The Weekly Planet - Not Ready Player One - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: March 27, 2018

Ready Player One is firing it's way into cinemas this week and in order to find something with a very loose connection we're looking at Back To The Future The Animated Series. Because it has a Delorean. You get it.Video Version ► https://goo.gl/3JD45jExtended Audio Edition ► https://goo.gl/YgEB1iTwitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesFacebook ► http://facebook.com/mrsundaymoviesBuy Ready Player One on Amazon ► https://amzn.to/33ghJrQPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet YouTube ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGH Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Mason, Ready for Layer 1 is hotly anticipated. It's a nostalgia trip for the mind and the virtual reality. podcast from our great mates mason ready for layer one is hotly anticipated it's not still it's a nostalgia trip for the mind and the virtual reality i want to be clear it's not hotly anticipated by me okay listen mason it's also not hotly anticipated by me that being said we'll do this episode of cave and a garbage about it because it's a delorean in it there's a delorean in all right what do you want okay great all All right? Nice. This episode is on...

It's hotly anticipated by many discerning viewers. Yes. So, look, we thought because the DeLorean probably plays a prominent role in that film, probably, there's a Back to the Future cartoon from the 90s that we could talk about. It ran for two seasons. It's a handful of episodes it has not the voice of christopher lloyd but he does bookend the series the each episode in live action huh yeah as doc brown no as the guy from suburban commando that he played oh interesting it's as doc brown and

i'll tell you this mason yes he's bloody all bloody all in. Really? He's 100% committed to this. Okay. It's good stuff. Yeah. I mean, it's not good stuff, but it's good stuff. So this, every- No, I never watched this.

No. But I did read a couple of issues of the comic book. You got a couple of issues, Mason. There was a comic book- Oh, come on, mate. There was a comic book spinoff from Harvey Comics,

creators of Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, et al. Yeah, et al. It's pretty good. Okay. I remember an episode where they went to spin-off from Harvey Comics creators of Richie Rich Casper the Friendly Ghost yeah yeah Et al yeah Et al it's pretty good okay remember an episode

where they went to bloody 1920s gangster time what was it like really good did they what happens in this episode

well Mason it's set after Back to the Future 3 so yep Doc Brown is hanging out with these time displaced kids that shouldn't exist

he shouldn't kill them he should kill them he should kill shouldn't exist yeah what if at every at the end of every episode

you know how like in like you'd watch the G.I. Joe cartoon and shouldn't exist. What if at the end of every episode, you know how like he'd watch the G.I. Joe cartoon and there'd be like a lesson at the end of it? Hey, why don't you help an old lady across the road or whatever? At the end of each one of these, he just stands over their beds as they sleep and he's got a rock in one hand and he like contemplates. Every episode he's got a different thing in his hand. He contemplates he's got a wrench or whatever.

He contemplates killing them. And then it's like a rainbow and it's like, don't kill your kids. Brought to you by the Department for Not Killing Your Kids. Carry on. So he's got two kids, Jules and Vern. I don't remember which is which, but one's an idiot. So that factors in.

Is that Clara's fault? Yeah, but they're both pretty smart. She's just from a different time. She's not an idiot. She that's a shame. That factors in. Is that Clara's fault? Yeah, but they're both pretty smart. She's just from a different time. She's not an idiot. She's just from the old West. Yeah. Where everyone's just fallen into carts of manure and whatever else they were doing,

making fun of Nikes and Chinese people. Maybe one of the kids is Biff's kid. Oh, that's very possible. Isn't it though? Yeah, he's through time, isn't he? Biff or Griff or old man, mad dog Biff or whatever. Exactly right, yeah. Yeah, there we go.

So basically he builds this machine, Doc Brown, it's called the Propriety Ultrasonic Subatomic Molecular Redistributor. Okay. Which basically means it just breaks the particles down of something and it sucks it into, it's like a vacuum. Did any of Doc Brown's other inventions work? Well, technically that head thing works. That's right.

Because it makes some very specific predictions about Marty that are kind of vague but may also be true or something. Okay. But no, generally not. Not until he had that horrific fall onto his toilet seat or whatever. Then everything started to come together for him. So if you're a struggling inventor, just smash your head on some porcelain. You'll be fine.

And you'll get some time-displaced kids, which you can kill yourself. That's right. They're like freebies. That's right. Anyway, builds this thing. To test the propriety ultrasonic subatomic molecular redistributor. Can we shorten that down? No.

He has to go 3 million years BC to test it out. Because he's like, I'm not going to test it out in modern day. I might kill everyone. Yeah, I might kill everyone. I might kill everyone and my kids, which I don't mind so much. But I'd have to kill all sorts of innocent people. So while he's driving the DeLorean out with his kids, he nearly kills Marty. He actually gets hit by the car.

Doesn't kill him. And Marty's like, hey, Hey I got my new music video Jennifer made it for me But I'm the star And they're like Shut up And they leave him It's a Marty

Mostly a Marty free episode How do you feel about that? I don't like it Mason Because I don't like his kids I don't like him Okay right Yeah Were the kids put in this

Because his They find Marty Marty's unrelatable to... Yeah, because he's like 16 or whatever. Surely Marty's relatable to children. No, kids only can relate to other kids. Kids don't look up to anybody who's slightly older than them. That's true.

Look at Jake Lloyd, Anakin Skywalker, your hero. Uh-huh, yeah, still. Still, yeah. That's it. So anyway, they go back there and they get picked up to 3 billion, million BC or whatever. They get picked up by a Pteranodon. No, no, no, I will not let that slide. 3 billion BC billion, million BC or whatever. They get picked up by a pteranodon. No, no, no.

I will not let that slide. 3 billion BC and 3 million BC are very different. Okay. Somewhere in that ballpark. What do you want from me? No, that's fair. Yeah. So they get picked up by a pteranodon or something.

One of the big flying ones. But it's got like a big toucan's beak. It looks like a big bird. It doesn't look like a dinosaur. It saves them from a T-Rex. And they're like, what a good, they give it a name. I don't remember what they call it. It's irrelevant. But they name it. That's important because it has him from a T-Rex. And they're like, what a good, they give it a name. I don't remember what they call it. It's irrelevant, but they name it.

That's important because it has a horrible death. So. Good, yeah, that's what you do. If you've ever done that, what you do is you go to somebody, you show them a pencil. Yeah. And you're like, this pencil's name's Gary. He's got two kids and he's just trying to,

he works extra shifts over at the factory to make ends meet for his kids. He's a divorced dad. Yeah. And they go, interesting. And he just snapped the pencil in half in front of them. A lot of people are like, oh. Try it at home. Yeah, absolutely.

So Doc Brown looks up and then he suddenly realizes that he's transported them back in time to the exact point where the meteor hits the earth and kills all the dinosaurs. So what he does, he decides- And also tying this cartoon together with the TV series Dinosaurs. Correct. Well done. So what he decides to do, because apparently he's an idiot, uses the proprietary ultrasonic subatomic molecular redistributor to-

Could shorten that. Yeah, need to. To pull it from the sky and cancel it out. They're cancelling the apocalypse, Mason. Wow. Yeah. Pacific Rim style. Pacific Rim style.

And then they're like, great, we'll go back in time. We'll go back to the future. Nice. I'm sure this- Like in the name of the show. Yeah. Sorry, they go back to- What's that movie called that we're going to see?

They go back to Ready Player One. Nice. I'm tying it all in, Mason. That's very good. So anyway, they get in the car and then his son the dummies the one who's the dummy has drained the battery on the on the car because he's watching marty's rock and roll vhs nice right so that's that's good and then it's at this point in the series that i realized the episode that i realized that this is also edutainment

and i was like you let you had me going there for a second with your nonsensical slingshots. I think the comic book was also edutainment, but I could skip those panels. So I've learned nothing. Couldn't skip this. I need to do this episode. So basically they explain how to get electricity out of a lemon

because they charge the battery on the car. So if you ever need to do that, just watch this episode. If you ever need to charge, if you ever need to fully charge a time-travelling DeLorean, you can use a lemon. No, it was a series of lemons. They used a few lemons. Look, I don't mean to be critical. Yeah. But this really punches a hole in the logic of Back to the Future 3,

because if he could have just powered the delorean with lemons that's a really good point isn't it though yeah yeah there were lemons in the old west probably yeah yeah they all had scurvy or whatever they're probably eating them like left right it was probably a treat to eat a really sour lemon that's you know you have a plate of manure then you eat a lemon that's's right. Christmas time came around, your kids got a lemon each. Had to eat it sparingly. A lemon and you'd knock one of their teeth out. That's right. Alright, maybe they've modified the DeLorean

since then. Sure. You can power it with lemons. Also, the DeLorean exploded. It got hit by a train. Oh yeah, it did. This is a rebuild DeLorean. So I guess it's a rebuild. Yeah, I don't know. So anyway, they... Lemon powered rebuild. They go back to the future. They go Ready Player One Mason.

Oh, yeah. And lo and behold, who would have fucking thought the future's completely changed because the dinosaurs are never wiped out. Yeah. And they've built this like earth-ish civilization, but they're all still giant. So they've zipped around. They're kind of like, what's going on? Have they become kind of like weird dinosaur-human hybrids like in the Super Mario Brothers movie?

A little bit. They're more like dinosaurs in clothes. Okay, sure. I can work with that. You can work with that. And time is being erased. Oh, come on. Like Marty's really good rock and roll tape has been erased.

Oh, what? Yeah, you know, like in the movie, the Back to the Future movie. Yeah, I get it, yeah. His family photo is slowly him being replaced by a series of dinosaurs. That's it, exactly. And also, because why not, there's a Biff dinosaur. Of course there is. He's inescapable.

Is there any explanation for that? Nah. Did you want one? Yeah. Well, there isn't. Did a dinosaur have sex with Biff's ancestors or something? I don't know. Man, Biff.

My understanding is that, because I don't recognize them, I don't think there's been any people. I think it's been any people i think it's just been a dinosaur society yeah right for three or three billion three million or three billion years that biff rather than being a weird like indestructible genetic line for some reason biff is in fact some sort of evil spirit yes like he's some sort of demonic entity that can just enter into like a dim-witted man or a dinosaur and just become it. Yes.

That's disturbing. And I love it. It's all news to me. So basically they have to go back in time to stop them not destroying the meteor or whatever. Oh, is the Biff dinosaur portrayed by tom wilson i don't know tom wilson usa i wish it i wish it was i wish i knew maybe you could look that up i have looked it up and it says it is oh great if is i don't know if dinosaur biff is he'd have to be right yeah yeah

no look i wasn't watching that closely to be honest so they they go back in time but in the process uh biff dinosaur uses his tongue and he sticks onto the delorean but he does and and they pull it like a hundred feet and then they go through time and then he's just left there holding his tongue like just a whole lot of stretched taffy like it's just ruined like that is unusable i mean he's about to be erased from time yeah but that that dinosaur's life is over well and and the biff entity has taken many bizarre forms, so I'm sure he's not that concerned. He's been many kinds of multidimensional eldritch horrors.

He's been a cowboy. He's been Donald Trump. He's been a future boy. Exactly. And a dinosaur, obviously. Yeah. So anyway, they bring the meteor back, and the dumb one, you know, he's dumb kid, whichever one is the dumb one,

he's like, don't leave our friend the dinosaur, you know, the bird dinosaur. And Doc's like, listen, idiot, we can't take this guy. We can't take a dinosaur back with us to the future. So we're going to leave him here. Even though it's the name of the show. Even though it's the name of the show we're in. So we're going to leave him here, right? And the dinosaur's sad.

Okay, which of the brothers wears a coonskin cap? The dumb one. Okay, that's Vern. Great. Vern often uses his favorite insult, skunkhead. Very good. He's a tannin. He's a tannin kid is all I'm saying.

Yeah, no kid of Doc Brown would wear one of those hats. Also, he's the skunkhead. He's wearing a dead animal on his head. It's from this guy. I know, right? Anyway, continue. So anyway, they leave the dinosaur, but the dinosaur gives them a little bit of a kind of thumbs up. Not really, but he's pretty happy about animal on his head. Yes, right. It's from this guy. I know, right. Anyway, continue. So anyway, they leave the dinosaur, but the dinosaur gives them a little bit of a kind of thumbs up.

Not really, but he's pretty happy about being obliterated. Of course. Because it is. And they get back to modern day Earth and Marty's there and he's like, hey, I'm still here. I'm irrelevant to this story. And then, I don't know, and then there's a little bird flies up and they're like, this bird just looks like the dinosaur we just left.

So maybe it's its ancestor. Maybe it's got the spirit of biff in it sounds like a lot of learning to me yeah gross get buckle in mason because as the as the episode wraps up it cuts back to live action doc round he's like what an adventure i had this was fun marty that's great good stuff yeah good yeah and then it cuts to bill nye the science guy and then he does the lemon experiment he's like you can power a clock radio with this and i'm like this is fucking useless this is useless information it was useless then it's useless now thanks a lot bill nighy would you trust the lemon powered like alarm clock no absolutely not what if the lemons dry out overnight what if it runs out of juice very good we have to end on that high note don't we absolutely and by that our

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You certainly are. Thanks for watching this, guys. Sorry. Grabbed our gem, you guys. See you next time. You really peed it out there. It's almost like you ran out of juice. Hey!

Nice. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. I mean, if you want. It's up to you. FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.

One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.