It’s not like I had planned it, but this year the NYE episode happens to fall not only a bit prematurely but also, and more importantly, at a very convenient point in the plot: at the very moment where Biff is contractually obliged to do something involving fireworks, the twins have just fired off their own unique brand of fireworks.
It’s easy to see how such a massive explosion of shocking visuals would be prone to set of a sympathetic explosion in Biff’s brain, creating a brilliant fireworks of misfiring synapses and general electric chaos.
Compared to earlier iterations of Biff’s NYE specials, this one is a lot more localized, but that’s something that can be easily helped with an extreme zoom-in in combination with an x-ray effect. And given the sorry state the world* is in, a more public and wide-spread display might actually have somewhat tone-deaf to begin with.
Speaking of that close-up, there’s another fortunate coincidence here: the fact that it all takes place in this chapter – the first chapter where it’s uncontroversial that Biff actually has a brain, and one of conventional size and shape, even. In some of the earlier chapters, displaying Biff’s head as being full of anything else than emptiness might have been as shocking as anything the twins are currently doing.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!
More on Monday.
* I’m referring to the fictional world overrun by Nyarlathotep’s chaos here, not the real world. But the fact that that’s something that requires clarification might tell you everything you didn’t want to know about the real world’s state.
For what it’s worth, Biff’s brain IS facing the wrong direction.
Hard to say whether it was already doing that before the twins got started, though. Which could have easily been the case, on the other hand – cerebral trauma is hardly unheard of in quaterbacks…