In the Gigi D'Agostino's video for "Another Way" (1999), the main character resembles Max's appearance and movements.or at least self-satire.įor some reason, Max and his stuttering-head trope continue to be popular on the music video scene.
It's worth noting here that the 2007 Channel Four ads could be called parodies. It's a cyber-sexual trip to the far side of sexual bliss - a trip you'll be happy to take again and again."Ĭhannel Four "Get Ready for Digital" ads (2007)
A take-off on the one-time hit series 'Max Headroom,' this video uses flashly effects, gorgeous women and plenty of white-hot action to keep you intrigued from start to fiery finish. She becomes more powerful than ever, beaming her sexy shenanigans into homes from coast to coast. But now she's run afoul of the powerful network execs who created the whole plan! They plot to assassinate Maxine, but little do they suspect that her personality will be transplanted into the network's own central computer. How causing sex among your viewers is supposed to boost ratings is a mystery, but Maxine lays bare the whole sordid story on her nightly broadcast. Rather than just enjoy the situation, though, the couple feels the need to expose the networks nefarious scheme - to entice viewers into sex through subliminal manipulation. She's hit upon the story of a lifetime when she meets a couple of couch potatoes who claim that by watching network television that were turned into a pair of feverishly frolicking sexual animals.
"Porsche Lynn stars as Maxine, an intrepid reporter for a busy metropolitan TV news show. Yes, it's Max-themed porn starring Porsche Lynn as both Allison Carter and Maxine Bedroom. It's Rule 34 before anyone conceived of a Rule 34, much less an internet. Maxine: Allison Carter gets dig-dig-digitized, in more ways than one.
in the earliest years of Fox, which no one in the industry thought could crack the monopoly of ABC-CBS-NBC (and poor stepchild PBS). There are also sneers at the notion of a "fourth network" coming along. The Max-ish elements included the evil head of another network, VVC, "Landon Smartikoff" - a very blunt swipe at NBC's young and very successful programming head Brandon Tartikoff Max Headroom had been prevented from naming the net of Network 66 Brandon Grosman/Grossberg but somehow this briefer, lighter poke was allowed to pass. Objections from either the Max Headroom producers or parent ABC turned the episode as-run into a mashup of star David Rasche's over-the-top Mike Hammer parody, elements of Max, and added elements from the film A Clockwork Orange. Some reports have the episode, which premiered on September 17, 1987, originally being titled "Max Sledgeroom" and being much more Max-focused. It is probably inevitable that an episode would be based on the title character becoming Max-Max-Maxified. It was fueled by the broad humor of a punning title that used "sledge," "hammer" or both to establish a parodic theme for each episode of its two-season run. This sitcom was a running parody of tough-guy cop shows, especially "Mike Hammer," and ran on ABC in the same years as Max's show. "Sledge Hammer" being processed by a "Clockwork Orange"-like system to become an uncontrollable AI strangely similar to someone we know. Tracey Ullman (with her baby) was a guest on the October show, and had been a guest on Max's show just weeks before. The joke does not appear to have been repeated a third time, and even Letterman alludes to the waning popularity of Max humor in the introduction to the second. The first appearance had a very approximate version of Max's background (mostly neon-green stripes), while the second one used a bouncing lines background that may well have been borrowed from the ABC series video archive. Letterman ran the skit twice, once on September 15, 1986, and then again on October 8. More than just a brief joke, Letterman gave over a significant segment of his show to parody Max's talk show, with his "Headroom" answering audience questions and giving away absurd gifts (a package of fluorescent light tubes). David Letterman of Network 66 unveils his answer to Max.Ī few months after David Letterman had Max as a guest on his show, he jumped into signature parody mode and brought out "Larry Bud Headroom" - his regular "court jester" Larry Bud Melman (played by Calvert DeForest) transformed into a computer-generated talking head.