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Notes from our Octber 1, 2009 Brainstorming Session In Which We Watched "Back To The Future"

From: DoctorWhen@googlegroups.com [mailto:DoctorWhen@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Allen Cohn
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 5:57 PM
To: Doctor When @ Google
Subject: Movie Notes From "Back To The Future"



Here's some trivia to let ferment in your fertile minds:

Film opens with iconic scene of lots and lots of clocks--maybe we can use that somewhere. 

A failed Rube Goldberg device puzzle? 

Plutonium! Two key lines are "Heavy..." and "Great Scott!" 

The principal also calls Marty a "slacker" with regularity. 

Biff keeps saying, "Think, McFly!" and "Don't be so gullible." 

Doc Brown calls Marty, "Future Boy." 

Huey Lewis lives in Marin...can we get him to participate? (Or maybe just record something for us?) 

The name of the town is "Hill Valley"...which is an oxymoron! 

The 1995 movie theater is showing "Orgy American Style" 

The time machine leaves on Oct. 26, 1985 at 1:18 AM 

He travels to Nov. 5, 1955 

Lightning strikes the clock tower at 10:04 PM We need a flux capacitor! 

We need 1.21 gigawatts. 

We need a "Mr. Fusion" generator 

Mayors are Red Thomas and Goldie Wilson 

"Rhythmic ceremonial ritual"/"Enchantment Under The Sea" dance 

"Twin Pines Mall" becomes "Lone Pine Mall" 

88 mph! 

"Make like a tree and get out of here." 

"I'm your density." 

We all loved Doc Brown's "demo from hell" with the burning model car. 

Perhaps we should also lift from the TV show "Quantum Leap" 

We should consider modifying our standard legal waiver to include weird time travel language, such as "hold harmless against all heirs, descendents, as well as predecessors and grand parents," etc. Maybe we should list other potential dangers such as temporal vortices, quantum singularities, chronaton radiation, etc. 

George's book was "A Match Made In Space." 

The car's "DMC" imprint could be a puzzle if you rotate the letters.