Taht eziekel keeps dropping taht knowledge yo
We gots teh merkeba
We gots teh Shinto
We gots teh blood libel
We gots teh Apache serial crusher
We gots teh doge
We gots memes
We gots teh dharma
Y'all stoopid
That's Hitler's asshole serving the common good
Cause fexas idolatry is that evil
Tehy even got a cow anus elected
So why are trannys and spent tampoons golem pelosi blabbing around so much fake gratitude/authority/clergy/etc
John Frum (also called John Brum,[1] Jon Frum,[2] or John From[3]) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is often depicted as an American World War II serviceman who will bring wealth and prosperity to the people if they follow him. He is sometimes portrayed as black, sometimes as white. Quoting David Attenborough's report of an encounter: "'E look like you. 'E got white face. 'E tall man. 'E live 'long South America."[4]
Continuing past the Studebaker lot, he [Marty] stopped in front of the Town Theater, a marvelously typical piece of art deco from the 1930s. A basic tan-colored tower rose above its green marquee and red tile entrance, which was lined with display shots of its current attractions, The Atomic Kid, starring Mickey Rooney and Robert Strauss.
On both November 5 and November 12, 1955, the Town's featured attraction was the 1954 film, The Atomic Kid, starring Mickey Rooney. By November, the film had been out for almost a year.
By 1985, the downtown theater had stopped showing movies and had become the gathering place for the Assembly of Christ church in Hill Valley. While the Town Theater had become a house of worship, its rival, the Essex Theater, had become an X-rated movie house by 1985.
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Art in Revolution
The badge that Marty wears on his denim jacket reads 'Art in Revolution', and the black and red design suggests that it’s somehow connected to an exhibition of Soviet art and design that took place at London’s Hayward Gallery in 1971. We don’t think there’s any deliberate reference on the part of the filmmakers (they probably just had it lying around somewhere), it’s just pretty neat.
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The Doc’s House
It’s not immediately apparent at this point in the film, but check out the number on the front of the Doc’s shack: 1646. Later in the film, we’ll discover that this building is actually the garage of the Doc’s original mansion (located at 1640), which a newspaper article in the opening scene told us had been burned down and the land sold off – to be replaced with the Burger King that we see as Marty skates off.
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Back to the Fifties
As Marty walks into the 1950s Hill Valley town square for the first time, he’s unsurprisingly hit by an array of period-specific pop culture references. Cattle Queen of Montana is a genuine 1954 film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan – neatly prefiguring the reference to the future President a few scenes later – and 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett' and '16 Tons' (the former of which can also be heard when Marty goes into Lou’s Diner) were both hits in 1955. 'Mister Sandman', meanwhile, had first charted in 1954. There are, however, a few anachronisms in the window of Roy’s Records, with three records being shown that weren’t actually released until 1956 and, in two cases, 1959.
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Darth Vader, from the planet Vulcan
And yes, of course, we’d better cover off this part of the same scene, although we’d be amazed if anyone reading this site doesn’t get the Star Warsand Star Trek references. In the longer, deleted version of the scene, Marty also makes reference to George having “caused a rift in the space-time continuum,” and to “the Supreme Klingon.” And in an earlier script draft he goes ever further, saying “This is no dream! You are having a Close Encounter Of The Third Kind! You have reached the Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone!”
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The Atomic Kid
Just as Marty makes his journey back to 1985, Hill Valley’s other cinema (yes, it has two – the Essex still exists in 1985, but the Town Theatre has become a church by then) is showing a 1954 Mickey Rooney film called The Atomic Kid. The title, of course, feels nicely appropriate to the story – and it’s no accident. In earlier drafts of the script, which saw Marty and the Doc finding a nuclear test site in order to get the time machine working, it was going to see this movie that gives Marty the idea in the first place.
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Twin Pines
Possibly the most famous easter egg in movie history, there are still people noticing this for the first time on a rewatch: but yes, what was once the Twin Pines Mall has now, as Marty returns to 1985, become the Lone Pine Mall – a consequence of Marty destroying one of Old Man Peabody’s two pine trees on the farmland that the mall replaced. It’s our first subtle hint (if you don’t count the broken masonry on the clock tower) that Marty’s trip to the 1950s has had a lasting effect on his own present.
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Blast From The Past
The antiques store from which Marty buys the Gray’s Sports Almanac is probably the purest, most concentrated burst of easter egg/referencing in the entire trilogy, and we could be here all day listing everything you see in the window.
It’s probably best just to pause the film and have a look yourself, but some highlights include: Marty’s own denim jacket (and 'Art in Revolution' badge) from the first film, a Ronald Reagan LP and video (another shout out to the then-President, who had enjoyed his namecheck in the first film and subsequently quoted the movie in a speech), a talking Who Framed Roger Rabbit? doll (Robert Zemeckis having directed that film in between the Back To The Futures), a 1984 Apple Macintosh, various NES games, the first two Jaws films, Animal House and Dragnet on VHS, a JVC video camera (a later model from the one used by the Doc and Marty in the first film), a Frisbee (prefiguring a gag in the next film) and… oh, lots more besides.