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[SkyeFlyer]

So I was watching Back to the Future: The Animated Series on youtube, and I came across this:



During the chariot race, the music playing is easily recognizable as the theme to robotropolis (although it seems to be sped up a bit).

From what I can gather, BTTF didn't even air on ABC, but was a CBS show. So how did this music find it's way there?

Something to think about.

[Bakuda]

A little different but overall it is actually the same theme. This is not surprising as composer Michael Tavera wrote music for both SatAM and the animated Back to the Future series.

[Mithrandir]

Which makes me chuckle, since when I was a kid I always noticed how the main fanfare theme of SatAM reminded me of the classic Back to the Future theme.

[Bakuda]

Which makes me chuckle, since when I was a kid I always noticed how the main fanfare theme of SatAM reminded me of the classic Back to the Future theme.

Haha...that's actually a very good point

[saber16]

Back when anything was a television series... I mean, Robocop, Rambo, hell, even Chuck Norris! As a big fan of the movies... this looks... eh. Not bad, not great. Might look into it.

As for the similarities in the songs, I can see it. Maybe it was ripped, maybe it was a coincidence. Who knows. Interesting find, though.

[furrykef]

A little different but overall it is actually the same theme.

Actually, this is unmistakably the same recording (or at the very least, the same arrangement) that appears on the CD that Cheezmatt got from Tavera a couple years back. There were two versions, a slow one and a fast one. This is the fast one. The version that appears here is a bit longer than the MP3, though... it might have been two recordings spliced together.

I'm not sure offhand whether this same recording appeared in SatAM itself, but I think it probably did during action sequences in Robotropolis.

It's actually very curious that the same music appeared in both series, though, since SatAM was animated by DiC, and BttF was animated by several companies, none of which were DiC. Since these two cartoons apparently had no companies in common, this would imply that Tavera actually held the copyright on this piece of music -- which I think would be highly unusual. Though that'd explain why (AFAIK) none of Tavera's music was reused in Season 2 of SatAM aside from the title card fanfare.

[DaddlerTheDalek]

LOL!

[BigWigRah]

This is too funny. SATAM's theme has always reminded me of BTTF as well. Great find.

I notice that Marty shouted "Road Hog." Doesn't Sonic use the same throw away line during his race with Robotnik in Season 1? interesting coincidence.

[Vlad Yvhv]

No I know what the theme reminded me of... My brother plays it whenever he gets ahold of a piano, and he doesn't know what SatAM is. Turns out that some other show used it, too.