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Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 07:40 PM Oct 2015

Tell me future boy, who's the President in 2017?



t appears Dr. Emmett Brown is a fan of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

On Wednesday afternoon — also Back to the Future Day, as it is the moment Marty McFly travels to from 1985 — Sanders posted a picture over social media with actor Christopher Lloyd dressed as his iconic character.





Tell me, future boy, who's President of the United States in 2017?
"Bernie Sanders."
Bernie Sanders?! From Vermont?


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/christopher-lloyd-dresses-as-doc-833815



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Tell me future boy, who's the President in 2017? (Original Post) Uncle Joe Oct 2015 OP
I am betting it is someone who born north of the line. Mason-Dixon that is. LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #1
You would think that the quality of cleaners would have improved by 2015 TexasTowelie Oct 2015 #2
Pretty pathetic, hunh. SheilaT Oct 2015 #20
Check out Berniebro in the background! frylock Oct 2015 #3
Great Scott! n/t. ZM90 Oct 2015 #4
Great picture. NCTraveler Oct 2015 #5
I approve of this. Zany Gnome Oct 2015 #6
LOVE IT!!! cui bono Oct 2015 #7
Still one of may favorite movies of all time. RoverSuswade Oct 2015 #8
Thanks for posting! Awesome pic! Juicy_Bellows Oct 2015 #9
Don't forget, according to that movie, today is the day the Cubs were supposed win the World Series! George II Oct 2015 #10
That was a alternate time-line. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #11
Well the Cubs are down 3-0 in games to the Mets, and down 4-0 in the 4th game tonight. George II Oct 2015 #12
That was the point of my previous post, the timeline was altered in the final episode of Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #14
Kick and R BeanMusical Oct 2015 #13
Happy Back to the Future Day, Uncle Joe Demeter Oct 2015 #15
Happy Back to the Future Day to you, Demeter. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #16
Love it!!!! mike dub Oct 2015 #17
K&R yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #18
No matter who one supports, this is great! longship Oct 2015 #19
Ton of friends posted this abelenkpe Oct 2015 #21
One of my all time favorites. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #23
Huge, Huge, HUGE... K & R !!! WillyT Oct 2015 #22
Very cool, Bernie is having a good time too. BootinUp Oct 2015 #24
FEEL THE BERN!!!! Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #25
Thats one of the better props in film history. Volaris Oct 2015 #33
Haven't you been reading rpannier Oct 2015 #26
President Sanders! Octafish Oct 2015 #27
Love it. azmom Oct 2015 #28
Have you seen this, azmom? Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #29
How interesting. They nailed that one. I'll have to watch the movie azmom Oct 2015 #30
WooHoo! Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #31
that is pretty cindyperry2010 Oct 2015 #32
Looks like Sanders and LLoyd share the same barber! passiveporcupine Oct 2015 #34
Sextus Propertius Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #35
Bernie has the coolest supporters! sabrina 1 Oct 2015 #36
Bernie as President in 2017. Beautiful thought. senz Oct 2015 #37

TexasTowelie

(111,303 posts)
2. You would think that the quality of cleaners would have improved by 2015
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 07:53 PM
Oct 2015

and his costume would not have all of the wrinkles.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
20. Pretty pathetic, hunh.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 09:09 PM
Oct 2015

I mean, it's bad enough we don't have hoverboards, but clothes that still wrinkle? Heck, I think I'll stay right in 1985!

 

Zany Gnome

(9 posts)
6. I approve of this.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:06 PM
Oct 2015

Thank you for sharing this picture. It's quite enjoyable as Doc Brown is currently making his rounds before heading back to 1985.

RoverSuswade

(641 posts)
8. Still one of may favorite movies of all time.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:18 PM
Oct 2015

I loved the part where "Chuck Berry's brother Marvin" calls up Chuck so he could listen to Marty McFly play guitar.

Juicy_Bellows

(2,427 posts)
9. Thanks for posting! Awesome pic!
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:24 PM
Oct 2015

"The only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of Bernie."

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
11. That was a alternate time-line.
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:38 PM
Oct 2015


Sorry to burst the bubbles of Cubs fans, Back to the Future fans and fans of sheer randomness, but I’ve got some bad news for you: The second movie in the trilogy doesn’t actually predict that the Cubs would win the World Series in 2015 (something that’s growing less likely in our current year, but is still technically possible). Oh, it predicts it in the 2015 to which Marty and Doc originally travel, but if you’ll bear with me through some high-level nerdery, you’ll see why said prediction was only made within a timeline that no longer exists in the world of the film.

Okay — and you’re going to have to bear with me here (Cubs pun!) — so Doc, Marty and Jennifer go to 2015 from 1985 because something has to be done about their kids. Doc knocks out Jennifer and then tells Marty to go into the Cafe ’80s to stop his son from making a disastrous pact with Biff’s grandson, Griff. Marty looks around, sees the hologram news feed of the Cubs beating Miami in a sweep, meets the old guy who wants to save the clock tower, discusses the baseball news in which Marty is surprised by Miami’s existence, not the Cubs winning, to which the old man says the line that sets the whole plot in motion: “I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season and put some money on the Cubbies.”


The win is even mentioned in the next day’s USA TODAY (the Cubs swept in five, suggesting MLB had moved to the old best-of-nine Series format). It also gets little publicity in the paper, suggesting the Cubs winning wasn’t as momentous as it would have been this year or that baseball is no longer a huge sport. I mean, it’s under the Slamball playoffs beginning, for Great Scott’s sake! But, in this timeline, the Cubs did win the World Series over Miami. That part is completely true.

(snip)

At the end of the film, with Marty and Jennifer milling about the destroyed time machine, Doc comes back in the time-machine train with Clara, Jules and Verne and says that since the time machine is smashed and Marty didn’t get hurt in a drag race, he has altered history in such a way that the future isn’t written. We leave the films with a 2015 in which anything can happen. The history is unwritten. So all that stuff that happened in the beginning — Marty’s kid hanging around with Griff, the crash through the clock tower, the release of Jaws 19 and, most importantly, the Cubs winning — doesn’t necessarily have to happen in this new timeline. It’s life a butterfly effect thing.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/back-to-the-future-2-doesnt-predict-cubs-will-win-world-series-timeline-1985-2015

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
14. That was the point of my previous post, the timeline was altered in the final episode of
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:50 PM
Oct 2015

Back to the Future.

It's remarkable though, how close that scenario played out, the odds against the Cubs even being in the World Series.

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
33. Thats one of the better props in film history.
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 06:31 PM
Oct 2015

Love that Plate, and where's my goddamned HOVERBOARD???

'Jesus!, Doc!...You disintegrated Einstein!'

Lol@ The Lybians

rpannier

(24,304 posts)
26. Haven't you been reading
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 09:37 PM
Oct 2015

Obama is going to declare martial law, elections will be postponed, he'll take over complete control of the country, the military, the police, etc. The UN forces that have been living in specially built shelters in the sewers under Detroit will climb out from their hidey hole and take over the US
We'll become an Islamo-Fascist, Socialist, Radical Christian hell hole

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
27. President Sanders!
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 12:33 AM
Oct 2015

Change the future to something we can live and love and shape ourselves -- you know, Democracy.

Thank you, Uncle Joe! Great OP and thread.

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
29. Have you seen this, azmom?
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:39 PM
Oct 2015


‘Back to the Future’ villain based on Trump



“Back to the Future” villain Biff Tannen was inspired by Donald Trump, according to the film’s writer.

“We thought about it when we made the movie!” screenwriter Bob Gale told the Daily Beast on Wednesday.

A high school bully who terrorizes Marty McFly in the original, Tannen appears in the sequel as a golden-haired casino mogul who uses his money and influence to assume political power in a dystopic America, circa 2015.
“Are you kidding? You watch ‘Part II’ again and there’s a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there’s a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there’s one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait?” Gale said.


http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/257578-back-to-the-future-villain-based-on-trump










passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
34. Looks like Sanders and LLoyd share the same barber!
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 06:58 PM
Oct 2015

Love that white hair...on both of them!

My hair is just starting to turn white, but I call it platinum!

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
37. Bernie as President in 2017. Beautiful thought.
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 07:49 PM
Oct 2015

For the sake of this country and its people, I hope we can make it reality.

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