Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site rduxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!rduxb!jmd From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Observations on "Back to the Future (Spoilers) Message-ID: <556@rduxb.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:11:30 EDT Article-I.D.: rduxb.556 Posted: Tue Jul 9 15:11:30 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:30:42 EDT References: <53700046@trsvax> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA Lines: 25 > Pepsico must have invested quite a bit of > money in this film in order to have a bit of obvious and not so obvious > plugs. Pepsi references are scattered throughout the movie: > > o In two seperate scenes, there are close-up shots of Marty's > alarm clock on the head of his bed. Sitting very close by and > always in the shot is an empty Pepsi-Free can. > o When he goes into the bar/maltshop for the first time, he orders > a Tab, then a Pepsi-Free. Perhaps Pepsi did invest some bucks in the film but no other softdrink names could have provided the jokes used in the maltshop. Marty wanted a Tab (you know a tab as in check, bill, etc.). Tab wasn't around in 1955 (or was it?) so the clerk thought Marty wanted his check. Remember the clerk saying "I'll give you a tab once you order something." Then Marty said never mind give me a Pepsi-Free. Now I know Pepsi-Free wasn't around in 1955 so the clerk thought Marty wanted a free Pepsi. I guess Marty could have asked for an old Coke then but the clerk would have probably thrown him out:-). > George Moore (gm@trsvax) Joseph M. Dakes AT&T Bell Laboratories Reading, PA rduxb!jmd