- Awesome Music: The show has a high energy, rocking theme song that's really fun to listen to.
- Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans of the film trilogy aren't fond of the way the series Flanderizes several of the characters and its Denser and Wackier tone.
- Genius Bonus: Doc making "If I Only Had a Brain" a temporary Leitmotif during "Retired" comes off as especially apropos to anyone familiar with The Wizard of Oz; the Scarecrow, despite his lamentations about his brainlessness, is actually The Smart Guy of Dorothy's group, in the same way that Doc views himself as brainless due to the equipment malfunction, without having actually lost any of his intelligence.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- One episode has Marty go by alias of Jimmy Olsen, referencing how Marc McClure, who played Jimmy Olsen in the Superman Film Series, portrayed Marty's brother Dave in the films. David Kaufman, who voices Marty, would later go on to voice Jimmy Olsen in several animated productions.
- Years after playing Marty, Kaufman voiced another Michael J. Fox character for a cartoon adaptation.
- Nightmare Fuel: "Forward to the Past" seems bent on traumatizing kids. First, Jules and Verne mess around with a molecular redistributor. A hypothetical demonstration makes everything Art Shift into chalk drawings, and it's demonstrated by having Verne dismember Jules in cartoony fashion and being told to reassemble him. When the cast goes to 3 Million B.C., they encounter the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and have to get out before it kills them, too. Doc destroys it with his device, resulting in a future where dinosaurs rule the world and humans no longer exist, including Marty, Clara, and everyone they've ever met—and because of that, Doc, Jules, and Verne will dissipate into nonexistence in 12 minutes. They end up having to put the meteor back, at the cost of seeing all the dinosaurs die, including a friendly Pteranadon they befriended.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Josh Keaton voiced Jules in one of his earliest roles.
- David Kaufman voices Marty over a decade before he'd voice Danny Phantom with almost the same voice tone he used here.
- Jennifer is voiced by Cathy Cavadini, who would later become known for voicing Blossom.
- And, of course, yes, that is in fact Bill Nye in the live action segments.
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