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if it wasn't a deliberate reference, both seem to be pretty common names.
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RandomFerret posted:Shakespeare's wife was named Anne Hathaway, do people in this universe think that's weird? Jesus Christ, thank you! I've always been confused that Anne Hathaway is a current actor and not someone from history and couldn't explain why I felt that way. Turns out I'm not broken, just an idiot.
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Memento posted:When Marty goes back to 1885, he chooses to go by the name Clint Eastwood. He then steals a train and drives it into the ravine, which the townsfolk named Eastwood Ravine, assuming he had died there. It was named Clayton ravine, after the school mistress whose horse spooked and ran into it, but she was saved by Doc Brown at the start of BttF 3. Oh I thought Ronald Reagan. I was very confused
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RandomFerret posted:Shakespeare's wife was named Anne Hathaway, do people in this universe think that's weird?  People are weird.
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Memento posted:When Marty goes back to 1885, he chooses to go by the name Clint Eastwood. He then steals a train and drives it into the ravine, which the townsfolk named Eastwood Ravine, assuming he had died there. It was named Clayton ravine, after the school mistress whose horse spooked and ran into it, but she was saved by Doc Brown at the start of BttF 3. what's weirder, that or Marty's dad not wondering why his youngest son came out looking identical to the dude his wife went to prom with
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God Hole posted:what's weirder, that or Marty's dad not wondering why his youngest son came out looking identical to the dude his wife went to prom with Probably because it's been a hot minute since then and when Marty grew up enough for resemblance, and he didn't exactly take a picture of the guy
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At the end of Back to the Future, it's revealed that George McFly is now a famous science fiction writer. Since he was visited by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan he should have been freaked out by Star Trek in the 60's and Star Wars in the 70's unless he already used those characters and settings in his books before Roddenberry and Lucas. In that altered timeline, Lucas adapted a McFly book which means Star Wars had a decent writer.
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Humphreys posted:Whats 'the card'? He does get vaporized early.
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Krispy Wafer posted:At the end of Back to the Future, it's revealed that George McFly is now a famous science fiction writer. Since he was visited by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan he should have been freaked out by Star Trek in the 60's and Star Wars in the 70's unless he already used those characters and settings in his books before Roddenberry and Lucas. Fun fact: Vulcan was first suggested as the name for a planet in 1860 when French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier proposed that the perturbation in Mercury's orbit might be caused by a previously unknown mystery planet. He was pretty drat good at figuring this poo poo out as well, earlier in his career he'd had correctly calculated that the discrepancies in Uranus' orbit could be explained by the existence of an unknown planet, which was how Neptune was discovered in 1846. Since this new mystery planet would have been closer to the sun it would have been pretty hot so Le Ferrier named it after the Roman god of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet) Another fun fact: back in 1846 Le Verrier first decided that Neptune was the best name for his newly discovered planet but quickly realised he'd missed a HUGE opportunity and tried to name it Leverrier after himself. Everyone hated that so it didn't stick. Uranus was discovered back in 1781 and very nearly ended up being called Herschel (after the discoverer) or some variation of George (after King George) and there was a shitfight that lasted about 70 years before everyone agreed on Uranus, with a whole bunch of groups calling it by different names for decades. The dude who discovered Uranium decided to give it that name because he was part of the pro-Uranus crowd.
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Should have compromised and called it Myanus.
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I'd think Kinganus would be better to rope in the pro-george crowd.
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Should've gone all Virginian & called it Manassas.
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Krispy Wafer posted:At the end of Back to the Future, it's revealed that George McFly is now a famous science fiction writer. Since he was visited by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan he should have been freaked out by Star Trek in the 60's and Star Wars in the 70's unless he already used those characters and settings in his books before Roddenberry and Lucas. He was still half-asleep and probably thought the whole thing was a hosed up dream after a while, I figure. If he even remembered the superfluous details.
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Carcer posted:I'd think Kinganus would be better to rope in the pro-george crowd. Well except then no one would know which king. Also the reason it didn't really stick was because the proposed name, The Georgium Sidus, was just ugh
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Fun fact: Vulcan was first suggested as the name for a planet in 1860 when French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier proposed that the perturbation in Mercury's orbit might be caused by a previously unknown mystery planet. He was pretty drat good at figuring this poo poo out as well, earlier in his career he'd had correctly calculated that the discrepancies in Uranus' orbit could be explained by the existence of an unknown planet, which was how Neptune was discovered in 1846. Since this new mystery planet would have been closer to the sun it would have been pretty hot so Le Ferrier named it after the Roman god of Reading through the Expanse novels and learned about the Le Verrier discovery of Neptune there yesterday and today it’s ITT. Weird coincidence? Also, when I was in school, I had an older classmate that brought in an antique science book that had called that planet Herschel. Maybe the book publisher was anti-Uranus?
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In Knives Out, Daniel Craig's character Benoit Blanc is a reference to Mel Blanc as the former is basically doing a Foghorn Leghorn impression and the latter was his original voice actor. edit first name is probably a reference to him having big balls
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Krispy Wafer posted:At the end of Back to the Future, it's revealed that George McFly is now a famous science fiction writer. Since he was visited by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan he should have been freaked out by Star Trek in the 60's and Star Wars in the 70's unless he already used those characters and settings in his books before Roddenberry and Lucas. My fan theory is that George McFly simply thinks that Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas were ALSO visited by Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, and each just used a piece of that for their respective Sci-Fi works. He was probably pissed he had to change the names of them for his book, "A Match Made in Space."
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The weirder thing with the end of BtF1 is why Lorraine and George kept Biff around and treated him like a goofy butler even though he tried to rape Lorraine. And its not like Biff became a better person in the intervening years or anything because he abuses time travel to make everything worse and for him to become Donald Trump the first chance he gets.
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Accordion Man posted:The weirder thing with the end of BtF1 is why Lorraine and George kept Biff around and treated him like a goofy butler even though he tried to rape Lorraine. Maybe they were enjoying humiliating him. "Hey jackass, you spent our entire youths throwing your weight around to get your way! Now it's our turn!" The almanac/Biff's time travel just allowed it to become a dick-waving arms race.
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For a while I thought Crispin Glover was being an annoying snob when he talked about hating the ending of Back to the Future but now when I see it I really have to agree with him. It's just such a clear example of 80's materialism where George's assertiveness has resulted in his family living an idyllic lifestyle..... which is demonstrated by how they now have nice clothes and expensive cars and get to treat a butler like poo poo.
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Basebf555 posted:For a while I thought Crispin Glover was being an annoying snob when he talked about hating the ending of Back to the Future but now when I see it I really have to agree with him. It's just such a clear example of 80's materialism where George's assertiveness has resulted in his family living an idyllic lifestyle..... which is demonstrated by how they now have nice clothes and expensive cars and get to treat a butler like poo poo. And yet they still live in the same house, which at the start of the movie is shown/implied to be kind of a dumpy neighborhood.
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The neighborhood actually gets nicer in that version of the future, it makes sense in that the "new" future is a bizarre mirror of their reality, except nicer for them. Like, despite all the changes their kids still exist and are functionally identical to who they were in the alternative timeline. It's basically like a genie granted them the wish that their lives would be better. Realistically we would expect to see a future where things were radically different because of a small change in the past, instead we get a future where things are remarkably similar despite many, many changes.
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I suppose it's implied that Biff's success, while not as extreme as the alternate 1985 timeline where he owns everything, still makes life pretty lovely for the town overall. And the more of a failure he is, conversely the town and the other characters are able to thrive.
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I always figured they inherited the home from a family member. Which would explain why they had a nicer home than they should have in the original timeline as well as explain why they'd still be living there in the new timeline. Maybe they're just watching it for Jailbird Joey.
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BioEnchanted posted:Maybe they were enjoying humiliating him. "Hey jackass, you spent our entire youths throwing your weight around to get your way! Now it's our turn!" I thought was made pretty clear but I guess not.
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Baron von Eevl posted:In Knives Out, Daniel Craig's character Benoit Blanc is a reference to Mel Blanc as the former is basically doing a Foghorn Leghorn impression and the latter was his original voice actor. I'm probably missing the obvious but if that edit is referring to Daniel Benoit having Fragile X syndrome, then 
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RandomFerret posted:Shakespeare's wife was named Anne Hathaway, do people in this universe think that's weird? Where there's a Will, Hathaway
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Marcade posted:I'm probably missing the obvious but if that edit is referring to Daniel Benoit having Fragile X syndrome, then https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-use-kegel-balls I was being silly with that one.
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Yeah, in retrospect that should be obvious but if I wanted to read into that a joke about a kid murdered by his psychotic wrestler father, who can blame me?
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Aphrodite posted:He does get vaporized early. But now he is in charge of films 
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Cacafuego posted:Reading through the Expanse novels and learned about the Le Verrier discovery of Neptune there yesterday and today it’s ITT. Weird coincidence? Uranus was called Herschel (after the astronomer who discovered it, Sir William Herschel) by various groups for decades, and other groups such as the British Nautical Almanac Office stubbornly insisted on calling it Georgium Sidus for a very long time. There was a whole lotta salty bitches in 18th century astronomy. 
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Oh, if only they knew.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Oh, if only they knew. "Gentlemen! After 70 long, harrowing years of furious bickering, infighting and backstabbing we have finally found peace and reached a consensus! At last, the newest celestial body in our solar system has an official name, a grand name, a name that honors one of the greatest and most powerful of the primal gods of antiquity! A name that will be revered and honored throughout the ages! It is my great honor to present to you .... " /checks notes "PLANET DEEZNUTS!
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"Lol, Keppler big ones in yer mouth!"
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I just want to say that casting Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg in the dukes of hazzard is the best casting of all time
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oldpainless posted:I just want to say that casting Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg in the dukes of hazzard is the best casting of all time But the worst casting mistake was not using Tom Welling and Paul Walker as the Duke brothers.
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Welling would probably have refused to sit in the car.
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Drunken Baker posted:I can't believe Ligma is no longer classified as a planet. I'll bite. Present them.
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