Also called Doc and Marty by the DeLorean · Back to the Future Time Machine
Doc Brown and Marty McFly sit beside the DeLorean time machine. Name the moment you want to revisit and the tiny thing you would change once you got there.
The car makes a trip through time the implied solution. A caption can use that enormous invention to undo a small mistake, rescue a forgotten item, or repeat a pleasant moment.
The two characters also support a short exchange: one proposes the trip while the other explains the real reason. Keep the destination and the purpose connected so the time machine matters to the joke.
The image shows Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly with the DeLorean from Back to the Future. Robert Zemeckis’s film was released on July 3, 1985. [1]
In the film, Doc’s invention sends Marty from 1985 to 1955. Marty accidentally interferes with his parents’ meeting and must put things right before returning home, which gives captions about revisiting mistakes their familiar setting. [1] [2]
The film introduces Marty, Doc, and the DeLorean time machine used in this template. [1]
Put the moment to revisit across the dark space at the top and the reason along the bottom. Keep Doc, Marty, and enough of the DeLorean visible to make the time-travel premise clear.
Be precise about the change. Going back ten minutes to save a file makes a sharper joke than a general wish to fix your entire past.
Original captions to try with this template.
A time machine becomes the missing undo button for an email.
The reason for reopening the past is simply that the dessert was not finished yet.
The grand invention solves a very ordinary locked-door problem.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Gives the cast, July 1985 release, time-travel premise, and publicity stills.
Explains Marty’s trip to 1955 and the problem created by meeting his future parents.
