草莓传媒

For Back to the Future Day, you can converse with Doc Brown

WASHINGTON 鈥 And you thought 鈥淏ack to the Future II鈥 was just a movie.

Wednesday is Back to the Future Day 鈥 Oct. 21, 2015, is the day Doc Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker arrived from 1985 to set the plot of the second of the film series in motion. And in honor of the event, .

Big deal, you say; he鈥檚 hardly the first movie character to have his own page, created by fans. This one, however, is different 鈥 the page, created by Disney, is a bot that will answer your Facebook messages in character. (Which seems like something Doc Brown would come up with.)

Just don鈥檛 ask him about the Cubs. And be prepared to explain why a small cup of coffee is referred to as a Tall.

In other 鈥淏ack to the Future鈥 news, 鈥 Brown and McFly鈥檚 hometown 鈥 for the duration of the , Wednesday through Sunday. The trilogy will be shown at the fifth annual festival, as well as a documentary on the impact of the movies on American culture.

h/t

Rick Massimo

Rick Massimo came to 草莓传媒, and to Washington, in 2013 after having lived in Providence, R.I., since he was a child.聽He's the author of "A Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set" and "I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival."

Federal 草莓传媒 Network Logo
Log in to your 草莓传媒 account for notifications and alerts customized for you.