Back To The Future Best Scenes - Marty Tries Doc's Amp

Every guitar players dream.
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[@LanxPenzenpepper]

If this was realistic... The pickup hum alone would've distroyed his eardrums already 😂

[@FreelancerFreak]

His eardrums its enough to outright kill him 😂

[@djrdawg2]

Especially while he's plugging it into his guitar

[@jimcatanzaro7808]

I love when I plug my guitar in my amp it always takes me to this moment I usually like to leave them plugged in before I turn them on

[@LanxPenzenpepper]

@@jimcatanzaro7808 that's a good practice too 😂 i remembered when i was a noob and i bought my first amp, didn't know it was in full volume, turned it on first and i plugged the guitar, BAM... Then, my dumbars decided to yank it off instead of turning it down... BAM, DOUBLE TAP BABY! 😂

[@thebestgame25djhh]

not only his drums, but also his spare room would be destroyed.

[@Aggression-hc3yp]

No matter how long ago this was made, it’s still funny when he gets blown backwards.

[@peter17572]

Why he even does that I've NO idea 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Group_Anonymous]

@@peter17572 it was Doc Browns amp

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

@@peter17572 I think he does now. Lol

[@twistedyogert]

Although a sound that powerful would probably kill someone in reality.

[@kirill9064]

Even funnier is when Biff gets blown back too in 2010 game

[@Koronuru]

When you install a new Graphics Card then sets it into Max Settings.

[@healy7882]

trying to push your 2080ti to run 4k with high FPS as they said it would work :P

[@Hello1982]

the cheaper gate fx gaming lab top that can compete with alienware has recently downgraded their graphics capabilities to save power and to make more sense by providing less of it.

[@cepherinorodriguez8995]

Or overclocking the GPU.

[@willzyx23]

The most unrealistic thing in this movie about time travel is that there is not any distortion noise at all when he connects the pickup cable 🙈

[@snicker576]

Hahaha so true. It should have made a godawful racket plugging the cable in

[@TimpBizkit]

I plugged my PA system into my DVD player and the pop scared my friend.

[@naegleriafowleri2230]

maybe it has anti pop technology lol

[@santiagofranco91952]

0:54 It was at this moment that Marty knew... He rocked and rolled!

[@visualdisappointment8174]

"i cant hear anymore" - Marty Mcfly.

[@Ryderboycolor9]

Could grt deafness from that

[@mosheldon4956]

"Say what?" -Marty McFly

[@real2reel947]

The greatest scene EVER🤘😁🤘 but there is no way all that drive was up, then he plugs in lol..... the connection pop alone would blow the system at that point

[@Hebdomad7]

I'd expect him to blow him self up just by touching the audio jack...

[@LordCaledonFraszer]

I love it how the output doubles then triples when Marty hits those guarded switches, and he acts like it's nothing.

[@browncarp]

"That reminds me, Marty. You better not hook up to the amplifier. There's a slight possibility of overload."

[@mgfoster9197]

Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind 😅

[@scotthayes4135]

A little late for that.

[@SpecterSprite]

For anyone wondering, that guitar is a Chiquita Travel Guitar

[@USUARIOABEPIN]

Thank you... So much.

[@yeldarb141983]

wow...who knew one company made bananas AND adorable little guitars...😁😂

[@jetsonwhite888]

I love how they start this scene.Makes you think he's starting up the Time Machine!

[@vanneylen]

But the overdrive part got me a bit confused lol whether it was an amp or time machine

[@Ama-hi5kn]

Literally my neighbor when he is drunk as s**t and goes over board crazy with his stereo. And that's not even a joke, lol.

[@T_P71]

Man, the memories of this movie,

[@blainethemono19]

Can we take a minute to appreciate the body of this guitar being smaller than a penny?

[@johnnyfavorite1194]

BTTF's very first scene answers the question of why a 17-Year-Old Kid would share a friendship with a geriatric mad scientist.

[@zcm007attack]

I figured Doc was a family friend or maybe a former teacher of Marty's. Jennifer seemed to know Doc just as well as Marty.

[@banksuvladimir]

This is one of those movies you see and just accept as is at first. Didn’t cross my mind until many years later to ask why Marty was friends with Doc Brown

[@rustykoehler2789]

Wow rock and roll. 3 seconds of cinema history.

[@DerekMoore82]

They were actually trying to add a layer to Emit Brown's character in this scene. The Doc calls and says "Better not hook up to the amplifier, there's a slight possibility of overload." As if the issue was Doc Brown screwing it up, which I get since the theme is that he hasn't invented anything that works up until the time machine. Assuming he made them, and of course they're over the top like everything he invents. So it's not Marty's fault, which would explain his familiarity towards the system, and this ritualized, casual behavior of maxing out the system, as if he had grown accustomed to maxing out the amps in this way. With a speaker that big, maybe it would need an insane amount of power just to drive it at reasonable levels. But the gag comes across as Marty just being irresponsible. Which I think is more funny actually. But in that case, they should have cut the Doc's line.

[@Jasonificatiation]

The joke is that what doc is very casually worried has already happened and is an absolute certainty. It sets doc up as the Absent-minded Mad Scientist. So the line is needed, and is hilarious.

[@Crashman-1005]

TLDR

[@PaulRobinsonbob4239]

Yeah fair point bit exuberant but you'd have to know wouldn't you

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

I remember watching this in theatres, it was loud as hell. Everybody in the audience were laughing their asses off.

[@Thunderdragon-uc1lw]

0:53 neighbor next door: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!

[@yeldarb141983]

neighbor's wife: WHAT!?! DID YOU SAY SOMETHING!?!

[@gswafford2199]

Was a family Ties fan growing up in the good ole 80s , playing guitar and didn’t know till this movie came out Micheal J was actually and accomplished guitarist, was told the part at the end when he was playing the dance a lot of the Johnny B Good was his own jamming, pretty cool

[@Dayzyj]

This is such a classic!

[@BobSchoepenjr]

Most memorable 😆 even in 2023, who else?

[@franzjones179]

In my experience, larger subwoofers usually handle LOWER FREQUENCIES, so a speaker that big would seemingly be very low end bass...

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

True...but it wouldn’t have looked so ridiculously over the top

[@chrisbailey7384]

That would be the Photonicinduction in the 80's

[@flipstheking6464]

I'm gonna recreate this after I realized I can connect my guitar to my home stereo

[@yourlocalentertainmentchan9153]

If you want to kill your own ears, sure.

[@A_very_tinly_can]

When you got earbuds in and you accidentally turn volume on full blast

[@bostonmennear6470]

Let's be honest. We all want this amp.

[@YGO-Shant]

I personally always wanted that pick more than anything

[@misterfunnybones]

The amp with key ignition start & more pre-amp switches than an A380.

[@Gulag_Official.]

If he slammed the guitar, the entire room would be a zombie apocalypse. 💀

[@ambk2010]

I want one of those!

[@spdrwlf]

As a kid in the 80s I had seen many expensive stereo systems with knobs and dials. Of course I was never allowed to touch them. They were very sensitive, and leaving them all the way up was forbidden. So naturally seeing him turn them all up only to explode in his face as he flew backwards was hilarious. This is what all the kids I knew were sure would happen if we cranked the dials to 11. Secretly...we all wanted to.

[@Drewcifffer]

0:53 CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES, THIS IS MY LAST RESORT

[@Lane8492]

When Marty blew that speaker up and got blown backwards, that part always had me laughing real hard. LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@WillyM79]

I like how we think everything on the shelf fell on Marty but after a closer shot on him one more folder falls

[@autocyclepc2001]

When i get my first good amp

[@taemeister9302]

I remember covering my ears at the theatre nervous as hell as Marty was raising all the decibels 😂

[@omegajrz1269]

Imagine if people ran out of the cinema while Marty turned up the dials

[@chrisgoetz3889]

Amazing how Mr Spielberg cut the speaker to look exactly like Antarctica

[@MagicAl5F4781]

Metaphorically representing the destruction of polar ice and the global warming disaster we face from overdriving our planet.

[@chrisgoetz3889]

@@MagicAl5F4781 you have been fed that nonsense. Look at real scientific data and ask people in Alaska how they like running leaving their homes because the ice is growing not receding... Also by your rhetoric, he also has two flat Earth clocks visible in these scenes so what's he trying to inform you on.... And one last fact, Spielberg is on the Epstein flight log....

[@Mietertagebuch]

Gut beobachtet.

[@chrisgoetz3889]

@@MagicAl5F4781 You should really look around .. It's the same continuous grift for every new clueless generation..

[@chrisgoetz3889]

​@@Mietertagebuchthere is a reason for it. He's in the club.. and also on the pedo cho mo Epstein list

[@TravonJamelGreen]

That loud noise driving you wild!

[@beeking1792]

0:54 YEET!

[@JoshElrod-lb9ib]

💜🙏💜 so MUCH ..

[@ivanmay7890]

After watching the scene in the Back To The Future where Marty tries Doc's amp I wonder if this was the inspiration for Eddie Munson from Stranger Things.

[@Phantom2308x]

I got so nervous for those in the musical thinking I was bouta go deaf

[@JMG72ARG]

normally first you plug in, then turn on and turn up... don't remember that funny little yellow guitar....

[@Goji73]

This scene should've been the only scene in the entire movie and 115 minutes of nothing else.

[@Teenterror983]

This kind of reminds me of the moment in Michael Jackson's Black or White music video where Macaulay Culkin brings in his big amplifiers and adjusts his volume to "Loud... Louder... ARE YOU NUTS?!"

[@savstrelley]

When you get water in your speakers and need to clean it out

[@TaylorMills-fm4jr]

omg wow this is actley amzing i want to try this so back #science over

[@frozenbeard81]

Best opening scene of any movie in history lol 😂 still funny

[@miracles4u]

True Pete Townshend. Never fails...

[@joedevola2071]

This scene pretty much sums up why Marty and Doc were friends. He commissioned this maniac to build the biggest guitar amp possible. The rest is history.

[@jimcatanzaro7808]

It’s funny I never knew what the stuff did untill Covid I learned how to build my own amplifiers

[@rodrigogonzalez7858]

Marty is crazy

[@SamuraiTacos1]

when you get a new gaming pc and you crank that graphics card settings up to the max and it exactly happens like this you get blown away or computer explodes

[@MadamFoogie]

The fact that Doc built this huge-ass amp makes me wonder what instrument he's rocking?

[@DarknessOfRedbone]

I love the sound of the electromagnet

[@brianlbeck]

This is me when I get home from work and play guitar

[@sync8783]

I just had to leave a like😄😄😄

[@campbellz_soup6071]

1:19 “..rock and roll”

[@chmiddletown858]

That would be my son, nephew and grandsons😂😅❤😊

[@Bonnie_fan2023]

0:54 KA-BOOM

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Was he trying to play the cordian with that silver diamond

[@user-hr6ws9xy5w]

And behold, the creation of the first Noise Marine of Slanesh

[@telecatsermaster]

The rare Hondo Chiquita.

[@smallcorvid]

Me when the neighbors think I won't.

[@danielhernandez3161]

Rock n roll .

[@jeremiahmoreira507]

When your parents leave you home alone

[@thecharlespowell]

This is what I fear when I turn my bass amp to 5 💀

[@panbat2367]

Btw, there was an anti rock and roll video that used this as a clip for why rock and roll was bad...😄

[@17moonbeams]

Monday 1st August 2022. Pinch, punch first of the month! Have a great summer everyone! I LOVE Back to the Future. 💜 Virginia Clark.?! ;) ;( :) 🤠🐴🐶🦊

[@ygpara]

What guitar is he playing? a Hofner Shorty?

[@ungerere21]

My new alarm clock

[@cookiekid8048]

1:14 is that a camera light that was reflected, 1:18 at least it's not there, just the broken amp

[@coachacola3755]

Marty dies before he can even test the amp as he plugs in the guitar after turning the amp on

[@Mrvwcc11]

0:54 Hell raiser Rock you back in your seat. 💺 lol 😆🤘🏻

[@meredithmccarthy81]

10 Years Old

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

cool!!

[@tommypetraglia4688]

LabelMaker labels... old school lol

[@MrMarioDeluxeMuerto]

some... 0:54 BODE ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD IS GONNA ROLL ME

[@anyaconley1082]

I died laughing

[@mollyreed6929]

Marylyn Conley me too

[@Gothicwolf1984]

Rock n roll

[@mechislander]

Ah there's the problem. The guitar only goes to 10, not to 11.

[@zygmuntzarzecki]

spinal tap have something different :)

[@VanillaLimeCoke]

0:52 😁

[@lucystauffer5852]

What type of guitar is that? Like the name of it?

[@L.K-19]

Lucy Stauffer rock guitar Don’t know much more

[@richardmarchiafava3904]

Chiquita travel guitar

[@LizaJestar]

I thought he made that guitar himself

[@jbear2001]

No, its a Chiquita - they were fairly common back in those days. I bought a Fernadez - which was about the same size, but has a full scale neck and a built in amp that sounds fantastic as the battery starts getting low. Like a built in fuzz box.

[@chrisbailey7384]

@@jbear2001 The same brand name on bananas.

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

What was that?

[@KingDragonBoyTV1998]

I told you not to put it too loud!!!

[@albertsiltal2600]

📢 QUE TE QUIEROOOOOOOO!!! 😂😂😂

[@albertsiltal2600]

No me hagas comentar... 😉

[@xydjheenterprise9824]

[grunts]

[@FrehleyFan3988]

That is a tiny ass guitar

[@goldprime118]

Looks like a toy

[@cathoderaytube7497]

@@goldprime118 I forgot how small that guitar was! It does look like a toy.

[@bratcampaddict]

I was going to say looks like a Steinberger guitar except with a head

[@edgarcaceros3669]

The loudest amp speaker ever!!!!!!!

[@bratcampaddict]

Is this where Michael Jackson got the idea for his black or white video with the amps loud louder are you nuts??

[@tracezachdaniels4264]

SO SHWEEEETTT...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO.[the music worldwide} MY AMP GOES TO.....ahhhh fuck it lets see....ooooo..weeeeee

[@BrittanyJudkins]

Get ready to play music

[@travjt2]

Logically this would have killed someone

[@maxfranklinmeans]

0:54 R&B! (not Rhythm & Blues) Rock & Blow!

[@mikeromer4801]

Bart Simpson is testing

[@iraneidesoares6707]

Steven Spielberg presents, a Robert Zemeckis film BACK TO THE FUTURE Executive Producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall Produced by: Bob Gale and Neil Canton Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

[@kzt86b]

What's that Type of Guitar?

[@trainmancolt22711]

Electric

[@jackmalinowski7211]

Wait was it in the movie

[@arnaldosanchez2170]

0:54 😮😂😂😂

[@BiRDiEHere]

Why is that guitar so small?

[@LizaJestar]

BiRDiE i think maybe he made that himself)

[@TheKiller1922]

Bcs it is a travel guitar, namely Chiquita. Small but functional.

[@mollyreed6929]

BiRDiE because it’s all that he could afford?

[@castnoshadow1976]

BiRDiE, I thought the guitar was a lot bigger and was definitely RED ???? Strange !

[@Gerryneo]

@@castnoshadow1976 yeeeeeeeesss Mandela effect sure

[@Jonathan00062]

Power acoustik system