History WesternAnimation / BackToTheFuture

* IconicOutfit: Played straight with Doc in the live action segments (lab coat, Hawaiian shirt, cargo pants). Averted for Marty; he's not wearing his iconic "life preserver" getup from the first movie, but instead sticks with something resembling his 1955 garb (a red and white varsity-style jacket, white shirt, jeans, and red shoes).

%%* IdenticalGrandson: Numerous examples. Mostly with Tannens, but occasionally with [=McFlys=] and Browns as well.

* CallBack: The VoiceoverLetter gag from "Clara's Folks" (which turns out to be Verne doing a pitch perfect imitation of Clara, as listed in LampshadeHanging) gets a revisit in the later episode "Marty [=McFly=] PFC," where Verne [[VoiceChangeling again is able to deliver a perfect (and completely un-commented on) imitation of Emmett]] when needed.

* CallBack: The VoiceoverLetter gag from "Clara's Folks" (which turns out to be Verne doing a pitch perfect imitation of Clara, as listed in LampshadeHanging) gets a revisit in the later episode "Marty [=McFly=] PFC," where Verne [[VocalChangeling again is able to deliver a perfect (and completely un-commented on) imitation of Emmett]] when needed.

** In "Clara's Folks" episode, Verne imitates a speech his mother gives, complete with it being [[VoiceoverLetter delivered by a voice over from Clara's voice actor]]. Once he's finished, Marty remarks on [[VocalChangeling the uncanny accuracy of the impression,]] and Verne says he sometimes uses it to call himself in sick to school.

** In one episode, Verne imitates a speech his mother gives, complete with it being delivered by Clara's voice actor as is sometimes done with cartoons. Once he's finished, another character remarks on the uncanny accuracy of the impression, and Verne says he sometimes uses it to call himself in sick to school.

** In "Roman Holiday", while visiting Rome, Marty accepts a race against Biff's Roman ancestor Bifficus after he calls Marty a chicken. This contradicts the huge lesson about self-control that Marty had learned around the time of his showdown with Mad Dog Tannen in the third film.[[note]]Some people might allege that a chariot race might be less dangerous than a gunfight, and that Marty losing that race was important to history, but it still doesn't explain why "chicken" is still such a BerserkButton for him.[[/note]]

* TheGameComeToLife: "Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux".

%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: Doc and Marty as always.

** Biff also looks younger then he did in the movie. There, the present day version had graying hair and mild wrinklage. The animated incarnation has a brown buzzcut and no wrinkles.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the end of the episode "Roman Holiday", Biff actually does the "Oh shit!" gag from the movies. The trick is that he's saying the words in Latin.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: During "[[Recap/BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeriesS1E7 Time Waits for No Frog]]", Marty and Doc are in the jungle looking for an extinct species of frog. Marty gets grabbed by an anaconda.

* TickingClock: Changing history in "Forward to the Past" causes a present ruled by dinosaurs. Doc calculates the precise amount of time he and the boys have before they're erased from existence.

* MusicalExposition: During the ChristmasEpisode, Doc takes his family and Marty to Dickensian England to beat the heat wave that's currently roasting Hill Valley. While there, they encounter a group of Christmas carolers, who have a tendency to respond to any question asked with an improvised verse to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." Eventually, Marty tells them to stop it, and they do give the next explanation in speech, but it doesn't last.

* AdoptionDiss: The episode "Go Fly a Kite" has this kickstart the plot. Jules, who doesn't get along well with his younger brother, tells Verne that given that he doesn't resemble Doc, Clara, or Jules (especially in personality), it's clear he's adopted. This is a case where the insulting remark isn't true — Verne is Doc and Clara's biological son — but the idea obsesses him to the point that he runs away to look for his real father. Of course, Doc and Clara are very displeased with their eldest son. This may also count as Values Dissonance, given that the episode was aired in the 1990s; a hero implying there's something wrong with being adopted might go over much worse today than perhaps it did then.

* BlackSheep: Verne does not have the same scientific interests or intelligence as his father, though he does have the blond hair (and a bit more common sense). His brother Jules likes to tell him he was adopted. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it's mostly Verne who feels this way ([[SiblingRivalry and his brother encourages it]]); Doc and Clara love him every bit as much as Jules.

* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Marty is likely to be called a chicken once per episode, especially if Biff, or a descendant of him, is involved.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: During "Time Waits for No Frog", Marty and Doc are in the jungle looking for an extinct species of frog. Marty gets grabbed by an anaconda.

%%* HappilyMarried: Doc and Clara.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: At the end of "Brothers," Doc uses Mr. Fusion to create a powerful electromagnet. [[GoneHorriblyRight A little too powerful, as he finds out...]]

* FloatingClocks: For some reason, this replaces the instantaneous temporal displacement seen in the movies. In the episode "Einstein's Adventure," a pair of crooks steal the [=DeLorean=] as a getaway car after a robbery, and accidentally travel to Sydney, Australia in 1790. When temporal displacement occurs, this is what they see for a few seconds through the windshield.

* Nobodycallsmechicken: Marty is likely to be called a chicken once per episode, especially if Biff, or a descendant of him, is involved.

** In "Roman Holiday," while visiting Rome, Marty accepts a race against Biff's Roman ancestor Bifficus after he calls Marty a chicken. This contradicts the huge lesson about self-control that Marty had learned around the time of his showdown with Mad Dog Tannen in the third film.[[note]]Some people might allege that a chariot race might be less dangerous than a gunfight, and that Marty losing that race was important to history, but it still doesn't explain why "chicken" is still such a BerserkButton for him.[[/note]]

** In "Super Doc," the boys and Marty "identify" themselves in ways that should sound very familiar to Franchise/{{Batman}} and Franchise/{{Superman}} fans.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[Creator/JulesVerne Jules and Verne]]. This actually proved to be a plot point in the episode "A Verne By Any Other Name" -- after being bullied about his name, Verne went back in time to convince the real Jules Verne to change his name; failing at that, he traveled back to his own birth to convince his parents to name him something else. The trope is later subverted when Verne ends up helping with his own birth. Doc and Clara are so appreciative that they name their new son after the "stranger" who helped them.

* TimeTravel: Obviously. Doc and Clara go traveling through time together throughout the series.

* TheDitz: In the film trilogy, Marty was a bit BookDumb and sometimes did stupid things because of his impulsiveness, but he was a quick-witted and capable assistant to Doc. Post CharacterExaggeration, he's much more of a dope and continually needs the Browns (including Jules and Verne) to help him out. Lampshaded in "The Money Tree", where Jules laments that [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation his intelligence has always made it tough for him to make friends]]. Marty remarks that that's never been a problem for him, right around the time he hits himself in the face with a ball he's tossing around.

%%* TimeTravel: Obviously.

* TakeAThirdOption: "Brothers" starts with the boys fighting over the computer. Jules wants to do scientific research (which Doc, of course, supports) and Verne wants to play a video game (which Doc approves of since it means developing hand-eye coordination). Unable to choose between them, Doc says they should go play outside.

* ShownTheirWork: In "[[Recap/BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeriesS1E5RomanHoliday Roman Holiday]]", the Romans speak actual, genuine Latin (at least until Doc's TranslatorMicrobes kick in), not CanisLatinicus.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: The crack in the Liberty Bell was created when Doc ran into it.