10 Ways Back To The Future Would Look Completely Different In 2015
3. The US Presidential Reference
Cultural references really are the running joke of the Back to the Future franchise. Stranded in 1955 Marty tries to convince the younger Doc that he really has travelled back in time using a device future Doc built after banging his head on a toilet sink.
Then a disbelieving Doc, probably still suffering a concussion, asks Futureboy possibly the most idiotic question of the movie... "Who's President of the United States in 1985?"
It's idiotic because in 1951 US congress ratified the Twenty-Second Amendment to their constitution preventing an incumbent President from being re-elected more than once. So whatever the answer it could never provide hard evidence that Marty was telling the truth because whoever was POTUS in 1955 (Eisenhower) would have been long gone.
As it was, Ronald Reagan was holding court in the Oval Office for most of the 80s, a fact 50s Doc found impossible to believe because Reagan was starring as Cowpoke in Tennessee's Partner.
Fast-forward to today and the property magnate Donald Trump is running for office. Possibly the most comedic presidential candidate of all-time and if US voters can't believe it now and they certainly wouldn't back in 1985. Cue more carefully-scripted confusion.