the cyber truck will leave production in 3 years, and a Back to the Future reboot featuring a time traveling cyber truck will release in 2029
I was just going to post a thread about a Back to the Future reboot for the 40th anniversary next year, so fuck it, I’ll just post my ideas here:
- Obviously the Cybertruck is going to be the time machine, that way you can get on board because there’s no way he’d realize the joke is that his truck’s a piece of shit just like the DeLorean.
- Trump might be president then, so you can recycle the joke about Reagan being president, just replace “Ronald Reagan” with “Donald Trump”.
- 30 years ago was 1995, so tap into that millennial nostalgia with jokes about the information superhighway, PlayStation, Space Jam?
- Soundtrack: Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, 2Pac, Macarena for a silly scene?
- Cameo by Ernest Cline in a DeLorean? Do people still care about that guy?
- In the dance scene at the end, Marty plays Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit.
Hollywood, get in touch, you know this shit prints money.
realize the joke is that his truck’s a piece of shit just like the DeLorean.
A total of four recalls were issued by the factory to correct problems such as a sticking throttle
First as tragedy, then as farce.
In the dance scene at the end, Marty plays Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit.
Imo it’s gotta be 100 gecs.
I’ve always thought the “your kids are gonna love it” line was weird. They’re in 1955, even if their kids were born right that second, they would’ve been the same age as them in the early 70s. By that same logic, it has to be something more recent in 1995.
Obviously the Cybertruck is going to be the time machine
I can see like, maybe they in-universe lore explanation is something about the easily rusting outer material is better for time travel. But also, it might be offputting for the audience when they wonder “why is the time machine based on a leftover playstation-era 3D model asset?”
30 years ago was 1995, so tap into that millennial nostalgia with jokes about the information superhighway, PlayStation, Space Jam?
real estate prices, college tuition, living wages, malls still open, fewer tent cities, nobody knows what climate change is yet
also, guess doc brown can’t have the libyans after him anymore, whoops
The Lathe can only produce bad things
It would take a brave soul to throwselves into it to grind it to a halt
I’d rather live believing that Musk would be [REDACTED] by some 17 year old neo-nazi mad about being banned on twitter or else someone trying to impress the 2020’s equivalent of young Jodie Foster before that date
…Though I guess that still wouldn’t preclude it from the AI script writer picking it as the quirky replacement car
more likely there is a Breaking Bad reboot where instead of a Pontiac Aztek, the main character drives the cybertruck to reflect how pathetic and trying to be cool the guy is, which feeds into chasing drug kingpin status
I never have to worry about getting a fucking software update with a DeLorean
If you’re forced into the horrors of car ownership, and you’re not absolutely impoverished, is a DeLorean actually that bad? For anti-car enthusiasts like me, the DeLorean is merely known as the Cool Retro Time Travel Movie car, to most of us, especially the younger, it might not actually be clear they made a real car based on the movies. But if a DeLorean and a CyberTruck pool up at my street corner, I know which customer’s car I’m hopping into.
Jerry Seinfeld drove one on an episode of comedians in cars getting coffee and it broke down and started smoking half way through. I think that’s a pretty typical experience with them.
I’d break down and start smoking if I had to spend any amount of time with Jerry Seinfeld too
I hate him so much. no one’s ever fallen upwards more than Jerry Seinfeld. he’s extremely unfunny, Curb Your Enthusiasm being essentially the same show as Seinfeld proves that the whole show was only good because of Larry David. he somehow got lucky enough to make the show during a time where you could make like a trillion dollars off of syndication deals. then after the show finishes, he comes up with the brilliant idea “hey I’ll film myself in my expensive cars bullshitting with my friends” and that ended up being a major success for no reason too.
Never meet your heroes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhAlWTyviKA
Edit: CW for brief mention of self-harm
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
At least the DeLorean doesn’t look goofy and stupid when looked at within its context.
Yeah, the DeLorean looks like a typical sports car of its time. Cybertruck looks out of place in all the eras.
Even this scathing comparison is pretty generous to the cybertruck.
The DeLorean had poor build quality, but I can’t see any indications that it will trap you in water to drown, or stick down the accelerator, or break immediately after fording shallow water or going in a car wash. I believe it can also survive being wet in daylight, and doesn’t need to be offline for hours at a time to update.
This car is known for being a death trap, if it flips you won’t be able to break or open the windows and the doors are wing doors and need space above you to open them, also you need a special way of washing it
or stick down the accelerator pedal
They’re actually pretty famous for that
https://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?17231-OK-first-issue-has-popped-up-accelerator-stuck
I read the Wiki, but TIL what a car throttle is. I guess I got it confused with a choke. Well dang
I basically learned about all of this today, lol
The cybertruck and delorean got stuck acceleration for different reasons, but kind of the same effect. Cybertruck has a decorative plate on the pedal that works loose and wedges fully down against the footwell trim. The delorean had a throttle cable that would basically stick at a certain point sometimes when you let off the throttle. The fix there was to tap the accelerator pedal until it worked loose again.
The cause of the cybertruck issue was using lubricant to install the decorative plate. The recall factory fix for the delorean was to lubricate the throttle cable with antifreeze. A very slapdash fix
First as farce, then as comedy.
No shot.
There’s currently a cybertruck recall for the accelerator gettjng stuck fully depressed…
