# It was 25 years ago today that Marty McFly went back in time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411 "2010-10-26T16:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/41 "2010-10-26T23:29:00Z")
Great Scott! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/42 "2010-10-27T01:48:32Z")
A perfect time for [Biff’s Question Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBTCcfcF8w). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/43 "2010-10-27T03:26:56Z")
Tom F Wilson is sadly overlooked and underrated, despite being one of the most entertaining actors of the series. ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/44 "2010-10-27T03:32:47Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > “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… go easy on him.” “And George – don’t be suspicious when that same eight-year-old kid grows up to look just like me, your wife’s first crush.” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/45 "2010-10-27T06:43:52Z")
It’s one of my all time favorites, and **Stranger** and the others have already said it best. I just wanted to add the score by Alan Sylvestri is incredibly catchy, memorable, and almost feels like an invisible character in and of itself. Of course, in 1985, I was dragged to the movie by my neighborhood friend, kicking and screaming, because I thought it sounded lame. I walked out of that movie wanting to get into filmmaking. I was 12. I’m into filmmaking. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/46 "2010-10-27T11:28:04Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Tom F Wilson is sadly overlooked and underrated, despite being one of the most entertaining actors of the series. He’s great as a menacing thug, a western villain, as well as playing the sniveling post-time travel Biff that was waxing Marty’s truck. That takes talent to play both parts convincingly. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/47 "2010-10-27T12:07:31Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > …and the Cubs win the World Series!!! :D:D:D Against _Miami_? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/48 "2010-10-27T12:11:25Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > I don’t think it’ll happen. I think that in his his quest to put his life on the right path, Marty Mcfly inadvertently ruined the future. > [@](#): > > All because of a fateful car accident on October 27, 1985 that forced one of mankind’s greatest geniuses to reevaluate his life. Isn’t he the dude who abolished all lawyers? And gave us JAWS 19? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/49 "2010-10-27T12:18:30Z")
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned it yet, but in honor of the 25th anniversary, a lot of AMC theaters are showing it on the big screen this week. Sadly, I don’t like near any AMC theaters. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/50 "2010-10-27T12:21:01Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > despite all of the technobabble, the film is almost entirely consistent to its self-defined rules. _Almost_, yes, but not quite. One of the nitpicks I’ve always had with BTTF is that some of the things Marty does in the past create a different future when he gets back (he gives his dad the confidence to be more successful; the name of the mall changes because he ran over the tree) – while some of the things he does are shown to have influenced aspects of the future he came from (he convinces the mayor to run for mayor; he gives Chuck Berry his “new sound”). I don’t see how you can have it both ways. Still, it’s a very minor quibble. The trilogy is one great film and two really good ones. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/51 "2010-10-27T12:30:30Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > …and the Cubs win the World Series!!! :D:D:D > [@Sunspace](#): > > Against _Miami_? Though they haven’t yet done so, the Marlins organization has considered changing their geograpic designation from “Florida” to “Miami.” It could still happen. And I can come up with any number of unlikely and convoluted scenarios by which they could switch from the NL to the AL. Come on, just let me have this. We Cub fans need all the hope we can get! ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/52 "2010-10-27T13:42:35Z")
This thread reminds me of when I went to see this movie the second time. It was in second run, and I saw it at the dollar theater. When Doc entered the date into the time machine, it got a huge reaction from the crowd, because the actual date we were sitting there was October 26, 1985. “Hey, that’s today, that’s today!” ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/53 "2010-10-27T15:23:58Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > _Almost_, yes, but not quite. > > One of the nitpicks I’ve always had with BTTF is that some of the things Marty does in the past create a different future when he gets back (he gives his dad the confidence to be more successful; the name of the mall changes because he ran over the tree) – while some of the things he does are shown to have influenced aspects of the future he came from (he convinces the mayor to run for mayor; he gives Chuck Berry his “new sound”). I don’t see how you can have it both ways. > > Still, it’s a very minor quibble. The trilogy is one great film and two really good ones. You want to know something…I have seen the movie at least a dozen times, discussed it on the internet plenty of times and this never once occurred to me…Now it bugs me too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/54 "2010-10-27T15:43:23Z")
and at one point aren’t there like 4 or 5 Deloreans in 1955 at the same time? ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/55 "2010-10-27T16:53:15Z")
Can anybody give me a link to the a webcomic I once saw that illustrated that tie travel doesn’t take the orbit of the Earth into account? I think this was done by having the Delorean floating in space. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/56 "2010-10-27T17:30:02Z")
I just recently watched it and saw something that just as a local Angelino struck me. When Marty leaves Doc’s house in the begining he turns a corner onto a busy street. It’s Victory Blvd in Burbank. He passes a Burger King and we see the signs for a Toys R Us and a restaurant called Lancers. All three are still there and I frequent both the TRU and the restaurant. It was just funny to me that that block was still entirely recognizable after 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/57 "2010-10-27T17:34:07Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Though they haven’t yet done so, the Marlins organization has considered changing their geograpic designation from “Florida” to “Miami.” It could still happen. And will happen. When the Marlins move into their new stadium in 2012, their name will change to the Miami Marlins. It’s a deal they made with the Miami-Dade county commissioners to get public funding for the new park. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/58 "2010-10-27T17:47:35Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > _Almost_, yes, but not quite. You know what movie handles time travel pretty close to flawlessly? _Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure_. “oh, yeah. A trash can.” ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/59 "2010-10-27T17:48:23Z")
Jigawatt. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411/60 "2010-10-27T17:50:31Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > Jigawatt. One! Point! Twentyone! Jigawatts! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-25-years-ago-today-that-marty-mcfly-went-back-in-time/558411.md?page=4)