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Joey Baines
Biographical information
Date of birth1954
Age (1955)1
Age (1985)31
Age (2015)61
Physical description
GenderMale
Hair colorBrown
Eye colorBrown
Behind-the-scenes information
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"Lorraine McFly turned her attention to Linda, who was finishing her pudding. "You didn't have to eat that, you know," she said. "We've got cake." / Linda raised her eyebrows. "What cake?" she asked. / Lorraine pointed to the three-layer cake on the kitchen counter. On the top was written WELCOME HOME UNCLE JOEY. Above the letters was a tiny black bird flying out of a barred window. It wasn't exactly subtle, but Uncle Joey's situation wasn't a secret. / "It looks like we'll have to eat this cake by ourselves again," Lorraine smiled grimly. "Uncle Joey didn't get a parole." "
—From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 36)
"So, you're my Uncle Joey. Better get used to these bars, kid."
—Marty McFly
"But, nice as his [Marty's] mother was, there were still a few things that she just couldn't be realistic about. Like this party she kept going on about. / 'Mom,' Marty Senior replied patiently, 'before we throw a party for Uncle Joey, let's see if he makes parole.' "
—From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 84)

"Jailbird" Joey Baines (born 1954) was the fifth child of Sam and Stella Baines. He would grow up to spend many years in prison for an unknown offense. On October 25, 1985, he failed to earn his release on parole for at least the second time.

When Marty McFly traveled back to November 5, 1955, he met his uncle Joey at age 1 behind the bars of a crib wearing a black and white striped shirt. Stella noted that he enjoyed being in his crib, as every time they took him out he would cry.

In the 1985A timeline, Joey was still noted as being in jail.

It is unknown whether Joey was still in jail in 2015. A commemorative reprint of the USA Today front page from Part II, released on "Back to the Future Day", shows that Joseph "Joey" Baines was denied parole again (for the 12th consecutive time and was serving a 20 year term for racketeering.[1] (Also, in a deleted scene from Part II, which was reinstated for the novelization, Marty of 2015 says "Mom, let's wait and see if Uncle Joey makes parole.")

Joey

Joey in 1986B.

In the 1986B timeline, Joey never ended up in prison and instead worked at the Brown Institute (the Brown Mansion of that reality). After escaping from the Citizen Plus ward, Citizen Brown convinced Joey to help him and Marty in finding the DeLorean. Though he cooperated with the two, Edna Brown punished him with an electrical rod, albeit set to stun.[2]

Behind the scenes

  • An early script of Back to the Future Part II showed that Joey, in his early teens in 1967, enjoyed locking himself in his room and eating nothing but bread and water.[3][4]

References

  1. http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/21/9578593/back-to-the-future-usa-today-front-page
  2. Back to the Future: Citizen Brown #4
  3. Early script of Back to the Future Part II. Lorraine: Where's Joey? Ellen: He locked himself in his room again.
  4. Early script of Back to the Future Part II. Ellen: Mom, you know he only eats bread and water when he's up there.

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