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"Brothers" is the first episode of the first season of Back to the Future: The Animated Series, as well as the pilot episode of the series. It first aired on September 7, 1991.
Brief synopsis
Upset with his brother, Jules, Verne runs away from home using the DeLorean time machine. Doc, Marty and Jules go back in time to find him during the American Civil War. When General Beauregard Tannen's armies kidnap Marty, Verne gasps. Jules and Verne end up on opposite sides of the war; Verne is recruited by the Confederates and Jules in the Union army. During a big battle, both armies see the boys meet and huddle together in the center of the battlefield. The soldiers realize that they are fighting their own brothers, cousins, uncles and nephews. Both parties walk away from the battle without fighting. Einstein finally takes Doc, Marty, Jules, and Verne with him back into the normal time.
Plot
Marty McFly studied for a Civil War test at Hill Valley College with the assistance of an holographic tutor. Marty went on with playing his guitar with headphones on, ignoring what the tutor was saying. She yelled the date of "February 11, 1864; Chattanooga, Tennessee" within range of the new DeLorean time machine's audio-activated time circuits, enabling the car to change the date and location. Verne Brown upset that he was second to his older brother Jules decided to hop into the DeLorean and take it for a test drive, unaware that the time circuits were activated. Verne drove the DeLorean off the launch pad and broke the time barrier in the sky.
He emerged outside Chattanooga (after the DeLorean was rebuilt with spatial displacement) and was confused by the Confederate Army for some kind of Union Army "devil" wagon. The DeLorean clipped a series of Confederate tents before Verne activated the time machine's night vision. The DeLorean ran into another tent, catching it, and came to a stop. While under the cover of the tent, the car compacted into a briefcase, with Verne to its side.
Verne then encountered Confederate General Beauregard Tannen and his men at the campsite. Tannen asked if Verne was a spy for the Union Army, which he had no answer. Doc Brown, Jules, Marty, and Einstein were forced to take the Jules Verne Train to rescue Verne from the past after finding him in a picture taken of Confederate soldiers a day before the battle, as the text had indicated that the Confederates were wiped out in a massacre. Doc and Jules were captured by the Union army and Marty and Einstein by the Confederate army.
On the day of the battle, Doc and Jules built an electromagnet from an electric magnetic machine marketed to General Ulysses S. Clayton, and used it to attract all the weapons from both armies. When this failed, Jules was thrown into the middle of the battlefield and Verne came to protect him. When both armies saw this, they stopped and admired the brothers' bonding. Brothers, cousins, and uncles from both sides began to embrace one another and Tannen and Clayton agree to work together..."just long enough to drive you troublemakers out of here!" Marty, Doc, and the family escape back to 1991.
During the live-action segment, Doc reveals that Marty studied the American Civil War in vain, and failed. Had he been paying attention in class, he would have known that the exam was about the Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 until 1939.
Factual errors
- Doc inputs the date of February 7, 1895, and the location Baltimore, Maryland, in order to demonstrate the new spacial displacement capabilities of the new DeLorean time machine. Doc was close, but, Ruth was actually born on February 6 of that year. Doc made a similar mistake when demonstrating that one could witness the birth of Jesus Christ (in the original film), displaying the date "DEC 25 0000". There was no year between 1 BC and 1 AD. Even at that, Jesus was born in or before 4 BC, since the Bible states that he was born during the reign in Judaea of King Herod the Great, who died in 4 BC. Scholars have concluded that the birth of Christ was probably during the springtime (March or April) because that was the time of year that shepherds would have been watching their flocks of sheep during the night, as described elsewhere in the Bible.
Notes
Marty wears a 32 slim for pants, which he notes when trying on Confederate clothing, which, for his height and age, makes him a little overweight.
This pilot episode marks the first time that Bill Nye made an appearance on television, before getting his own show Bill Nye the Science Guy.
- Christopher Lloyd, as Doc, introduces the story: "Jules, the older of my two offspring, has assisted me in the assembly of this, a simple, yet fully operational electromagnet. In the interests of accuracy, this is not the first occasion on which Jules and I have constructed such a device... the year was 1864."
- Cartoon elements - Produced and directed by BTTF co-creator Bob Gale, the series combined clever writing, a faithfulness to the characters, and lessons in science and history... and, in the retelling of a story to children, things that could happen only in a cartoon. Thus, Jules tears a large hole through a door, Verne plunges from an altitude of several hundred feet and Marty breaks his fall, Doc emerges unscathed after a compressed DeLorean falls on him, and Einstein drives a car.
From the episode
- Doc: "If you park it on the street, it's bound to get ripped off."
- Marty: "Sure, because it's a time machine."
- Doc: "Because it's a DeLorean! These things are collector's items!"
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(The DeLorean is compressed to the size of a suitcase and Marty struggles to lift it.)
- Marty: "Whoa! Heavy!"
- Doc: "Heavy indeed! 2,796 pounds to be exact. After all, there's a car in there."
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- Verne: "They both treat me like a baby."
- Marty: "Verne, you're no baby! You're my main man! A macho dude!"
- Verne: "Gee, thanks, Marty. Can I borrow your hoverboard?"
- Marty: "Get out of town. You're too little!"
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(After going from 1991 to 1864)
- Marty: "Hey Doc, over 125 years in 6 seconds! That's not too shabby!"
- Doc: "Well, I had to ease up going around the turn of the century."
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- "Well guys, we'd love to stay and be massacred, but.., our ride's here."
- —Marty, bidding farewell to the troops
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