I recently saw this on cracked.com and thought you guys would like it. Did anyone here actually see it when it first happened?
I wasn't sure if this belonged in General Discussion or TV, so if a mod here thinks it needs to be moved, please do.
Syd Lexia
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Jan 16 2010 01:01 pm
Found this on YouTube a few months ago when looking for Max Headroom clips. This was way better than the other high profile 1980s signal intrusion, the HBO Captain Mignight incident.
Probably some weird inside joke for a bunch of phreakers.
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Jan 16 2010 02:20 pm
When Max Headroom first started airing in the U.K, it came on with no intro or nothing, and went off with no outro, so people really didn't know what the fuck it was till magazines started interviewing "Max" and what not.
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Jan 16 2010 02:30 pm
With all the 80's retroness crap going on these days, you'd think Max Headroom would see some love but he's mostly forgotten it seems.
Shake it, Quake it, Space Kaboom.
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Jan 16 2010 07:00 pm
The first time I watched that video, only the first 30 seconds loaded so it creeped the fuck out of me. Now, watching the whole thing, it's just kinda stupid. The guy says a bunch of random non-sequiters and then a chick starts to smack his as with some sort of stick. It was kinda like an episode of Family Guy.
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Thorinair
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Jan 16 2010 07:34 pm
Eddie_Hyde wrote:
The first time I watched that video, only the first 30 seconds loaded so it creeped the fuck out of me. Now, watching the whole thing, it's just kinda stupid. The guy says a bunch of random non-sequiters and then a chick starts to smack his as with some sort of stick. It was kinda like an episode of Family Guy.
I know what you mean, it's only creepy until you actually see it. Reading about it, I expected more... I don't know, creepiness I suppose.
Syd Lexia
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Jan 16 2010 08:03 pm
It's not entirely random. When he refers to "World's Greatest Newspaper" nerds, he is referring to one of the channels whose signal he interrupted WGN-TV. The WGN stands for World's Greatest Newspaper, which was the nickname for the Chicago Tribune, which had the same parent company as WGN-TV and that was the source of the call letters.
The "Catch The Wave" line is an old 80s Pepsi slogan, and he was being ironic by advertising Pepsi, since Max Headroom appeared in ads for Coca-Cola.
Now, watching the whole thing, it's just kinda stupid. The guy says a bunch of random non-sequiters and then a chick starts to smack his as with some sort of stick.
At first I thought it was a woman smacking his ass at the end too, but I just watched it again and I swear that is a little kid smacking him. If it isn't he is very tall and the person smacking him is very short.
Call me immature, but that was hilarious. The fact he got away with it makes it even more funny.
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Jan 18 2010 10:30 pm
I swear it was a phreakers prank. I wanna go ask some people at The Temple Of the Screaming Electron or Binary Revolution or Phone Losers Of America now and see if they know...
Doddsino
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Jan 20 2010 12:36 am
Syd Lexia wrote:
It's not entirely random. When he refers to "World's Greatest Newspaper" nerds, he is referring to one of the channels whose signal he interrupted WGN-TV. The WGN stands for World's Greatest Newspaper, which was the nickname for the Chicago Tribune, which had the same parent company as WGN-TV and that was the source of the call letters.
The "Catch The Wave" line is an old 80s Pepsi slogan, and he was being ironic by advertising Pepsi, since Max Headroom appeared in ads for Coca-Cola.
Also he says "I still see the X" in reference to the show he was humming and not "I stole CBS" like the captions say.
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Jan 28 2010 09:23 am
Yeah, I saw this. This was my favorite from that article, besides UVB-76.
