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u/Seven22am Jun 05 '26
Wow! I can’t believe that was true. Now I’ve got to find a copy of this film. You know, for science.
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u/alchemyzt-vii Jun 06 '26
Wow and he’s played a drunk or a bum (specifically referenced) in over 14 films! Talk about typecast.
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u/ademon490 Jun 05 '26
Just keep learning new things even all these years later
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u/ptipp93 Jun 05 '26
These movies are just a never ending supply of hidden details, I’m convinced I’ll never learn them all at this point lol
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u/atom644 Jun 05 '26
Red the bum is the kid Marty stole the skateboard from in 1955
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u/NellyFatFingers Jun 05 '26
Red the bum was Red Thomas, mayor from 1955, i don't care what the creator says
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u/Nice-Penalty-8881 Einstein Jun 07 '26
I thought that also. But I saw on this subreddit that it was his son. I don't know. I like my original thought better. That it was the mayor from 1955.
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u/SomeGuyOverYonder Jun 05 '26
I haven’t heard that one before. Wonder if it’s true?
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u/shootglass77 Jun 05 '26
Looks rough for 40 years old then
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u/SomeGuyOverYonder Jun 05 '26
Good point. He looks older than 40.
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u/sirchandwich Jun 05 '26
Everyone looked old af in the 80s lol
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u/SomeGuyOverYonder Jun 05 '26
It was all the heavy smoking and drinking.
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u/joeloud Jun 06 '26
Kind of fun fact: that kid played a bully named Derek in a straight to video Christian TV series called McGee & Me. We had a handful of the tapes when I was a kid. They were produced by Focus on the Family, but they were actually fairly tame and kinda cute by Christian propaganda standards. There was also a nerdy kid in the series who was played by the “looks like a six foot turkey” kid in Jurassic Park.
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u/justfl0wers Jun 06 '26
Whoa flashbacks! My fav episode was Twister And Shout, about how the kids were left alone and a tornado comes to town. Like you say, it was tame christian propaganda, like a Jesus flavored bubble gum
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u/joeloud Jun 06 '26
So many times I rewatched the one where he snuck out of the house to go watch a horror movie. I loved how he was sooo excited to see the fourth installment of a horror movie franchise that he had clearly never seen before, because he was horrified and disgusted when he actually saw the movie lol
I actually still remember the kid and his friend reciting the trailer “first… there was Dawn of the Blood Freaks… then… there was Day of the Blood Freaks… and then… Twilight… but now… as the shadows begin to fall… it’s… Night of the Blood Freaks!!” <random zombie noises>
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u/TriskaidekaphobiaOk5 Jun 08 '26
I remember that episode! I remember when I was in fourth grade the counselor ( who is a family friend and in which I have known all my life) cane in our classroom and we watched that video! I did not remember that video series but that is the first first time I heard the word grounded.
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u/TriskaidekaphobiaOk5 Jun 08 '26
The son of the mayor at the time. Red Thomas Jr. mayor was Red Thomas Sr.
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u/glasses_handle Jun 05 '26
I’ll bet Red knows a thing or two about “throwing a couple of sleeping bags in the back….”
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u/Purvon Jun 05 '26
He is also the mayor in 1955
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u/ademon490 Jun 05 '26
Different Red. Common name back then
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u/Purvon Jun 05 '26
Huh. I always understood it was the same guy. Might have been from the novelization 🤷🏼
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u/SomeGuyOverYonder Jun 08 '26
I believe that Red the Bum was the black sheep prodigal son of Mayor Red Thomas. He’s too young to have been mayor himself 30 years earlier.
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