The Origin of Doc Brown and Marty McFly's Friendship Revealed!

After all of these years, after the hundreds of times I've watched the Back to the Future films, not once did I ever ask myself why or how Doc Brown and Marty McFly became friends. It just never crossed my mind, until I stumbled across the answer. How did a teenage high school slacker, and a whacked out scientist become friends in the first place? Why didn't I never ask myself that question? I guess I just didn't care because I enjoyed the movies so much. Back to the Future co-writer Bob Gale came across this question at Mental Floss and offered up the the following actual origin story...

Okay, from the horse's mouth (yes, I'm the horse—er, co-writer, co-creator): We never explained it in the movie. But the history of the characters that Bob Zemeckis and I created is this…

For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so dangerous. Marty snuck into Doc's lab, and was fascinated by all the cool stuff that was there. When Doc found him there, he was delighted to find that Marty thought he was cool and accepted him for what he was. Both of them were the black sheep in their respective environments. Doc gave Marty a part-time job to help with experiments, tend to the lab, tend to the dog, etc.

And that's the origin of their relationship.

So there it is, and it make perfect sense. After all of these years fans finally know how the friendship of Brown and McFly was born. What do you all think?