into the man he’d become. That long process would likely reinforce his image in their minds to such an extent that it would push out their memory of what “Calvin Klein” looked like, and they’d remember “Calvin” as looking different.
I’m sure Lorraine remembers what “Calvin” looked like. Although that would be even creepier for her since she* knows* that she’s been faithful. That could mess with her head big time.
Incidentally, Marty was their second son, and third child.
That’s the line that always gets me. I have an image of older George dousing the living room rug, looking at eight-year-old Marty, and thinking “Damn, now that’s weird.”
Maybe George and Lorraine (the second time around) do know that their kid Marty is the same “Calvin” that they knew for a week in the fall of 1955, and they’ve been waiting for the weekend when their kid woke up one morning weirdly disoriented, so they could play with his head!
That “sets fire to the carpet” line always makes me wince. Marty, get out of there! I can appreciate he wants to delay his departure, so he can take one last look at his parents, young and happy as he has never known them – but don’t give away who you are, kid! Marty never was college material, though.
My question is: why does George’s first novel look so cheesy, like something put out by the Science Fiction Book of the Month Club? A girl and a space alien holding hands, in 1985? And why did it take him so long to get published, if he’s smart and has been scribbling away since the '50s?
You know, love him or hate him, you gotta admit Crispin Glover stole the show.
And also … when George sees Star Trek and Star Wars for the first time, does nothing click in his head?
I think maybe we’re all looking too hard at this. 
I agree. Take for example: I’m 36. My nephew whom I’ve watched grow up his entire life is now 18. Would I look at him now, 18 years since I was in high school and think "Wow, my nephew looks like that guy who I met in high school who was around for about a week. Even if he did I would think it was just a coincidence.
Maybe, but how well? If present-day Lorraine thinks “Calvin” looks like Marty, she might also dismiss the resembalance as her nostalgiac memory playing tricks on herself.
Odds are good that George and Lorraine forgot that suggestion inside of a week. “Oh, that Calvin, what a weird sense of humor.”
Was that supposed to be his first novel, or his latest? I thought it was the latter.
Agree about the cheesy cover, though.
I’m pretty sure we hear Lorraine coo “Your first novel!” when the box of books is opened.
One can presume that he spent a couple of decades writing short stories for magazines.
Even weirder, will George and Lorriane think they met the Calvin Klein? Or why have the McFlys and and Baineses been interbreeding for over a hundred years? 
Or that when Doc and Clara came back to the future with their kids that one of them would grow up to be the father of Doc :eek:
WTF? 
Where did you get that? Wasn’t Doc’s father German?