Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Tom Wilson: Biff Tannen, Griff

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• Old Biff : You always did have a way with women.

  Young Biff : Get the hell out of my car, old man!

  Old Biff : You wanna marry that girl, Biff? I can help make it happen.

  Young Biff : Oh-oh, yeah, who are you, Miss Lonelyhearts?

  Old Biff : Just get in the car, Butthead.

  Young Biff : Who you callin' "butthead", Butthead?

  [Old Biff starts the car] 

  Young Biff : How do you know how to do that? Nobody can start this car but me.

  Old Biff : Just get in the car, Tannen. Today's your lucky day.

• Marty McFly : What about the police, Biff? They're gonna match up the bullet with that gun.

  Biff Tannen : Kid, I own the police! Besides, they couldn't match up the bullet that killed your old man.

  Marty McFly : You son of a...

  [Biff cocks the gun] 

  Biff Tannen : I suppose it's poetic justice - two McFlys with the same gun.

• [Biff has just received his auto repair bill after crashing it into a manure truck] 

  Biff Tannen : 300 bucks? 300 bucks for a couple of dents? Now, hey, that's bullshit, Terry.

  Terry : No, Biff, it was *horseshit*! The whole car was full of it. I had to pay old man Jones 80 bucks to haul it away!

  Biff Tannen : Old Man Jones! Probably re-sold it too. Now, I oughtta get something for *that*!

  Terry : You want to get something for it! We'll go inside, you can call Old Man Jones! If he wants to give you a refund, that's fine!

  Biff Tannen : When I find the guy who did this, I'm gonna break his neck!

  Biff Tannen , Old Biff : [reminiscing humorously]  The manure! I remember that!

• Young Biff : Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?

  Old Biff : It's *leave*, you idiot! "Make like a tree, and leave." You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.

  Young Biff : All right then, LEAVE! And take your book with you!

• Biff Tannen : Hold on one second. Let's get this straight. Marty is *your* kid, not mine. And all the money in the world wouldn't do jack shit for that lazy bum!

  Lorraine Baines : Stop it, Biff, just stop it!

  Biff Tannen : Look at him. He's a butthead just like his old man was.

  Lorraine Baines : Don't you dare speak that way about George! You're not even half the man he was.

  [Biff throws her on the floor] 

• Lorraine Baines : Dammit Biff, that's it. I'm leaving!

  Biff Tannen : Oh, so go ahead. But think about this Lorraine, who's gonna pay for all your clothes, huh? And your jewelry, and your liquor? Who's gonna pay for your cosmetic surgery Lorraine?

  Lorraine Baines : You were the one who wanted me to get these-these things! If you want 'em back, you can have em.

  Biff Tannen : Look, Lorraine, you walk out that door and I won't only cut off you, I'll cut off your kids.

  Lorraine Baines : You wouldn't!

  Biff Tannen : Oh, wouldn't I? First, your daughter Linda, I'll cancel all her credit cards. She can settle her debts with the bank all by herself. Your idiot son Dave? I'll get his probation revoked. And as for Marty, well maybe you'd like to have all three of your kids behind bars just like your brother Joey. One big happy jailbird family.

  Lorraine Baines : Alright Biff, you win. I'll stay.

  Biff Tannen : [to Marty]  As for you, I'll be back up here in an hour, so you better not be!

• Young Biff : Manure! I hate manure!

• Grandma Tannen : Biff, Biff, where are you goin' now?

  Biff Tannen : I told you, grandma, I'm goin' to the dance.

  Grandma Tannen : When you comin' home?

  Biff Tannen : I'll get home, when I get home.

  Grandma Tannen : Don't forget to turn off the garage lights!

• Lorraine Baines : Biff, somebody already asked me to the dance.

  Biff Tannen : Who? That bug George McFly?

  Lorraine Baines : I'm going with Calvin Klein, okay?

  Biff Tannen : Calvin Klein? No, it's not okay!

• Biff Tannen : That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.

  Marty McFly : [under his breath]  It's "screen door on a submarine," you dork.

• [Biff has chased Marty to the roof of his casino/hotel] 

  Biff Tannen : Go ahead, kid! Jump! A suicide will be nice and neat.

  Marty McFly : What if I don't?

  [Biff points gun at Marty] 

  Biff Tannen : Lead poisoning.

• Marty McFly : The answer's no, Griff.

  Griff Tannen : No?

  Marty McFly : Yeah, what are you deaf and stupid? I said "NO!"

  Griff Tannen : What's wrong, McFly. Chicken?

• [after Marty pushes Griff] 

  Griff Tannen : Well! Since when did you become the physical type?

• Biff Tannen : Hey kid, say hello to your grandma for me.

• Marty McFly : Are you two related?

  Biff Tannen : [knocking on Marty's head]  Hello? Hello? Anybody home? What do you think? Griff just called me Grandpa for his health?

• S. S. Strickland : Is that liquor I smell Tannen?

  Young Biff : Ahhh, I wouldn't know. I don't know what liquor smells like, cuz I'm too young to drink it.

• Biff Tannen : Where is he?

  CPR Kid : Who?

  Biff Tannen : Calvin Klein.

  CPR Kid : Who?

  Biff Tannen : The guy with the hat. Where is he?

  CPR Kid : Oh he went that way. I think he took your wallet!

  [to bystander] 

  CPR Kid : I think he took his wallet.

• Old Biff : Tough break, kid. Must be rough bein' named after a complete butthead.

  Marty McFly : What's that supposed to mean?

  [Biff knocks on Marty's head with his cane] 

  Old Biff : Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly! Think! Your old man, Mr. Loser?

  Marty McFly : What?

  Old Biff : That's right. Loser with a capital "L".

  Marty McFly : Look, I-I happen to know George McFly is not a loser...

  Old Biff : [interrupts him]  I'm not talkin' about George McFly. I'm talkin' about his kid! Your old man, Marty McFly Sr.? The man who took his life and flushed it completely down the toilet.

  Marty McFly : I did? I - I mean - I mean he did?

• Griff Tannen : Gramps, what the hell am I paying you for?

• Biff Tannen : Start talking, kid. What else do you know about that book?

  Marty McFly : First, you tell me how you got it. How, where, and when.

  Marty McFly : All right. Take a seat.

  [Marty doesn't move] 

  Biff Tannen : Sit down!

  [he sits down] 

  Biff Tannen : November 12, 1955. That was when.

  Marty McFly : November 12, 1955? That was the date I went back...

  [covering] 

  Marty McFly : That was the date of the famous Hill Valley lightning storm.

  Biff Tannen : You know your history. Very good. I'll never forget that Saturday. I'd just picked up my car from the shop, 'cause I'd rolled it in a drag race a few days earlier.

  Marty McFly : I thought you crashed into a manure truck.

  Biff Tannen : How do you know about that?

  Marty McFly : My father told me about it.

  Biff Tannen : Your father?

  Marty McFly : Before he died.

  Biff Tannen : Oh, yeah. Right.

• Biff Tannen : [Lorraine admires her dress for the school dance]  Well, looky what we have here. Hey, nice dress, Lorraine. Although, I think you'd look better wearing nothing at all.

  Lorraine Baines : Biff, why don't you take a long walk off a short pier?

• Biff Tannen : There's that dance at school tonight, right? Now that my car's all fixed, I figure I'd cut you a break and give you the honor of going with the best-looking guy in school.

  Lorraine Baines : Yeah, well, I'm busy.

  Biff Tannen : Yeah, doing what?

  Lorraine Baines : Washing my hair.

• Biff Tannen : You're supposed to be in Switzerland, you little son of a bitch!

  Marty McFly : My father?

  Biff Tannen : Did you get kicked out of another boarding school? Damn it, Lorraine, do you know how much perfectly good dough I blow on this no-good kid of yours, huh? On all three of them!

  Lorraine Baines : What the hell do you care? We can afford it! The least we can do with all that money is provide a better life for our children!

• Marty McFly : Okay, everybody let's back up now, huh? Let's back up... let's everybody back up, give him a little bit of room, okay? A little bit of air. It's okay, I know CPR.

  [to CPR Kid] 

  Marty McFly : I know CPR.

  CPR Kid : What's CPR?

  Biff Tannen : [coming to consciousness]  YOU!

  [Marty knocks out Biff and takes the Sports Almanac] 

  Marty McFly : It's fine.

  CPR Kid : Hey? Did you just take his wallet?

  [to the crowd] 

  CPR Kid : He just took that guy's wallet!

• Biff Tannen : [Calmly]  Okay, have a seat.

  [Marty just stands there] 

  Biff Tannen : [Angrily]  SIT DOWN!

• Old Biff : [watching the chase unfold in 2015]  There's something very familiar about all this.

• Biff Tannen Museum Narrator : Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Biff Tannen Museum! Dedicated to Hill Valley's #1 Citizen. And America's greatest living folk hero. The one and only Biff Tannen. Of course, we've all heard the legend, but who is the man? Inside you will learn how Biff Tannen became one of the richest and most powerful men in America. Learn the amazing history of the Tannen family, starting with his great-grandfather, Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen, fastest gun in the West. See Biff's humble beginnings and how a trip to the race track on his 21st Birthday made him a millionaire overnight. Share in the excitement of a fabulous winning streak that earned him the nickname "The Luckiest Man on Earth." Learn how Biff parlayed that lucky winning streak into the vast empire called Biffco. Discover how, in 1979, Biff successfully lobbied to legalize gambling and turned Hill Valley's dilapidated courthouse into a beautiful casino-hotel!

  Biff Tannen : I just wanna say one thing! God Bless America.

  Biff Tannen Museum Narrator : Meet the women who shared in his passion as he searched for true love. And relive Biff's happiest moment as in 1973, he realized his life long romantic dream by marrying his high school sweetheart, Lorraine Baines McFly.

  Biff Tannen : Third time's a charm.

  [forcefully kisses Lorraine] 

  Marty McFly : NOOOOOOOOO! NO!

  Skinhead : Hey, hey, you're coming with us upstairs!

  Marty McFly : Let me go!

  Match : Sonny, we can do this the easy way or the hard way!

  [3D knocks Marty on the head] 

  Miscellaneous voice : The easy way.

• Old Biff : Buttheads...

• Biff Tannen : Hey butthead!

• [Biff is walking down the street when a basketball suddenly rolls his way. He picks it up claiming it for himself] 

  Basketball Kids : [rightful owners come up]  Give us our ball back. Give us our ball back.

  Biff Tannen : Is this your ball?

  Basketball Kids : Yes!

  Biff Tannen : Do you want it back?

  Basketball Kids : Yes!

  Biff Tannen : [throws the basketball onto an upper balcony of a brown house]  Well, go get it! Ha-ha!

• Marty McFly : Doc, I'm in trouble. I blew it.

  Doc : Where's the book?

  Marty McFly : I don't... Biff must still have it with him. All I got is the damn cover.

  Doc : And where's Biff?

  Biff Tannen : [outside in the background]  All right, McFly, you're asking for it, and now you're gonna get it.

  Marty McFly : I don't know!

  Doc : Don't you have any idea where he is?

  Marty McFly : No! I mean, he could be anywhere by now.

  Doc : Marty, the entire future depends on you finding Biff and getting that book back!

  Marty McFly : I know! I just don't know where...

  Lorraine Baines : Stop it! Stop it, Biff, you'll break his arm. Stop it!

  Marty McFly : [looking out the window]  Of course! I gotta go! I got one chance! My old man's about to deck Biff!

• Old Biff : [watching his younger self pick up his car from the shop]  The manure! I remember that!

• Marty McFly : Doc, listen, my kid showed up. All hell broke loose.

  Doc : Your kid? Great Scott, the sleep inducer. I was afraid of this. Because I used it on Jennifer, there wasn't enough power left to knock your son out for a full hour. Damn!

  Marty McFly : Doc, Doc, Doc, look at this! It's changing.

  [seeing the newspaper headline change, Doc takes a hand-held viewer out and looks at Griff being arrested] 

  Griff Tannen : I was framed!

  Doc : Why, yes! Yes, of course! Because this hoverboard incident has now occurred, Griff now goes to jail. Therefore, your son won't go with him tonight, and that robbery will never take place. Thus, history - future history - has now been altered, and this is the proof! Marty, we've succeeded, not exactly as I planned, but no matter. Let's go get Jennifer and go home!

• Biff Tannen : So there I was, minding my own business. This crazy old codger with a cane shows up. He says he's my distant relative. I don't see any resemblance. So he says "How would you like to be rich?". So I say "Sure."

  [shows Marty the almanac] 

  Biff Tannen : So he lays this book on me. He says this book will tell me the outcome of every sporting event 'til the end of the century. All I have to do is bet on the winner, and I'll never lose. So I said, "What's the catch?". He says, "No catch. Just keep it a secret." After that, he disappeared. I never saw him again.

  [puts the almanac back in his safe. Marty discreetly takes a pair of matches from Biff's desk and puts them in his pocket, hoping they'll come in handy for later use] 

  Biff Tannen : Oh, and he told me one more thing. He said, "Someday, a crazy, wild-eyed scientist or a kid may show up asking about that book. And if that ever happens..."

  [takes out his gun and cocks it] 

  Biff Tannen : Funny. I never thought it would be you.

• Old Biff : Flying DeLorean? I haven't seen one of those in 30 years.

• Doc : This stays here. I didn't invent the time machine to win at gambling. I invented a time machine to travel through time!

  Marty McFly : I know. I know. I know, Doc.

  [Doc throws the almanac away and they leave; after a moment, Biff comes out of his hiding spot and picks it up] 

  Old Biff : So, Doc Brown invented a time machine.

• Old Biff : Don't you get it? You could make a fortune with this book. Let me show you.

  [turning on the car radio and changing the station to a football game] 

  Old Biff : [looking the results up]  Bet you a million bucks UCLA wins it 19-17.

  Biff Tannen : What, are you deaf, old man? He just said it was over. You lost!

  Old Biff : Oh, yeah?

  [he turns up the volume, and young Biff looks on in shock as the "prediction" comes true] 

  Biff Tannen : All right, pops, what's the gag? How did you know what the score was gonna be?

  Old Biff : I told you. It's in this book. All you gotta do is bet on the winner, and you'll never lose.

• Biff Tannen : Hey, hey, hey! Hey, watch where you're driving, old man! Oh, you dent this car, I'll kill you. This cost me 300 bucks!

  Old Biff : Would you shut up about the car?

• Biff Tannen : Where's that punk Calvin Klein, anyway?

  3-D : How-how am I supposed to know, Biff? I ain't his secretary.

  Biff Tannen : Well, go find him. He caused 300 bucks' damage to my car, and I owe him a knuckle sandwich.

• S. S. Strickland : Sports statistics. Interesting subject. Homework, Tannen?

  Biff Tannen : No, it ain't homework, 'cause I ain't at home.

  S. S. Strickland : [giving him an authoritative shove]  You've got a real attitude problem. You know that, Tannen? Just watch it. Because one day, I'll have you right where I want you, in detention. Slacker!

• Young Biff : What's wrong, McFly? Chicken?

  Marty McFly : What did you just call me?

  Young Biff : Chicken!

  Marty McFly : Nobody! Calls me... chicken.

• Biff Tannen : [watching A Fistful of Dollars in a hot tub]  Bulletproof vest! Great flick! Great frigging flick! The guy is brilliant!

  [Marty turns off the TV from behind Biff] 

  Biff Tannen : Hey, what the hell's going... Hey, you! What the hell are you doing in here!

  Marty McFly : Party's over, Biff. Sorry ladies.

  Biff Tannen : How'd you get past my security downstairs?

  Marty McFly : There's a little matter we need to talk about.

  Biff Tannen : Yeah, money, right? Well forget it!

  Marty McFly : No, not money. Gray's Sports Almanac.

  Biff Tannen : You heard him, girls. Party's over.