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=== Part 1 ===
* Doc is testing out the DeLorean, explaining what he thinks will happen.
{{quote| If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles an hour [[Sophisticated As Hell|you're gonna see some serious shit.]]}}
* Marty McFly first meets his mother as an attractive teenage girl -- and immediately experiences a mini-Oedipal breakdown, not helped by the fact that she's obviously into him:
{{quote| '''Marty''': You're my muhh... you're my ''muhh''...<br />
'''Lorraine''': My name is Lorraine. Lorraine Baines.<br />
'''Marty''': Yeah... but you're ''hoo''... you're so ''hooo'', you're so... thin. }}
* When Biff and his gang are about to crash into a manure truck.
{{quote| '''Biff and Co.''': {{smallcaps|Shiiiit!}}}}
** And also this gem:
{{quote| "My name is Darth Vader! I am an extraterrestial from the planet Vulcan!"}}
*** Not to mention Marty using a Walkman with a [[Van Halen]] tape as an [[Agony Beam]], and the extended version of the scene (available on the 25th anniversary DVD) and passing off a hairdryer as a brain-melting gun. And the [[Brick Joke]] that Marty knocks George out with chloroform, and in the next scene George says he missed school because he overslept.
** Marty finally meets his Uncle Joey:
{{quote| "Better get used to these bars, kid."}}
*** And the follow-up, where Joey's mother says, [[Foreshadowing|"He cries whenever we try to take him out so we just leave him in there all the time."]]
* Near the mid-point of the film Doc and Marty work out how they're going to get George and Lorraine together... only for Lorraine to turn up at Doc's house and tell Marty that a real man stands up for the woman he loves.<ref>Marty had just punched out Biff at Lou's Cafe.</ref> As she's saying this, Doc leans forward onto the covered Delorean in what can be only be described as a full-body [[Face Palm]].
* Blink and you will miss it: The time machine is equipped with Good''years'' tires.
* A deleted scene, viewable in the various DVD and Blu-Ray releases:
{{quote| '''Marty:''' You know, this is the kind of thing that could screw me up permanently. What if I go back to the future and I end up bein'... gay? <br />
'''50s Doc:''' [[Have a Gay Old Time|Why]] ''[[Have a Gay Old Time|shouldn't]]'' [[Have a Gay Old Time|you be happy?]] }}
** Another deleted scene shows Marty peeking into a classroom window and seeing Lorraine cheating on a test. Even funnier is a joke version of the scene, in which Michael J. Fox acts like a "greaser".
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=== Part 2 ===
* Doc about what would happen if Jennifer meets her future self:
{{quote| '''Doc:''' I foresee two possibilities. One, coming face to face with herself 30 years older would put her into shock and she'd simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that's a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.<br />
'''Marty:''' Well, that's a relief. }}
* In the future, a scene occurs which mimics the manure truck scene mentioned above, only Griff [[Asshole Victim|(Biff's grandson)]] is the victim. Future Biff is a bystander and comments "There's something very familiar about all this."
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=== Part 3 ===
* Doc spilling the truth about the future after losing Clara.
{{quote| '''Cowboy:''' Do people still walk or run in the future?<br />
'''Doc:''' Of course we do, but for recreation. For fun.<br />
'''Cowboy:''' Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?! }}
** The fact that Doc tells Marty the cardboard Indians at the drive-in won't be there in 1885 when he drives the DeLorean towards the movie screen... except they are, and they're REAL.
** Marty running away from the bear is pure slapstick.
** Doc passing out after drinking whiskey.
{{quote| '''Marty:''' How many did he have?<br />
'''Bartender:''' Just the one.<br />
'''Marty:''' Just the one?!<br />
'''Bartender:''' Now there's a fella who can't hold his liquor. }}
*** And then Doc's subsequent reaction to the "wake up juice."
** The old-timers' reaction to seeing Marty in his goofy pink "Western" outfit:
{{quote| '''Old-Timer #1:''' Take a look and see what just breezed in the door.<br />
'''Old-Timer #2:''' Well, I didn't know the circus was in town!<br />
'''Old-Timer #3:''' Musta gotten that shirt off'n a dead Chinese. }}
** When Marty identifies Buford Tannen as "Mad Dog" Tannen, everybody in the saloon either runs away or hides under the tables.
* Doc handwaving away the moral complications to train theft: "We're going to hija--''borrow'' the locomotive..."
** Also a brief [[Heroic BSOD]] when Doc momentarily remembers how he unintentionally changed history:
{{quote| '''Doc:''' We'll drive the train towards Clayton...''Shonash'' Ravine.}}
* 1955!Doc reading the letter from 1885!Doc.
{{quote| '''Doc:''' "Please take care of Einstein for me. ''Einstein''?!"<br />
'''Marty:''' "It's your dog, Doc." }}
** At the end of the same letter, 1885!Doc's rather heartfelt farewell to Marty is considered an in-universe [[Heartwarming Moment]] by Marty...and Doc's younger self. "I never knew I could write anything so touching." "I know, Doc, it's beautiful."
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* The sequence where Emmett and Edna trade insults in Episode 2 while {{spoiler|Doc rescues Einstein from the courthouse roof}}.
* In Episode 3, Marty has to distract {{spoiler|a brainwashed}} Biff, which is accomplished by pointing out various nearby objects.
{{quote| '''Marty:''' Biff, look! Girlie magazines!<br />
'''Biff:''' Boobies?! }}
* Early on in Episode 4, {{spoiler|Citizen Brown is strapped to a wheeled bench right in front of a giant speaker while Edna and a guard look on. Marty plugs his guitar into the speaker, then jumps down onto the bench dramatically intending to play a loud chord and blast himself clean out the door with Brown. He hits the strings... and only moves a few inches, completely subverting the awesomeness of the maneuver.}}
{{quote| '''Marty:''' Okay, that was a little less dramatic than I'd expected.}}
* In Episode 4 Marty informs Doc that his alias at the moment is Carl Sagan.
{{quote| '''Doc:''' The "billions and billions" guy?}}
** Read the explanation of this at [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Carl Sagan#Billions and billions|here]].
* In the ending of Episode 5 {{spoiler|when Doc and Marty are dumbfounded by Edna ending up with Kid Tannen.}}
** "Don't say anything. Let's just walk quietly into the lab and hope there are no more surprises..." And then the [[Mind Screw]] of an ending...
** The [[Shout-Out|shout out]] to the end of the first film.
{{quote| '''Future!Marty''': Bring [Marty] too! This concerns both of you!<br />
'''Marty''': Why, what happens to us in the future?<br />
'''Doc''': Do we become assholes or something? }}
* If you examine the mop in Episode 5:
{{quote| '''Marty''': The top of a mop. I can flop it on a cop. I can swap it for a top. I can...I think I'll stop.
}}
 
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