Michigan State Police win the Internet with day's best Back to the Future post

It wasn't necessarily my plan to do anything with this today, which might surprise those who know me because my love for Back to the Future didn't just start this week or this year. I would estimate I've seen the entire trilogy at least 400 times. Yes. You read that right. Four hundred times.

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My son and I were talking about it this morning, going through the usual list of "predictions" (which none of them were ever really intended to be) and discussing which ones kinda sorta happened (video calls, flat screen TVs mounted on the wall, thumbprint ID) and which ones were way off (ubiquitous fax machines, Jaws 19 . . . and of course the stupid Mets are ruining the best one of all), and I made the observation that it's funny so much attention is on this date because in the actual trilogy the trip to 2015 is probably the least loved part of the whole story. It certainly doesn't get the love the visit to the '50s gets, and whole western sequence in 1855 seemed a lot more endearing to most people. But of course, it still makes sense because October 21, 2015 was the only date in the trilogy that was going to arrive after the release of the films. Every other time travel point was in the past. So it's only natural, and fun, to keep an eye on the skies around 4:29 p.m., even though I should know perfectly well that Marty and Doc will experience temporal placement in Hill Valley, California and not here in Royal Oak, Michigan. Ah, but that doesn't mean Michigan isn't representing nicely today! Maybe I'm biased, but of all the stuff I've seen on the Internet today, nothing beats this post from the Michigan State Police:

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Yeah, so don't tell me they weren't here. Rob also directed my attention this absolutely awesome contribution from Pepsi. Even the Coca-Cola man in me has to appreciate this: I'm assuming the product itself is just regular Pepsi, although even a "perfect" version wouldn't be as good as anything Coke makes. But I'd probably buy one if I could find one. I'd just leave it unopened alongside my copy of Gray's Sports Almanac. The Pepsi spot does a nice job of working in lots of other references, including Jaws 19, the Cafe '80s and of course the hoverboard. It's not as if BTTF hasn't gotten its due over the years, but it's still nice to see the attention it's getting today. It is truly the greatest film offering that has ever come out of Hollywood - a pronouncement I'm sure will draw the ire of the Star Wars fans, but truth is truth. (By the way, all the baseball attention is on the Cubs - and what a crap sandwich that's turning out to be - but what must Marty and Doc think when they travel from 1985 to 2015, with both starting point and destination in October, and find that both years feature an American League Championship Series between the Royals and Blue Jays?) Finally, I'll leave you with this fresh bit of wisdom from Doc Brown himself:

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