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What A Cartoon! - Back to the Future "Brothers" (Patreon)

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2020-10-05 04:00:01
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When the Back to the Future Trilogy wrapped up in 1990, the time-traveling antics of Marty McFly and Doc Brown seemed destined for an episodic TV series. And it would eventually see one the following year, though this animated show wasn't a shameless cash-in. Overseen by BTTF scribe Bob Gale, and featuring live-action segments with Christopher Lloyd himself, this cartoon offered a level of quality far greater than what could have been—even if the focus on Doc's sons hold it back. On this episode, BTTF superfan Dave Rudden joins us as we discuss the debut episode, "Brothers."

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Harry Thornton

I've still never seen the BTTF series, but this episode is perfectly timed after having recently gotten two unofficial Back to the Future guide books written by Rich Handley that list, respectively, both everything in the universe AND every event on a massive timeline. And yes, Bob Gale did enjoy the books. The animated series is extensively included in both books thanks to its length, and that's been where I've gotten most of the context for this episode. One of the books even notes another Simpsons connection: Bart Simpson is mentioned in Episode 21 as a possible other name for Doc's son Verne since he's embarrassed and bullied because of his current name. The Bob Gale mentions are fun, but funnily enough Zemeckis has done his own weird thing with BTTF recently where a model DeLorean was featured as a plot point in his film Welcome to Marwen.

Frank Grimes

Haha, crazy to think mr. Wizard was also part of gale's childhood. I vividly remember watching it in the early morning on nick

Alistair Shand aka Bongo

Re test card - in the U.K. when tv closed down for the night in the 80’s the BBC played the national anthem then played the worlds scariest test card google Uk test card F for creepy nightmares 😎

Paul

I loved the live action segments on this as a kid. I was so obsessed with BttF as a teen I read like 8 volumes of fanfiction from one lady that included a crossover between the movie and cartoon version, a crossover with the real Ghostbusters, a crossover with Quantum Leap, and Doc Brown getting lost in Middle Earth.

Dan Vincent

Agreed with the Tom Wilson praise. He's a wonderful actor, and this series got him into voice work, where he's had a ton of roles. He's Elisa's detective partner in Gargoyles Matt Bluestone. He was Tony Zucco in Batman TAS and tons of incidental Spongebob voices. Had the Telltale games been done today I think he'd be back as the Tannens since I think he's come around on his role in BTTF.

Joe Hodgson

I always knew the relationship of Rick and Morty was based on Doc and Marty, but man is it even more apparent when just listening to the isolated audio of this show where you have two voice actors doing impersonations of Lloyd and Fox. That one, stammering, Marty clip you guys played might as well be Morty. My experience with this show was exactly the same as Henry's. Nothing is pulling me away from X-Men on Saturday morning, but if a re-run was on (especially if it was of a lesser episode) then I'd watch this cartoon. And I had not even thought about this show in 30 years until recently as toy company NECA started making action figures based on this show. I think the only reason they exist is NECA had been after the rights for the films for awhile, but the actors all needed to be onboard. The animated series license was probably cheap and they took that first, but then Fox, Lloyd and even Tom Wilson agreed to do the film figures so now the company makes both. I think they even plan to do a DeLorean at some point. At any rate, these character designs aren't favorites of mine and they look even worse in plastic form. For that one person though that's been waiting on a line of toys for this show I sincerely hope they're happy.

Andrew Grieve

Pretty sure I was a regular viewer of this, especially right at the end of its run when it was airing at 12:30, if it was the last network cartoon of the day I’d probably be watching it. At least it explains why I watched Hammerman one too many times. I wouldn’t end up seeing the movies until a few years later, so as much as I get why they used the trope of inserting kid characters into the show, I was perplexed why they’d make the kids the leads, when you only saw them in the end scene of part III. I always liked those end bits with Tom Wilson as Biff either telling a bad joke or having some comment, but he’s always killing it in that role, just an extra charm point. And I can’t hear Dan’s Doc Brown voice without thinking of some of his random Simpsons v/o roles - “oh my god! He’s killed the original Alfalfa!”

Kevin Bunch

Boy, the big thing I remember about this show is that our local network affiliates didn't air it. If I got the antenna positioned just right I could sort of pick it up from the Toledo Ohio broadcast on my little bedroom TV, but otherwise it was tantalizingly out of reach until we started getting the scifi channel and they were airing it alongside the 80s Star Wars cartoons. I remember liking it pretty well, the bits I did get to see.

Blandon

Regarding the "Verne is too young" plotline: I think they do follow up on it, just not too explicitly. While he is too little to ride a hoverboard or drive a car in the 1990s, in the 1860s, he's old enough to join the Confederate army and die in war.

NervousWrex

Back in college (around 2008) I knew a girl who was such a huge Back to the Future fan that she had famously been selected to be the last person to ride the BttF ride at Universal before it closed down. One time at a party I told her "hey, since you're such a huge BttF fan there's this cartoon I think you would love". That cartoon being, of course, Doc and Mharti. Needless to say, neither she nor anybody else at the party seemed to appreciate it quite as much as I did. Anyways, I have absolutely zero recollection of this show, but maybe she would have liked it a little bit more.

Kat Heagberg

I remember the show a little bit (and loved this episode of the podcast), but most of all I remember the associated Happy Meal toys. The little cars you would “charge” then let go? Marty’s was a skateboard, with bubbles for some reason? I believe there was a Vern toy, but no Jules? (Poor Jules; even the dog got a toy.) They were so much fun to race! Top tier as far as Happy Meal toys go.

KaiserBeamz

I was actually exposed to this show via 4kids' FoxBox block in the Spring of 2003. Up to that point, the only Back to the Future movie I had seen was 3, but I was still able to appreciate it and could gather all references for fans. But was weird about this show was that it aired on a block that consisted mostly of anime and gritty action cartoons. Even as a 12 year old, I could tell it stuck out in it's 8:30 AM EST timeslot between Fighting Foodons and the early 00s TMNT reboot.

Brendan Ralph

Being another big BTTF fan, the only animation cel I own comes from this cartoon, featuring marty in the deloreon. was a pretty good deal on ebay and was an authentic cel from universal. Cels from these shows are pretty affordable as most people don't really care about them.

Matt

I watched this show quite a bit when it aired. I guess I'm in the minority opinion, but I do kind of prefer "Back in Time" over "Power of Love".

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag (edited)

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2026-09-07 10:00 Yay for the return of Diamond Dog Dave Rudden! -- I came to Back to the Future late, only watching them for the first time when I was 13 or 14, but I immediately fell in love with them pretty quickly, even if my opinions have changed somewhat since then (i.e. I now think 3 is pretty great and prefer it over 2 for the most part). That being said, I'd never watched the cartoon at all. Putting this on, I was immediately... disturbed by the cover of BACK IN TIME that was playing, and then everything felt good and normal again once Christopher Lloyd shows up on screen. As goofy and insane as this show is, I think I have to kind of love it, if for no other reasons than that it gave us more Lloyd as Doc Brown, and for helping Bill Nye become THE SCIENCE GUY. And while I do like Back in Time, I will agree that it's lyrics are nonsense, and as far as I'm concerned, the Bill & Ted cartoon wins in the theme song category.
2020-10-13 20:12 Yay for the return of Diamond Dog Dave Rudden! -- I came to Back to the Future late, only watching them for the first time when I was 13 or 14, but I immediately fell in love with them pretty quickly, even if my opinions have changed somewhat since then (i.e. I now think 3 is pretty great and prefer it over 2 for the most part). That being said, I'd never watched the cartoon at all. Putting this on, I was immediately... disturbed by the cover of BACK IN TIME that was playing, and then everything felt good and normal again once Christopher Lloyd shows up on screen. As goofy and insane as this show is, I think I have to kind of love it, if for no other reasons than that it gave us more Lloyd as Doc Brown, and for helping Bill Nye become THE SCIENCE GUY. And while I do like Back in Time, I will agree that it's lyrics are nonsense, and as far as I'm concerned, the Bill & Ted cartoon wins in the theme song category.

Yay for the return of Diamond Dog Dave Rudden! -- I came to Back to the Future late, only watching them for the first time when I was 13 or 14, but I immediately fell in love with them pretty quickly, even if my opinions have changed somewhat since then (i.e. I now think 3 is pretty great and prefer it over 2 for the most part). That being said, I'd never watched the cartoon at all. Putting this on, I was immediately... disturbed by the cover of BACK IN TIME that was playing, and then everything felt good and normal again once Christopher Lloyd shows up on screen. As goofy and insane as this show is, I think I have to kind of love it, if for no other reasons than that it gave us more Lloyd as Doc Brown, and for helping Bill Nye become THE SCIENCE GUY. And while I do like Back in Time, I will agree that it's lyrics are nonsense, and as far as I'm concerned, the Bill & Ted cartoon wins in the theme song category.

Rhomega

Having Biff's Civil War ancestor named Beauregard puts this in canon with the Telltale game, where we meet him in 1876 Hill Valley.