Making Sense of Back to the Future: Part III

The third film in the Back to the Future trilogy contains a lot of backstory for the game, so even though it doesn't include as many of the rules of the Back to the Universe as its immediate predecessor, it's still important to understand how this film works as well.

Like the second film, Back to the Future Part III begins immediately where the last film left off. Doc had sealed the DeLorean up in a cave, written Marty a note informing him that he is working as a blacksmith in 1885, and left it with the post office to be delivered 70 years into the future.

Marty enlists the help of the Doc from 1955, as the DeLorean from the cave is in bad condition and needs to be fixed with 1955 parts. However, Doc notes that the hover equipment is damaged beyond repair and the DeLorean will probably never fly again. Upon reaching the location, they find Doc's tombstone in the cemetery and are surprised to learn that the date of his death is only one week after he sent Marty the letter.  They go to the library and find a history book that proves that has a picture of Doc, taken in front of the clock of the clock tower, before it was finished being built, in 1885.  They take a picture of the tombstone, which states that Doc was "shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of 80 dollars".  It also states that the tombstone was placed by Doc's "beloved Clara". Both of them have no idea who Clara is, but ultimately decide to proceed with the plan set up by the Doc from 1985, with one alteration.

The younger Doc and Marty decide to go against the wishes of the older Doc, who wanted Marty to go directly back to 1985 and leave him in the Old West. Marty instead intends to use the DeLorean to travel back to 1885 to bring Doc back home. Doc gives Marty his second silly disguise, and he takes the DeLorean time machine back to the old west. Of course, things don't work out as planned.

Upon arriving in 1885, the DeLorean winds up in the front of a group of Native Americans who are being chased by the United States Cavalry. Marty ends up driving the DeLorean into a cave before the Native Americans or the Cavalry can notice where he ended up. He finds that the gas line is leaking due to a strike by an arrow, but before he can attempt to fix it, he's chased out of the cave by a bear. Marty hits his head and is found by his great, great grandparents.

Upon entering town Marty takes the name of "Clint Eastwood", and then proceeds to embarrass Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, who chases Marty with his gang, catches him, and strings him up on a noose to hang him.  Marty is rescued by Doc, who shoots the rope from which Marty is hanging with a homemade sniper rifle.  Buford informs Doc that he owes him eighty dollars for a horse that he shot after the horse lost a shoe that Doc had put on the horse. Doc refuses to pay as Buford never paid to have the shoes put on the horse in the first place. Marty then informs Doc that he will be killed by Buford in a week due to the fact that Doc didn't pay him the money.

Doc also learns of the damage to the time machine, but Marty seems unfazed as he is under the mistaken impression that the Mr. Fusion nuclear reactor that Doc used to convert garbage to energy can be used to power the DeLorean. Doc corrects Marty, as he explains that the Mr. Fusion is only used to power the fusion generator of the time circuits in place of the plutonium that it previously used. The DeLorean itself still uses a standard combustion engine to run and needs gasoline in order to function.

Several test runs of ideas ranging from using alcohol to fuel the DeLorean, to pulling the DeLorean with horses, fail. Doc then decides to instead use a steam locomotive to push the DeLorean up to eighty-eight miles per hour. They learn that a train will be coming by the morning that Doc is supposed to die and decide that, although it is cutting it close, they should be able to make it if they head right to the train and avoid Buford.

However, Doc and Marty soon find a woman whose horses have been spooked by a snake and is about to head into the ravine.  Doc saves her and discovers that she is Clara Clayton, a school teacher. They fall in love at first sight, which Doc had originally passed off as an impossibility for his scientifically oriented mind. Marty tells Doc that the ravine is known in 1985 Clayton ravine. It was renamed from Shonash ravine after a teacher fell into it and died one hundred years earlier. Doc realizes that Clara was meant to die in that ravine, and is concerned that he had changed history.

In the previous timeline, before Marty went back to get Doc, Doc had volunteered to pick Clara up at the station. That gave them a week to get to know each other and led to Clara making the epitaph on Doc's grave when he died.  In this timeline, however, Marty's appearance caused Doc to forget to pick her up, which led to the snakes spooking the horses as they did before Doc traveled to 1885. However, Doc rescued her, leading them to fall in love as they had in the timeline before Marty arrived.

Clara tells Doc that she hopes that she'll see him at the Hill Valley Festival.  Doc states that she will, and both he, and Marty, as "Clint Eastwood", attend the festival.  While there, Mad Dog Tannen smuggles in a gun, which has only one small bullet that is said to take a week for the injuries to kill a man. Doc realizes that this is where he died, so he purposely keeps facing Tannen. As Mad Dog is about to shoot Doc, Marty uses a Frisbee brand pie tin to knock the gun out of his hand, causing the bullet to merely graze Doc's hat.

Mad Dog calls Marty "yellow", which gets at his weakness, which is to never allow anyone to call him chicken. He agrees to a duel on the day of the train's arrival, assuming that they will be out of there by then. However, Doc points out that it is possible that the train might be late. Marty's great-grandfather is disappointed in "Clint", and tells him the story of his brother Martin who was killed by a stabbing because he would always do foolish things simply because someone called him a coward.

Later, Marty points out that the picture of the tombstone no longer states that Doc died, so he assumes that their plan will work.  However, Doc points out that if the future was already written, it doesn't make sense for the tombstone and the date of the death, as well as for the picture itself, to still exist. Doc tells Marty that the future still is being written, and it is still possible that Marty will be the one to be killed on that day.

Doc and Clara fall even more in love when it is revealed that they both share a love of science, with him being a scientist and student of all sciences, and her loving science since her father gave her a telescope as a child.  They both also love Jules Verne novels, as his words were what inspired both of them to be interested in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.  Doc decides that he wants to take Clara with them, so he tries to tell her the truth.  She thinks that he is abusing her love of Jules Verne to make lies to break up with him, and tells Emmett that she never wants to see him again.

Doc gets depressed from his heartbreak and goes to the saloon to pour his heart out. The patrons at the bar find his stories of the future humorous, and when Marty arrives, on the day of the duel, he thinks that Doc is drunk. Marty convinces Doc that they need to go, and Doc drinks the whiskey in front of him.  He then passes out. The bartender tells Marty he only had one drink and is known for not being able to hold his liquor.

The bartender gives Doc a drink to make him sober, and everyone waits for Doc to wake up. Marty then hears Mad Dog Tannen outside and discovers that it is now "Clint Eastwood" who is stated on the photograph to die. He tries to sneak out the back, but Doc, who had awoken from his drunken sleep, is captured by Mad Dog. Doc tries to get Marty to leave and save himself, but Marty can't leave his friend behind.

Marty goes out to face Mad Dog but drops his gun telling him that he won't fight. Mad Dog then proceeds to shoot him and cockily walks up to what he thinks is "Clint's" dead body. However, Marty had taken a door from a stove, and used it as a make shift bullet proof vest, as he had seen in a Clint Eastwood film shown at Biff's Pleasure Paradise in Back to the Future Part II. Marty then knocks Mad Dog Tannen out, and the lawmen proceed to arrest Tannen and his gang.  At this point, the picture now just shows grass, which means that the future hasn't yet been completely written (possibly indicating that Doc plants the tombstone at some point in order to make sure that Marty arrives in the past to prevent a paradox).

Wearing bandanas over their mouths like outlaws, Marty and Doc hold up the train and claim that it is a science experiment.  They disconnect the engine from the other cars and drive it up to the DeLorean, which is already on the unused portion of the tracks. Doc has prepared his own type of presto logs, which are color coded to get hotter and make the train go faster once it reaches certain speeds. Marty is in the DeLorean from the start, and Doc plans on catching up once the logs reach a certain level.

However, Clara, who learned that Doc was torn up about their breakup, and discovered Doc's model DeLorean time machine in his workshop, had jumped from her horse to the moving train.  Doc is just moving to the DeLorean when he hears the whistle blow.  He sees Clara and goes back to rescue her. However, at this point, the DeLorean has passed the point of no return, and it's too late.  Marty slides the hoverboard back to Doc, and he safely glides away with Clara in his arms.  Marty then successfully goes back to 1985, as the train in 1885 crashes in the ravine.

The DeLorean crosses the now completed bridge across the ravine, which is now named "Eastwood Ravine". Marty hears a train whistle and jumps out of the DeLorean just before the collision.  However, the DeLorean is broken into pieces by the train.  Marty states that Doc has gotten his wish, as the DeLorean has been destroyed.

Marty then goes and gets Jennifer, who at first thinks that everything was a crazy dream.  However, once they reach Marty's classmate Douglas Needles, he tries to coax Marty into drag racing him by calling him chicken.  Marty then pretends to comply, but backs up, as, after the advice given by his great, great grandfather, he has learned to not be intimidated by bullies any longer.  Marty sees Needles narrowly miss a Rolls-Royce and realizes that he would have hit it. Jennifer then realizes that it wasn't a dream and pulls out the fax she took in the future.  She sees the message that Marty has been fired become faded until it is erased.

Marty and Jennifer go to the train track to look at the wreckage of the DeLorean, and they become sad that they will never see Doc again. At that moment, Doc appears in a steam-powered time train. He and Clara now have young sons, Jules and Verne. Doc had previously come back to the 1980s to pick up Einstein and had traveled to the 2010s to have the train hover converted. Doc and his family then leave to the past, and the original trilogy comes to a close.

However, the story is continued in Back to the Future: The Game, which takes place six months after Doc leaves Jennifer and Marty in 1985 in his time train.  The story is certainly a fun one, but it takes its cues from the second film in terms of confusing moments.

But first, we'll take a detour towards IDW's comics, as they explain a lot of mysteries from the films.

Back to Part II

Telltale Games Humble Bundle

Update: 4/19 10:45PM: Two more games have been added to the bundle: Jurassic Park: The Game and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.

Telltale Games are now in a Humble Bundle. For $1 or more, you can get Back to the Future: The Game, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Poker Night at the Inventory, Puzzle Agent 1 & 2, and The Walking Dead: Season One. If you pay more than the average (currently just over $8), you also get The Walking Dead: 400 Days, The Wolf Among Us, Poker Night 2, and Tales from the Borderlands. Finally, if you pay more than $12, you'll also get Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead: Season Two.

Note that all of these games are redeemed through Steam only, as there is no DRM-free option available. There is about a week left to pick this bundle up, and there are hints that more games will be added to the package soon.

Halloween Treats

Happy Halloween everyone!

As is tradition on most years, Dave Grossman has updated his Pumpkin House of Horrors with a new pumpkin monstrosity.  In addition, Graham Annable has released a brand new spooky Grickle short toon, The Webb.

Here's a bonus, as even though it's not Halloween related, it is October 2015 related.  Universal has released a brand new official Back to the Future short called Doc Brown Saves the World on the Back to the Future 30th Anniversary DVD and Blu-Ray film releases.  The short takes place in 'our' universe, as it explains why our October 2015 doesn't have the futuristic equipment seen in the Back to the Future trilogy, Telltale's game, and the animated series.  If you want to see the whole thing, you'll have to pick up the box set, but Universal released a teaser trailer on YouTube.

Minecraft Episode 1 and Back to the Future Remaster Out Now

The first episode of Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode is available today.  On top of that, Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition, the remaster of the game with improved textures and Tom Wilson as Biff, has been released as well.

Clearing up a few misconceptions about the game from early press about the remaster, Tom Wilson only plays Biff Tannen.  Owen Thomas still plays Kid Tannen and Beauregard Tannen, and Andrew Chaikin still plays Cliff and Riff.

Back to the Future May Be Coming to More Platforms

My recent posts about Back to the Future: The Game might be more timely than I originally had thought. Gamefly has a listing for a Back to the Future: The Game 30th Anniversary Edition.  The game will apparently be coming out for the first time for PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

Even more intriguing is the Amazon listing which includes Tom Wilson as Biff Tannen.  We'll just have to wait to see if this a mistake on their part, or if Telltale managed another Earl Boen situation and plans to re-release the game with the original actor in the role.

That said, nothing has been confirmed by Telltale yet about this new release, so we'll also have to wait to see if this 30th anniversary edition comes out at all.  For what it's worth, Amazon has the release date listed as October 13, 2015.

Making Sense of Back to the Future: Part II

The Back to the Future series begins to get quite confusing by the second installment of the franchise. It's this entry that explains most of the more confusing aspects of Back to the Future: The Game though, so it's an important one to get to understand just how it ticks.

Back to the Future Part II begins right where the first film left off, with Marty and Jennifer traveling to the future in the hover-converted DeLorean with Doc to try to stop an incident that causes problems for their future children. That's the first of the most confusing aspects of this film, as common sense dictates that if Marty and Jennifer leave 1985, they should not exist in 2015, so their kids should never have been born. However, it does make sense if you think fourth-dimensionally.

Marty and Jennifer can exist in 2015 despite leaving the timeline in 1985 for the same reason that Marty still existed in 1955 despite the fact that he eliminated the moment that caused his parents to fall in love and have children. The ripple effect causes the timeline to catch up to itself slower for those who travel through time. Because Doc, Marty, and Jennifer are time travelers, any changes they make to the timeline don't affect them as quickly as everyone else. Therefore their future selves won't fade out of existence for quite some time, as it took Marty a week to begin to fade out in the first film.

However, if you are a time traveler that makes a change that causes harm to yourself in the past, and then you travel through time past the point where that harm occurred, the ripple effect catches up to you much faster. This is seen when old Biff is in pain getting out of the DeLorean after returning to 2015. In an extended scene in the DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the film, the pain is explained, as Biff is seen fading out of existence.

Even though old Biff no longer exists in the new timeline, his cane didn't fade out of existence as the cane itself would still have existed even if old Biff had not purchased it. Since Marty, Doc, and Jennifer are time travelers, the cane and the Hilldale of the original timeline are still in the same spot as they were before old Biff's interference in the time stream. Despite old Biff erasing himself from existence, the time ripple hadn't caught up to Marty, Doc, and Jennifer yet.

Another confusing aspect of the second film is the whole reason why Doc brings Marty and Jennifer into the future in the first place.  If their kids have problems because of their association with a gang, it would make a lot more sense to just warn Marty about this in 1985 so that he can prevent his kids from ever getting involved in the gang in the first place.

This can be seen as one of Doc's eccentricities. Rather than doing things the easy way, Doc went the long way around to solve the problem. However, it's even more involved than it is at first glance, as it has been shown that the Back to the Future universe is cyclical. When Marty and Jennifer get back to 1985, it's going to be tough for them to let things get bad for their kids once they have them, even knowing that their past selves will be there to correct it. If they don't do that though, it will be tough to set things up in motion, as the Doc from when the universe cycles around won't see the newspaper headline that caused the events to be set into motion, since in that timeline, the events never would have happened.

However, it's shown that Doc cares about trying to preserve at least most of the cyclical timeline. Even though he changed the timeline by saving his own life, he still went through the effort to make sure that Marty still became his assistant, he never told Marty about his adventures in the past, and he made sure that the DeLorean experiment happened on the exact day and time that it did on the tape from the original timeline.

Doc would make sure that the events that led to the trio leaving 1985 to go to 2015 were set in motion when the timeline cycles around, despite the fact that the events wouldn't have lined up the same way. This could be as simple as him traveling to the future to remind Jennifer and Marty to stay out of the affairs of their children since everything will be OK. If Marty and Jennifer allowed the events with their children to play out the same way in the new timeline, every piece of the puzzle would still fall into place.

When Doc, Marty, and Jennifer return home, since they traveled through time again and are past the point when Biff changed the timeline, they become affected by the ripple as Biff had earlier.  They find themselves in an alternate 1985.  In this timeline, old Biff had stolen the DeLorean time machine to give his younger self a sports almanac that told all of the sports outcomes for 50 years.  This made Biff a very wealthy and powerful man, which led him to turn Hill Valley into a lawless city, kill George McFly, and make Lorraine his wife.

Both the Marty and Doc from this timeline are out of the picture, as Doc has been put into an asylum and Marty has been shipped off to a private school in Switzerland.  This allows them to go about their business without running into their other selves.

Doc explains that Biff made a new timeline.  They have to travel back to the time when old Biff gave his younger self the almanac, as if they travel to 2015 now that the timeline has caught up to itself, they'll just be going to the future of timeline B rather than that of timeline A. So, it will be pointless. Instead, Marty has to talk to Biff to find out when he got the almanac so he can get it at a point when it's still possible to stop Biff from ever using the almanac for financial gain. They find out that it happened the night the lightning struck the clock tower, so they have to head back to the night that Marty went back to the future.

Before heading there though, Marty was worried because Jennifer passed out after seeing her future self, and they left her on a porch swing.  He was concerned about the consequences of leaving Jennifer and Doc's dog Einstein in Biff's twisted 1985.  Doc explains that once they fix the time stream, everything will change around Jennifer and Einstein, and to them, it will be as if that horrible reality never happened.

Doc warns Marty that they have to be careful to not come into contact with their other selves, as they don't want to do anything that can lead to Marty not being able to successfully make it back to 1985. Doc gives Marty his first of many ridiculous disguises, and they communicate with each other via two-way radios while they try to get the almanac back. Doc has to wait until the right moment to drive the DeLorean to pick up Marty, while Marty has to get the almanac back while trying to keep out of sight of his past self.

Marty witnesses Old Biff giving the almanac to his younger self, but he misses his chance to get the almanac without Biff noticing, as young Biff is warned by his older self to never let it get out of his sight.  Even though it would logically seem that old Biff shouldn't be here, as when he changed the past he never became an old man, the time ripple still allows it to take place.  Even though the time ripple caught up to Doc and Marty enough to make the alternate 1985 occur, old Biff was the reason that everything happened, so his presence in 1955 is at the far end of the water, so to speak.  As we saw in the first film, when Marty didn't start fading from existence until a week after he made the change to the timeline, the time ripple takes longest to reach the cause of the change to the time stream.

Marty now has to get the almanac back from Biff directly, but of course, things don't go as planned. Marty and Doc both just barely miss letting their past selves see them, and Marty has to stop Biff's gang from attacking his past self on stage.  In the end, Marty manages to get the almanac back from Biff, with help from the hoverboard he picked up in 2015.  Marty then burns the almanac as Doc waits in the DeLorean as it hovers overhead.

Everything seems like it worked out alright until the DeLorean is hit by lightning and disappears, leaving Marty seemingly stranded in 1955.  He doesn't have to wait long, however, as it turns out Doc wrote a letter and mailed it with explicit instructions to be delivered to an exact time and place 70 years in the future to a young man meeting Marty's description.

It turns out Doc is in the Old West, and he left the DeLorean in a cave so Marty could get back to 1985.  Marty now heads back to the clock tower to find Doc in order to get him to send him back to 1885 so he can bring Doc back home.

The fact that Marty has shown up immediately after he was sent to the future is too much for Doc to take, and he promptly faints from the shock. Marty tries to wake Doc up, which will lead us right into the third movie.  Thankfully, the second entry is the most confusing of the films, as while the third film has its share of head-scratchers, there aren't nearly as many as there were here.

Back to Part I

On to Part III

Making Sense of Back to the Future: Part I

2015 is the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future, and the 5th anniversary of the first episode of Back to the Future: The Game.  To celebrate that milestone, it's time to take a look into the more head-scratching aspects of the game, and the three films that take place a year before the game in the series continuity, to try to make sense of it all.  It actually does make sense. You just have to do a lot of fourth-dimensional thinking to get it to all fit into place.

The first film is the least confusing of all of the entries in the series, as it is pretty straightforward. There are a few things to note here though, as they're used as the base of the more confusing aspects later in the series.

When Marty McFly travels to 1955, when his parents were teenagers, he accidentally stops the incident that caused his parents to fall in love, which meant that in the new timeline, he and his siblings would never be born.  Marty has a picture of George and Lorraine McFly's three kids, and the people in the picture are slowly fading from existence.  Marty has to turn things around, before he, too, fades out of existence.

The reason why everything is not instantaneous once Marty screws everything up is because of a time travel phenomena in the Back to the Future universe entitled the ripple effect.  Time is like a body of water, and when you throw stones in the water, you create ripples.  It takes longer for the ripples to reach the outer parts of that water, hence the ripple effect.  Because Marty is the youngest sibling, and because he is in 1955 where it is still possible for him to repair the damage to the timeline, the ripple takes the longest to reach him, so the effects of the ripple don't reach him until a week after the change to the timeline had occurred.


Changing the past can have consequences in the future.  In Back to the Future, Marty found all of the consequences to be good ones, as his parents were successful and happy, his parents trust him enough to let him spend time alone on the lake with his girlfriend, his dad's high school bully no longer continues to torments him as an adult, and most importantly, Doc is still alive.  Marty is the only one who remembers the old timeline, as he is the only one who traveled through time.

Time is cyclical in the Back to the Future Universe.  Marty discovers this when he arrives at the mall just in time to see himself take off in the DeLorean time machine.  For the version of himself that Marty witnessed going into the past, the events will still play out the same (except he wouldn't be surprised at the things that would be commonplace in his universe upon his return).  Nothing that happened in 1955 relies on any of the aspects that are no longer present in the new universe in 1985. Everything that changed due to Marty's influence would still change under the influence of the Marty from the new timeline.

Doc has also learned that time is cyclical first hand, as in 1955 he had gained future knowledge that Marty will become his assistant, and years later he also gained the knowledge that he will die. He had to make sure that Marty still became his assistant in the new timeline, yet he could never reveal that he already knew Marty before they first met.  Additionally, even though he knew that doing so would make the timeline different than it originally was, he decided to throw caution to the wind and took precautions to save his own life.


At the end of the original Back to the Future, Marty is the only one who is the same person that we met at the beginning of the movie, as he is the only person still from his timeline. However, that timeline has been overwritten with a new timeline, and the Marty from the new timeline has merged with himself. Thus, he has to adjust to life with people who aren't exactly the same as those he previously knew.  Of course, at this point, he doesn't have time to do so, as he's immediately met by Doc, who brings Marty and his girlfriend, Jennifer, into the future to help their future kids.

That's where things start to get confusing.

Continue to Part II

Tales from the Borderlands is Now On GOG.com

Tales from the Borderlands is now available at GOG.com, and is currently 50% off as part of their summer sale, which ends tomorrow. All of the Telltale games available at GOG.com are currently on sale, ranging from 50% off to 90% off, as part of the summer sale as well.

More Telltale Games on GOG.com

Telltale Games has struck a deal with GOG.com to bring their newer games DRM-free to GOG.com, joining the adventure games that are already on the service (all three Sam & Max seasons, Back to the Future: The Game, and Tales of Monkey Island).  Telltale's newest games will have optional achievement support through GOG Galaxy. The first game that is available is Game of Thrones, which coincides with today's release of episode 4.

The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and all of Telltale's The Walking Dead games will soon be on GOG.com as well.

Humble Weekly Sale On a Telltale Bundle

The Humble Weekly Sale this week is a Telltale Bundle. Pay what you want and get Back to the Future: The Game, Hector: Badge of Carnage, Poker Night 1, Puzzle Agent 1, Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures. The games are all on PC and Mac (except for Wallace & Gromit which is PC only) for Steam and DRM-free (except, strangely Hector episode 2 (and only episode 2) for Mac, which is Steam only). You'll also get downloadable soundtracks for Hector and Puzzle Agent.

If you pay more than the average (currently less than $5 USD), you'll also get The Walking Dead for Steam.

The Walking Dead Season Two, Fables Release Dates

Telltale's The Walking Dead Season Two and Fables have received release dates in an Eurogamer interview with Telltale CEO Dan Connors.

The first episode of Fables will be releasing in "the next couple of months".  While, the first episode of The Walking Dead Season Two will be releasing this Autumn (Autumn in the US, the third quarter of 2013).

Those who can't wait for more of Telltale's The Walking Dead won't have to wait until the end of this year though, since writer Gary Whitta has revealed in an interview on IGN's Up At Noon that there will be more The Walking Dead playable content from Telltale before Season Two is released.

In additional Telltale Games news, the iOS version of Back to the Future: The Game was updated last week to a universal app with support for iPhone and iPod Touch in addition to the iPad.

Also, there's a rumor that Poker Night 2 is coming soon, since Team Fortress 2 items have shown up in the latest update with a PN2 prefix, and a Poker Night 2 entry has appeared in The Steam Database and as a related Steam group. The items that appeared in the update are Sam's hat from Sam & Max, Handsome Jack's mask from Borderlands 2, Ash's crown from Evil Dead, Chell's boots from Portal, and Brock Samson's knife from Venture Bros.