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![]() This is the name of a device from Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. The sticker on the amp Marty plugs into reads ‘CRM 114’. CRM 114Ī fairly blatant nod here, although easy to miss if you don’t know what it means. There’s a Statler dealership in every iteration of Hill Valley – they’re “Honest Joe Statler’s Fine Horses” in 1885, “Statler Studebaker” in 1955 and “Statler Pontiac” in 2015 – and so this is basically our first example of the trilogy starting a running gag. ![]() Statler ToyotaĪs the radio clicks on, we get our first reference to “Statler Toyota,” a car dealership that will later be seen in in Hill Valley’s main square (it’s the source of the truck that Marty cherishes so much). The Doc’s clocks (II)Of course, as well as giving us the opportunity to glimpse into the Doc’s clearly fractured psyche, the clock sequence serves another purpose: it’s an obvious homage to the 1960 classic The Time Machine, which also opened with a montage of shots of different types of clock ticking. The flat nature of the clock makes it look like a still photograph, but it’s actually a genuine model clock that was commercially available. Watch the Back to the Future Trilogy on Amazon So if you immediately recognize the reference we’ve made in the number we’ve chosen, you might want to join us as we go chronologically through all three films and pick out as many easter eggs and other nerdy things worth spotting as we can find. If you’ve watched the films more than once, chances are you’ll have noticed plenty of them – but we’re not sure anybody’s gone through and put together quite so comprehensive a list of them in one go as we’ve done here. Barely a scene goes by, in any of the three films, that doesn’t contain something worth keeping an eye out for, or that rewards repeated viewings – whether it’s a nod to something recognizable from popular culture, a clever easter egg relating to the ongoing story and characters, or even just a little piece of in-joke trivia. ![]() Aside from being just generally one of the greatest movie trilogies ever made, the Back To The Future films are especially notable for just how densely packed they are, both at script level and then again in production. ![]()
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