"I suppose a lot of people are like windows. So many are see-through, so many get smashed, and so many wander around with a glazed look over them... Are you like a window?" Honestly sounds like a pretty prophetic quote to me.
He stole 100% of it. Max even mentioned this when he was older and bald. 😂 Michael Jackson stole the coca cola look with the sun glasses from him as well. Only Michaels was black and Max was red and white
So few people noticed that behind the crazy editing skills and amazing artistic design, Max Headroom was one of the best satirists of his time, and covered more controversial topics than almost anyone in the 80's. This guy was amazing....and then he got a tv show and a movie that completely threw all of that out.
The TV show came first, "This is Edison Carter. Live and direct." In the near future corporations took over everything. Mostly the Zik-Zak Corp. which owned Network 23. Edison Carter was a news reporter who was trying to expose the Corporations, that basically will do anything for ratings. Reporters were their own cameramen, and they had their own producers back at the network that helped them, and found clues on where he should check around at. Edison was running from some guys, jumped on a motorcycle, and sped out of a parking garage. He crashed into them toll gate, fell off, got knocked out. The last thing he saw was a sign that said MAX. HEADROOM 3 METRES (I think it was around 3). Then all the weird sci-fi things that can happen that back fed most of Edison's memories into the computer matrix. Thus Max was born. A manifestation of a computer glitch with a weird sense of humor. He would break into broadcasts anytime he felt the urge. Tried to "stop him", until they saw the ratings. Later on, the (real) network the show was on, gave him is own real talk show. Loved the series, I think it was one of the first shows SciFi Network had.
Cody Cullum Actually the British TV movie came first, followed by Max's appearances in commercials which shot the character to stardom, followed by the short lived TV series based off the movie, and finally the cable TV Max Headroom show.
"How can we make this guy in a plastic suit and makeup look like a computer-generated guy from the future?" "We'll just make the audio skip and loop." --The most clairvoyant men in the world.
Correction: the suit was fiberglass, the actor, Matt Frewer, was wearing foam and latex prosthesis, and the voice effects were achieved with a harmonizer.
People can be really nasty. Only the other day I heard someone say "He's nothing but a robot. Covered in make-up. Talks a lot of nonsense." What a way to talk about the president of America. That show really was from the future...
@@BruceAlarie It's my turn already again? I still get flak for Dubja. Folks, it was supposed to be a JOKE; ok, nobody expected you to actually say "sure, great idea".
This show predicted the future so accurately! In the age of video tapes, Max's jumping around and stuttering foretold the annoyance of a scratched DVD.
Y'all kids need to understand that the idea behind Max was grappling with a tech revolution. In 88 (or whenever) WWW hadn't even been written yet and though we knew the future was in cyberspace nobody knew what that was. This was a pretty big deal historically. Sampling was new, remix didn't exist yet, this was the bleeding cutting edge. Don't taunt Sumerians over primitive writing and don't dis Max Headroom. He came true.
Not exactly, the 1st sampler came out in 1970 (the mellotron) & the Fairlight in 1979, remixing existed for years, about every ''original'' dance/disco/newwave/eletrofunk song or 12" u know since 1975 was remixed/re-edited before it was released, from Tom Moulton, Lee Scratch Perry, Arthur Baker, Shepp Pattybone, Jellybean, Ben Liebrand, Art of Noise, Donna Summer, Devine, Shannon, Yello, FunFun, Grandmaster flash & Herbie Hancock, even the Beatles pitched their voice/lyrics in most songs after recording which is a form of re-edit or remix....& internet existed already in 88 but only for FBI/CIA, not for the public yet....hey just saying :)
I totally miss the 80s - the world went to hell in 1992, almost overnight it seemed, and things have never been the same. Anyone out there agree that this guy should be brought back? ;D
CaptainGoofysstash Yes definitely. If he was though, I don't want him looking really good or colourful. Part of the charm is that the colours look so washed out and just '80s'.
I wish I could've been around in the 80's to see this originally. This kind of thing isn't considered a big deal right now, but back then it had to have been so impressive. It's definitely creative.
"You know...People can be really nasty. Only the other day I heard someone say, "he's nothing but a robot, covered in make-up." What a way to talk about the president of America." I laughed so hard.
@@dacosta0656 "Hey need something half the population of the earth needs" sick burn man you really got'em, because like, your implying they are a lady who's uterine lining is shedding . "Hey loser i bet you drink water don't you, fucking nerd " real grade A top shelf comedic wit as usual from Donald Trumps supporters. Next they'll be making fun of people for wiping their ass, *if* they know what that is.
Matt Frewer is an acting genius. I loved Max when I caught it in the 80s new. I was a teen and it was perfect for a tech guy. People used to wonder if it really was a computer lol if you can believe that. I didn't catch it a lot being active and discovering girls but loved it. My step mom ruled the VCR so I couldn't record it. It wasn't until I saw him in Star Trek The Next Generation that I found out who Max was.
Max Headroom was a epic fella back in the 80s it was a Channel-4 trial program that took the masses by storm,as he intervied the best he never cared a shit. Which was what so funny in his persona and for the early 80s amazing graffix...PEACE
When computer graphics were new and exciting. I remember being AMAZED... asking myself, "How do they do that!!!!!????" And wasn't it a COMPLETE bummer to find out that it wasn't computers at all, but just freaking MAKEUP?? I know I was disappointed.
flatshade I agree. And editing all the glitches must have been a time-consuming process. More modern shows that rely heavily on glitch humor like "Time and Eric Awesome Show Great Job" have been greatly influenced by the "Max Headroom" folks. They were pretty cutting-edge for their time.
DEEP WINTER Yes, making that many quick cuts on a linear editing system gets tedious fast...and there is little to no margin for error if you mess up, but the effect was quite the eye-catcher at the time.
When I learned in the late 80s it wasn't CGI, I was slightly bummed, because I wanted computers to be more awesome than they were. But, by the time I saw all the stories of what it actually took to make it happen, my respect for what they did shot way up. The heavy latex and fiberglass and what-not... that sounds absolutely grueling! Matt Frewer was under all that heavy-ass crap after hours getting prepped, and still had to be funny. If it were CGI, then you could have a team of folks tweaking the CGI, and Matt would just have to read lines.
From the comments shared, I stand corrected. Actually, since I HATE how many movie studios rely on CGI today, I SHOULDN'T'VE been disappointed that this wasn't computers. Thank you for your insight.
I remember this from back in the days... Extremely stylish, graphic and cool! Was kind of about that in the 80s. Miami vice etc. JR pouring his scotch... It was about style, looks, images and poses. The Vibe! You could almost taste it... Humor? Serious stuff? Nah! If you wonder about stuff like that you weren't there.
@@truth4004 We need to hear him mock Vladimir Putin, we need him to make jokes about Boris Johnson and we definitely need him to go off against Liz Truss.
Max Headroom is still the most realistic looking AI on screen today (I know he's not CGI) and that's the genius of it. This effect is still better than our CGI can do even today.
Yeah, that's the subversive genius behind it - it was just supposed to look like done with computers and AI, yet looks more computer-like and artificial than any attempts at making AI characters today. Rather subversive and ahead of its time.
An artist intentionally doing something badly is gonna do better than any businessman trying to do something well, because the businessman wants it for the money he might make off it, and aims to spend as little as possible so he can have more money at the end of it all. The artist, on the other hand, creates things for the sake of creating them, and so will spend all the time and money in the world making this intentionally-bad work of anti-art look exactly the way that the artist wants it to look, nailing down not only the "failures" of their imagined faulty artist, but also the "workarounds" for those "failures", the logical consequences of the "technical limitations" they have imposed on their work. Even when doing 'bad' art, the artist thinks of how their choices shape the result, while the businessman can only think of how their choices impact the budget.
Looking at this I realize how far ahead of his time Matt Frewer/Max Headroom was, but I also see where Conan O'Brien and Steven Colbert stole their acts from.
I'm a computer Science major, so I have first hand experience with computers and can say that most computers are painfully dumb, mismanaged, and most programs are kludged together with the equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape. That said, comparing Trump to a computer is an insult to all computers. Even the TRS 80 is smarter than Trump (and the TRS80 had no memory, if I recall computer history correctly). At least computers are an invaluable asset to our society. Trump would be more at home in the 1700's when you could own slaves, be legally justified in beating your wife, and could rape a woman and then have her punished for being an adultress. Oh, and you could be a fucking asshole and still be considered a hero (think founding fathers-most of which owned other human beings). Trump should really be banished to the 1700's to die of infection or dysentery or whatever they had in those days.
@@davidwuhrer6704 The Internet has been around since the 1960's, it just wasn't known as the Internet back then and was developed for use by the military to start with, as a way of keeping basic lines of communication open in the event of a nuclear war. It wasn't until the 1970's that Universities and Academic Institutions used it, Dial-Up Internet existed in the mid to late 80's, but was limited and very expensive. It wasn't until the mid-1990's that the Internet started to take off, thanks to Englishman Tim Berners-Lee who created the Http protocol and basic HTML.
Well definitely he was an influential character. I couldn't help but think of Stephen Colbert while watching this. Now every time l watch Jim Carry I'm gonna picture him glitching.
reminds me more of another comedian, i thought chris something, had his own sitcom for a few years i wanna guess back in the 90's/ early 2000... can remember his name, but sounded like him too
Now that I think about it: i feel like Max Headroom is the inspiration behind TH-cam's earliest poopers and wanted to make similar video/audio editing that happened in Max Headroom.
Listening to Max slaughter german was just so goddamn amusing. At least I as a german was able to understand it XDD "UND DER OBER BRACHTE MIR... EINE.... SUPPE! *hysterical laughing for no reason*"
“...And the waiter brought me one” is the part transcribed above, at least. The rest is something about dinner at a restaurant and what he’d like to order as far as I can tell.
@@jackhydrazine1376 3:10 Warum haben die Deutschen so eine hartliche Sprache? Das nun sehr [...?] Ich war in einen deutschen Restaurant, ja, und der Ober brachte mir eine Suppe! Hartlich is not a real word but sounds like hard in English. Einen is the wrong case and gender. Why do the Germans have such a difficult language? [...] I was in a German restaurant, see, and the waiter brought me some soup. It is not coherent, grammatical, or funny in and of itself. Max obviously knows German as a second language, like me.
@@odess4sd4d I think the reason why he randomly started speaking German is because he was built based off the physical stereotype of Aryan Germans and his program glitched
What do you mean? It is a good movie, funny, entertaining, original. People are just salty because apart from the name it has nothing to do with the video game.
@@davidwuhrer6704 it falls into the " so bad it's good " type of movie. But, to each their own. If you look into the history of the filming of that movie, you would be surprised at how much bullshit went on during filming.
Troubled productions don't always end well, in fact I'm surprised the movie made its release date considering how many Producers were involved, all arguing with each other.
The concept of Max Headroom being an avatar that (more or less) infiltrates networks was WAY ahead of its time. I personally would be happy to have him take over the internet and he'd be a load more fun than Siri :-)
They're meant to be, apparently. AMC said they're rebooting it with Matt Frewer coming back to the character. Though that was back in July and nothing else has been mentioned. We shall see.
From the days when making Matt Frewer look like that was easier with makeup than with computers. I distinctly remember when he said "Why is it the only funny lines on this show are the ones behind me?", after looking behind him he said "I still don't get that joke".
"And the nuclear powers have just denied rumors that the world's waters are being polluted by nu-nu-nu-nu-nuclear waste. They say they say the pollution is being caused not by them but by all the dead fish... we havetoday... in the sea... mkay? NE-NE-NE-NEXT!"
Max headroom was totally awesome, I still Have the whole series on VHS yep good ol VHS, shame I not got the machine to play them back on!! 😔.. And the music was mainly non commercial.. Loved it, ' we got rats on a budget'
I’m a whole teenager and this dude scares me, imagine if he was in your house just glitching away. I’d be terrified! And that incident with him doesn’t help at all.
I remember watching this when i was a kid. I think i need to get into the 80's mind set again, I ll brb after doing massive lines of White Rhino off a mirror in my new 84 Pontiac Fiero...
"I suppose a lot of people are like windows. So many are see-through, so many get smashed, and so many wander around with a glazed look over them... Are you like a window?"
Honestly sounds like a pretty prophetic quote to me.
Is your life a pane?
Its 2021 and Max Headroom still feels ahead of its time
Which suggests to me we haven't progressed, or that we have even regressed.
Maybe one day... Maybe one day
Its 2022 and Max Headroom still feels ahead of its time
It's 2022 now and he's still head of his time. We NEED another max headroom. They need to bring him back maaan.
Streamer / Vtuber + TH-cam Poop
"The only funny lines on this show are the ones behind me."
Classic.
😂
*looks back to the “lines”*
@@Win090949 And they stop when he looks back.
This comment was 6 years ago. You are now six years older. You could’ve died and we would never know.
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I wonder if Jim Carrey ever took acting lessons from Max Headroom.
My thoughts exactly 🤣
Sniped.
Well they are both Canadian actors, so it's possible. Matt Frewer played Max Headroom.
He stole 100% of it. Max even mentioned this when he was older and bald. 😂
Michael Jackson stole the coca cola look with the sun glasses from him as well. Only Michaels was black and Max was red and white
Absolutely
So few people noticed that behind the crazy editing skills and amazing artistic design, Max Headroom was one of the best satirists of his time, and covered more controversial topics than almost anyone in the 80's. This guy was amazing....and then he got a tv show and a movie that completely threw all of that out.
The TV show came first, "This is Edison Carter. Live and direct." In the near future corporations took over everything. Mostly the Zik-Zak Corp. which owned Network 23. Edison Carter was a news reporter who was trying to expose the Corporations, that basically will do anything for ratings. Reporters were their own cameramen, and they had their own producers back at the network that helped them, and found clues on where he should check around at. Edison was running from some guys, jumped on a motorcycle, and sped out of a parking garage. He crashed into them toll gate, fell off, got knocked out. The last thing he saw was a sign that said MAX. HEADROOM 3 METRES (I think it was around 3). Then all the weird sci-fi things that can happen that back fed most of Edison's memories into the computer matrix. Thus Max was born. A manifestation of a computer glitch with a weird sense of humor. He would break into broadcasts anytime he felt the urge. Tried to "stop him", until they saw the ratings.
Later on, the (real) network the show was on, gave him is own real talk show. Loved the series, I think it was one of the first shows SciFi Network had.
Cody Cullum Actually the British TV movie came first, followed by Max's appearances in commercials which shot the character to stardom, followed by the short lived TV series based off the movie, and finally the cable TV Max Headroom show.
DDS029 it was Network 23, and then the parking garage read "max headroom 2.3 meters" lol.
He was a comercial spokesman before he got a show. What exactly was he satirizing?
Dude, Weird Al=Greatest satirist of the 80s, hands down, no holds barred.
This guy used to creep me out as a kid. Now he's one of my favorite nostalgia things
"How can we make this guy in a plastic suit and makeup look like a computer-generated guy from the future?"
"We'll just make the audio skip and loop."
--The most clairvoyant men in the world.
it's actually a fiberglass suit.... sooooooo
Jack Neuenburg fiberglass is a form of plastic
Correction: the suit was fiberglass, the actor, Matt Frewer, was wearing foam and latex prosthesis, and the voice effects were achieved with a harmonizer.
prom finder
The makeup took four hours and he said it felt like being in a giant tennis ball lol.
You had to be there back in the eighties to appreciate how funny this guy was, still makes me smile.
Sounds ghastly, if that was considered funny back then. Sorry.
@@davidwuhrer6704 the character was a satire o late night show's presenters, and people liked him, making the writers idea backfire
@@yurymoncada7189 That's even worse.
@@davidwuhrer6704dude I didn't even grow up in the 80s and I find him funny now.
@@blind_surgeonyour blind though so that doesn't make any sense
This is Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Max-MAX-MAX-MAX-MAX-MAX-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-MAX MAX MAX MAX-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-MAX Max Headroom.
Headrum
seeing it typed out made me die laughing lol
He has huge lag, computers were slow those days ^^
@@michaelmorgan6674 give me the drugs youre on
And now TH-cam is offering to translate that into English.
"He's nothing but a robot, covered in makeup. What a way to talk about the President". How absolutely prophetic!
*prosthetic
Let's get ready to rumble!
@@FruityPassion yeah Joe Biden is crushing it right now!
@@FruityPassion
Reagan ❓
People can be really nasty. Only the other day I heard someone say "He's nothing but a robot. Covered in make-up. Talks a lot of nonsense." What a way to talk about the president of America.
That show really was from the future...
It's more that time is a circle. This was from the Reagan years.
pick a president
@@BruceAlarie It's my turn already again?
I still get flak for Dubja. Folks, it was supposed to be a JOKE; ok, nobody expected you to actually say "sure, great idea".
Max Headroom is basically Jim Carrey and YTP combined.
Matt Frewer was so great as Max Headroom, I would love to see a revi-vi-vi-val. 😉
The most accurate description yet!! Hahaha definitely getting Jim Carrey vibes, TH-cam Poop Waaaaayy before it's time for sure 😂
Have you seen at 3:01 play at slowest setting to see cut away flash picture!
@@Will89114fmeyea It's divine.
I just witnessed a fake ai stutter his name for 10 seconds and i loved every second for it.
Forgetful Hatter OMG LOL! And that stupid, dorky, crazy smirk smile at the end. Wooooooow.
It's like he predicted TH-cam Poop.
Same
MAMAMAMAMAMAMMAMMMAMAMAMAMAX
It was very Tim and Eric-y.
Watching Max Headroom is surreal, it's somehow both dated and timeless.
They glued music videos in between them.
That’s what makes something classic.
Have you seen at 3:01, play at slowest setting to see!.
Yea
He's making more sense than he usually does. He usually had too much ADD to really make a coherent sent-sent-sent.
...ence.
MA-MA-MAX headroom. Max head room. *starts twitching mouth*
The irony of having buffering isssues watching this in 2019.
2020 now
2021
How can you tell?
@@paulbennell3313 when you see the same black cat walk by twice..
@@michelguevara151 You know, I have the distict feeling I read that before…
You know, I have the distict feeling I read that before…
This makes more sense then the actual world.
PREACH
This show predicted the future so accurately! In the age of video tapes, Max's jumping around and stuttering foretold the annoyance of a scratched DVD.
Or an internet conference call with a bad connection. OR TH-cam Poop.
"Why are the only funny lines on this show the ones behind me?"I DIED
Y'all kids need to understand that the idea behind Max was grappling with a tech revolution. In 88 (or whenever) WWW hadn't even been written yet and though we knew the future was in cyberspace nobody knew what that was. This was a pretty big deal historically. Sampling was new, remix didn't exist yet, this was the bleeding cutting edge. Don't taunt Sumerians over primitive writing and don't dis Max Headroom. He came true.
Not exactly, the 1st sampler came out in 1970 (the mellotron) & the Fairlight in 1979, remixing existed for years, about every ''original'' dance/disco/newwave/eletrofunk song or 12" u know since 1975 was remixed/re-edited before it was released, from Tom Moulton, Lee Scratch Perry, Arthur Baker, Shepp Pattybone, Jellybean, Ben Liebrand, Art of Noise, Donna Summer, Devine, Shannon, Yello, FunFun, Grandmaster flash & Herbie Hancock, even the Beatles pitched their voice/lyrics in most songs after recording which is a form of re-edit or remix....& internet existed already in 88 but only for FBI/CIA, not for the public yet....hey just saying :)
You do realize this is an actor and not CGI right?
XHALE303 Hobbyists also already connected to each other via their computer's Bulletin Board Systems. ; )
Elround4 like i said not mainstream as it is now :)
***** U wrong u do realize this is CGI & that Max was modeled on the actor Matt Frewer...right? Max Headroom is 100% CGI :)
LMAOO these weird artistic times needs to come back
"Why are the only funny lines on this show the ones behind me?"
Because my writtttters ssssssuck k k k!!!!!
+Max Headroom I love you Max, you're cooler than the crap we have now. Thirty years made things today lamer, not cooler.
+Drexel Gregory GEEE E E E TH H H HANKS S S!!!
I LOVVVVVVE MEE E.E E TO OO OO OOOO!
Ok y y y yourrrrr r r r nnnnot so bad yourrr r r rself. HA!!!
Seriously the creativity of this is amazing. the 80s and 90s were amazing and filled with the unknown. now everything feels so predictable and lame
This was brilliant for the time, and even now it has aged pretty well ! It seems kind of futuristic but retro all in one.
The 80s sounded so fantastic...
DominatorGaming It was pretty awesome compared to now. I feel sorry for people under 35.
SuburbanoidMisfit111 I would have loved to live in the 80s. Stuff like this is just incredible.
I totally miss the 80s - the world went to hell in 1992, almost overnight it seemed, and things have never been the same.
Anyone out there agree that this guy should be brought back? ;D
CaptainGoofysstash Yes definitely. If he was though, I don't want him looking really good or colourful. Part of the charm is that the colours look so washed out and just '80s'.
CaptainGoofysstash totally :)
I wish I could've been around in the 80's to see this originally. This kind of thing isn't considered a big deal right now, but back then it had to have been so impressive. It's definitely creative.
Max Headroom is/was like dream fuel for me back in the 80’s. He was the epitome of cool. 😁😁😁😁😁😁
LoL I would go out later on Friday night just to watch him first before going out 😂
That's absolutely hilarious.
"But what about frozen meat? Is that as fresh as the moment the cow went... 1:59 "
PREACH
the little shrug after i-
I knownim dying...
LMAOOOOOOO
"one example of a "thing", is a bacon slicer" - Max Headroom
Joe Biden's classic description of God, or his own senility.
"You know...People can be really nasty. Only the other day I heard someone say, "he's nothing but a robot, covered in make-up." What a way to talk about the president of America." I laughed so hard.
Bakerboy he predicted Trump becoming president
Dub _ need a tampon?
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Very funny. Trump doesn't stutter as much. Just sayin'
@@dacosta0656 "Hey need something half the population of the earth needs" sick burn man you really got'em, because like, your implying they are a lady who's uterine lining is shedding . "Hey loser i bet you drink water don't you, fucking nerd " real grade A top shelf comedic wit as usual from Donald Trumps supporters. Next they'll be making fun of people for wiping their ass, *if* they know what that is.
Matt Frewer is an acting genius. I loved Max when I caught it in the 80s new. I was a teen and it was perfect for a tech guy. People used to wonder if it really was a computer lol if you can believe that. I didn't catch it a lot being active and discovering girls but loved it. My step mom ruled the VCR so I couldn't record it. It wasn't until I saw him in Star Trek The Next Generation that I found out who Max was.
He is but it hurt his career so much because of being typecasting...
Man, Matt Frewer must have had a field day with this role :D I bet 130% of this is improvised.
I miss the 80s so much. This made for great entertainment back then when we were all just a little bit more innocent
God I miss the 80s. THIS was entertainment back then. Hell yeah!!!!!
THIS was entertainment back then?
The bit about moths cracked me up, just his delivery, fantastic.
Max Headroom was a epic fella back in the 80s it was a Channel-4 trial program that took the masses by storm,as he intervied the best he never cared a shit. Which was what so funny in his persona and for the early 80s amazing graffix...PEACE
I thought this was the coolest most fresh modern fun thing I'd ever seen. LOVED Max Headroom!
When computer graphics were new and exciting. I remember being AMAZED... asking myself, "How do they do that!!!!!????"
And wasn't it a COMPLETE bummer to find out that it wasn't computers at all, but just freaking MAKEUP??
I know I was disappointed.
Then they did their job well. TV and filmmaking is all about illusion.
flatshade I agree. And editing all the glitches must have been a time-consuming process. More modern shows that rely heavily on glitch humor like "Time and Eric Awesome Show Great Job" have been greatly influenced by the "Max Headroom" folks. They were pretty cutting-edge for their time.
DEEP WINTER
Yes, making that many quick cuts on a linear editing system gets tedious fast...and there is little to no margin for error if you mess up, but the effect was quite the eye-catcher at the time.
When I learned in the late 80s it wasn't CGI, I was slightly bummed, because I wanted computers to be more awesome than they were.
But, by the time I saw all the stories of what it actually took to make it happen, my respect for what they did shot way up. The heavy latex and fiberglass and what-not... that sounds absolutely grueling!
Matt Frewer was under all that heavy-ass crap after hours getting prepped, and still had to be funny.
If it were CGI, then you could have a team of folks tweaking the CGI, and Matt would just have to read lines.
From the comments shared, I stand corrected. Actually, since I HATE how many movie studios rely on CGI today, I SHOULDN'T'VE been disappointed that this wasn't computers. Thank you for your insight.
I loved this show, but I had forgotten how sarcastic it was. Thx for posting this awesome compilation.
I absolutely loved that show! Waaay ahead of it's time.
Max rocked in the 80’s and still holds his own today-He’s far more logical than any politician to date…
I remember this from back in the days... Extremely stylish, graphic and cool! Was kind of about that in the 80s. Miami vice etc. JR pouring his scotch... It was about style, looks, images and poses. The Vibe! You could almost taste it...
Humor? Serious stuff?
Nah! If you wonder about stuff like that you weren't there.
And it still works. Especially when you take it as it is. The 90s had this too to a certain degree. However i still prefer the 80s vibe.
I am here for the humour and the serious stuff. This video doesn't have it.
yeah i miss when eras had a more distinctive look to them
I wish Max Headroom should’ve been the newscaster for the 80s. It’d be awesome to hear the new from him than the usual bores.
we need him now.
@@truth4004 We need to hear him mock Vladimir Putin, we need him to make jokes about Boris Johnson and we definitely need him to go off against Liz Truss.
I swear to god Max Headroom is a legend
This was so ahead of its time it’s uncanny and disturbing and I love it
Max Headroom was the epitome of the 80s
Max was WAY ahead of his time. They should bring him back!
Max Headroom is still the most realistic looking AI on screen today (I know he's not CGI) and that's the genius of it. This effect is still better than our CGI can do even today.
Yeah, that's the subversive genius behind it - it was just supposed to look like done with computers and AI, yet looks more computer-like and artificial than any attempts at making AI characters today. Rather subversive and ahead of its time.
it looks better because he's real. technology has improved a lot but the real thing will always seem better to somebody
An artist intentionally doing something badly is gonna do better than any businessman trying to do something well, because the businessman wants it for the money he might make off it, and aims to spend as little as possible so he can have more money at the end of it all. The artist, on the other hand, creates things for the sake of creating them, and so will spend all the time and money in the world making this intentionally-bad work of anti-art look exactly the way that the artist wants it to look, nailing down not only the "failures" of their imagined faulty artist, but also the "workarounds" for those "failures", the logical consequences of the "technical limitations" they have imposed on their work. Even when doing 'bad' art, the artist thinks of how their choices shape the result, while the businessman can only think of how their choices impact the budget.
Looking at this I realize how far ahead of his time Matt Frewer/Max Headroom was, but I also see where Conan O'Brien and Steven Colbert stole their acts from.
I miss the 80's SOOOO much! Crackheads, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Tron and Max Headroom! Who could ask for more? LOL
He creates such a great dystopian atomosphere
I was always fascinated by this guy when I was a kid
The most innovative characters (and TV show) ever! Watched the show every week.
"he's nothing but a robot. covered in makeup. talks a lot of nonsense. what a way to talk about the president of America"
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I'm a computer Science major, so I have first hand experience with computers and can say that most computers are painfully dumb, mismanaged, and most programs are kludged together with the equivalent of chewing gum and duct tape.
That said, comparing Trump to a computer is an insult to all computers. Even the TRS 80 is smarter than Trump (and the TRS80 had no memory, if I recall computer history correctly). At least computers are an invaluable asset to our society. Trump would be more at home in the 1700's when you could own slaves, be legally justified in beating your wife, and could rape a woman and then have her punished for being an adultress. Oh, and you could be a fucking asshole and still be considered a hero (think founding fathers-most of which owned other human beings). Trump should really be banished to the 1700's to die of infection or dysentery or whatever they had in those days.
@@aldenheterodyne2833 Just stop, I'm a programmer. That's just bull all the way up and down. I'm not a fan either but don't lose your grip on reality.
It's amazing how so many people with such high accomplishments and degrees can be such idiots.
@@N75911_ maybe if you thought harder youd see the degrees give them better insights
The 80's looked more futuristic than now.
The future is not what it used to be.
Well, we kinda stopped trying after...that's why. See: the 90s
The past is the future
@ron slow eventually we will run out of idea and run to the past for new idea in culture
@ron slow 🙂🤣messin with you
Max headroom was trapped in the internet before there was an internet, in this reality anyway ;)
Max Headroom is from 1981. The internet has been around since 1973 (though it was called CYCLADES then). E-mail has been around since 1971.
@@davidwuhrer6704 The Internet has been around since the 1960's, it just wasn't known as the Internet back then and was developed for use by the military to start with, as a way of keeping basic lines of communication open in the event of a nuclear war. It wasn't until the 1970's that Universities and Academic Institutions used it, Dial-Up Internet existed in the mid to late 80's, but was limited and very expensive. It wasn't until the mid-1990's that the Internet started to take off, thanks to Englishman Tim Berners-Lee who created the Http protocol and basic HTML.
@@davidwuhrer6704 i deny that!!!
80's junk might be bad, but 80's gold is awesome
"What I want to know is: don't-don't-don't Eskimos ever get b-b-b-b-bored with the weather forecast?"
Its 2023 and Max Headroom still feels ahead of its time
As someone who's been living as a moth, Max may have just spit straight facts. All night against my portable lights.
Always thought Jim Carrey emulated Max Headroom.
Well definitely he was an influential character. I couldn't help but think of Stephen Colbert while watching this.
Now every time l watch Jim Carry I'm gonna picture him glitching.
They are both Canadian.
reminds me more of another comedian, i thought chris something, had his own sitcom for a few years i wanna guess back in the 90's/ early 2000... can remember his name, but sounded like him too
I’ve been saying that a lot over the years too
Well one of them needs to be funny and last the test of time! The other is currently playing Dr. Robotnik ;)
Max Headroom was the original TH-cam poop. He's a natural here!
"Fan mail...Well, I haven't had any yet." So good.
Now that I think about it: i feel like Max Headroom is the inspiration behind TH-cam's earliest poopers and wanted to make similar video/audio editing that happened in Max Headroom.
Listening to Max slaughter german was just so goddamn amusing. At least I as a german was able to understand it XDD
"UND DER OBER BRACHTE MIR... EINE.... SUPPE! *hysterical laughing for no reason*"
What did he say?
“...And the waiter brought me one” is the part transcribed above, at least. The rest is something about dinner at a restaurant and what he’d like to order as far as I can tell.
@@jackhydrazine1376 3:10
Warum haben die Deutschen so eine hartliche Sprache? Das nun sehr [...?] Ich war in einen deutschen Restaurant, ja, und der Ober brachte mir eine Suppe!
Hartlich is not a real word but sounds like hard in English. Einen is the wrong case and gender.
Why do the Germans have such a difficult language? [...] I was in a German restaurant, see, and the waiter brought me some soup.
It is not coherent, grammatical, or funny in and of itself. Max obviously knows German as a second language, like me.
@@odess4sd4d "Hartlich" soll vielleicht "Hässlich" heißen.
@@odess4sd4d I think the reason why he randomly started speaking German is because he was built based off the physical stereotype of Aryan Germans and his program glitched
Man, this show was so far ahead of it's time. Truly sad that the directing couple couldn't pull of the Mario Bros. movie better.
What do you mean? It is a good movie, funny, entertaining, original. People are just salty because apart from the name it has nothing to do with the video game.
@@davidwuhrer6704 it falls into the " so bad it's good " type of movie. But, to each their own. If you look into the history of the filming of that movie, you would be surprised at how much bullshit went on during filming.
@@thomasanthony5306 What do diffculties in production have to do with the script or the acting?
Troubled productions don't always end well, in fact I'm surprised the movie made its release date considering how many Producers were involved, all arguing with each other.
You know, I've known about Max Headroom since I was a kid in the '80s...however, I just now realized that YTPs are trying to emulate it.
of course they are! Can you blame them? I mean God look at m m meeee. I'm awwwwwwes s s some!
what be this YTP? sounds like trendy toi-toi-toilet paper!
@@maxheadroom3946 i wish you WERE max! id love to hang out
The concept of Max Headroom being an avatar that (more or less) infiltrates networks was WAY ahead of its time. I personally would be happy to have him take over the internet and he'd be a load more fun than Siri :-)
Unlike TV, the internet is not broadcast from a station. Like Soylent Green, the internet is people.
me and my mates used to impersonate him in school, thank god there were no smart phones about back then :p
Max Headroom would seamlessly fit into Adult Swim lol
Max talking/showing off his German always made me laugh my head off 🤣😆
They need to revive this show. It was prophetic.
I’d love if they rebooted max headroom . Loved it back in the 80s. Love it more now with the adult humor 😂
They're meant to be, apparently. AMC said they're rebooting it with Matt Frewer coming back to the character. Though that was back in July and nothing else has been mentioned. We shall see.
"What I want to know is why are all the funny lines on the show the ones behind me?"
My cat freaks the fuck out around 3:30...everytime!
+Ethan Allen Hawley
So do I.
Only ever saw Max Headroom once - late night SBS TV in Australia way back then. Loved it!
From the days when making Matt Frewer look like that was easier with makeup than with computers.
I distinctly remember when he said "Why is it the only funny lines on this show are the ones behind me?", after looking behind him he said "I still don't get that joke".
I guess this show was really ahead of its time. These sorts of weird glitchy editing gags would become popular again years later in the YTP community.
... I was trying to watch Dr. Who here...
tee hee
+ZAT0N that's the joke tard...
"He must have died from a massive electric shock!"
TOO SOON
destroyernoah frickin nerd!
"And the nuclear powers have just denied rumors that the world's waters are being polluted by nu-nu-nu-nu-nuclear waste. They say they say the pollution is being caused not by them but by all the dead fish... we havetoday... in the sea... mkay? NE-NE-NE-NEXT!"
JaY -pan
I laughed out loud at that!
Max headroom was totally awesome, I still Have the whole series on VHS yep good ol VHS, shame I not got the machine to play them back on!! 😔.. And the music was mainly non commercial.. Loved it, ' we got rats on a budget'
You still got the vhs tapes?
LEX LOOSE I have a few episodes and several great VCRs.
@Daniel Daniels please digitise them and put them online!
NetwideRogue I don’t have any way to digitize video, unfortunately
I remember being afraid of Max Headroom as a kid. Used to creep me out.
I’m a whole teenager and this dude scares me, imagine if he was in your house just glitching away. I’d be terrified! And that incident with him doesn’t help at all.
Uncanny valley effect
I thought he was the absolute most hilarious thing ever.
Me too... I didn't truly get him... was confusing but intriguing
Have you seen at 3:01 play on slowest setting to see, This will creep you out again!.
Max Headroom for President.
0:12 YTP before we were born.
M-maamamamamamamamamsxejcnsmsmnfmamamamamamamfhjsbxnd headroom max headroom
So brilliant! & funny!
So mad to watch this now from when being a kid! I was so fascinated by it & loved the graphics back then!
2023 and Max telling it like it is still completely works.
I remember watching this when i was a kid. I think i need to get into the 80's mind set again, I ll brb after doing massive lines of White Rhino off a mirror in my new 84 Pontiac Fiero...
I can’t even see this character without thinking of the max headroom broadcast hijacking
I'm beginning to feel like a rap god....
Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaahh!
3:)
no you're not get the hell out of here.
Huh crazy unique video
I can rap it
Being Max Headroom back! Love it.
so this is where Eminem got the idea for the music video of Rap God, at least the intro part
randomhumor1 haha was scrolling through the comments wondering when someone was gonna mention this.
lol I was scrolling too and I never saw a comment so I had to mention it.
Thats why i came here lmao I saw the similarity
@Max Headroom 😮
rap god??what kills me is young boneheads will think eminem was 1st!
"Dont facts like that just wipe you out?.. * shitting noises * " I ABSOLUTELY FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS GUY LMAOOO
UK TV was excellent in the 80's. We had Max Headroom, The Young Ones, The Tube, The Beiderbecke Affair, Edge Of Darkness, Spitting Image, etc. etc.
And the only lines funnier than the ones behind Max, were the lines that Max’s creators must’ve been snorting in the 80s.
This guy was genius!
0:04 “damn it not again…I thought you fixed the glitches in this fucking thing!” 😂
this is peak aesthetic
i love how this feels like i'm watching a youtube poop from 2011
when you just got a free trial on an editing app and try out all the filters
Your love is fading
I STOLE CBS
Enceladeans
*i still see the x
MY FILES
come and get me bitch
catch the wave
This is basically the 1980s equivalent of the "I made a bot watch 1000 hrs of Late Night TV" gag
It literally is. I think it's the point of the character
Is he running on windows 98?
95
Super Fighting Robot, Megaman! No. Windows version 1 had not even been written. His backgrounds were generated on a Commodore 64.
64
Manning Bartlett nope. they were drawn by hand and animated in the first years, later on on a Commodore Amiga.
Super Fighting Robot, Megaman! More like Mac OS 6
"Hello my name is Dr Terrick".