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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Observations on "Back to the Future (Spoilers)
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:11:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 15:11:30 1985
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> 				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
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