Back to the Middleman!
There is a new show on ABC family called “The Middleman”. It’s based off a comic book series by Javier Grillo-Marxuach. It is about the straight-laced Middleman, a freelance fixer of “exotic problems,” which include mad scientists bent on taking over the world, and his artist sidekick (and middleman-in-training) Wendy Watson.
I’ve been enjoying the show a lot the last few weeks with it’s weird and geeky sence of humor, and strange adventures fighting super intelligent mafia monkeys, or ninja Mexican wrestlers. (Not the mention the shows obsession with overly complex run-on sentences.) But last night they won me over with a load of reference to my favorite movie, Back to the Future.
The Middleman must keep his identity secret, so here are a list of aliases used in this weeks episode that are characters from the Back to the Future movies:
Doctor Emmet Brown of the Hill Valley Institute Chaplin Buford Tannon Sister Clara Clayton Agent Strickland of the Department of Fish and Wildlife*
Also the call letters of the local television station were KBTTF.
In other Back to the Future references this week, an other new show, In Plain Sight, used Back to the Future to help explain the plot.
*I’m going on a limb and assuming the Department of Fish and Wildlife was a shout out to an other Scifi show The Invisible Man who would claim they were from the department of Fish and Game.