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Why 'Back to the Future' Is Secretly Horrifying

Episode 1 of the new Cracked original series "After Hours." Special thanks to American Apparel.

By: After Hours | Jul. 19, 2010 | 1,028,398 views
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Dammit Cracked, I hate you, just because of this article I had to go hit the Pirate Bay, download this damn movie, and see this for myself. But you all missed the TRULY creepy aspect of this formative-eighties film: Check out the way "Calvin Klein" McFly stands when he's around his teenaged mom, the poses he uses, how he starts fixing his hair when he sees her and standing with his arm thrown back and leaning on the Doc's shoulder like he's mugging for a camera. He doesn't stand like that at any other time except when he's with her, knowing she's Mom. WTF? It's like he never quite gives up on trying to turn her on the whole time. How did that ever get put into this basically whitebread kiddie movie?

All the time-paradoxes are off though since the time travel model used here is the Doppelganger Version so that ain't really his mom, it's someone who could become her. But as was made even more clear in the second of the three movies, the girl who grows up to become Marty McFly's mom does this on one of any number of time streams, and at the end, the 'original' McFly and the one who goes back to 1955 are completely separate persons, as was the Doc who dies and the Doc who doesn't, and so on.

This is why you can't travel in time. Your f**king brain is not made to handle this s**t without becoming way too confused and people can't deal with being more than one of themselves so brains that DO perceive multiple probability streams _(like mine kind of does, without actual time travel happening, probably)_ tend to become social outcasts or homeless people or at best sci-fi writers, rather than breeders. Evolution does not select for this particular trait, methinks...

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 9/2/2010 4:38 AM
mesila

I never thought I would love a series as much as Cracked TV, but this is fricken totally awesome! I loved how the girl from TAM is in this, and Soren Bowie looks like a normal person. It saddens me that none of these people are completely ugly computer nerds. It would make me feel better about myself.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/30/2010 5:36 PM
thathobo

I like the structure, I love the entirety of the production - insightful, too! I was really scratching my head over the Forrest Gump reversal...I just hope this doesn't mean that the cast of Muskets won't be making bits all together anymore. Does anyone know if Those Aren't Muskets is defunct or not?

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/30/2010 7:19 AM
TrapserCat

awesome... and funny... does anyone know what restaurant they're eating at?

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/29/2010 10:01 PM
Blrabbit

"You wanna talk about a creepy rape scene?"
"Yeah, alright."
Missed that the first time around. Brilliant.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/28/2010 9:33 PM
mronoc

that was freaking hilarious and informative and please make more

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/28/2010 12:25 PM
AylaAnneDuggan

I put off watching this for a while, it sounded like something I would hate. The content was much less offensive than I first anticipated, though still uninteresting. Swaim and DOB, though, have incredible charisma. I just love watching them. Swaim especially- he seems to be able to make anything funny.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/28/2010 12:35 AM
Gropingantelope

I think Katie is funny and pretty. We can agree that she's no bombshell but to say she looks like a man is totally ridiculous.

1 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/27/2010 7:50 PM
BlackMesa

Fine: She does a very good impression of looking like a man.

Posted on 8/30/2010 12:24 PM
happypants

countings gay.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/27/2010 7:33 PM
Lord

Counting's gay.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/27/2010 6:49 PM
GThreepwood

The drawings were great.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/26/2010 7:06 PM
eupheminstic

Wow what horrid bland acting..the girl is the worst...Seinfeld did this coffee shop banter to death and did it with great results. Now it just seems dumb. This script is so forced, and lame "Shhhhh we said black people" ???...Seriously?? and they need to get a more attractive female actor.

4 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/24/2010 9:46 PM
BroncoAndrews

Did you register just so you could complain? You did, didn't you?

Posted on 8/26/2010 6:44 AM
Ninjujitsu

look just because it's from people who are normally funny doesn't mean you have to pretend something that isn't funny, is actually funny
no, this show is pretty awful, the actress is completely unlikable, but it's the first episode, DNC wasn't great in it's first episode, but it's getting better, we can't judge the show until it's had several more episodes

Posted on 8/27/2010 6:57 PM
scc112358

Ha. I've eaten there before. I got buckwheat pancakes and when I asked for more syrup the waitress got pissed at me and told me to wait until I finished the syrup I have. b***h.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/23/2010 9:32 PM
violetxrain

I thought about the fact that martys name was calvin kleine also and that weirded me out but later i watched it again and before the dance calvin kleine tells lorrainne that his real name is marty

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/23/2010 9:21 PM
JoeyJoEy

is there going to be a second episode?

1 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/23/2010 8:28 PM
DUDEMANPIG

That's usually what "first" implies.

Posted on 8/26/2010 10:21 PM
JDCAce

Nice work Cracked. That was clever.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/22/2010 4:43 PM
Realgamec0ck

yeah, Irish comedian Ed Byrne said the same thing.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/22/2010 11:35 AM
TomEWylde

Nice enough.

0 Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/21/2010 12:01 PM
Simski

'Secretly horrifying'? Everything in this video was common sense that anyone with half a brain had processed before they got up off the couch after watching it for the first time, so it's not any sort of secret. Plus, it's not horrifying in the slightest; it is merely a decently constructed little braintease.

When I saw 'secretly horrifying', I expected you to be mentioning things like how Marty is entering a decently altered version of the world each time he time travels back to the future. (or present) He would know the people less and less, and, in a way, they wouldn't be the people he knew anymore. It would be like the originals were dead, even if the originals weren't as 'good'. That is slightly horrifying, and it's one of the lesser used examples.

What I felt here was a trying-too-hard-to-be-geeky Seinfeld ripoff with the characters spouting things that everyone already knew.

Not that it's painful to watch. You obviously put time into it and everything, but it felt too much like a waste of my own time.

4 Replies | Hide Replies | Reply | Posted on 8/20/2010 6:14 PM
Mik0ri

"You obviously put time into it and everything, but it felt too much like a waste of my own time."

That's what I thought after reading your comment.

Posted on 8/20/2010 7:58 PM
yalith

You're an idiot.

Posted on 8/22/2010 11:06 AM
schango