Editing 656: October 30th
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For Halloween, a child has dressed up as Dr. Emmett L. Brown (played by {{w|Christopher Lloyd}}) from the ''{{w|Back to the Future}}'' film trilogy. In the films, Brown created a {{w|time machine}} out of a {{w|DeLorean DMC-12}} car, which he and teenage protagonist Marty McFly use to travel through time. | For Halloween, a child has dressed up as Dr. Emmett L. Brown (played by {{w|Christopher Lloyd}}) from the ''{{w|Back to the Future}}'' film trilogy. In the films, Brown created a {{w|time machine}} out of a {{w|DeLorean DMC-12}} car, which he and teenage protagonist Marty McFly use to travel through time. | ||
| β | The joke of the comic is that Halloween is on October 31st, and by showing up dressed as Doc Brown on October 30th, the kid can make the joke that he "overshot" the time machine and went back one more day than he meant to. Doc is heard throughout the movie franchise saying "Great Scott" as an exclamation of surprise. | + | The joke of the comic is that Halloween is on October 31st, and by showing up dressed as Doc Brown on October 30th, the kid can make the joke that he "overshot" the time machine and went back one more day than he meant to. Doc is heard throughout the movie franchise saying "Great Scott" as an exclamation of surprise. |
The title text flips the joke on its head by insinuating that the child really time traveled. It does this by suggesting an inventive use of time-travel to get ten times the candy β hitting each house at a 30-year interval up until 2300. This would only be possible if the child was really time traveling, and not, as the comic suggests, pretending to time travel. The interval matches that of the first two BTTF movies, which take place in the years 1955, 1985 (the present at the time), and 2015. | The title text flips the joke on its head by insinuating that the child really time traveled. It does this by suggesting an inventive use of time-travel to get ten times the candy β hitting each house at a 30-year interval up until 2300. This would only be possible if the child was really time traveling, and not, as the comic suggests, pretending to time travel. The interval matches that of the first two BTTF movies, which take place in the years 1955, 1985 (the present at the time), and 2015. | ||
