Back to the Future in popular culture

The Back to the Future trilogy is a comedic science fiction film trilogy written by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, directed by Zemeckis, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The plot follows the adventures of high-school student Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) as they use a modified DeLorean automobile to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California.

The first film was the highest grossing film of 1985 and became an international phenomenon, leading to two sequels which were filmed back-to-back and released in 1989 and 1990 respectively. The trilogy is widely noted for its irreverent comedy, eccentric characters and ability to incorporate complex theories of time-travel without confusing the audience. Though the two sequels did not perform quite as well at the box office as the first film, the trilogy remains immensely popular and has yielded such spin-offs as an animated television series and a motion-simulation ride at the Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, Florida (ride now closed as of late March 2007); Universal City, California (ride closed on September 3, 2007), and Osaka, Japan.

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 * In one episode of the American television show Supernatural, Dean is transported to the past by an angel and has several experiences mimicking the film. Dean meets his father in a diner (the entire scene is an obvious parody), there is a minor character named Dr. Brown, Dean asks the angel if they "...got a hold of some DeLoreans or something" to send him back, He is referred to as "Future boy" and many other subtle references appear throughout the episode.
 * A Simpsons episode titled "Bart to the Future" has an Indian sachem showing what Bart's future may look like 30 years from now. The bully Nelson Munt is a nightclub owner with a dark suit, turtleneck, and better styled hair than he had as a child. The future Nelson's appearance and business ownership was a nod to the powerful Biff of 1985A and the title is like Back to the Future. In another episode of the Simpsons "That 90's Show", Homer is playing a grunge song to much success, and 'Marvin Cobain' calls his cousin Kurt to let him know of the sound, in reference to the famous scene of 'Marvin Berry' calling his cousin Chuck for him to hear Marty playing "Johnny B. Goode".
 * The 2007 movie Knocked Up in the scene where Ben, Alison, Pete and Debbie are having dinner at a restaurant and Ben and Pete are joking about their future with Pete saying "Where we're going we don't need roads," as well as "I'm gonna throw you in my DeLorean and gun it to 88," much to the chagrin of the annoyed and confused women. There are also some references to Doc Brown.
 * in an episode of Invader Zim, Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy. When Professor Membrane talks about the dangers of altering a timeline, he says: "The consequences could be disastrous!", This is exactly what Doc Brown said under the same circumstances.
 * in The Big Knights, in the episode "Borodzo to the Future" is a spoof of Back to the Future. The main characters Sir Boris and his brother Sir Morris riding the time traveling horses with fearless valiant, and Housetrained Knights of Borovia, Sir Horace and Sir Doris. When The Big Knights using the swords of justice and going back in time to 1985 Borovia style. When the time-traveling black horses disappears leaves two trails of orange smoke. When King Otto using the DeLorean as a time-machine with Wizard Zabobon, King Otto punching in 1985, Borovia style on the time-circuit display and the fairly oddparents style of the DeLorean time machine going up at the top speed of 88mph, it disappears in explosive light, leaves a trail of fire and the license plate spins around like in the movie, When Princesses Lucy and Loretta riding the time-traveling pink and green motorcycles has the parts of the DeLorean time machine and punching in 1985, Borovia style on the time-circuit display. it drives off and they going fast with booster engines in the back blows out in burning smoke, the flux capacitor is glowing, it going up at 88mph and with sparks and bluish white lights began to flash around the motorcycle and created three sonic booms disappeared in a brilliant flash of explosive light, leaving a trail of pink and green flames, and finally, Sir Kiftsgate riding the time traveling horse using the sword of justice and punching in 1985, Borovia style on the time-circuit display. Sir Kiftsgate has Dr. Emmett Brown's "Roads? Where we're going, We don't need roads" line, with the time-traveling horse is floating on the ground, the horse neighing sound with the flux capacitor is glowing with a black horse power up of time travel with the engine running and the VROOM! sound effects is shown and the DeLorean time machine starts up, the hoofprint legs is the flying device exactly like the hover-converted wheels from the DeLorean time machine at the end of Part I. When Sir Kiftsgate on the time-traveling horse is flying just like the reindeer's on Santa's sleigh, including the time-traveling horse legs going fast and flies off, before flying rapidly forwards at the screen. He disappears and two trails of fire burst out from where the horse's tracks were.
 * In an episode of Stargate Atlantis, Major Shepherd suggests you would need a "really nice DeLorean" to travel through time and later names a device attached to a time travelling space ship as a "flux capacitor".
 * British band McFly, named themselves after lead character Marty McFly.
 * In the Disney Channel Original Movie Minutemen, Virgil, Charlie, and Zeke need to get permission to access room 77 in order to build their time machine. They get permission by having a club at their high school called, "Back to the Future Fan Club."
 * in the episode Merle's Mirror, When Flicker considers about Flamiano starred in Back to the Future Parodies with Princess Flame. Flicker says, "Flame, Flamiano was starred in the classic movies of the 1980s and the 90s." the Narrator says, "Coming to Video, from the Producers of Camelhot 3-D, Castle Battle Camelhot, and Camelhot vs Threadbare. comes on a rad film is so cool you gonna say, Blazing Dragons! That's so Cool!" cut to Castle Camelhot of the Alternate 1980's, Flamiano drives his brown sedan car as a time machine to chase from Count Geoffrey's ancestors using swords to battle, But Flamiano driving so fast in his car, he says, "Oh, You're a Outatime Mister!" and Then, Flamiano hits the gas pedal and the car going back in time going up at 88mph just like the time-traveling DeLorean, leaves fire trails on the ground, when Flamiano back to the Present Drops Count Geoffrey's ancestor on the ground, begins to fade from existence. he says, "What the?" his body parts turn transparent, then disappear. the Narrator says, "Flamiano stars in "Castle Camelhot to the Future" Coming Soon to Video."


 * King Allfire considers about the Scenes in Back to the Future. he says, "A Dragon Knight always about time travel in the Back to the Future trilogy, the first movie is the time-traveling DeLorean sending Marty Mcfly back in time from 1985 in a cornfield and Doc Brown Connect the Electric-cables on the Clocktower succeeds to get Back to the Future after being hit by lightning, the hover wheels on the second movie is airborne on the flying car Doc and Marty are traveling to the future with the Fire trails on the sky and the Hoverboard scene, the white-wall tires and railroad wheels on the third movie has the Old West in a Runaway train scene with the Locomotive Train's Boiler and the Time vehicle going up at 88mph leaving a Trail of Flames on the Traintracks."


 * Sir Loungelot turning the pages of King Allfire's Code of Chivalry and Section #401A has the sketch of the flux-capacitor is shown.
 * in the episode "Tournament Day" When Flicker turns the potato electric on, it affects his armor, pulling him to the magnet along with Flame has the wires resembles the electrical-cables that Doc Brown connected on the Clock Tower in the first movie.
 * Evil Knights #1, 2, and 3 in the Brown Knight, has a lot of controls on the buttons and the piece of the device is the flux capacitor. Evil Knight 1 says, "Well, sure, let's see... that's the flux-capacitor this is what makes time travel possible." The flux capacitor was a part of the time machine in this film and was invented in this film by the Doc.
 * When Merle the Wizard teleport away to Castle Threadbare with Count Geoffrey with the flash of blue light, leaves a trail of smoke to travel time after being hit by lightning after the Evil Knights, and Queen Griddle and the dragon knights beat them up, which is reminiscent of how the DeLorean "time machine" succeeds to get back to the future by being hit by lightning.
 * When the tournament begins. It is a jousting tournament in which the contestants' armor is equipped with a fake horse and the Back to the Future theme song can be heard.
 * in the episode "Excaliburn" When Count Geoffrey with Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3 are Running away, similar to the one in "Back to the Future", where George McFly riding the Bicycle and Marty McFly runs off in 1955.
 * When the dragon knights and the Chancellor fight over who gets to be king next, then Camelhot will fall into chaos and oblivion, similar manner to Biff Tannen and his cronies crashing into the Manure Truck.
 * When Squire Flicker built his latest invention, The Sword Polisher. trying to Polish Excaliburn, When all of the Sudden. Flicker says, "Blazing Dragons! It Sounds my Polisher is having a Meltdown." Similar to Dr. Emmett Brown built the DeLorean Time Machine and Tested for Time Travel in "Back to the Future".
 * in the episode "Knights and Knightresses" When Sir Burnevere considers about time travel, the DeLorean, the Hoverboards, with the "Roads?" quote in the trilogy, and the Lightning strike on the clocktower. Sir Burnevere says: "the time-traveling DeLorean with the Time Portal sent back in time Just Like in Back to the Future."
 * When Flicker and Loungelot on the model scale of Camelhot in the Royal Throne Room with King Allfire and Queen Griddle. Sir Loungelot says, "King Allfire, thank goodness you're safe. Please excuse the dragon Knights of this model, I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it. Flicker carrying the DeLorean Time Machine toy. Flicker says, "It's good.' Sir Loungelot says, Oh, thank you, thank you. Okay now. Your Majesty, we run some industrial strength electrical cable from the top of the Clock Tower down to spreading it over the street between these two lamp posts." King Allfire pointing at the model of Castle Threadbare. he says, "Meanwhile, we out-fitted the time vehicle with this big pole and hook which runs directly into the flux-capacitor." Flicker says, "At the calculated moment, you start off from down the street driving toward the cable execrating to eighty-eight miles per hour." Queen Griddle pointing at the top of the model of the DeLorean Time Machine. Queen Griddle says, "According to the flyer, at Excaliburn lightning will strike the Clock Tower and Count Geoffrey of Threadbare Castle with his Evil Knights Numbers 1, 2, and 3 sending one point twenty-one gigawatts into the flux-capacitor, sending you with Loungelot, the dragon knights and others could going back to the future." Flicker winds up the DeLorean Time Machine toy. Flicker says, Alright now, watch this. Sir Loungelot put on his science back to the future shades. he says, "Flicker, you wind up the car and release it, I'll simulate the lightening." King Allfire says, "Ready, set, release." (Flicker releases the car. It races down the main street in the model. When it hits the 'wire' Loungelot has hooked up it accelerates. and the DeLorean time machine replica disappears, leaves fire trails behind in model.) "Blazing Dragons! the Time Machine Works in Back to the Future at 88 miles per hour with the DeLorean!"
 * in the episode "The Stone of Wisdom" When Count Geoffrey and Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3 holding the parts to assemble a Doomsday Device from Merle the Wizard, and built the Doomsday Device insert tab A and Slot B, similar to the one that Doc Brown Built the DeLorean Time Machine in Part I.
 * in the temple, which a shopping mall. When Sir Loungelot looking at the flux-capacitor, indicating that it is the main source of time travel in the DeLorean time machine. he says, "Hmm, Looks like something for the Queen that has everything."


 * in the episode "Renaissance Dragon" at the very beginning, in Camelhot of the Alternate timeline Flamiano looking at the photo of the inventions at Flamiano's house. he says, "I'm a Going a to a test the experiment of a Camelahot, to the Time Machine DeLorean from the Back to the Future Movie!" When Flamiano﻿ runs off and going inside in a time traveling car called the DeLorean, it drives off in the speed of light on the road. he says, "I'm a have to a go at Camelahot, in a Time a machine built a out a of the DeLorean in a Back to the Future." Flamiano hits the gas and the DeLorean time machine going up at 88mph with sparks and bluish white lights began to flash around the car and created three sonic booms disappeared in a brilliant flash of explosive light, leaves a trail of fire and the license plate spins around and then drops flat onto the ground. When Flamiano arrives at his destination, Castle Camelhot. There was the three sonic booms, The DeLorean Time Machine comes out in a nuclear explosion, Just like the one where Dr. Emmett Brown built this time machine into a car in the movie trilogy and (while the track "DeLorean Revival" from the film score plays in the background). Then, the camera makes a close-up examination on the front of the DeLorean, Flamiano parked here and the car is covered in ice, just as it was after making its first time travel trip in the first movie. opens the Gull-Wing Door, gets off and close the gull-wing door. he says, "I'm a made a it!" Sir Burnevere on the top the balcony of Castle Camelhot with Squire Flicker. he says, "You mean to tell me, you built a time machine out of a Camelhot DeLorean?!" Flicker looking at Flamiano and the DeLorean Time Machine. he says, "The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car why not do it with some style." Sir Galahot says to Flamiano, "Besides, the stainless, steel construction made the flux dispersal- of time-travel in the Back to the Future Movie Sir." But Suddenly, Cinder and Clinker using the twin trumpet and Breaths Fire on Flamiano and Sir Loungelot says, "Blazing Dragons! the Time Machine works with 1.21 Gigawatts of Electricity in the DeLorean!" When Flamiano running so fast and enters Castle Camelhot and introduces his new inventions.
 * When Flicker using Flamiano's invention to falls down and then he takes off into the sky and flies at the camera the same way the DeLorean did at the end of Part I, But Suddenly Flicker crashing into Sir Loungelot's Room of Castle Camelhot.
 * in Flicker's Laboratory of Castle Camelhot, the posters for the trilogy and Dr. Emmett Brown's Brain-Wave Analyzer is seen.
 * During the scene in the Royal Throne Room of Castle Camelhot, Flicker and Flame considers about the dialogue of all three "Back to the Future" movies with King Allfire. Flicker says, "Flame, the first Back to the Future movie where Marty McFly in the plutonium-fuel DeLorean time machine built by the ingenious inventor Dr. Emmett Brown after sent Einstein one minute into the future in the remote control." Flame says, "the DeLorean time machine reappears and covered in ice, Doc Brown turn on the time circuit display and punching in the timelines on the red time zone." King Allfire says, "first the red time zone is July 4, 1776, and Dec 25, 0000, but Doc Brown says about the date in the history of science November 5, 1955 and put the plutonium in the back of the time machine." Flicker says, "When the Libyans arrived on a moving van, they shot Doc Brown, but Marty drives the DeLorean going up at 88mph, going back in time and landed from 1985 to 1955 in a cornfield and looking at the barn. but he ducks and scrambles back into the DeLorean time machine and it takes off, he knock over a pine on the way and parked here and spots a sign for the neighborhood that he lives in, It's Just about to built and meet his parents as teenagers." Flame says, "Flicker, this scene where Marty is Darth Vader and the skateboard chase scene when Marty riding the skateboard in 1955 from Biff Tannen and his gang, Marty hangs onto the front of Biff's convertible and lands on the skateboard, Biff Tannen and his cronies hit by a manure truck and getting covered in manure." Flicker says, "Your Majesty, the model scene has the plan in the scene That Doc Brown didn't have to scale it model it or to paint it, and the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance scene has the band play is singing "Earth Angel" and Marty playing Johnny B Goode, by the Starlighters." King Allfire says, "Blazing Dragons! Doc Brown connecting the electrical cables in the Clocktower they find that they are too short and must stretch them and suddenly, a lightning strike is needed on the top of the courthouse mall and sending that kid back to the future in the time-traveling DeLorean." Flicker says, "at the end of the classic movie has Doc Brown wearing futuristic clothing, putting all the trash in the Mr. Fusion Generator from the DeLorean Time Machine and tell Marty about the future kids in danger, as the time Machine going back up and Doc Brown has the "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads." quote, as the time-traveling DeLorean can fly and the wheels fold into the hover-converted wheels as they flies away, swings back and going towards the camera."
 * Flame says, "Flicker, at the beginning of the Second Back to the Future film is the events like in the end of the first movie but is the events is the same." King Allfire says, "Look puff, When Dr. Emmett Brown wearing futuristic clothing, putting all the trash in the Mr. Fusion Generator from the DeLorean Time Machine and tell Marty about the future kids in danger, as the time Machine going back up and Doc Brown has the "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads." quote, as the time-traveling DeLorean can fly and the wheels fold into the hover-converted wheels as they flies away, swings back and going towards the camera it simply has the wheels fold into the hover-converted wheels as they flies away, swings back and going towards the camera leaving a trail of flames on the sky. they could traveling to the future, aka the 21st century." Flicker says, "Marty McFly put on his power-lace shoes, his audio-adjusted jacket and a rainbow cap, he has the spinning image of his future nephew." King Allfire says, "the Café 80's and hoverboard chase scene and Marty riding the Hoverboard against from Griff Tannen and his gang in the hoverboards, as they travel back in time to the Alternate 1985 aka, 1985A." Flicker says, "Flame, this scene has the walkie-talkies is seen in the footage and the Western Union scene has Marty holding a letter that he was reading and Doc Brown is in the old west, but he's alive." Flame says, "and has the Clocktower in the first movie is the events is referenced."
 * King Allfire says, "You see puff, the third Back to the Future film with Marty McFly in the Time Machine DeLorean going back in time to the Old West, aka 1885." Flame says, "Marty must be Clint Eastwood, with the runaway-train scene that Doc Brown says it's a science experiment! and Dr. Emmett Brown's Plan to heat up a train's boiler to gain the necessary speed. put all of the color logs in the boiler in the train, first the yellow one, with the green one and finally the red one." Flicker says, "Doc Brown saves Clara from the out-of-control train and they flying on a Hoverboard from the second movie." King Allfire says, "When Marty McFly going Back to 1985 in the DeLorean Time Machine leaves a trail of fire and the train exploded in a fashion that featured in the movie after plunging into the ravine." Flame says, "Then, Marty McFly jumped off and the train destroys the DeLorean Time Machine, with the time circuit boards flicker one last time before they go dead forever, but the flux-capacitor is safe and indestructible as the Time Train appears and meet the family." Flame says, "here's Doc Brown with his wife Clara Clayton and his boys Jules and Verne." Flicker says, "Doc Brown gives to Marty a gift photo of him and Doc at the clock tower in 1885." King Allfire says, "Jennifer Parker holding the FAX from the second movie disappears, and it's simply erased." Sir Burnevere says in the Royal Throne Room. "Doc Brown says It means that your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one. Both of you!" Flicker says, "at the end of the movie, where Marty and Jennifer wave back, and the time train rises into the air and suddenly gains speed and disappears."
 * When Flicker pouring the black powder on the barrel. he says to Princess Flame, "Maybe it has something to do with all this strange black powder?" Flicker holding the gunpowder, sniffing. but suddenly, he sneezes, explosives and the million gunpowder barrels appeared, similar to the fashion of the explosion on the Temporal Displacement.
 * When Castle Guards using the binoculars the window on the balcony after Flicker and Princess Flame flies to the air. (while the track "Skateboard Chase" from the film score plays in the background) Flicker says: "Flame, let's go to see my latest invention." When Flicker and Princess Flame flies to the Laboratory. but Flamiano go straight down to the street and jumps up to the air flapping his arms to fly and landed into a catapult. he says: "I'm a going to a chasing the Assistant is great a genius to a.... using a catapult to fly into the a air." When Flamiano activating a catapult and flies off to the village. he says: "I'm a Prepared for a Camelahot and Going to Threadabare Castle." but Flamiano attempt to fly, King Allfire and Queen Griddle standing at the ramparts, King Allfire looking at Flamiano at the sky. Queen Griddle says: "What? Have you lost you're senses! this Manure of Camelhot is up here to the village and the classical statues is isn't that right Allfire?" King Allfire says: "Ah, Griddle, sorry my dear. Flamiano Is about the crowning touch of Camelhot's Renaissance, but he's attempt to fly and in the pile of manure in the evil Count Geoffrey's "discount fertilizer" is far up from here and including the King's classical statues." but Flamiano started to fall, land in a pile and getting covered in manure with the sign on the top it says, Count Geoffrey’s "discount fertilizer" much like Biff Tannen and his cronies. When Count Geoffrey puts the manure on the shovel and put right here on the top and put the manure on Flamiano, he says to Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3. "Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3. I Have a Plan, this is the place of manure it call it, Count Geoffrey’s "discount fertilizer" and to Make Sure Merle the Wizard to use spells of magic and pour the manure like in the Back to the Future movie with the manure truck."
 * When King Allfire of Camelhot talking to Count Geoffrey about the dangers of altered the Rocket in Camelhot to Castle Threadbare, he says: "Count Geoffrey, what's the meaning of this?" Similar manner to the one that Doc Brown pulls out a Letter to Marty McFly in the Clocktower scene in the first movie.
 * Flamiano's Future self wearing a lab coat and the scientific goggles Just Like that Dr. Emmett Brown was, also a voice actor played Flamiano in the series. he says: "Great Scott! the time machine worked in the trilogy in a DeLorean." Flamiano talking to his future self about the second season of the dragon knights of the square table are in danger. he says: "Wait a Minute Doc, What a are you talking a about? what a happens to the dragon knights of Season 2?" Flamiano's Future self talking to his past self have to save the Dragon Knights of Camelhot, before Queen Griddle Comes in Flicker's Laboratory. he says: "Oh, whoa! whoa, Both you with the Dragon Knights of the Square Table and Flicker is simply make him Loungelot's Squire again, I'm Off of the classic film Back to the future!"
 * When Flamiano leaves Camelhot using the DeLorean Time Machine with his future self and putting all the trash in the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor generator of Camelhot. (while the track "Back To The Future" from the film score plays in the background) Flamiano says: "I'm driving the a time-traveling DeLorean from a Back to the Future a Movie." Cinder and Clinker opens the Gull-Wing doors from the DeLorean time machine, Cinder turns on the engine and Clinker turns on the time circuit display. Cinder says: "The Royal DeLorean Time Machine has cometh." Clinker says: "And the Flux Capacitor is the main source of time travel in the movie." Flamiano and his future self looking at the DeLorean and the time circuit display is turn on. Flamiano punching in Camelhot of 1955 and looking at the Flux Capacitor. King Allfire, Queen Griddle and the Dragon Knights of the Square Table. Sir Galahot, Sir Hot breath, Sir Burnevere, Sir Blaze, Sir Loungelot, Cinder and Clinker, Princess Flame and Flicker standing in the ramparts. Flamiano from the future says: "Well, I guess we have to go back to the future." then Flamiano and his future self get into a DeLorean close the gull-wing doors and drive through the drawbridge, leaving fire trails, then Cinder and Clinker looks in through the ground.
 * at the very end. in the Royal Throne Room, King Allfire, Queen Griddle, Sir Galahot, Sir Hotbreath, Sir Burnevere, Sir Blaze, Sir Loungelot, Cinder and Clinker, Princess Flame and Flicker is sitting on the seats watching the classic Back to the Future Movie with Sir Burnevere is drinking a soda with Sir Galahot eating a long meatball sandwich, with Sir Blaze is eating a burger, Sir Loungelot is eating a big size Cookie, Sir Hotbreath eating a Popcorn and finally, Princess Flame and Flicker eating some chicken drumstick shapes of Camelhot.
 * in the episode "Excalibroke" During a flashback, When Flamiano leaves Camelhot of 1985 and looking at the flux capacitor and the time machine settings in the DeLorean, Flamiano says, "I'm a going to Test a Time a Machine in a the DeLorean." Flamiano going inside. "Now, I'm a Going a Back to the Future." When Flamiano punching in Camelhot, the Future in the Time Circuit Display and the car going backs up, the wheels fold into the hover conversion and it flies away, swings back and goes right toward the camera at the end of Part I, and travels to the future leaving a trails of fire on the sky.
 * When a lightning strike on Sir Loungelot to repair Excaliburn and fixes it, (presumably caused by the Lady of the Lake) similar manner to lightning striking on a Clocktower that Dr. Emmett Brown connecting the electrical cables in the clock tower scene from the first movie.
 * When Flicker and Loungelot going back to Castle Camelhot from the temple of Sword repair walking. Flicker says: "Milord, If you want to go Back in Time in my Greatest Invention of 1.21 gigawatts of electricity, and King Allfire pulls out the sword and the stone with Excaliburn, the Dreaded Count Geoffrey about to Sieged into Camelhot and the flux capacitor from the DeLorean Time Machine?" Sir Loungelot says, "Flicker, that's from Back to the Future."
 * in the episode "Single Green Dragon" the Poster for the film is seen at a casino of Camelhot while Sir Loungelot﻿ wins a lot of money gambling on the slot machines.
 * King Allfire with Queen Griddle and the Knights of the Square Table. Sir Loungelot, Sir Galahot, Sir Hotbreath, Sir Burnevere, Cinder and Clinker, Sir Blaze, Princess Flame and Flicker are going in the DeLorean time machine. King Allfire says: "I say, the DeLorean time machine built this for generations to come right here at Camelhot." Sir Burnevere says, "You mean to tell me, you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?!" Then Flicker turns on the Time Circuits punching in Castle Camelhot and he says: "Flame, If we going Back in Time to Castle Camelhot and stop the oblivion from Excaliburn." Princess Flame says: "Flicker, you have to go Travel Back in Time at the Time Machine that you built into a DeLorean in the footage of the movie and we shall going to the Camelhot film festival of all three "Back to the Future" movies." Sir Galahot says: "The 1.21 giga-watts is powered in the time machine Built into the DeLorean in the Back to the Future Movies, and the ungrateful damsel sir." Sir Loungelot says: "Squire, you'd better back up. we don't have enough road to get up at 88." Flicker says, "Roads, Where we're going we don't need roads." Flicker hits the gas with the wheels fold into the hover conversion and the DeLorean flies away, swings back and goes right toward the camera, leaving a trail of fire on the sky. King Allfire with Queen Griddle and the Knights of the Square Table. Sir Loungelot, Sir Galahot, Sir Hotbreath, Sir Burnevere, Cinder and Clinker, Sir Blaze, Princess Flame and Flicker come through a portal, into Castle Camelhot, and Team Camelhot returned from time travel, in the DeLorean, with the flaming tire tracks on the hover wheels and they landed. However, a portal was never used in any of the films.
 * In Garfield and Friends, the U.S. Acres episode "Quack to the Future" is a spoof of Back to the Future. The main character Garfield travels through time using a DeLorean.
 * In the 2007 Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code", the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) uses Back to the Future to explain how time can be changed to his companion Martha Jones.
 * Kanye West's song "Good Morning" from his Graduation album contains the third verse lyric "Look at the Valedictorians/Scared of the future while I hop in the DeLorean". The music video also includes a flying DeLorean not unlike the one seen at the end of the first film. Kanye's "Dropout Bear" mascot tries to fly off to school in the DeLorean in the beginning of the music video when he finds out he is late for his graduation ceremony, but the car stalls and he is left to run all the way. He and his friends are later seen flying in a topless version of the car at the end of the video.
 * in the episodes of Regular Show, In "Skips vs. Technology",  Skips rides in a DeLorean.
 * In some episodes, there is a mall called the "Two Peaks Mall", a parody of "Twin Pines Mall"
 * In the episode "Skips' Story", Skips helped set up a dance which was called "Enchantment Under the Sea."
 * in the Christmas Episode, they had the hoverboards and tiny references like pretending to die but actually using a bulletproof vest. At the very end, Santa flies off on the sleigh, before flying rapidly forwards at the screen. He disappears and two trails of fire burst out from where the sleigh's tracks were, much like the flying DeLorean at the end of Back to the Future.
 * In an episode of YTV's Show Viva Piñata, "Too Many Fergys", Les Galagoogoo puts away the time machine in his van, drives to the bush of Piñata Island and leaves fire trails in disappearence, just like the DeLorean.
 * The Disney Channel series Phineas and Ferb has an episode where the title characters build a "Flying Car of the Future Today" out of their mom's station wagon. Candace and Jeremy later use it on the way to rescue Phineas and Ferb, with the music in the background resembling the Back to the Future theme before they crash it. An earlier episode has Candace walking into Jeremy's house dressed like Marty in his hazmat suit.
 * In the episode "It's About Time!", Candace asks, "You mean to tell me, you built a time machine that has to be plugged in?!", which references the BTTF line "Are you telling me you built a time machine.. out of a DeLorean?"
 * The episode "Journey to the Bottom of Buford" focuses on the kids retrieving Buford Van Stomm's pet goldfish, named Biff. The fish's name and Buford's possibly refer to Biff and Buford.
 * In the episode "Phineas and Ferb's Quatom Boogaloo", when they use the time machine and travel to the future, they see flying cars. When they go inside Candace's future house, the door automatically opens and Phineas says "The Future", similar to what Marty McFly does when he visits 2015.
 * In the episode, "It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World", when the two toy monster trucks appear from light speed, they appear in a similar manner to the DeLorean, with flaming tire tracks and the flash of blue light.
 * The Nicktoon Series The Fairly OddParents. has an Episode where Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda riding in the Time Scooter they travels back in time leaving a trail of rainbow juice, The time scooter's exit and entrance are a reference to the DeLorean time machine's exit and entrance leaves twin fire trails, this one parodies the movie, mostly the parts where time is drastically changed and creates a dysotopian future and the past having to be altered to prevent that from happening again; This is actually true in real life just like the one in Part II. at the end of the episode, the time scooter can fly and has hovering on the ground, exactly like the DeLorean "time machine" in the hover-converted wheels.
 * in the episode "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker", after Timmy Turner time-travels to the 1980s with Cosmo and Wanda in the Time Scooter, the DeLorean time machine is seen with the top speed at 88mph and leaves fire trails in disappearance. In the same episode, it is revealed that the worst day of Mr. Crocker's life, when he loses his godparents, happened March 15, 1972, one year before Biff shot George McFly in Part II.
 * In the episode "Timmy's Secret Wish", when everyone becomes younger again, we see Timmy's parents change, and it says "Back to Normal", in the same style of the Back to the Future logo.
 * In the episode "Moooving Day", Timmy Turner gets on a Segway with Cosmo and Wanda, he turns it on and it displays stuff on a screen. The last thing it shows before he moves is Flux Capacitor with a graph under it, the top speed at 88mph and leaves fire trails just like the DeLorean.
 * At the end of the live-action telefilm adaptation A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, as Timmy Turner, Tootie, and the fairies drive off in their van, it takes off into the sky and flies at the camera the same way the DeLorean did at the end of Part I.
 * In the episode "Dread and Breakfast," Timmy Turner, Cosmo, Wanda and Poof come through a portal, into Timmy's room, in the DeLorean, with the flaming tire tracks and everything. However, a portal was never used in any of the films.
 * In the episode "Land Before Timmy", the gang is stuck in prehistoric times and the fairies' wands are out of power. Wanda says that the wands need "1.21 wish-o-watts (giga-watts) of power" to activate their Wish Capacitors.
 * In the episode "Fairy Idol", When Timmy Turner Clone drinking some fishbowl tea and spits on Cosmo and Wanda, Cosmo says: "Nobody calls Wanda fat except my mother, and me that one time and I'll never make that mistake again!" Cosmo has a similar reaction to what Marty McFly has when people call him a chicken.
 * In the 2000 movie Chicken Run has some references of the Back to the Future trilogy has the Gravy Machine's electrical cables That Mr. Tweedy hooks the cables up properly just like in Back to the Future where Doc Brown connecting the electrical cables hooked up on the top of the Clocktower.
 * When Rocky and Ginger hangs on the colorful lights, climbs up and going inside the crate (airplane), resembles the flags that Marty McFly gets into the DeLorean from Part II and escaping from Biff Tannen.
 * When Fowler riding the crate (airplane) and flies into the sky, exactly like the hover-conversion from the flying DeLorean used as a time-machine at the end of Part I. Fowler uses Doc Brown's Catchphrase. he says, "Great Scott! what was that?"
 * When Ginger holding the colorful lights on both hands, she let go the half of the colorful lights and Mrs. Tweedy falls down on the air. then, Fowler pulls the wheel up, the (crate) airplane flies into the sky. he says: "Bombs away!" and the Back to the Future theme song can be heard. when Mrs. Tweedy enters the Gravy Machine interior, stucked and the gravy rises up. then, Mr. Tweedy enters inside and steps back, closes the door in the Gravy Machine room, with the Gravy Machine blows up and the gravy in the front door, Mr. Tweedy opens the door again and reveals that Mrs. Tweedy is covered in manure. Mr. Tweedy says, "I told you they was organised."
 * Issue #259 of the VG Cats webcomic sees Aeris, fed up with Leo's feeble attempts at humour (mostly from internet forums), use a BTTF-style DeLorean (with visible flux capacitor) to travel many years into the past and kill him in utero, effectively 'aborting Leo from time.' (Ironically, Leo reappears two strips later despite this, claiming he 'got better') The comic features not only the time machine, but Aeris wears Marty's signature bodywarmer jacket and sunglasses; these items, along with the car's key, are initially held in an emergency-break-glass case with the label 'Break glass in case you need to make like a tree and get outta here,' a reference to the one-liner antagonist Biff regularly misuses.
 * An episode of Pokémon: The Abridged Series has satired Back to the Future, with a girl telling Ash to defeat his future self after he became obsessed with fighting Pokémon thirty years ago, simultaneously parodying the events of lightning striking the clock tower in Hill Valley and Biff Tannen rising to power in 1985A.
 * In "Peter", the 16th episode of the second season of the American television series Fringe, September meets with his associates, August and December, outside of a movie theater in an alternate dimension. The movie that is listed on the theater in this alternate dimension in 1985 is Back to the Future, Staring Eric Stoltz.
 * The Spanish band Delorean name themselves after the movies time travelling DMC-12.
 * Family Guy has made frequent references to the film:
 * In "Meet the Quagmires," Brian explains how the future changed a la Doc Brown. Brian takes over the dance band and plays "Earth Angel" while Peter proposes to Lois, and then when prompted, he says, "Here's a song by a gay guy," before starting to play "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. The injured bandleader, Rick's cousin "Marvin Astley" calls him up to listen to the song.  The scene is a spoof on the performance of "Earth Angel" and "Johnny B. Goode" at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.
 * In the episode "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", is a flashback where Doc Brown flies away with Marty and Jennifer and says "Something's gotta be done about your kids. Your Daughter marries a black man." This offends Marty and Jennifer.
 * In "Baby Not On Board", Peter is shown skateboarding to school with Huey Lewis and the News' The Power of Love in the background in a parody of the movie's opening.
 * A flux capacitor is a key part of Stewie's time machine in "Mind Over Murder".
 * Stewie's newer model time machine's return pad runs on uranium in a cylinder similar to the plutonium from Back to the Future in "Road to Germany". Also in "Road to Germany", while being chased by Nazis, Stewie 'borrows' the bottom of a vegetable vendor's wooden cart and uses it as a scooter, much as Marty McFly did in BTTF. Parodying the almost identical scene in BTTF, when the Nazis' car catches up to Stewie's scooter, placing him in imminent jeopardy, Stewie lets the scooter travel under the car while he runs over the top of the Nazis' heads to retrieve the scooter at the back end, causing the Nazis to turn around to watch and then crash into the back of a truck filled with manure, which as a result of the impact dislodges and covers them. And when Brian and Stewie first arrive in Poland, they leave twin fire tracks just like the Delorean.
 * Peter drives the Delorean time machine in "The Perfect Castaway".
 * "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'" features Peter's cousin Rufus, who stared in the fictitious blaxploitation film Black to the Future.
 * Marty is seen shouting at Stewie during a storm in "The Juice Is Loose".
 * In The Suite Life on Deck episode "International Dateline", the S.S. Tipton is repeatedly struck by lightning while crossing the International Dateline and sent a few hours back in time, creating a temporal loop. Lightning induced time travel is a major plot point in Back to the Future.
 * The second episode of Ashes to Ashes featured the central protagonist, time-travelling Detective Inspector Alex Drake, riding through London in a DeLorean twenty-seven years in the past.
 * In the Drake & Josh TV special, Merry Christmas Drake & Josh, Crazy Steve drives off in his DeLorean, and as he did, his licence plate fell off and spun around before falling down flat on the road, just like the visual gag in the movie.
 * In the Wizards of Waverly Place episode "Franken-Girl", Justin uses the electrical current of "1.21 gigawatts of electricity" from his wand to bring Franken-Girl to life.

Back to the Future Part II

 * In the Family Guy episode "Meet the Quagmires," Peter goes back in time and ends up not marrying Lois, altering history much like in BTTF II. In the altered timeline, Brian draws a time-line similar to Doc Brown's (while the track "Alternate 1985" from the film score plays in the background) and adds, among the things different, "for some reason, we now have a chalkboard in the living room." Peter also has a photograph of his children which fades throughout the episode, similar to Marty's.
 * At the end of the Family Guy special "Something, Something, Something, Darkside," Chris receives a letter from a mysterious man. The letter is a duplicate of the one at the end of Part II, and the last lines of the special are "He's alive, the Doc's alive, i mean sure he's in 1885, but he's alive!!", mirroring the end of Part II. The man is voiced by Joe Flaherty, who played the Western Union man who delivered the letter in BTTF II.
 * In the Blazing Dragons Episode "Renaissance Dragon" When King Allfire looking at the Mattel-branded hoverboard from Part II. the hoverboard can be seen in the Royal Throne Room.
 * The 1950-2000 Grays Sports Almanac book can be seen in Sir Loungelot's Room of Camelhot.
 * in Castle Threadbare, the Peasants using the Pit Bull Hoverboard from Part II riding on the air, But Peasant 1 falls down and landed for Count Geoffrey and Griff Tannen's gang Hoverboards can be seen on the ramparts. Count Geoffrey says to Evil Spy, "Something tells me this isn't working like it should!" and "You're certain you're not leaving out a few minor details."
 * Dr. Emmett Brown's Futuristic clothing can be seen in Flicker's Laboratory of Castle Camelhot.
 * in the episode "Merle's Mirror" Marty McFly's hoverboard appears in Flicker's Laboratory, where Flicker built his Inventions at Castle Camelhot.
 * in the episode "Tournament Day" Squire Flicker is the Pink Knight Pulls the Armor Helmet up just like that one Marty McFly pulls up the mirror sunglasses just shown in the poster of the second movie.
 * in the episode "The Stone of Wisdom" When Count Geoffrey finishes his Doomsday Device, Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3 is holding parts and Merle the Wizard is riding Marty McFly's hoverboard.
 * At the end of the Kappa Mikey episode "Easy Come, Easy Gonard", the Lilymu sequence shows Mikey being thrown off a roof by Gonard, but a split second later, Mikey is shown standing on the Lilymu team jet while it is elevating him back to the top, which is a spoof of a scene from the movie.
 * In The Simpsons: Road Rage video game, Professor Frink has a flying car. He mentions that the car has a flux capacitor and that if he goes any faster, the car will travel through time.
 * In the racing videogame Burnout Paradise, the Back to the Future DeLorean was described as "legendary", by way of the game's downloadable content pack "Legendary Cars". The pack includes a car called the Jansen 88 Special, which looks like the Back to the Future DeLorean, and at top speeds leaves behind a trail of fire and hovers above the ground.  Other cars in this pack are look-alike homages to the General Lee, the Ecto 1 and KITT from Knight Rider.
 * On 6 July 2010 an internet phenomenon arose over the apparent arrival date of the DeLorean, a screen-cap of the time module showing a date of July 6 2010 was rapidly posted by users of Twitter and Facebook with the caption (or variations of) "Today is the day that Marty McFly arrived in the future after hitting 88mph in a pimped out Delorean in 1985". This is not strictly acurate as Marty McFly went forward (in the film) to 29th October 2015. The screen cap is from the first movie. The first time shown (Jul 06 2010 01:21) is where Doc is planning on heading as he says he is heading to the future. When he sent Einstein to the future it was only by one minute, hence the last time departed (Oct 26 1985 01:20) at the bottom .Unfortunately the Doc never made it to 2010 as he was shot by terrorists.

Back to the Future: Part III

 * In an episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show when the family travels back in time to the old west in the DeLorean time machine, when main character and father Wayne Szalinski is asked his name by the town's inhabitants, he says it's John Wayne. When his wife gives him a look of disbelief, he says that if Marty could be Clint Eastwood in Back to the Future Part III, there was no reason why he could not be John Wayne? Diane remembers the film, and mentions that she didn't like it.
 * In The Polar Express(also directed by Robert Zemeckis), the locomotive is travelling over a series of hills and dips. Meanwhile in the interior of the train, the engineers are attempting to catch the broken cotter pin that is supposed to be holding the throttle together. In the background a flux capacitor can be seen, a nod to the Jules Verne time machine.
 * Also in The Polar Express, the Hero Boy pulls the train's whistle and acknowledges that he's wanted to do that his whole life. This line was said by Doc Brown after he and Marty "borrow" the locomotive.
 * A third reference present in The Polar Express is in the scene in which the locomotive halts abruptly, knocking down passengers in the process. After which, the train is then shown coming close to the camera. This scene mirrors that when Clara Clayton pulls the brakes on the locomotive she was planning on travelling on.
 * In the 2009 Family Guy episode "Business Guy", Peter and Lois are watching Carter's video will, but they play the wrong video, in which Carter says, "If you're watching this, it means the train was not able to push the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour and I am still stuck in the year 1885." A reference to Part III.