So This Is How Marty McFly And Doc Brown Become Friends

Admit it! If you were Marty McFly and you met Doc Brown for the first time ever, Doc’s hyper genius nutty personality would probably scare the great scott out of you, you’d probably think twice about meeting him again, let alone befriending him. So a question was asked, via mentalfloss, how exactly did Marty and Doc Brown become friends? Back To The Future co-writer Bob Gale was kind enough to answer that question with this explanation..

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.
— Bob Gale

Sounds plausible enough to ya?