So...this is a weird one. I got into Transformers in 2016, right at the height of my robot obsession in my teen years. I had tentatively poked at Transformers media before, but in 2016, I read all of the More than Meets the Eye IDW comic, and it did something terrible to my brain. It's still very special to me, but that's its own story. Anyway, there's a point in the comic where some of the characters have a movie night, and they watch Back to the Future. The song remixed in this video's song features within the comic, and I grew very attached to it, even beyond its original context. So of course I wanted to feature Transformers in this video. Plus, G1 has plenty of bizarre love plots!
Something else about this song, though, is its strangely sinister atmosphere. The repetition of the "no credit card" line that lends the title to the remix always struck me as odd, and I thought it worked perfectly for Transformers, which has always been a glorified toy commercial, in all of its forms. It really came together at the end when I decided to include footage of someone's giant toy collection, which they may or may not have used a credit card to pay for.
Disclaimer: I have no opinion on the person shown in the video. It was just the biggest Transformers collection I could find a good video of quickly on YouTube. Sorry, random guy, for using you as a metaphor for consumerism, but maybe you deserved it, because holy shit this guy has a room like this for just about every 80s Boy toy line.
Oh yeah, did you know there was a Back to the Future TV cartoon, by the way? I didn't until I made this video and saw the random dog character they added has a train for some reason.
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