Marty McFly’s Back To The Future Hairdryer Mistake Actually Has A Good Explanation

In Back to the Future, a humorous moment involving Marty McFly’s hairdryer seems like a mistake, but there’s actually a good explanation behind it. The first film in the Back to the Future series finds Marty (Michael J. Fox) traveling back in time to 1955 where he’s forced to come up with a way to convince his father George (a teenager at the time) to take Lorraine Baines to the dance. Marty dresses up in a yellow suit while using a hairdryer as a space weapon to intimidate George into believing the far-fetched story that he’s an extra-terrestrial named “Darth Vader” from the planet ‘Vulcan.”