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[@2thinkcritically]

Funniest thing about the anti piracy ad? They didn't have permission to use that music on the DVDs in the first place. "Don't be a pirate so companies get paid for their work, while the guy who made this music doesn't get paid for his work"

[@JayTee-rf7ci]

There was a composer who was asked to write music for the antipiracy vid at a film festival. It was then used for antipiracy material that was more widely distributed, despite the initial agreement only being for one-shot use. So the video makers were contacted about royalties, and they paid up. But that was nothing to do with the famous antipiracy videos that we all know and hate, and that he's talking about here. It's a very famous story, but it's about something else.

[@channel_alan]

The amusing thing about the unskippable anti piracy warnings, was that when making a backup, the warning is removed so as not to appear on the copy. Those who paid their license to watch the recording would see the warning whereas pirates would not.

[@timothygraham4304]

​@@channel_alanOn the flipside, our local cable company ran an ad for a free t-shirt, and the ad was only seen by people that had tapped/chipped cable boxes. We had one but couldn't be bothered applying for a free t-shirt, but a few people were caught!😂

[@daemon.mythos]

Best one was the "You wouldn't Download a car" Anti-Piracy video......a father and son just recently built a 3d printed Lambo.....and Lambo supplied them tires and other parts for free....

[@authorrayrogers]

For years I just wondered if George and Lorraine thought that the real Calvin Klein was their friend from High School.

[@Vtarngpb]

Robot Chicken did a pretty good bit about this 😂

[@kswaes]

Ive watched the trilogy so many times its insane 😂

[@Tlab0624]

Not only did they not recognize him, but he's the one who suggested they name him Marty and they did it!

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

Not quite. He suggested they go easy on him when he set fire to the rug at 8 yrs old. The mother then says "Marty, what a nice name" after he has left.

[@Tlab0624]

@@jamesabbot-cole6814 Yes!! That's why she said his name. Thanks for the reminder 😉The trilogy was playing again recently, I caught my mistake, but couldn't find my way back here.

[@GlowandLuna]

I reckon the dad assumes she slept with the man

[@CS-mo7xp]

an interesting thing about BTTF is that Michael J Fox doesn't have a middle name - he had to invent the "J" to register with the actors' guild because there was already a Michael Fox. And that Michael Fox starred in some episodes the 1950s tv series 'Science Fiction Theater', which is George McFly's favourite tv show in BTTF.

[@balgus82]

In high school me and a classmate stayed with a family for a week for a music competition. I would absolutely not be able to tell you what anyone in that family looked like.

[@balgus82]

@o.b.7217 I really don't think I would. I don't even remember their names.

[@balgus82]

@o.b.7217 I literally remember nothing about what they look like. Why are you arguing with me about what I remember? Are you in my head?

[@danielmiller3596]

I spent a week with a bunch of kids at a camp in high school... I can guarantee I wouldn't recognise 95%+ of them, even if I recalled their names beyond maybe 4 out of 200 of them, 30 years later.

[@tubewatcher97]

IKR? and your certainly not gonna recognize one of them as "that kid you've been bringing up from 0 to 14yr old"

[@InservioLetum]

Almost nobody remembers me, but I still had people regaling me with stories about my mother DECADES later. Imagine someone you were in several classes with, having no idea who you are, but remembering your mother. Let's just say humility has never been a problem for me. The woman casts a bigger shadow than an ECLIPSE.

[@thehellyousay]

this is why i love ed byrne's comedy.

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

You like lame comedy? Yikes...this observation is 100 % dumb and not logical. It's like arguing Diehard is a Christmas movie. You guys have your bar set real low.

[@bloodlinefilms]

@@Mayor_Of_Eureka17 a curmudgeoney hard working father and husband whos family moved across the country without him because he prioritized work over family flies out to the west coast for his estranged wifes company christmas party to see his kids and mend his relationship. when he drops the ball on that he is met with “complications trials and tribulations” all night till he is at the end of his rope and he realizes what his failings were as a husband and as a father l. he overcomes “adversity” to finally tell his wife how he feels make a few friends along the way and make it home in time to spend christmas eve with his children as “snow” falls. die hard. strip it down to its core themes and it sounds like it could play on tcm between its a wonderful life and a christmas carol. factor in the abundant christmas music and decorations and references to the holiday throughout.

[@zomfies]

My nitpick about BACK TO THE FUTURE is that it's late October in 1985 and not a Halloween decoration in sight! Unbelievable.

[@ThepurposeofTime]

this is how you can tell people are weaksauce at visual analysis. the parents clearly were looking at him VERY differently at the end of the film, like they knew something. they even bought him that jeep at the age he helped them get together, they knew. even his father became a famous sci fi writer. people probably missed out on realising this moreso because George was supposed to join Marty and doc in Part 2 but Crispin Glover wanted to get paid a lot more for it. so all you can do is see how the actors perform whilst looking at marty at the end of part 1

[@ClellBiggs]

They would have made the second movie so much better.

[@deementia6796]

The big problem with BTTF, if there is one, is that Marty is the youngest child. He should be the one that disappeared first in the photo, not the last one. That also fixes the issue Ed Byrne has .. they didn't even remember the name Marty, as they say it's a nice name BUT they had a son before him .. who'd you think would be named Marty in honor of the person that brought them together? NOPE, he's still the 3rd child, and the 2nd son born to them, so they couldn't have remembered Marty TOO fondly, you'd think.

[@Psytrese]

You're thinking about it back to front, George and Lorraine are still able to get together theoretically at any point, this means they could eventually still end up having Marty without having the other kids.

[@moosehunter1969]

They knew him as Calvin Klein not Marty.

[@Steve-uf2vp]

They knew him as both Marty and Calvin Klein. He tells his mom when he first talks to her in the past that he goes by Marty.

[@TimsFoyleHeadgear]

Love him and his 'Robin Williams' like mannerism.

[@Mark73]

Not sure what you're talking about. I don't see any Robin Williams in the way he acts.

[@wisteela]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@greyeyed123]

He's just saying that because he looks like Eric Stoltz.

[@philiptate8810]

Isn't the Back To The Future gag stolen from Family Guy? "Mom, I set fire to the living room rug" "I am NOT going easy on him"

[@mrwassef]

First thing I thought too.

[@CaptTrips_19]

The big thing people don't get is, once Marty puts his parents back together and leaves, their timeline continues, which means they have their kids (which why name the middle child Marty and not the oldest one is also weird) and so when Marty gets back to 1985, there should be 2 of him! Right? One the time traveller and one that was born through the natural course of time. They should both now be in the house at the same time.

[@RelativelyBest]

Well, no, because they'd still be the same person. That "other" Marty isn't there because he went back in time and became the main Marty we see in the movie. Granted, this means he should start to remember growing up with a somewhat different family, particularly a much more confident father, but time travelers in BTTF seem to have some sort of resistance to that kind of thing. (Speaking of memories, though: In the second movie, future Marty and Jennifer really should have remembered that past versions of themselves were going to show up in 2015. I mean, that's not something you just forget about.)

[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

Good point about the first child not being named Marty, but no he's the one Marty - think about when he was born. Only one Marty was born ever.

[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

@@wetterschneider Oh yeah sorry I forgot that he sees himself go back. Gosh now I'm creeped out!!

[@RelativelyBest]

@@wetterschneider No, there's just one Marty. Alterations to his past affects him directly, we know this since he started disappearing after preventing his parents from getting together. The fact that he prevented himself from being erased proves that he is still the son those two people ended up siring. There's no second Marty because the whole point of the movie is Marty making sure that he, specifically, is eventually born.

[@RelativelyBest]

​@@wetterschneider Look, a time traveler seeing a past version of himself do something he has already done is a standard trope for the genre. It does not in any way suggest that they are two separate iterations. The established temporal mechanics of BTTF are occasionally somewhat vague, but at least we can conclude that there are no multiverse-type branching timelines because in that case it makes no sense that Marty would start to disappear after preventing his own birth. There is only one timeline and only one version of a given person, though time travelers do not immediately experience alterations to their own past for some reason. (Possibly because traveling backwards in time makes your past causally unreliable, kinda like how subatomic particles can be in two places at once until observed.) I imagine that after the first movie, Marty gradually started recalling growing up in his "new and improved" alternate family, while still being aware of his original upbringing. (Because you can, in fact, remember things that never happen. We actually do that it all the time, turns out.)

[@channelzero2252]

So is the point of these clips is so that we go out and buy the DVD? Because I was really getting into that when it's suddenly over. The thing is I've never seen an Ed Byrne DVD for sale in my local media store. Mind you, I'm in Australia. I'm not sure how many people here know who Ed Byrne is. We didn't get "Mock The Week" on TV here until series 18 - and even then, it was on late at night on a channel virtually nobody watches anyway.

[@peterlarkin762]

I think it's to encourage ticket sales to live shows. Ed hasn't made a dvd in 12 years. They cost a fortune to produce and distribute so a lot of comedians get specials made by Netflix now so they don't have to cover production costs.

[@CraigNiel]

Yeah your main problem might just be that you're looking for a DVD, something that people haven't used in like, forever! 😂😂

[@VALLANCEGAMING]

Not only that but he comes back in the car and watches himself leave in the car too

[@blakeharris58]

Yeah THAT is a conundrum.

[@NomadUniverse]

My mind switched off for a sec after the MJ bit and I missed the setup for the horror movie talk and didn't realise he was still talking about horror movies. I hear what I thought was "What did you think of Austin Powers 1" and "Austin Powers 2" and the whole bit made sense still up till he started telling the plot and I'm like hang on...

[@SelfIndulgentGamer]

Don't care, Back To The Future is still better than a lot of crappy films today :D

[@TrevorCopter]

Just as I was wondering what year this special was from, Ed brings up Thriller’s re-release and was instantly aware 😂

[@HikariTheGardevoir]

I had the same thing, because I know I've seen a special of him before a long time ago and he seemed to be wearing the same clothes. Him bringing up the re-release just confirmed that this was the special that I watched 😂

[@blakeharris58]

I was looking through a yearbook recently and I promise there were a smooth two or three who I had completely forgotten about. Knew them 6 years (7-12 school) and honestly forgot I had ever met them. Lorraine and George knew this dude a grand total of 63 hours max. They absolutely forgot.

[@michaelrudolph7003]

Like others have pointed out, he was so forgettable that they did what the forgettable person who got them together said and named their second son Marty ? Definitely forgot whoever that was.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

I remember what everyone looked like when we were all 18. When you don’t see someone for 30 years it can be a bit of a shock…

[@MJG206]

Marty was the 3rd child. If his BROTHER had looked like him, perhaps George might suspect Lorraine. I'm also picky! :p

[@jasonjohnson4803]

I've watched hostel 1,2 and 3..back when I enjoyed horror movies.

[@therighttobewrong3808]

Can you remember what one person who you knew for a week when you were 17 looks like exactly?

[@khymaaren]

I don't remember a lot of people I used to see every day, but I can remember quite a few who I only met once, especially if I fancied them. It's about the impression they make. I suppose being the reason for marrying someone leaves a rather deep impression.

[@timdunn0]

It wasn't a stranger on a normal week. That week and that guy was the most influential and probably strangest of the McFly's entire lives. It started with an unusual event - "a guy got hit by a car and was allowed to live with us!" And he has a memorable name, one that became a cultural icon: Calvin Klein, world famous fashion designer. George became best buds with Calvin, who helped him turn his entire life around - helped him hook up with the love of his life and defeat the bully who'd tormented him for years. And then Calvin plays one of the most iconic rock'n'roll songs of all time, in the style of one of the biggest rock'n'roll acts of their lifetimes, Chuck Berry - but he does it three years before Chuck Berry does! They had to be thinking "Holy quacamole, did the granddaddy of rock and roll steal my friend's song?!" That's a pretty memorable guy! George knew Lorraine had a crush on Calvin, tried to hook up with him before she got with George. And then their firstborn son grows to be 17 he looks just like Calvin...

[@raymondparisza5094]

@@timdunn0well Marty was their third born, not first. He has a picture of him and his two older siblings that he watches fade. So add in at least three years to Marty’s age Then there is the whole thing with memory. We don’t actually remember anything. We remember memories. After twenty+ years no one accurately remembers a persons face. And they sure wouldn’t one day look at a child they have been raising for seventeen years and think they are the person from minimum three years before they’re born This “plot hole myth” is as old as the movie.

[@timdunn0]

@@raymondparisza5094 Marty being younger doesn't negate the possibility of an affair. People reconnect with old flames all the time. I'm not saying George and Lorraine should think Marty is Calvin Klein, or that they should somehow be suspicious that time travel is real. I'm saying George would have good reason to think Marty is Calvin's lovechild, and Lorraine would have good reason to be freaked out at having a son that looks and acts like a guy she never slept with. Including all that would clog up the movie unnecessarily, but it's a fun quirk to think about.

[@raymondparisza5094]

@@timdunn0 I get what you’re saying but that is a hell of a stretch We are talking about a face they knew from twenty years earlier. And a face that has THEIR features, being that they are his parents If anything, they might wonder if the guy from twenty years ago looked like Uncle so and so and might be a distant relative And that’s assuming they ever have that thought. And in reality they would only see Marty as the child they raised with “his fathers eyes and his mothers lips” or something. They would never even give the guy from that week they met other then to tell the “story” every once in a while And guarantee Loraine leaves out the part where she tries to f Marty

[@ClellBiggs]

I've spent years with people that I wouldn't recognize now if I saw them. lol

[@FalloutJack]

The McFlys may or may not think that Marty looks alot like their best bud, Calvin Klein, but it doesn't matter. Because they can't think anything of it. The concept of time travel shenanigans is beyond them, so while they might think it weird, they know there's no connection, otherwise. How can there be? Calvin never did anything on the side, after all. In fact, what they remember is that he was firmly *against* interfering with those two. So, it must be a coincidence.

[@RichBaker]

Did this standup happen in 2007? Thriller came out in 1982.

[@mr.d.8121]

'Re-released' ....RE-released.

[@RichBaker]

Right. He said it was just re-released on the 25th anniversary. That would have been 2007, right?

[@howardibleinc.7317]

That is why his parents got him the truck.

[@WahrheitMachtFrei.]

What is it about Ed Byrne that makes him so unrelentingly appealing? I get annoyed by nearly all my favourite comedians for the most trivial of reasons, like they way they laugh at their own jokes, or the way they say a certain word, but Ed is like your favourite snack, he never lets you down.

[@nickmoloney9820]

Ummmmm . . . .

[@anthonydoyle7370]

Hi there, Ed.

[@petergilbert7106]

Come on Ed, have some self respect.

[@WahrheitMachtFrei.]

@@petergilbert7106 🤣😆

[@CamMcGinn1981]

The accent? :)

[@frankbrodie5168]

At some point in time, the doofuses responsible for those intrusive anti-piracy ads on DVD's that we have PAID money for, must have taken a step back, and said to themselves.. "Do you know.. I reckon that this patronising bollocks of an anti-piracy ad might be counter-productive.." Pirates are/were always going to pirate. You might as well attempt to stop a dog licking it's own balls by showing it videos denouncing the act.

[@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549]

You might have missed the moment for that bit

[@frankbrodie5168]

@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 I reply to pretty much no replies to anything I ever comment on on youtube. But yes fair point here. I have actually missed this bus by about 10 years. My excuse would be my usual Pink Floyd-esque "I was pretty drunk at the time.." yer honour. lol

[@johnflavin1602]

@@frankbrodie516810 years got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

[@Michael75579]

And you know who doesn't have to sit through these annoying anti-piracy ads? People who've downloaded a pirate copy of the movie. As Gabe Newell said, “The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Oh...buddy...if you think THAT'S the problem... Here's the deal, man... If you go back in time...AT ALL...no matter how briefly you're there, no matter how little you actually interact with anything at all... You will have completely, and irrevocably erased from existence every lifeform in the entire universe that was conceived after the moment of your arrival in the past. Period. Because when you go back...quantum mechanics kicks back in...and everything becomes uncertain again...because you CANNOT violate it. And once that happens, all the trillions upon trillions of quantum events that happen to make one sperm find one egg at exactly the right instant, among other things, all go right out the window permanently. In the case of the time-traveler, it doesn't really matter, because if you leave the future...then nothing that happens to that future affects you anymore. If you're not there, it doesn't matter. What happens in some other frame of reference, has nothing to do with whatever other one you're in. Something that happens to you in a hypothetical past near a black hole, has no impact on the future you outside of it, or vice-versa. But for everyone who didn't travel, and weren't already born by the time you arrive in the past? Bye-bye all. It creates an even bigger problem in BTF2 and 3. That Sports Almanac was completely worthless. The instant they went back, the outcome of every one of those games would've changed drastically. When Doc got sent back to 1885, it would've erased the entire population of the universe born after 1885. Marty, his siblings, their parents, their grandparents...Jennifer and her whole family, and so on. All gone...forever...replaced by completely different people, or in some cases no one at all. Everywhere in the cosmos.

[@caldwellfisher5288]

oh dear..the world must be such a dull place for you.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

@@caldwellfisher5288 Nope. Not in the least. You're just that stupid.

[@Denji2006]

Only if it's linear. If it's a multiverse, which is also possible with Back to the Future, they just leave their original dimension and never return. The universe still survives, but you cease to exist in it and your family would be filing a missing persons report that'll never be solved. Marty's original timeline already was and they could've traveled back in time to a universe that hasn't begun their chain of events and are only affecting the future of the universe they're stuck in. So their actions are already embedded in that universe's history. Just the same as a time traveler could've left another universe and entered Marty's original universe in the past and affected the future of that specific universe. Time travel or not, you can't really undo what has already happened.

[@Denji2006]

​@@caldwellfisher5288Just because it bakes your noodle, doesn't make the person or the idea a "downer". It's time theory. You're either here for it or you're not.

[@caldwellfisher5288]

@@Denji2006 Does the past still exist?

[@lonniesharp9109]

Family guy did this exact bit years ago. Even the part where the dad gets mad and accuses the mom of having an affair. Come on man.

[@xdecatron2985]

Sure, they brought this back from 2009, but did they turn it up?

[@xtraspecialmango]

LOL!!!!

[@noluckst2]

Shitting hell this was 15 years ago.

[@1972LittleC]

Well, Ed, that's where you're wrong; He might look a bit familiar, but it's been about 3 decades before he's at the age where they should recognize him. And back in the 50's they didn't take that many photo's. So, they could have that eerie feeling, but can't put their finger on it.

[@d.f.4830]

love to have that eerie feeling

[@petecoogan]

Nope. Memory fades over time. Plus, time travel doesn't exist as far as the parents know. So at best, their son looks vaguely like someone they met 20 years before

[@Jumpyfoot]

It's a little concerning that I filled in the blanks for the bleeped out title card as...Back to the future is smexy, let me tell you why.

[@highdownmartin]

HMV and Michael Jackson. Whatever happened to them?

[@peterlarkin762]

The original HMV shop on Oxford Street, London was resurrected in 2023. Thankfully no plans have been made to ressurect Jackson.

[@DavidOakesMusic]

Back To The Future is the greatest film ever made. FACT.

[@ShedDwellerMakerandRepairer]

Well you're correct but as soon as you said 'Fact!' You instantly made your point absolutely unarguable.

[@kenhutson3744]

Federation Against Copyright Theft? You better not have downloaded it.

[@TimpossibleOne]

Did he confuse a thriller with a mystery? If he's gonna nitpick then he should do it right.

[@staffordandy]

Didn't family guy do the back to the future joke

[@mrwassef]

Yup

[@helenomstreken7577]

Thriller also

[@blindtraveler844]

well yeah except marty is the not the first child he has an older brother

[@blindtraveler844]

wait a min .. whats this anti piracy music ?? whats an ad??

[@BlueJazzBoyNZ]

It was based on Rick and Morty..

[@_cul8r_]

How old is this? This guy talks about MJ as if he doesn’t know he’s dead and also mentions DVDs way too many times for it to be recent.

[@eatgarbage4649]

Its 2009, since you ask. Makes his Hostel Part II (2008) joke more timely

[@hinata167]

I hope he makes a youtube channel

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

For a while they seemed to realise the ineffectiveness of puttig annoying anti pirate adds on the thing you payed for, and instead had a short annimation go "by buying this dvd you have helped support tue british film industry, THANK YOU!!"

[@weswheel4834]

Ahhhh, HMV.

[@jamesmochoa]

Rehashed material

[@MichaelAronson]

Wtf is with the audience sound gating.

[@curiousgemini]

What about Home Alone? First of all, what kind of mother forgets her little kid at home while traveling overseas. She's an unfit parent. And the traps the kid builds are pretty lethal. The Crooks would be killed or suffer major injury.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

What a flailing routine. Talk about polite laughter.

[@MrDooteronomy]

Yikes.

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

Jesus..all that word play to fall flat. Yikes.

[@frugalseverin2282]

My problem with "Back to the Future" is that the movie spoon feeds us everything we need to know: the clock tower getting hit by a lightning bolt (very convenient), how his parents met, his uncle in prison, how Doc Brown got the idea for time travel, the name of the mayor, even the name of the dance Marty's parents attended. It's all spilled out so that when Marty goes back in time we'll be just as informed as he was, just too pat.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Nah.

[@esmeecampbell7396]

That's called setup. Without it the scene with Goldie sweeping wouldn't mean anything to us, and thus the film would just be missing it. Lots never comes back to be relevant, just a joke about Joey needing to get used to "these bars" If you think less time having the information on where Marty needs to go would be a good idea then what would it look like? Ultimately you've got to show it somewhere otherwise he just "very conveniently" bumps into just the right person at the right time, a film of Marty learning Doc's accident with the toilet seat earlier on in their relationship doesn't give us anything new for his character or Doc. There was never a consideration to show any time of Marty helping Doc with experiments for that reason, they knew it wouldn't add anything to the experience. He just has a cool inventor friend who he helps because the guy is cool and it's better than hanging around at his house (as it is in the original timeline, or with his band all the time)

[@buckaroobanzai7063]

Just imagine looking at perfection and seeing flaws. Ridiculous complaints.

[@TheJohnriver]

Family guy already did this bit years ago

[@ceno10101]

this has to be an old clip because Michael Jackson has been dead for quite some time.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

The people who laugh at this have never been on the internet.

[@Dirkus17]

Arguably the _only_ music to have improved with age is 80s music.

[@briansneary7535]

Incest?

[@InservioLetum]

I'd actually really like a film reviewer like Craig.

[@InservioLetum]

This is perfect! Movie 1 was men tortured, movie two was women tortured. Fresh from the latest barbrawl over who is and isn't welcome in the ladies lavatory, here comes the cast of movie three!