1.21 gigawatts?! - Dr. Brown & Marty - Back to the future

[bokhead01]

1.21 Gigawatts?!

...GREAT SCOTT!!! =D

[zeke2852]

All so in Borderlands!!!! Kill 25 enemies with shock weapons my favorite Achievement!!!!!

[effov]

g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-gigawatt

[thicks2007]

ONE POINT TWENTY ONE!!

[Pete292323]

Marty i have no idea what a jiggawatt is

[THEBAESTGAMING]

john cena brought me here

[bobaboiz03]

Jiggaaa What?

[GZilla2010]

Press nine. =D

[Diablothein]

giga what?

[blueandblue710]

BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! 1.21 GIGOWATTS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? XD ii showed this to my friends who never saw this movie ( :O ) and they were crackin gup and made me play it like 6 times! XD love it

[Ice9455]

I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is available on every corner drugstore

[andremitsuo]

5.5 kW = electric shower

1.210.000 kW = 1.21 Gigawatts

4.69 Gigawatts = Fukushima nuclear plants

[Hperman09]

How powerful is supposed to be a 1.21 gigawatt? Anyone explain?

[kaine180]

@Hperman09 1 gigawatt = 1000 megawatts and 1 megawatt = 1000000000 watts

[AcidTab1]

i.e 21.1 to the power of ten

[AcidTab1]

futureboy ....bad assed rapper gangsta wannabe BUFFOON !

[AcidTab1]

Gigga = power of 10

[AcidTab1]

It's Giggawatts not Ghiggawats dumbassed yank....lol

[MyProdSpecsFail]

@AcidTab1 its Gigawatts not Giggawatts dumbassed yank....lol

[MaikUniversum]

I still don't know what gigawat means.

[IncredableDrE]

His character frigin reminds me of Philip j fry. From Futurama

[JRserver]

6 people don't know what the hell a gigawatt is.

[Sassar]

wha da hell is a jigga what!?

[CaptMARNEY]

One of the best freak outs in film history

[markleycrew2009]

What the hell IS a gigawatt?

[fishingwiththenerd]

@markleycrew2009 a lot of electrical energy

[tothm129]

@markleycrew2009 a gigawatt is a billion watts so 16 million times more than your average lightbulb

[Blackadder125]

I love how doc begin randomly running around.

[Eric5150Rles]

its actually spelled Jiggawatt

[fishingwiththenerd]

@Eric5150Rles i hope your joking

[woodlefoof2]

gigabyte gigawatt gigameter, it all means one billion mega is a million so 1000 mega watts would be 1 gigawatt

[CaptainHalodude]

WUN-POINT TOO WUN JIGGLYPUFFS

[maxrod98]

a simple lamp uses 60 watts per minute

gigawatt is qual to 1000000000 watts

seriously

[DrFoliberg]

@maxrod98 a 60 watts lamp uses 60 watts per second, not 60 watts for a whole minute

[straxy88]

@DrFoliberg actually, a 60 watts lamp uses 60 watts per hour.

[henkdevries111]

@straxy88 W = J/s

Do the math bro

[0Brilwen0]

LMAO Marty had my reaction what the hell is a gigawatt?!

[believeinworldpeace]

what the fuck!!!???!!! i was watching "dick figures" ans suddenly i came here....

[EpicWin732]

Dick Figures sent me. What?

[daedralord1]

god i love been 1985, yes im in 1985 right now,,,u may wonder how im writing on you tube in 1985....well

iwhat i did 1st,,,,,coustomised my iPhone to connect to a future satalite to connet to 2011 internet...easy

then i decided to start up youtube in 1984..yes 84...get it??....(Apple for the people who didnt)

i invented the internet, broadband, high class pcs in 1984........just to leave this comment

oh ye, i invented a time machine

[bolt12345100]

Dick Figures! WANT MOAR EPISODES! D: 

[xshortguy]

"Jig"gawatt used to be the standard until 1971.

[sharp9939]

Dick Figures...

[luedriver]

dick figures sent me here

[GosuDibbz]

Why is he pronouncing it as jigawatt? It's odd considering most scientists care about the pronunciation of units.

[ryan49er1]

@GosuDibbz probably because he isn't a real one but portraying one in this movie, but i'm no rocket scientist

[lbritofotografo]

@GosuDibbz That's how Einstein pronounced it. It was a tribute.

[skeletorment666]

135 people don't know what a gigawatt is....I came back from the future to post this.

[PadraikKasier]

Thumbs up if SATAN SENT YOU HERE.

Actually it matters not. Great Lord Satan will burn all you thumb whores in Hell.

[ranma763]

I prefer to think the spelling is Jiggawats.

[WeaselWJ]

Dick Figures sent me! :D

[NatWolff43567890]

What What-what the hell is a gigawatt? LOL McFly

[CaptainJetJakal]

One of the most memorable moments in the movie. Love it!

[GuggeP]

Hey, since some of you remark about the pronounciation, how would you pronounce it? With a G sound instead of a J sound? In my native langage, Swedish, I guess the J-sound is most common for the Giga-prefix (but if you are playing a GIG, G is the only option).

[juvi12321]

@GuggeP Both are valid. Both G and J.

[NatWolff43567890]

: What-what the hell is a gigawatt LOL cant wait til ABC FAmily shows this

[BhunaBhuna]

He is saying Jiga-watt.

[lisa5252]

Why are they pronouncing it jiggawatt?

[kantlavar]

@lisa5252 The "jigawatt" pronunciation is an accepted form of "gigawatt". In the commentary for the film, Robert Zemeckis used this version because that's how the film's science advisor pronounced it and he didn't know better.

[Xzazazazia]

C'mon people, a gigawatt is an actual thing! Doc Brown said JIGGAwatt!

[MissRandomIsRandom]

"What the hell is a gigawatt?!"

Probably my favorite line in the whole movie, lol.

[NatWolff43567890]

@MissRandomIsRandom mines 2

[06paull]

@MissRandomIsRandom But I still laugh the most when the Toy Car bursts into flames, his reaction is just unbelievably hilarious!

[PeloneCorleone]

@MissRandomIsRandom me too ;)

[pittbull909]

@MissRandomIsRandom a gigawatt is a billion watts

[schmovey]

Michelle hood sheLL_20. Imma whore boobs and noobs come see my calm cane city I meet ya and fuck ya

[schmovey]

Awesome stuff!

[DustyPengwin]

great scott!

[fr3d420]

89 people upvoted that first comment and deserve to be shot.

[hunterkick1]

keep pressing 5 and he keeps saying fu

[SigmaXVirus]

"what the hell is a jiggawatt?"

[SomeDarkSideGuy]

What the Hell's a Gigawatt!?!?!?!

[SuperDookieness6000]

Mart will never know what a gigawatt truly is

[027220]

:14 - :31 'Price'less.

[TopsuLoL]

It's a niggawatt

[MichaelHThe2nd]

@TopsuLoL Everything ran on niggawatts

[027220]

He 'really' said, 'j'igawatts.

[carjasssso]

0:11 this fucker's electrical

[bro52086]

@carjasssso lol

[AlmightyToonGod]

WHAT THE HELL IS A GIGAWATT?

[TheAlia918]

LOL!

[Zoran54321]

JIGGOWATZ!

[turricaned]

I knew I was a true nerd when the first GHz processors came out and I wanted to overclock one to 1.21 GHz...

[Wwecasey]

Haha Doc is hilarious :D

[Kit9243]

Nearly every friend I have has no clue that Four Year Strong's "What The Hell Is A Gigawatt?" is quoted from this movie. My generation sucks Great Scott's balls.

[johonsblood]

Great scene!!

[newlyborn09]

jiggawut?!

[legomasters564]

great scott this box is heavy lol

[cytorakdemon]

that's the power of love.

[AldriannaElven]

@supervikingsrule94 This is heavy!

[Evi1M4chine]

@AldriannaElven: There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?

[Ramsez]

jigga what??

[megapichu123]

@Ramsez its gigawatt not jigga watts learn 2 spell dumbass

[cwaugs]

@megapichu123 If you only knew how to read and interepet an insinuation

[dtom28]

hahaha...classic..haha

[AwesomeTrinity1]

A Great scene from one of the "all-time" classic movies

[migeto]

JIGGUHWAHTS

[bloodchilde]

Jiggerwatt?

[volound]

NEEDS MOAR JIGGAWATTS

[Alexlord0]

WHAT TEH HELL IS A GIGAWATT!?

[PokemonRevoulution]

He sounds like a kid in cod. *He has a gunship!? HE HAS A GUNSHIP!?*. Guy on other team: the hell is a gunship??

[gonzasabbath]

WHAT THE HELL IS A JIGOWATT?!

[hemanshera777]

@gonzasabbath I never learned that much about science; what IS a jigiwatt anyways?

[doctoroctagonapus23]

@hemanshera777 1 gigawatt = 1,000,000,000 watts

[vadont]

1.21 GIGOWATTS

[gaararox1108]

@vadont

WHAT THE HELL'S A GOGAWATT?!!

[sebiandrei2008]

0:15 looks like he's just seen some serious shit

[hammadhaider]

 Belgian Nuclear Plant Doel has a peak output of 1.04 GW. (wikipedia)

[TouYube67]

What the hell is a gigawatt? lol

[shadowscythe1989]

put 1,21 GW in a car. Normally the high voltage of the eletric net is like 60 MW.

so you need 20x the high voltage net to time travel. not that realistic but what the hell, it will always be a good movie :D

[Werewolf2382]

Back to the Future: The Game comes out December 22nd.

Word is your computer needs at last 1.21 Gigahertz to run.

[AltoStratus619]

@Werewolf2382 excellent point good sir. I lol'd

[cyraxthehedgehog]

I was frozen today!

[Mai7853]

WHAT THE HELL IS A GIGAWATT?!

[Goodfightlads]

Jigger me.....what?

[vanhalenacdc2596]

5 people dont know what the hell a gigawatt is.

[kurpochelo]

@vanhalenacdc2596

it's spelled jiggawatt.

[javiramone]

1.21 Gigawatts. it´s a god of war Trophy. lol

[maxeypad]

What the hell is a gigawatt?! lol best line in that scene haha

[lawrence6714]

1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

-Marty McFly: What-what the hell is a gigawatt?

[zeeKxxL]

A jiggawatt is a mispronunciation of Gigawatts...

[TheBCR101]

1.21 GIGAWATTS? HEY!

[shojoe310]

lol 0:27

[gigas81]

The only thing that can generate 1.21 jigowatts is a bolt of lightning!

A what?

A bolt of lightning!!

[Catz0125]

LOL his freaking out sounds like me finding a new top clocking for a CPU. Me: 7 gigahertz? Whispers: 7 gigahertz... GREAT SCOTT!

[xKluuzx]

Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear!?

[LeonRFpoa]

what the hell is a JIgowatt?!

[steffiwulf]

this is too funny. I love Dr. Emmet Brown xD

[thfcfan101]

Sigh, let's get this straight.

The word is spelt "Gigawatt.", it is pronounced "Gigawatt." however Christopher Lloyd/ Robert Zemericks decieded to make Doc. Brown pronounce it "Jigawatt".... Okay...?

Jees... or should I say Gees?

[thebestofsopherboys]

Gees hahaha.

[AlexBurtonFilms]

people its spelled with a g. its pronounced it like you would the g in giant.

[Colossus3999]

What the hell is a gigawatt? Lol!!!!!!

[StimorolChewingGum]

@Colossus3999 It's one billion watts of electrical energy.

[Sheepy5757]

Errrr its not 1.21 gigwatts, ITS 1.21 JIGAWATTS thats a flipping other level of massiveness

[lollolloll1]

@Sheepy5757 you sir, know your stuff

[TheAlia918]

LOL! Great scott

[pinheadlarry65]

"what...what the hell is a gigawatt??"

[thekid20x6]

1.21 JIGGAWATTS? lol on how he said gigawatts

[xIegionx]

I'm surprised that the camera was capable of being applied to a 50's TV

[ycdtotv]

@xIegionx 75ohm converter, it's pretty darn simple. And not unthinkable that a JVC VHS camera in 1985 would come with one. Why? Because most people in 1985 received over-the-air antenna television... the same as in 1955.

[vertigoelectric]

@xIegionx ...but not surprised that they were able to turn a car into a time machine?

[xIegionx]

@vertigoelectric Nope. It was 1985 and they had uranium.

[595o]

@xIegionx Wasn't it plutonium?

[xIegionx]

@595o It was one of them.

[gonzasabbath]

Does anybody realize what this means? I mean.. IT'S 1.21GW! IT'S A MONSTROSITY AMMOUNT OF ENERGY!

[TelvanniGuard]

@gonzasabbath

The only thing that could generate this much electricity is a bolt of lightning!

[gonzasabbath]

@TelvanniGuard Incredible indeed.. no wonder Doc is in such excitement.

[BethGoth15]

The first time I heard him say that, I thought to myself, "That line is going to be stuck in my head forever." And you know what? It has! One of my favourite lines!!!

[Crowley9]

IMDB has the following trivia:

"Brown's pronunciation of gigawatts as 'jigowatts', is based on the way a physicist whom Zemeckis and Gale met with for research said the word."

Of course this is user-submitted content as usual, so take that with a grain of salt.

[jameslego1824]

What the hells A GigaWatt!?

[VonSaxenCoburg]

Besides, you can look it up, you know: it's Giga of course... who the hell thought it wasn't??? Nice going ,education :-)

[Warrior536]

1.21 Gigawattis about 1 210 000 kilowatts right?

[PetShopMod]

'WHAT THE HELL IS AN ILLUMINE FALCON?!?!?" Sorry wrong parody.

[Spartan2194]

1.21 jigglywatts which can only be generated from a bolt of huge tits!

[Lolipopsteph123]

'WHAT THE HELL'S A GIGAWATT?!?!'

[TheBwan1414]

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

[Katiecat2009]

what hell is a gigawats

[KRATOSRETURNSv2]

"1.21 gigawatts?!.........Great Scott!":D

[beamoflaser]

"what did i just say" lol

[TheDrummerNut]

What the hell is a gigawatt? :D

[afghanmissy]

What the hell is a gigawatt???!!!

[WeretFilms]

Pffffft. He's saying jiggawatt not gigawatt. (No, nobody knows what the hell a jigawatt is.)

[Huapua]

@WeretFilms

Although it is spelled Gigawatt, the correct way to say it is "jigawatt".

The pronunciation has been modified in the computer world to the familiar "gigawatt" but it is technically incorrect.

1 Gigawatt = 1 billion Watts

[MikeDunn]

@Huapua - Never heard that before. When I took Electrical Engineering over 10 years ago, the professors always said Gig - a - watt, not Jig - a - watt.

[Huapua]

@MikeDunn

People say it both ways now but the "correct" way to pronounce the prefix Giga- is "jiga".

[burntoastvideos]

I fucking love this movie. It's been recorded on my cable box for almost 2 years

[Koivu321]

1,210,000,000 watts i suppose it is alot lol

[catsmithyu]

A movie camera that small?!

[Maryanchyk]

Great Scott!

[LDKBBAB]

I didn't think I'd find this scene, sure enough after typing "1. " in the search, it was the first thing to pop up....I love you, youtube!

[ChileDDR]

GIGA WHAT?

[BoxOMarkers]

WHAT THE HELL IS A GIGAWATT!

[SalvableRuin]

@BoxOMarkers Ever hear of a gigabyte? What is watt? Now, what does giga mean? Gigawatt means one billion watts.

[BoxOMarkers]

@SalvableRuin I was just quotting Marty, but thanks anyway.

[SalvableRuin]

@BoxOMarkers Oh, sorry man. I haven't seen the movie for years so I didn't realize, haha.