When Marty's Daughter Was explaining To Grandma Lorean About the Shade T.V screen wore out and older Marty threw the repair man out of the house by calling him chicken, I just wonder why the repair man called him chicken for?
shareYeah I doubt it was simply
Marty : " I don't want to fix it "
Repair Man : "Cmon, what are you , chicken?"
Marty : " What? Nobody calls me chicken!"
Repair Man : "Don't yell at me, I am offended and I'm leaving"
It actually seems like an error because it seems more likely that if the repair man called him a chicken , he would have agreed to the repairs , just like he agreed to scan his card for Needles.
Marty : " I don't want to fix it "
Repair Man : "Cmon, what are you , chicken?"
Marty : " What? Nobody calls me chicken!"
Repair Man : "Don't yell at me, I am offended and I'm leaving"
I just wonder why the repair man called him chicken for?
Could have escalated from something entirely different, where the repair guy ended up using the word Chicken.
Marty did live in "Looser Ville" in 2015 and perhaps the repair guy knew of a whole lot better places to live, Marty rejected that and the repair guy could have loosely said in the conversation "Don't be a chicken" or something similar like that, just like many other people do, when we use it as a phrase about not being afraid of trying something different.
Doesn't matter what it was, Lorraine's expositional dialogue about it was forced, as was the whole "don't call me chicken" gimmick. The fact that being called "chicken" basically became Marty's Kryptonite and the focus of all his issues in parts II and III was very hokey, IMHO.
It was too similar to Biff's "trademark" hatred of manure.
I mean really, who likes manure?
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It's funny that Marty always got bent out of shape whenever someone called him a chicken.
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I always wondered if it's because he grew up with a push over for a Dad. Son's look up to their Dad and if they see them bullied all their lives it can have a very strong 'nobody's going to push me around like that' effect.
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I always wondered if it's because he grew up with a push over for a Dad.
Each to their own I guess. Marty not being liked called 'chicken' was central to a lot of the trouble he got into. It never really bothered me.
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A good question from the OP.
In what situation would the television repairman question the courage of one of his customers? How would that even come up in conversation?
Well you could speculate anything. One possibility is Marty said he wanted the screen fixed to watch a game and the repair guy tried to goad him into a bet. Marty wouldn't take it and the repair guy called him chicken. Bear in mind we see Marty being called chicken in the most extreme circumstances but it's possible he freaked out when people said it even for a laugh.
Hey! You're not old enough to drink! Now go and die for your country!!!
In what situation would the television repairman question the courage of one of his customers? How would that even come up in conversation?
Just to clear up, this wasn't the future of the original Part 1 timeline where George was a wimp. The "nobody calls me chicken" Marty comes from the new, cooler and confident George and Lorraine from the end of Part 1. It's actually been theorized that Marty who was born to them got a bit cocky and overconfident because he had a different upbringing (and that as time went on, the Marty we see "merged" memories with the new Marty).
shareNo one ever calls him a chicken in the first movie though, so for all we know he always had that reaction even in the old timeline.
Heck, when Lorraine calls him a square he gets offended and tags a swig of alcohol.
Maybe the exchange went something like this.
TV repairman: I can install Cable for you for a fee and you never have to pay for it again.
Marty: That is illegal, I can get into trouble!
TV repairman: Don't be a Chicken.
Marty: Get out of my house!
Unfortunately, nothing was explained in the scene so it's left to the imagination
If Back to the Future was rated R, Marty would get upset when people called him a pussy.
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