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My Pop's an Alien

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"My Pop's an Alien" is the twenty-third episode of the second season of Back to the Future: The Animated Series. It first aired on November 7, 1992.

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[edit] Brief synopsis

Marty does his parallel parking on the DeLorean outside the store that Jules and Verne are in. As the comet Kahooey is about to pass the Earth's orbit, Biff declares that aliens are coming and causes the residents of Hill Valley to panic. Biff finds a "space craft" behind Doc's oleander bushes -- an alien craft he recognizes from 25 years earlier and the last time comet Kahooey appeared. Biff has the military, police and assorted agencies believing that Doc is an alien. With Doc in serious trouble, Marty, Jules and Verne travel back to 1967 to straighten out the mess. Marty and the boys find that Doc has built a flying craft to view the comet and that Biff has mistaken it for an alien space ship. When Marty, Jules, and Verne appear in beekeeper suits and the DeLorean while confronting him, they make Biff promise that he won't say anything about the "visit" from the aliens -- now and in the future. Biff promises and Marty, Jules and Verne head back into the future in 1992, early 1993. When they arrive, Doc is fine and Biff is trying to peddle some cheesy "alien" souvenirs without much luck.

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"192 dollars?!? That's my allowance for the next... (long pause while counting) a long time!"
—Verne to Wally
"Sorry about your ship, Doctor Brown."
—Marty to 1967 Doc, mirroring what he said upon crashing into the Peabody family's barn
"You do sorta look like that J. Michael Fox guy."
—Verne to Marty
Jules as alien: "We wish to study the least intelligent creature on Earth."
Biff: "No.. no.. there's gotta be somebody dumber than me. In school, I got a F plus."
Verne: "We're gonna use your brain for a very small pencil eraser."
— Interrogation by Marty, Jules, and Verne

[edit] Behind the scenes

  • The episode is inconsistent with the continuity established in the films. When Marty, Jules, and Verne travel to 1967, they see Doc jump out of his "spaceship" and towards his mansion. However, the mansion had burned down in 1962, and Doc had then sold most of the land to developers, as shown by newspaper clippings visible in the opening moments of the film Back to the Future.
  • In the film, Doc noted that it had taken his entire family fortune to build the time machine. Not only is the rebuilding of the mansion inconsistent with spending all of his spare time and money to realize the vision of time travel, so too is the construction of a spaceship capable of ascending into orbit.
  • As Marty, Jules, and Verne leave 1967, the clock on the Courthouse can be seen moving, however according to the films, after November 12, 1955, it would never move again.
  • Marty, Jules and Verne pretend to be aliens in order to manipulate Biff, an homage to the "Darth Vader" scene in the original film.
  • An earlier draft of the script for the first film called for Marty to posed as an alien to scare Biff, rather than George. And the original draft for the script to Part II, had Marty going to Hill Valley in the year 1967 in order to prevent Biff from causing problems in the present.
  • "Comet Kahooey" is likely a humorous takeoff of the name of Comet Kohoutek, which approached Earth in 1973. Predictions, by some scientists, that Kohoutek would be brighter than the 1910 Halley's Comet, were spectacularly wrong.
  • The time display is not shown in the episode, although Marty has chosen to go to 1967 because Biff says that he saw the alien "25 years ago". The episode was first broadcast in 1992, which was 25 years after 1967.
  • Doc accesses Section O of the Video Encyclopedia for Optical Illusions.

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[edit] 1967 locations

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