It does? I didn’t watch the parts about the casino industry.
Or Galaxy Quest.
Ah, but he would identify with believing The Historical Documents…
“Surely you don’t think Gilligan’s Island really happened?”
“Those poooor peeeeople…”
Man, it must suck to have culture peak when you’re 8. I bet you and Starving Artist would have a lot to talk about.
Let’s add mangeorge in. He doesn’t seem to grok that those are actors in commercials, not real people.
For those who would like a description, it is footage of Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown shot recently for a commercial.
It’s an ad for a Garbarino electronics store in Argentina. I guess they paid pretty well.
The closeups of the car are the actual car from the movie(one of the original props), but the car that speeds down the road is a modified Toyota Celica.
If it’s an ad for Argentina, why is he speaking English while the other actors are speaking Spanish? Can most people speak both?
Naw.
Ah, right… yes, that’s much better. Sorta.
Public hair? I thought Maureen was a little more discreet than that.
I’m sorry to have brought up painful memories. I have a similar feeling about his later book… errmmm… The Cat Who Walks Into the Sunset on Fridays… or somesuch.
No offense, but that was my whole point.
I’ve liked most of Heinlen’s stuff I’ve read (both the ones when he was an ultra-conservative and the ones when he was a free-love hippie), but I could not stand Stranger in a Strange Land, and I’m the only person I personally know who read it and did not like it.
As a result, I love Number of the Beast forever if only because the characters get into a literature discussion, and begin to heatedly debate whether or not Stranger in a Strange Land had any redeeming qualities.
FWIW, I thought it was stupid.
I read Stranger and didn’t like it. There were some scattered parts here and there that were mildly interesting, but my overall impression is that it’s a big sexist dated wankoff.
I like Cracked’s take on it: so the son gets born and looks exactly like the guy the mother hung out with in high school and who the mother had a crush on? And is named after him? Innnnteresting. But George seems ok with it, so…
Also, what’s dougie’s objection to Huey Lewis and the News?
He’s outraged that Lewis advocates getting a new drug. How could he condone such destructive behavior?
Well, it was a week-long hang out crush (Nov. 5 - Nov. 12, 1955) at best. I’m skeptical that Lorraine would even remember what 1955-Marty looked like as young Marty grew up.
Maybe Dave was an obligatory name. Like they wanted to name their first kid after an uncle or one of their granddads.
Possibly some troubled bells might ring if the young Marty does indeed set fire to a carpet, as time-tossed “Calvin” cryptically warned.
Of course, that young Marty was raised by mutually respecting and wealthier parents - odds are his personality and childhood were nothing like “original” Marty’s. Heck, “new” Marty jumped into the time machine at Lone Pine Mall (as, in his recollection, it has always been called) to return to a 1955 that is totally unlike any stories his parents might have told him in childhood, as oppsed to “original” Marty who heard repeatredly about his parents meeting when his dad was hit by his mother’s father’s car. Possibly “new” Marty will have heard about this mysterious “Calvin” who saved George’s life and later had a peripheral matchmaker role. “New” Marty might be keeping an eye out for Calvin and not watching young George at all, leading to George getting hit by the car as was “meant” to happen and he returns to a 1985 that looks familiar to the audience but is a nightmare to him with a domineering car-wrecking Biff, a wussy George, and no monster-jeep to drive around in.
It’s so confoozing!!
So is New Marty the one who’s always randomly getting pissed off at being called chicken?
Toyota 4x4 pickup.
Which, considering his two older siblings and parents all share one BMW, he could have been more gratefull for.