Quote Originally Posted by Flip
Ok i got it...

The clock is predicting later in the movie where the doc is hanging off of the clock, and the second part...
Doc Brown's "man hanging off a clock face" depicts the famous scene in Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!. Christopher Lloyd based his performance as Doc Brown on a combination of physicist Albert Einstein and conductor Leopold Stokowski.
lol you sir are correct lol...yeah it was based Harold Loyd and Buster Keaton, plus what happened at the end when the Doc sliped and almost fell lol....i would of rep'd for either Harold Loyd or Buster Keaton for they are both correct but congrats Flip..you win the rep lol