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An interesting difference between the movie and the book: here in booktopia, George asks for two coats of wax, and says the coat last time was a little sloppy:

“Yessir!” Biff replied in a voice that was friendly and eager to please.  ”You’re the boss, sir!”

Meanwhile in the movie, George asks for two coats of wax, Biff says he’s finishing up the second coat, and George says “Don’t con me” and Biff says “I’m sorry, I was just STARTING the second coat”.  So movie Biff still has some of his jerky ways about him (old Biff remains an echo of his formal self!) while in the book, new Biff is completely transformed (/ old Biff COMPLETELY KILLED) and he just wants to do a really really good job.

Anyway remember when Lorraine almost got raped by Biff?  George and Lorraine do!  They think about it with a smile.

“I’ve had to keep Biff in line ever since high school.”  Then [George] added with a smile: “Although if it hadn’t been for Biff, your mother and I would never have met.”

Ah, memories. 

“Yeah, Dad,” Linda interrupted.  ”You’ve told us a million times already.  You beat him up when he was bothering Mom and that’s how the two of you fell in love.”

“It was more than that,” Lorraine added.  ”Your father literally came to my rescue.” She sighed.  ”It was so romantic…“ 

Again, this works way better in the movie because the sexual assault was played down as much as is possible AND Linda and Lorraine don’t have this back and forth.  Here in the book, where the word “rape” was used and her dress was torn open by Biff, this whole exchange is just really really strange.  You can read it like George and Lorraine never telling their kids the full details, but Lorraine is still really into this night.  Lorraine I don’t know what your deal is!!

Hey, remember how Marty kept going for those time travel laffs while he was in the 50s?  He’s not the kind of guy to leave well enough alone, so at least he’s being consistent here in the 80s:

“Whatever happened to the other guy?” Marty asked.

“What other guy?” his father asked.

“The guy I was named after.”

“Oh,” Lorraine murmured.  ”We never saw him again.  He vanished into thin air.” Then, looking at Marty closely, she said “I don’t remember ever telling you about him.”

 ”Well, you must have.  Otherwise I wouldn’t have known, would I?”

And man this exchange is winky and terrible and only exists so Marty can lord his time-travel knowledge over his family, but it could’ve been worse.  In the first draft of the movie, George goes back to a photograph of that night, looks at Marty in the photo and says something like “Naaaahhhhhhh, it couldn’t be!” and then the movie ends which is even winkier and terribler (and YES if you understood “terribler” it is so a word).  This first draft also solves the “two Marties” problem by having Marty 2 walk into a bathroom and TOTALLY DISAPPEAR, an event glossed over by Doc in one line and never mentioned again which is so unsatisfying that I can see why they simply ignored the problem in the final draft rather than try to attempt an explanation!

While everyone is reminiscing about Lorraine’s Busy Night, Biff walks in with a book called A Match Made In Space!

SPOILER ALERT: GEORGE MCFLY WROTE IT :0

SPOILER ALERT 2: OMG WHAT IS GOING ON WITH HIS HAIR IN THAT AUTHOR PHOTO

SPOILER ALERT 3: THERE’S, LIKE, A WING AT THE BACK??