Robot Chicken is a television show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Created in 2005 by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, Robot Chicken is a stop-motion cartoon that spoofs popular culture.
References to Back to the Future[]
Dragon Nuts[]
- Omaha's Number 1 News Team - The rioting act that breaks out in the town square is reminiscent of that in 1985A.
P.S. Yes, in That Way[]
- The Inspiration to Draw This - The scene where the doctor got the inspiration to draw a sketch of the Flux capacitor. In this skit, Emmett Brown is hanging himself in the bathroom, when he slips and bonks his head on the sink.
Please Do Not Notify Our Contractors[]
- 87 MPH - A cop pulls Marty over just one mile shy of 88 - the mileage required to make the DeLorean time machine travel through time.
Dear Consumer[]
- Comet's Christmas Miracle - The scene where Comet says, "Legs? Where we're going, we don't need legs!" and flies toward the camera is a reminder of the ending scene from Back to the Future Part I.
Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen[]
- Meet the Bachelors - George McFly, Biff Tannen, and Marty are on a game show. When Lorraine says she'll become a nun, this causes Marty to disappear.
Casablankman II[]
- Doc Brown's Plutonium - This skit goes back story of how Emmett obtained the Plutonium from the Libyan terrorist group.
- Calling Chuck Berry - When Marvin Berry makes the preposterous decision to call his cousin Chuck from a conveniently placed phone during a prom performance, he ends up changing history.
- Jay-Z & the Doc - Jay-Z helps Dr. Emmett Brown get back to the future by performing a rap song about it.
Eaten by Cats[]
- A DeLorean? - Marty thinks the DeLorean is a bad idea for a time machine, given the checkered past of its inventor. Doc uses different unique vehicles, such as the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile or an ice cream truck for designs, but Marty has something critical to say about them. Doc then makes a time machine out of the Batmobile, and is accompanied by Cleopatra and Amelia Earhart as his dates. However, when Marty says the Batmobile is a great idea for a time machine, Doc leaves without him, saying that is punishment for his critical attitude of earlier designs.
Secret of the Flushed Footlong[]
- Whackin' It Off To My Mom - Huey Lewis presents a rejected song from the first Back to the Future movie, which alludes to Marty and Lorraine's mutual attraction.
Hey I Found Another Sock[]
- The Nerd Goes to Westworld - The Nerd dresses up as "The coolest western hero of all time": Marty McFly, in reference to Marty's outfit he wore when going to 1885 in Back to the Future Part III.
BTTF actors in Robot Chicken[]
- Lea Thompson - Lorraine Baines McFly in "Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"
- Christopher Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown in both "Casablankman II" & "Eaten by Cats" (the latter of which he also voiced Early Hacker)
- Billy Zane - Commander Edwards & King Ding Dong in "Poisoned by Relatives"
- Mary Steenburgen - Athena in "The Core, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"
