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** When Young Emmett is showcasing his Electrokinetic Levitator at the expo, he rolls off the ramp, falling to his spectacular failure... [[spoiler:until he flies back into the shot, soaring majestically around the room.]] Made even more awesome by the accompanying [[CrowningMusicofAwesome music]]

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** When Young Emmett is showcasing his Electrokinetic Levitator at the expo, he rolls off the ramp, supposedly falling to his spectacular failure...the "spectacular failure" he mentioned in Episode 1... [[spoiler:until he flies back into the shot, soaring majestically around the room.]] Made even more awesome by the accompanying [[CrowningMusicofAwesome music]]triumphant version of the Back To The Future theme ]]
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** When Young Emmett is showcasing his electromagnetic levitator at the expo, he rolls off the ramp, falling to his spectacular failure... [[spoiler:until he flies back into the shot, soaring majestically around the room.]] Made even more awesome by the accompanying [[CrowningMusicofAwesome music]]

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** When Young Emmett is showcasing his electromagnetic levitator Electrokinetic Levitator at the expo, he rolls off the ramp, falling to his spectacular failure... [[spoiler:until he flies back into the shot, soaring majestically around the room.]] Made even more awesome by the accompanying [[CrowningMusicofAwesome music]]
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** When Young Emmett is showcasing his electromagnetic levitator at the expo, he rolls off the ramp, falling to his spectacular failure... [[spoiler:until he flies back into the shot, soaring majestically around the room.]] Made even more awesome by the accompanying [[CrowningMusicofAwesome music]]
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* A slightly fridgey one in Episode 5. [[spoiler:Citizen Brown is disguised as the runner of the Enlightenment Under The Sea attraction, and has his younger self kidnapped and hidden in the bathysphere. Marty knows this, and is trying to thwart him. He tries to get onto the ride with a ticket, then invokes the authorities when Brown rejects it. After all that, Brown pretends the gears are jammed so he can't raise the bathysphere. So what does Marty do? He ''deliberately crimps the bathysphere's air hose'', cutting off young Emmett's air supply and putting his life-- and by extension his older self's life-- in jeopardy. He does this knowing full well that if Emmett dies, not only will he lose a lifelong friend, but he'll prevent the invention of the time machine in the first place (because its inventor won't be alive to invent it) and be forever stranded 55 years in the past. He's taking a '''MASSIVE''' chance, and he takes it without hesitation. Badass to say the very least.]]
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*** *faints*
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** Correction, [[spoiler: Fox did FOUR characters, including three Alt!Martys!]]
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* Telltale got Michael J. Fox to voice a character for the finale. YES!
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-->'''JENNIFER:''' Nobody scrambles my brains, ya hear me?! No one! I'm Jennifer Parker - rock 'n roller!

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-->'''JENNIFER:''' -->'''Jennifer:''' Nobody scrambles my brains, ya hear me?! No one! I'm Jennifer Parker - rock 'n roller!
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->'''JENNIFER:''' Nobody scrambles my brains, ya hear me?! No one! I'm Jennifer Parker - rock 'n roller!

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->'''JENNIFER:''' -->'''JENNIFER:''' Nobody scrambles my brains, ya hear me?! No one! I'm Jennifer Parker - rock 'n roller!
* Marty rescuing Doc in Episode 4 also qualifies.
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--->'''JENNIFER:''' Nobody scrambles my brains, ya hear me?! No one! I'm Jennifer Parker - rock 'n roller!

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--->'''JENNIFER:''' ->'''JENNIFER:''' Nobody scrambles my brains, ya hear me?! No one! I'm Jennifer Parker - rock 'n roller!

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* In Episode 4, Marty is inspired to try and unbrainwash Jennifer by playing his guitar over the squawkbox, when a guard comes to escort her out and notices the music. When the guard inspects the camera, Jennifer beans him with her box of spray paints.
--->'''JENNIFER:''' Nobody scrambles my brains, ya hear me?! No one! I'm Jennifer Parker - rock 'n roller!
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* In Episode 3, the moment Citizen Brown [[spoiler: realizes that the logo for the "new" Hill Valley is modeled after ''the flux capacitor''.]]
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** Let's face it, there's a reason this scene is in all three films.
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Except the Delorean—and Doc\'s remote control—have a clear and expliticly shown digital readout speedometer that shows exactly when you hit 88 mph.


** A little-known fact that increases the hilarity quotient of the scene: the speedometer on a DeLorean only goes up to 80mph - which means ''you will have no idea'' when you're actually about to see the aforementioned serious shit!
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** A little-known fact that increases the hilarity quotient of the scene: the speedometer on a DeLorean only goes up to 80mph - which means ''you will have no idea'' when you're actually about to see the aforementioned serious shit!
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--> Marty: I know! I just don't know where...

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--> Marty: '''Marty:''' I know! I just don't know where...
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--> Doc Brown: "Marty, the entire future depends on you finding Biff and getting that book back!"
--> Marty: "I know! I just don't know where ..."
-->(Sounds of Biff and George's fight in the parking lot from Part I)
--> Marty: "''OF COURSE!!!''"

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--> Doc Brown: "Marty, '''Doc Brown:''' Marty, the entire future depends on you finding Biff and getting that book back!"
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--> Marty: "''OF COURSE!!!''"
'''Marty:''' OF COURSE!!!
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* A small moment, but [[OhCrap "Who're you calling spook?"]] is pretty awesome.
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* Real-Life Example: One of the execs wanted to change the name to "The Spaceman from Saturn" due to the comic book that the kids on the farm are reading when Marty first makes it to 1955, thinking noone would get the title Back To The Future(it doesn't take a genius to figure out the FridgeLogic there). The writers were stuck and really couldn't say anything, but StephenSpeilberg on the other hand said this at a meeting: "We got the joke you sent us, it was hilarious." The uproarious laughter pretty much squashed the idea.

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* Real-Life Example: One of the execs wanted to change the name to "The Spaceman from Saturn" due to the comic book that the kids on the farm are reading when Marty first makes it to 1955, thinking noone would get the title Back To The Future(it doesn't take a genius to figure out the FridgeLogic there). The writers were stuck and really couldn't say anything, but StephenSpeilberg StevenSpielberg on the other hand said this at a meeting: "We got the joke you sent us, it was hilarious." The uproarious laughter pretty much squashed the idea.
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* "IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."

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* "IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.[[PrecisionFStrike shit]]."
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** Though when he does fight Buford, he does so mano y mano, ''[[GoodOldFisticuffs punching the crap out of Buford]]'', and fittingly, [[RunningGag making him collapse onto a manure cart]].

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** Though when he does fight Buford, he does so mano y a mano, ''[[GoodOldFisticuffs punching the crap out of Buford]]'', and fittingly, [[RunningGag making him collapse onto a manure cart]].



* And there's also the fact that he shows up at the end of the movie in a TIME-TRAVELING FLYING STEAM TRAIN. Let's face it -- Doc's COOL.

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* And there's also the fact that he shows up at the end of the movie in a TIME-TRAVELING FLYING STEAM TRAIN. Let's face it -- Doc's COOL.- [[MadScientist Doc's]] [[BadassGrandpa COOL]].
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* Real-Life Example: One of the execs wanted to change the name to "The Spaceman from Saturn" due to the comic book that the kids on the farm are reading when Marty first makes it to 1955, thinking noone would get the title Back To The Future(it doesen't take a genius to figure out the FridgeLogic there). The writers were stuck and really couldn't say anything, but StephenSpeilberg on the other hand said this at a meeting: "We got the joke you sent us, it was hilarious." The uproarious laughter pretty much squashed the idea.

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* Real-Life Example: One of the execs wanted to change the name to "The Spaceman from Saturn" due to the comic book that the kids on the farm are reading when Marty first makes it to 1955, thinking noone would get the title Back To The Future(it doesen't doesn't take a genius to figure out the FridgeLogic there). The writers were stuck and really couldn't say anything, but StephenSpeilberg on the other hand said this at a meeting: "We got the joke you sent us, it was hilarious." The uproarious laughter pretty much squashed the idea.



* Sort of a combined one for Doc and Marty. Marty, faced with a gun by the 1985-A version of Biff Tannen, steps off the roof of the Pleasure Paradise. Biff walks forward slowly, muttering "Idiot." Cue Marty rising up, standing on the hood of the [=DeLorean=], and Doc opening his door just in time to whack Biff in the face with it. "Nice shot, Doc" indeed!

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* Sort of a combined one for Doc and Marty. Marty, faced with a gun by the 1985-A version of Biff Tannen, [[SuicidalGotcha steps off the roof roof]] of the Pleasure Paradise. Biff walks forward slowly, muttering "Idiot." Cue Marty rising up, standing on the hood of the [=DeLorean=], and Doc opening his door just in time to whack Biff in the face with it. "Nice shot, Doc" indeed!

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* Real-Life Example: One of the execs wanted to change the name to "The Spaceman from Saturn" due to the comic book that the kids on the farm are reading when Marty first makes it to 1955, thinking noone would get the title Back To The Future(it doesen't take a genius to figure out the FridgeLogic there). The writers were stuck and really couldn't say anything, but StephenSpeilberg on the other hand said this at a meeting: "We got the joke you sent us, it was hilarious." The uproarious laughter pretty much squashed the idea.
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** In fact, this line was so cool that Reagan incorporated it into his State of the Union address that year. He was a fan of the movies; at the line in One where Doc disbelieves that an actor could be President, Reagan had the White House projectionist rewind and play the line again.

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** In fact, this line was so cool that Reagan incorporated it into his State of the Union address that year. He was a fan of the movies; at the line in One where when Doc disbelieves that an actor could be President, Reagan had the White House projectionist rewind and play the line again.



* "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
* Marty's fight with Biff, and the chase scene afterwards. It ends with Marty avoiding getting crushed between a truck and Biff's '46 Impala by running up the hood, through the car seats, and off the trunk with Biff and his gang getting buried in manuer.

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* "If my calculations are correct, "IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
* Marty's fight with Biff, and the chase scene afterwards. It ends with Marty avoiding getting crushed between a truck and Biff's '46 Impala by running up the hood, through the car seats, and off the trunk trunk, with Biff and his gang getting buried in manuer.
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* Marty's fight with Biff, and the chase scene afterwards. It ends with Marty avoiding getting crushed between a truck and Biff's '46 Impala by running up the hood, through the car seats, and off the trunk with Biff and his gang getting buried in manuer.
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* George [=McFly=] punching Biff after delivering a perfect [[DateRapeAverted "Get your damn hands off her!"]]: great. George [=McFly=] punching the redhaired kid who tried to cut in, thus saving all three of his future children, followed by Marty [[ThePowerOfRock playing "Johnny B Goode"]], [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll ending in a heavy metal solo]]: insanity.

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* George [=McFly=] punching Biff after delivering a perfect [[DateRapeAverted "Get your damn hands off her!"]]: great. George [=McFly=] punching the redhaired kid who tried to cut in, thus saving all three of his future children, followed by Marty [[ThePowerOfRock playing "Johnny B Goode"]], [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll ending in a heavy metal solo]]: insanity.[[CrazyAwesome insanity]].



* George knocking Biff out cold in the first film.

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* George knocking Biff out cold in the first film.
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* George [=McFly=] punching Biff after delivering a perfect "Get your damn hands off her!": great. George [=McFly=] punching the redhaired kid who tried to cut in, thus saving all three of his future children, followed by Marty [[ThePowerOfRock playing "Johnny B Goode"]], [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll ending in a heavy metal solo]]: insanity.

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* George [=McFly=] punching Biff after delivering a perfect [[DateRapeAverted "Get your damn hands off her!": her!"]]: great. George [=McFly=] punching the redhaired kid who tried to cut in, thus saving all three of his future children, followed by Marty [[ThePowerOfRock playing "Johnny B Goode"]], [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll ending in a heavy metal solo]]: insanity.
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* Marty beating the hell out of Buford in an epic fistfight in ''Part III''. Punctuated, of course, by Buford being sent sprawling into a manure cart.
* "It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen! And it's pointed straight at ''your head!"''
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[[AC: Part I]]
* George [=McFly=] punching Biff after delivering a perfect "Get your damn hands off her!": great. George [=McFly=] punching the redhaired kid who tried to cut in, thus saving all three of his future children, followed by Marty [[ThePowerOfRock playing "Johnny B Goode"]], [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll ending in a heavy metal solo]]: insanity.
* After working so hard to connect the cables on the clock, the bottom cable suddenly pops free -- and there's only a minute to go. Doc despairs for a moment, then gets a determined look. He reconnects the bits he has, then LOOPS THEM AROUND THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK AND SLIDES DOWN, retrieving the other end and connecting it JUST AS THE LIGHTNING BOLT HITS. Awesome.
* How can we forget "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need... roads." The line is awesome enough, but when you consider that the Doc has turned a Time Machine that he invented into a flying car AS WELL?
** In fact, this line was so cool that Reagan incorporated it into his State of the Union address that year. He was a fan of the movies; at the line in One where Doc disbelieves that an actor could be President, Reagan had the White House projectionist rewind and play the line again.
* "The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?"
* "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."




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* Sort of a combined one for Doc and Marty. Marty, faced with a gun by the 1985-A version of Biff Tannen, steps off the roof of the Pleasure Paradise. Biff walks forward slowly, muttering "Idiot." Cue Marty rising up, standing on the hood of the [=DeLorean=], and Doc opening his door just in time to whack Biff in the face with it. "Nice shot, Doc" indeed!
* Back in 1955, after Marty realizes he's just followed a false trail and gotten nothing but Biff's dirty magazine.
--> Doc Brown: "Marty, the entire future depends on you finding Biff and getting that book back!"
--> Marty: "I know! I just don't know where ..."
-->(Sounds of Biff and George's fight in the parking lot from Part I)
--> Marty: "''OF COURSE!!!''"

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* When Marty [=McFly=] finally overcomes his BerserkButton and decides ''not'' to fight Buford Tannen over being called a 'chicken' -- because, in Marty's words, "He's an ''asshole''! I don't care what ''he'' thinks!"
** Though when he does fight Buford, he does so mano y mano, ''[[GoodOldFisticuffs punching the crap out of Buford]]'', and fittingly, [[RunningGag making him collapse onto a manure cart]].
* Doc shooting Marty down from Buford's attempt to hang him with his telescopic rifle definitely qualifies. "It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen -- and it's pointed straight at your head!"
* And there's also the fact that he shows up at the end of the movie in a TIME-TRAVELING FLYING STEAM TRAIN. Let's face it -- Doc's COOL.
* In a real-life example, the story of [[http://www.bttf3delorean.com the restoration]] of a genuine, screen-used Delorean to its former glory after years of neglect.



* "It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen! And it's pointed straight at ''your head!"''

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* "It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen! And it's pointed straight at ''your head!"''head!"''
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