![]() The future is pretty rad.īe your own Biff by subscribing to Loot Sci-Fi and celebrate 35 years of Back to the Future! Now make like a tree… and get outta here. Only in the future, you can bean someone in the head with a retractable baseball bat and chase them on hoverboards. Insults in the future are the same as the insults of today. You can say this to anyone you meet at a party. “What kind of stupid name is that?” – Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen I like to think only a genius could come up with a mixed metaphor that’s this brilliant. Some may say he’s so ignorant he doesn’t understand what he’s saying. “Why don’t you make like a tree and get out of here?” – Biff Tannenīiff can easily be summed up by this sentence alone. Try it out today on a random stranger! They’ll either laugh like McFly or you’ll be arrested for assault. It’s so good it can be used in any situation and on anyone. The rapping he does on Crispin Glover’s head is like nails on a chalkboard, but the line is fantastic. “Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly! Think!” – Biff Tannen To this day I still call people buttheads, to honor cinema’s biggest bully. The movie that made calling someone a butthead both an insult and a winky reference to this classic film. “What are you looking at, butthead?” – Biff Tannen To celebrate the original’s 35th-anniversary inclusion in the newest Loot Sci-Fi crate, let’s look back at the best quotes of Biff Tannen and his crazy family. From Griff, the psycho grandson from the future and as distant relative Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen from the 1800s, the Tannens are a certain kind of awful. From his first introduction as an adult to when we meet him as a teenager, then as an old man, he’s a terrible human being. Biff has always been portrayed as despicable. While getting recognized by fans is a thrill for many actors, being recognized for almost 40 years for one. This figure stands approximately 3.75 inches tall and comes in a window box display. Thomas Wilson wrote Biff's Question Song to answer all Back to the Future questions. Bring home this Biff Tannen Pop today to join your collection. ![]() And while we like quoting and creating memes from Marty, Doc, and George McFly, it’s the franchise’s main antagonist, Biff Tannen, that deserves a lot of our love. From Back to the Future, it’s Biff Tannen as a stylized Funko Pop vinyl figure. From the first film to the third, you can pick and choose a line from any of the film’s characters. It’s such a layered series of films that you catch new, small things each time you watch it (like the nod to Used Cars, an early collaboration by director Bob Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale).īut one of the best things about the Back to the Future franchise is just how quotable it is. ![]() For years it has been discussed, argued over, dissected and analyzed about its time travel paradoxes and themes. Biff Tannen, the antagonist of the Back to the Future franchise, bullies his way into the NECA Ultimate line Dressed in his Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. With two successful sequels, it’s heralded as one of the best film franchises to stand the test of time (pun intended). While Zane is convincing as an oily tough, he’s not nearly as loutish as Wilson’s bruising Biff.Back to the Future is one of the most iconic and revered movies to come out in the 80s. Wilson) torments George McFly (Crispin Glover). In the clip above, Zane (who would become best known as Leonardo DiCaprio’s nemesis in Titanic) is performing proto-dialogue from what would become the diner scene, in which a horrified Marty (Michael J. But Zane, in this case, did win a nice consolation: he was cast instead as one of Biff’s minions, Match, and reprised the role in the 1989 sequel Back to the Future II. Given the wide-net nature of casting, most every actor in Hollywood has a litany of near-misses. Then there’s Billy Zane, who auditioned for the soon-to-be-iconic bully Biff - and whose audition reel you can watch exclusively above. Thomas Howell (all trying out for Marty McFly), Kyra Sedgwick (Jennifer Parker) and Peter DeLuise (Biff Tannen). The 4K UHD Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy (available tomorrow) features a series of rare audition tapes from several actors were passed over for lead roles, including Ben Stiller, Jon Cryer and C. After 35 years and multiple home-video releases, some of the most legendary Back to the Future footage has finally been unearthed from the vaults - including an audition tape nearly as anticipated as that footage of Eric Stoltz playing Marty McFly from the 25th anniversary box set.
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