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"Verne's New Friend"
Season

2

Episode

18

Writer(s)

Mary Jo Ludin

Director

John Hays

Airdate

October 3, 1992

Episode chronology
Previous episode

"Marty McFly PFC"

Next episode

"Bravelord and the Demon Monstrux"

"Verne's New Friend" is the eighteenth episode of the second season of Back to the Future: The Animated Series. It first aired on October 3, 1992.

Brief synopsis

While playing baseball, Verne meets a new friend. Chris, who sports a baseball cap, can play like nobody's business and becomes the "hit" of the game. He and Chris begin to pal around and end up in the comic book store. Seeing an old poster of a circus long since disbanded, Verne and Chris, with Marty in the back of the DeLorean, head back to April 7, 1933 to see the circus in its heyday (the poster had advertised the circus's run for the weekend from April 7 to 10, 1933). The circus is in serious financial trouble. The farmer whose land hosts the circus, Mac Tannen, is about to take over the circus because the owners are unable to pay the rent to him for the fairgrounds. When the star high-wire act quits, Verne and Chris come to the rescue by taking over the act. Verne finds out that his buddy, Chris, is a girl. Chris (short for Christina) ends up saving Verne from a high-wire fall. Verne gives up his prejudice against "females" and saves a wonderful friendship. Meanwhile, Marty takes Verne and Christina with him and returns to 1992.

Behind the scenes

  • In an homage to the Peabody farm scene in the film, Verne and Chris lose control of a car and it crashes into a barn.
  • The farmer is "Old Mac Tannen" (and there is an E-I-E-I-O moment). Mac looks and sounds like Biff and is equally obnoxious. It's possible that he's the grandfather of Biff, who will be born later in the 1930s.

Dramatis personae

New continuity

New individuals

  • Mac Tannen
  • Christina (who goes by the ambiguous name "Chris")

New dates

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