Back to the Future 2 – Biff 1985 Pleasure Paradise Casino Ambience: Nightlife, Streets, and Chaos Sounds

Uncommon Ambience: At the Movies, Back to the Future 2. This episode takes place in an alternate timeline: Biff 1985. Where we will enjoy the sullen symphony of carnage, lust, and poor life choices just outside the Biff Tannen Pleasure Paradise Hotel And Casino. It's a doozy.

Minus Sammy Hagar. Also, minus bullets and explosions. There were plenty in Biff 1985; there's also plenty in our modern world. So I left out the ordinances. IE: don't worry about any hidden jump scares or Principal Strickland catching up with his drive-by "slackers" in hour seven.

This episode involves everything else outside of Biff's Pleasure Paradise: motorcycles, dogs, helicopters, police, and people doing dubious sh!t.

It's a wild scene from one of the wildest second acts in a movie I can think of. In the film, we return from a Jetson-esque 2015 to a nightmarish 1985 that culminates with Marty jumping off the roof of the Pleasure Palace.

Here's the thing about Back to the Future 2. We left on an electrifying cliffhanger thinking we might have to wait another half-decade for the sequel to return to theaters (we didn't have smartphones or the web).

I was pissed... but with time BTTF2 became my favorite of the series. Erp. Look, I know Back to the Future heads aren't Star Wars or Rush people… Even still I don't want to get into email exchanges about how I'm not respecting a competent Western hidden in a sci-fi story. Or a "but BTTF is the most complete story" ... Or some other movie review pretending to be a wine-ass review talking about notes of earth and tobacco in the finish.

Instead, here are the best fruit flavors by candy:

strawberry - Starburst

lime - Mike n Ike

cherry - Bottlecaps

apple - Jolly Rancher

orange - Skittles

grape - Sweetarts

banana - Runts

lemon - Lemonheads

blue raspberry - Fun Dip