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Back to the Future: The Animated Series, s02ep013 "Verne Hatches an Egg"
✨Last episode of the series!✨
Previous episodes linked here.
In this episode: Verne gains a cute little buddy, creepy Mr. Wisdom returns, and a jarring final moment with Real Doc
Well, friends, we've reached the end of our journey into the world of the animated series. It was almost exactly one year ago today that I posted my review of the first episode, and it's been a super fun project to work on. I'm kind of sad to be done with it.
Let's see what this last episode has in store for us, shall we?
We start in the lab, where Doc is making adjustments to his latest invention, the "ELB Pediatric Policer."
It's basically a lie detector designed to be worn by children, lol. When a child does something they know is wrong, or if they lie about something, it flashes with lights and blares a siren. He plans to present it at the Annual Convention of the Home Inventors of Mad Geniuses.
Gonna be real with you, Doc—not sure how I feel about this invention. Sounds like a good way to raise very anxious, paranoid children.
Anyway, this reminds Doc of something that happened to Verne when he was doing show and tell one day.
The cartoon begins with someone attempting the steal the DeLorean. They're shrouded in shadows, but it's pretty clear that it's Verne. He's got a pretty high track record for DeLorean thievery. Doc's security system catches him, though, locking him into the car, setting off an alarm, and taking a picture, which is sent directly to Doc's room.
Quick little sidenote, but I don't think I've mentioned that Doc regularly calls Clara "Clarabelle" over the course of the series. When he's woken up by the alarm system, it's the name he uses to call to her, and I was like, "huh. why have I never written about this in my posts?" I looked it up, and Clarabelle (the spelling according to the subtitles on the DVD) is a variant of the more official spelling, which is Claribel. It means "bright and beautiful" but seems to be a pretty obscure name, as it's only listed at .009% usage at the height of its popularity in 1893.
So, I'm left wondering: Is the animated series implying that it's perhaps her "real" name, with Clara being her nickname? Or is this just an affectionate nickname Doc uses for Clara? And if it's a nickname, is it something Doc simply thought had a nice ring to it, or is it because he's secretly a big fan of the Disney character Clarabelle Cow??
That's Clarabelle with her boyfriend Horace Horsecollar, btw. If you even care.
Verne tells Doc that he was only taking the DeLorean so he could go looking for something cool to bring to show and tell. Doc decides to help him out by letting him borrow an arrowhead he has. Verne is psyched, but before he can even reach the school building, Biff Jr. intercepts him and demands his lunch money. He steals the arrowhead from Verne.
Verne's teacher isn't happy that he had nothing to show or tell about, and she tells him that if he doesn't bring in something the next day, she's going to make him play Prince Charming in the upcoming school play. Which is a really weird threat if you ask me!! How does one force a child into a lead role of a play he doesn't want to be in just because he didn't have show and tell? What kind of school is this?
Verne is horrified by this news on account of he'd have to kiss some girl named Beatrice. He says he'd rather be, "dead like a dinosaur" which gives him a sudden idea. I sense a bad decision coming! And I bet Marty is going to be in on it because he always enables Varne in these types of shenanigans.
Yep. I knew it.
The boys take a quick trip to prehistoric times, where Verne swipes a dino egg for show and tell.
Shortly after arriving home, the egg hatches, and Verne finds himself caretaker to the world's cutest dinosaur.
Look at that guy. (Verne faints when he sees it)
Within the hour, the dinosaur has already grown significantly, and it escapes outside to the yard, where Verne begs Jules to help in hiding him. Just then, they hear Doc approaching and quickly work to form a ridiculous story in which the dino is their friend who painted himself green because they're playing a game involving aliens.
They're able to get away with it on account of Einstein is so afraid of the dinosaur that he launches himself at Doc's face and refuses to move.
Doc decides to take Einie to the vet, leaving his sons and their "friend" to continue their game. Jules insists Verne return the dino, but Verne wants to keep him as a pet. He names him Tiny.
It doesn't take long for Tiny to go missing in town. He ends up at the Tannen home, where Biff Jr. is watching Mr. Wisdom (who you may remember from an episode earlier in the season). If you don't, you just need to know that Mr. Wisdom is an evil children's TV show host who also happens to be one of Doc's old college roommates.
Mr. Wisdom announces that he's offering $50,000 to any viewer who can capture and send in an alien, bigfoot, or dinosaur. Very unfortunate timing, huh? Biff captures Tiny and sends him into the Mr. Wisdom show. After airing a special episode featuring Tiny, Mr. Wisdom plans to kill him and sell pieces of him to research labs for money.
Thankfully, Verne comes clean to his parents, and they work together to form a plan and sneak onto the set to free Tiny.
When Mr. Wisdom starts his show and reveals the "dinosaur," it's really just Marty and Jules on stilts.
Jules looks just like the monkey in that one meme.
The family gets home and prepares to bring Tiny back where he belongs. Before he goes, he spits out a baby tooth, which Verne is excited to be able to take to show and tell.
With that story wrapped up, we go back to Real Doc, who teaches us a little about eggs using a raw one. While he's talking, he takes out the lunch he'd packed, of which one of the items is a hard-boiled egg. Can you guess what happens? Yeah, he mixes up the two eggs. After some time to think about it, he feels pretty confident that he's figured out which one is the hard-boiled one and. And he just BITES into the egg, shell and all, like an absolute lunatic. And he's wrong about it being the hard-boiled one.
Who does this? Who on EARTH eats a hard-boiled egg in this manner? Are you telling me that Doc regularly leaves the shells on his eggs and bites into them like an apple?? He eats the shells? Is that what I'm supposed to take away from this??
We're ending the animated series with the revelation that this is how our beloved scientist finds it acceptable to eat a hard-boiled egg?? What am I supposed to do with this now? How will I make peace with this information?
Join me next time for nothing. The animated series is over, folks. Doctor Emmett Brown eats eggshells.
Adiós.
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I was watching the bttf animated series and saw a scene of doc hugging marty and was like "I wanna redraw that"
#back to the future#marty mcfly#bttf#doc brown#back to the future art#bttf art#my art#art#its canon doc can pick up marty easily#also hehe lil petpet marty gif IDK WHY THE QUALITY IS SO TERRIBLE#technically its a video not a gif#does anyone even watch the bttf animated series lmao
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doctober day 7: family
aka 3 brothers just hangin out ^_^
bonus (dedicated to all of the older siblings who got outgrown):
#my arts#back to the future#bttf#marty mcfly#verne brown#jules brown#michael j fox#doctober#doctober 2023#my sketchy wip arts#watched most of s1 of the animated series today (shoutout synthsays) for the 1st time while drawing this n im sooooo uwu for them WAHH T_T#also knowing how tall doc is i just assume his kids would be tall too. so. rip to marty ur a short king <3#also also the time skip bonus thing was partially inspired by that part in the game where doc says the boys are looking into colleges#so they are all (supposed to be) the same age in that one. like 17-18ish :)#also also also i was soooooo close to not doing full body on this one ;w; but i was like COMMIT !!!! so voila#and on TIME AGAIN YAHHH we goin strong on this streak B)#also also also also i think its lowkey cute that they all share similar elements in their designs <3 they are family fr#(okay enough w the ALSOs lmbo im stopping now.) but yeah i love them a lot <3333#and this is the pic doc keeps in his wallet BYE
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Mythbusters, but make it Doc Brown and Bill Nye.
#back to the future#bttf#bttf the animated series#doc brown#bill Nye#bill nye the science guy#Mythbusters
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In defence of BTTF animated series
And I can hear your thoughts: "What the duck is Alex on? How can this series be any good?"
NOW HEAR ME OUT. I am not saying it's a masterpiece, but I am here to give credit where it's due.
Ah, the animated series. The media we all want to forget, or maybe some did not know it existed. Filmed in the 90's, a time when every popular movie got a TV series and believe it or not, animation wise BTTF got the short end of the stick.
The style is not... It... Characters are too over the top. Phrases are weird, and jokes were not landing. (And they aged like milk...)
Okay but maybe story is okay!? Haha... Not quite :D. BUT heres where it get's a point in my book. The ideas are there, but they are so poorly explored.
Retired - Could have been (and even slightly was) about how all of Emmett's self-worth is on his intelligence.
The ideas, story, everything was there, but not explored enough.
I believe it's because of the target audience. It was fit to be a Saturday morning cartoon in the 90's for kids. And for that, the animated series was great.
Many people who saw it in the 90's say it was good.
Maybe this rant is useless, but the animated has inspired many aus and fics of mine!
Alien doc is a direct result of "What if doc was actually an alien in "My pops an alien"".
The fic where doc dies is inspired by "Retired"
The other fic where doc dies is inspired by "Witchcraft"
Surprisingly in the next one doc does not die. "Gone fishing" rewrite.
Maybe everyone had the exact same opinion as me and it was common knowledge. Yes, it's best to be forgotten and it's still the worst BTTF media. BTTF movies aged like fine wine, but animated - like milk. But I still love it :>
#bttf#back to the future#doc brown#bttf fanfic#bttf au#alien doc au#bttf animated series#bttf animated
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This book im reading is Doc-coded as hell
(Sand flats referring to Los Alamos btw)
#i finsihed thw animated series too#bttf#back to the future#harassynth is a federal crime mr corleone#This character in general is doc-coded#he used to work at georgia tech#was made fun of by other scientists saying he probably wasnt even a real professer#AND worked on the Manhattan Project? all he needs is a silly little brunette 17 year old to walk up to his door lol
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“hey bozo!”
“those things don’t work on water!”
“--unless you got POWER!”
“Power. Wait a minute, I got all the powers I need, I’m half-ghost!”
#Back to the Future#BTTF#BTTF II#Marty McFly#danny fenton#did you know the BTTF animated series voice actor for Marty McFly is the same as the voice actor for Danny Fenton?#anyway even the movie version of Marty gives off Danny Fenton vibes#danny phantom#the only way to fit Marty's head into the helmet without the proportions being ridiculous was to shrink his head but i didn't do a good job#gif#animated#animatic
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Theem :P
#♕ scribbling ~ my art#❏ things to enjoy ~ fandoms#back to the future#bttf#bttf fanart#fanart#marty mcfly#jules brown#verne brown#bttf animated#bttf animated series
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an animated bttf series that’s more like an anthology and follows different characters from different time periods in hill valley but also has a larger plot that comes in sometimes.. cool art style that makes me want to chew on the tv is optional but appreciated
#i just want bttf the animated series but Actually Good please#back to the future#time travel car movie tag
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Subway doodles I made at work
#yeye#subway surfers#subway surfers animated series#ssas#frank#jake bressler#yutani rodman#tricky fairchild#second one is a bttf reference if you squint#how do you art
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I looked in my mailbox yesterday and saw that my parents had sent me a lil gift, apparently they found him at Target lurking in the back of one of the shelves!!! They looked it up later and there aren’t any sold at that target which is wild, either way I GOT THE BOY! He’s the littlest guy and I adore him
#back to the future#bttf#ig technically the animated series since that’s how he’s designed but#look at his little face#he fits in the palm of my hand he really is the littlest guy#marty mcfly
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Back to the Future: The Animated Series, s02ep12 "St. Louis Blues"
Previous episodes linked here.
In this episode:
Almost at the end of the series, folks. We don't have much Real Doc content left, so let's treasure our time with him while we can.
We find our friend Doc at the Hill Valley baseball field, where the Hill Valley Dreamers are playing against the Riverburg Big Dudes. According to Doc, the teams aren't very good, and most of the seats remain empty during the games. However, this hasn't stopped Doc from somehow managing to end up in the worst seat possible.
He does occasionally poke his head around the beam to talk to us, but he just. Goes back to sitting behind it. There is NO ONE else around, and he can literally sit in any seat he wants, but he's resigned himself to being unable to see the game.
I love Doc so much. Where else am I going to find a man who's like this?
As he enjoys an iced tea and a hot dog, Doc shares that the food and drink were both introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, which he went to with his family. We go into the cartoon then.
Marty and Jennifer are on a date to play mini-golf, but it isn't going well. If you've been keeping up with these posts, you probably know that Marty and Jen don't exactly have a great relationship. Jennifer is angry at Marty like 80% of the time on account of Marty being an immature doofus who likes to tease Jennifer and lie to her. As they play golf, a series of mishaps (due to Marty's clumsiness) causes Jen to be sprayed with water and then covered in green goo from the fake volcano.
Marty thinks this is very funny. Jennifer does not.
After laughing at Jen for a little, a girl in a convertible pulls up to chat with them. Her name is Liz, and she's apparently a rich, snobby girl who goes to Marty's college.
Liz asks Marty if he wants to be her date to a party at the country club or, "play kiddie golf with the witch." And even though Marty has plans with Jennifer (you know, his girlfriend) for later that night, he decides he'd rather go to the country club!! With this mean girl Liz!!!
Jennifer stomps away angrily, to which Marty does not even react. He just laughs and goes, "Well, looks like I'm free."
Jail for Marty.
He goes right to a barbershop to get a haircut in preparation for his country club date, but even the cheapest haircut is $92.50. Marty leaves and figures maybe he can borrow money from Doc.
Doc, Clara, Jules, and Verne are all at an amusement park. After paying $275 just for admission and then being charged $10 each for a drink, Doc and Clara propose they take the time machine to visit an old-fashioned amusement park where the prices are much more reasonable. Jules and Verne aren't interested, though; they want to stay and ride the present day thrill rides. Clara and Doc decide to take the trip themselves and tell the boys they'll be back in two hours.
Meanwhile, after arriving at the Brown home and finding it deserted, Marty comes upon one of Doc's inventions in the garage—the "Hair Cut O Matic." Ah, the perfect solution to Marty's problem!
Except, as is the case with most of Doc's inventions, it malfunctions pretty much right away. Marty barely has five seconds to admire his fresh new cut before his hair starts morphing before his very eyes.
Listen. Marty deserves this, okay?
Also, I don't think I've really mentioned this in past posts, but some episodes have quick segments called "Back to the Facts" which is when Cartoon Doc reads off a fun fact that relates to the episode. I assume these were played at the start or end of the commercial breaks? Anyway, this episode has an interesting one where Doc notes when the first roller coaster opened (1804) and mentions that they probably didn't go as fast as the "roller coasters of today—which can travel up to 66 mph."
I did some research because my initial thought was, "That can't be right. Roller coasters in 1992 could only go up to 66 mph??" But it appears that fact was right, as I looked up a list of coasters from that year and couldn't find any that went above around 60 mph. Which is crazy because that seems so...slow? Roller coasters today can reach much higher speeds, with the fastest coaster in the world ("Formula Rossa" in the United Arab Emirates) going almost 150 mph.
I personally have ridden the fastest coaster in North America, "Kingda Ka," which hits 128 mph. This beast:
Yes, the drop is every bit as wild as it looks. No experience like it. I think I've been on it two or three times? It gets shut down a lot because if there's significant enough wind, it sways and becomes too unsafe to ride, lol.
Must refocus. Marty goes to the amusement park to try to find Doc and ends up having to cough up $100 for the entrance fee anyway. So...Marty had the money. He just didn't want to use it for his haircut.
He has a stunning, beautiful braid at this point, btw.
Marty's hair briefly returns to normal, and he buys himself a hat to hide it as he continues to wander around the park looking for Clara and Doc. He's eventually spotted by Jules and Verne, and this is where I got sidetracked AGAIN because I could not for the life of me figure out what Verne was saying after he sees Marty. It sounded like, "Hey, lookie! Michael came back from The West!" I went back and listened two more times, and it sounded the same. I assumed it was an obscure reference to something, but I couldn't figure out what. Then I went and turned on the subtitles and saw the line is, "Fievel came back from The West!" which still didn't help me at all.
So, I did some searching and found it's a reference to An American Tail: Fieval Goes West, which is the sequel to An American Tail, a movie that's apparently about a Jewish mouse named Fievel Mousekewitz? I guess this is something the kids of 1992 would have known?
Marty, Jules, and Verne travel to the World's Fair in 1904 and set up the Time Train as a fair exhibit: The Train of the Future. A Tannen relative, P.T. Tannen, sees it and is intrigued. He's looking to set up an exhibit of his own that will bring in a lot of money, and for a moment, it looks like he might take the train. However, it turns out that he wants MARTY for his exhibit. A boy with magically changing hairstyles is just the thing he's looking for.
After kidnapping Marty and locking him in a cage, P.T. starts attracting quite the crowd to view such a freak of nature. Doc and Clara even wander in and are horrified to see who it is. The audience screams in terror as Marty's hair continues to change.
Doc and Clara attempt to create a diversion and rescue Marty, and there's a moment where another one of those weird mistakes with the animation happens. As you may remember, there have been instances of character's eyes and skin tones changing color randomly during scenes, as well as objects disappearing from the frame. This show is full of errors, but this one is a first. After being caught by P.T. Tannen, Doc's eyes inexplicably glow for several seconds.
I would love to know what was happening behind the scenes of this show because it's so sloppy a lot of the time.
After successfully escaping with Marty, everyone returns home. Marty dresses in a spiffy suit, gets his hair fixed, and takes the DeLorean over to Liz's house. There has not been one sighting of Marty's truck over the course of this whole show, so I assume he doesn't have one in the cartoon universe. He's always borrowing the DeLorean. Also, not a single mention of parents or siblings.
Marty's whole experience with his hair has taught him a very valuable lesson: it's not nice to make fun of other people. He tells Liz that he never should have teased Jen at the mini golf place and says he can't go to the country club with her. This doesn't bother Liz one bit since she found a "better" date to take her: someone who is rich and popular. Marty goes to Jen's house with flowers, pizza, and some movie rentals and apologizes to her. She forgives him, gives him a kiss, and we go back to Real Doc, who catches a baseball in his ice cream cone. He still attempts to eat it.
This is a fun episode. I like when I get to go and do a few minutes of research and learn about things like roller coaster speeds and animated mouse movies. But I can't believe so many episodes are built on the premise of Marty being a meanie and having to go through something awful to learn his lesson. Cartoon Marty is so wildly different from Movie Marty, and it makes me sad to think about the potential the show could have had. Bob Gale should approve a reboot of the cartoon but make it GOOD this time. He should hire the Tumblr BTTF fandom to work on it.
Join me next time as we head into the final episode of the series. 😭
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Hiiiiiiiiiii! I'm in love with your redesigns! Could you pls talk about your ideas for a bttf cartoon reboot?!
hi there!! i’m so happy you like them :,)
and i’d absolutely love to! so much so that i made an extensive google doc rambling about it. you can read it here! thank you for your interest, it means a lot. :D
additionally, here are some more redesigns i made for the four other main characters! (einstein would be here too, but i’m still working on getting better at drawing animals rip)
💙💜💚🧡
#back to the future#bttf#back to the future the animated series#back to the future re:animated#doc brown#clara clayton#jennifer parker#marty mcfly#nem art :)#nem askbox :D#dr nemmet brown at your service!
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Season 1, Episode 7- Einstein’s Adventure/Time Waits for No Frog
Im both excited and terrified
This being the only episode with two stories is throwing me off a ton though
Lmao i love doc being invisible
Why is the machine shaped like chickens lol
So far so tame i guess
I adore marty’s shirt in this ep though
I wanna say some good things cause from what ive heard it gets real bad
Conquistadors!!!!!! Ofc hes a tannen
Martys poor itchy feet
OH MY GOSH THEYRE LOOKING FOR EL DORADO!!! My blorbos miguel and tulio hang out there :D
Doc needs to be more concerned here
Oh there he goes
Please theyre so funny
Marty saves the day with dancing is not something i expected here
UGH OKAY THERE IT IS
FEET FUCKING FULLY IN THE FACE EW
Okay now onto einy’s bit which will hopefully have significantly fewer feet
Who are these jokers???? AND HOW DARE THEY CALL THE DELOREAN A HEAP!
Ha! Get em einy!!!
Awe kangaroo friend
Oh theres the tannen
YEAH KANGAROO FRIEND TO THE RESCUE!!!
I always forget the deloreans trunk is in the front
The einy one was cute
HEY NOW IVE SEEN THE WHOLE SHOW :D
Screw the frog ep though, i totally get it now
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I cannot be the only one to think Jules Brown is a total papa's boy.
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Ok, update on the uh hallucination au???
⚠ Unreality, Hallucinations ⚠ just in case
Ok so y'know how in the last post I said it would require Doc being the main character to work, and also for nobody else to interact w/ Marty (and/or more other characters that may be hallucinated??). The IRL segments from the animated series do exactly that, 1. They make Doc the main character 2. Nobody interacts w/ any of the other characters besides Doc. Even when a baseball player came on screen and technically Jules and Verne had just broken a window w/ a baseball, the player doesn't mention it at all.
More under cut ⬇️⬇️⬇️
(Ik that it's bc none of the other actors could be in the irl segments but none of other characters are ever show on camera besides Doc even tho he mentions them regularly, and Jules and Verne have been in the lab while the cameras rolling but they still weren't shown. Although their voices can be heard, my theory that is kinda unlikely is that Doc can do impressions??? Like Verne does perfect impressions of both his mom and dad, Doc could be doing his kids voices??? Idk)
Almost all of the episodes are him starting like "If i remember correctly..." or something like that, so how did Doc know all of the characters perspectives if he wasn't there at all? Of course they could've told him, but how do you remember something that didn't happen to you? Unless Doc made up Marty (and co.)'s adventures. And it gets even more dark than the last post because, if Marty doesn't exist and Clara, Verne, and Jules all regularly interact with him, and not many other people at all. Doc's whole family could be hallucinated, I mean Doc married a woman who was supposed to die in 1885??? Or did he...
#somehow I made it darker than the last post <:]#tw: unreality#tw: hallucinations#so yeah Doc isnt doing too hot on the whole “staying sane” thing#bttf#back to the future#sorry abt that#again#the silly <:]#doc brown#bttf au#bttf animated#bttf animated series#harassynth is a federal crime mr corleone
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