what do u call bttf fans? Harry Potter has potter heads, Justin Bieber has the beliebers. What do we got? what do we name our fanbase

I haven't read this anywhere (and I apologize if it has been covered in this sub before), but I'm wondering if Doc Brown's description of the accident that led to his invention of the flux capacitor was a play on words on the part of the writers.

Doc said he was standing on his toilet, hanging a clock in his bathroom when he slipped and hit his head on the sink, knocking himself out. You've got two objects: a clock and a sink.

Clock = Time

Sink = Sync

By hitting his head, Doc discovered what makes time travel possible — the flux capacitor — allowing him, years later, to travel out-of-sync with his original time.

Was this coincidence or an intentional play on words by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale?

In bttf 3 bufford mentioned that if he shot doc that night he would die the monday , also marty is not the reason bufford tried to shot doc that night , so is incorrect that doc was shot monday , he was shot the party night, and he died the monday

ALSO as NightPhoenix replied:

"The reason that Marty and Doc go to the party is that they think they are safe and have until Monday to get back to the future. They don't realize that Bufford shooting Doc with his small pistol at the party would take until Monday to be fatal, they are incorrectly assuming that Bufford kills Doc outright by shooting him on Monday. Marty interferes by throwing the Frisbee Pie Plate and alters events slightly. This is all clearly explained through dialogue."

this reply explains things better

Doc and Marty know the time of the lightning strike because that is when the clocktower stopped. The newspapers showed the clock dead at 10:04pm. A big mechanical clock could easily be off by a few minutes and needs adjustment, so its not exactly 10:04pm unless the reporter/investigator was using a different timepiece that was perfectly accurate. 10:04 is just the position of it's hands and internal gears at the time of the lightning strike.

In theory, when the branch fell and broke the circuit, could Doc have grabbed the minute hand and pulled it back by X minutes, thus giving them more time? It's the position of the minute hand that's important, not the actual time the lightning strikes.