# they are butchering back to the future on abc family

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**Created:** [June 12, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-butchering-back-to-the-future-on-abc-family/542948 "2010-06-12T19:40:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-butchering-back-to-the-future-on-abc-family/542948/21 "2010-06-15T02:12:55Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Something I’ve wondered: the Doc Brown who goes back to 1885 and marries Clara (Mary Steenbergen) would be the Doc Brown from 1985, not 1955, right?
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> If so then he’s got to have a few years on Clara and be a bit long in the tooth to have kids. He’s middle aged in 1955 which means he’d be at least around 65 in 1985 and in 1885 and in his 70s when he visits Marty in 1985 at the end of BTTF3 in his spacetrain. She’s a courageous woman to head into space with a 75 year old man at the controls.
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> Maybe somehow he rustled up some Viagra and rejuvenating machine back in the Old West.

If Strom Thurmond can father kids at 68 and up, Doc Brown should be able to as well. 😃

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**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:** [June 15, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-butchering-back-to-the-future-on-abc-family/542948/22 "2010-06-15T02:18:20Z")

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> [@bouv](#):
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> And also, how could George have been an author if the inspiration for his first novel was Marty, in his radiation suit, pretending to be Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan blasting trash metal in his ears?

Huh. I’d never noticed that before.

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**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:** [June 15, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-butchering-back-to-the-future-on-abc-family/542948/23 "2010-06-15T02:23:13Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Maybe somehow he rustled up some Viagra and rejuvenating machine back in the Old West.

At the start of BTTF2, he tells Marty that he was rejuvenated, had his blood replaced or something, which added thirty years to his life.

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**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-butchering-back-to-the-future-on-abc-family/542948/24 "2010-06-15T03:07:44Z")

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Also, Doc had that rejuvenation thing done in the 21st century, so he is not too old for Clara  
edit: yes I see someone above me already posted that

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