Question: What was so wrong with Marty and Doc returning to the future and stopping Old Biff from stealing the DeLorean? If they stopped Old Biff from stealing it, he wouldn't be able to go back in time to give his younger self the almanac.
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Answer: To use Doc's example in the film, think of time as a linear straight line. Beginning at the point where the past was changed (i.e. Old Biff giving the almanac to his younger self in 1955), time would then continue linearly; therefore, traveling to the future from 1985-A would result in visiting the future of 1985-A. That's why Doc and Marty had to go back to 1955 to get the almanac back; once the anomaly was corrected (i.e. the almanac removed from where it didn't belong), the 1985-A timeline would vanish and time would resume its course the way it should in the original 1985 timeline.
Question: Ruth Meyers told Willy Jack that it would take two years to get his song on the radio. Why does it take so long, at least when this movie was filmed?
Answer: He's an unknown singer. It takes time to groom and refine a novice entertainer's raw talent, shape their image, build their career, book gigs, get a record contract, generate publicity, get a song recorded, and so on. Most radio stations are not going to play a random, unknown singer's song.
Question: When is Nikko's name (leader of the flying monkeys) actually stated in the movie?
Question: Has it ever been revealed what's under Double D's hat? If it hasn't, what is the best speculation?
Answer: Danny Antonucci thought it best to leave up to the viewers' imaginations where it'd be sure to be even more outrageous. My guess is one bad haircut.
Question: Throughout the series, Sarah has been shown to have excessive anger, as well as hostility towards her older brother. Is it ever revealed why she is so angry?
Answer: She's just a spoiled, bratty younger sister.
Question: At the end of the film, and just after the shootout between Andre Davis and Captain McKenna, we can glimpse blood on McKenna's badge as he's knelt down, seriously injured. Is this a reference to Andre's previous statement that "There cannot be blood on the badge"?
City on the Edge of Forever (a.k.a. Flashbacks) - S2-E7
Question: Why is there a "missing" flyer for Macaulay Culkin?
Answer: I think it's just a joke about how out of work and the limelight he had been. This episode aired in 1998. From '88-'94, Macaulay had been in 14 movies, 3 TV shows, 2 music videos, and appeared on over a dozen shows as himself (SNL host, late-night talk show guest, etc). After "Ritchie Rich" in 1994, he wasn't in anything or on TV. So he was nowhere to be found for 4 years. Although, prior to the airing of this episode, he did appear in Sonic Youth's "Sunday" music video. But I think this episode was created before the release of the video.
Question: Why does the first tripod kill every human in sight if that just leaves the others with not so many humans to harvest? The only purpose of the heat ray would be in defense.
Question: What was happening with the reaper's back when he was biting Lighthammer?
Answer: From what I understand, this is simply somehow part of the reaper's digestive process. As the "sacks" inflate on its back, oozy liquid is also being expelled. If I recall correctly, in one of the commentary tracks, it's explained that this is basically how the reapers "defecate." Once they've filtered out the nutrients from the blood, it is expelled as the oozy liquid. Presumably the sacks have something to do with this.
Question: Why'd they cancel the show?
Answer: Details are sketchy, but apparently NBC had renewed the series for a 5th season, but after unresolved contract disputes, the network canceled the show. 20th Century Fox, who produced the show, attempted to get other networks like FOX, TNT, and TBS to pick it up, but the studio was unable to reach favorable terms that would protect the show's artistic content.
Question: After Rizz brings Sandy to Danny as a surprise, Sandy runs off, and Danny looks at Rizz. Is it a look of being annoyed by Rizz, or is it "I'm sorry I hurt you before, I get why you've done this"?
Answer: He's hurt and he gives her a look of "You did this deliberately" - by bringing Sandy to meet him in front of the T-Birds, she blindsided him (and Sandy) and forced him to bring out his T-Bird persona during their surprise reunion. Obviously, that's not how he wanted his reunion with Sandy to go, and Rizzo is loving it. Rizzo is my fave character, but that bit is messed up. She may be doing it to get him back for using her as a one-night stand (before he met Sandy, not recently enough to have been the father of the suspected pregnancy like the other poster suggested). She may simply be doing it to spite Sandy because she dislikes her, and Danny is hurt and annoyed that she upset Sandy.
Question: When Rose went underwater to retrieve her fallen keys, what was the story of the ballroom? Why was it flooded? Also, why did Rose choose to swim in the water fully clothed instead of just going in her underwear, to prevent her clothes from getting soaked?
Question: Spoiler! Did Skull shoot Tony in the back or spine?
Answer: Most likely, spine.
Question: How could Roy crush Eddie's head with a leather strap? This seems so unrealistic, even for this series.
Answer: It's highly unlikely, but it's actually not impossible. It's really dependent on how tough the leather strap is. Some leather can contend with a few hundred newtons of force before breaking. And a minor fracture or crack to one of the thinner parts of the skull can occur with as little as 15-20 newtons of force. Depending on where the strap was placed, it's possible it could crush enough bone to critically, or even possibly fatally, injure someone before it would snap. Again, highly unlikely, but it's actually not a totally unbelievable death.
Question: Why does the governor think that nobody cares about lesbians? Am I missing a joke?
Question: At the end, when Peter Ward was saying goodbye to his family for the last time, were they the ghosts of his family, or was he imagining the whole conversation as a result of never having gotten to say goodbye in real life?
Question: If the two cops in the diner recognized Peter Ward as he (in his Will Atenton persona) was talking to them about the case, then why were they acting like he, in fact, wasn't Peter Ward but someone other than him? Or did I miss something?
Question: Why did Jaimee Foxworth and Jaleel White dislike each other?
Answer: At first, the original cast was not thrilled about Jaleel White, Steve, becoming a popular main character. According to White, Jaimee Foxworth felt that he was taking attention away from her. Foxworth has also claimed that White was a bully to her on the set. White, however, has said that he was mistreated by the cast when he first became a regular.
Question: When we first see Michael Burry at his desk, practicing drumming, he is wearing a T-shirt with what looks like a complicated mathematical formula on it. Can anyone identify this?
Answer: As Doc explained, they'd be traveling to an alternate future. A future where old Biff already has the almanac, and thus, the alternate old Biff wouldn't have a need to steal the DeLorean to give his younger self the almanac. (I believe there've been discussions on here about why did old Biff then return to the same future Doc and Marty were in instead of the alternate future, and it's implied he basically fades out of existence.)
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