Hey, do you remember the Back to the Future trilogy?

Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.

I'm Chris.

I'm Donna.

And I'm Carlos.

And today we're revisiting the Back to the Future trilogy.

Thank you. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Back to the Future trilogy. At this point, most of us are well aware of the enduring legacy of the Back to the Future franchise.

So it's amusing to consider that this worldwide phenomenon exists because screenwriter Bob Gale decided to dig through some junk in his parents' basement.

That's where he found one of his dad's old high school yearbooks and learned that his father had been class president.

He thought about his own class president and how they had never associated with one another.

This led him to wonder, would him and his dad have been friends in high school?

And that is how this all began.

Gale wrote the script with Robert Zemeckis, but they initially had difficulty finding a studio that was interested in making it. The other films of that era about and four teenagers were more

salacious. Hollywood was looking for the next Porkies or fast times at Ridgemont High, and compared

to those titles, Back to the Future, seemed too soft. One executive suggested that Disney

might be a more appropriate place to pitch the film,

but there they faced the opposite problem. The unusual subplot about a mother seducing her

son was deemed too risque. Through it all, Steven Spielberg remained interested in the project,

but since he had already produced two financially unsuccessful films that Zemeckis had directed,

Zemeckis was concerned that a third

unprofitable collaboration would cement his reputation as the guy who could only get his movies

made because he was friends with Steven Spielberg. He went off to make romancing the Stone instead,

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