Comments | moe4eyed: I have held my silence long enough

moe4eyed

I have held my silence long enough

Feb 22, 2007 08:32

You know that DirecTV ad with Christopher Lloyd based on Back to the Future? This one:

Well, it doesn't make sense. At all. Three points:

The commercial's set in 1955, nearly 40 years before the launch of DirecTV.
Doc just returned Marty to 1985, when DirecTV was still almost a decade away (and twenty years before they'll have three times ( Read more... )

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stockdude February 22 2007, 18:40:46 UTC

God, I saw that movie with profits from dealing illicit blackjack to my camp bunkmates the summer before middle school. And you weren't even alive when it came out. I am the oldest person in the fucking universe.

That said, isn't it wild that 2015 is coming up soon? Wonder if we'll all be flying around on hoverboards.

moe4eyed February 27 2007, 02:29:49 UTC

No, but I was alive when the second and third Back to the Futures came out, which must count for something. For what it's worth, I'm still baffled that anyone could be born in the 90s.

complaints gunsmcgee February 23 2007, 20:35:19 UTC

One of the complaints I have is less direct and more about the character. In a different version, he shouts "TV from outer space!" almost as if he is shocked by it. Uhh, didn't he invent fucking time travel? Shouldn't TV from outer space not be that big a deal to him?

Re: complaints moe4eyed February 27 2007, 02:43:09 UTC

I'm not convinced he's shocked about the concept of space-based television. I think it's more likely that he's ecstatic about it, as though it were one of his fantasies come to life.