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* Max gives a giggly introduction to the show but notes that they have so many things, they might have to cut things like this (shows a credit slide) or this (shows a clip of Tina Turner's video) or even this (shows a clip of the Rutger Hauer interview). | * Max gives a giggly introduction to the show but notes that they have so many things, they might have to cut things like this (shows a credit slide) or this (shows a clip of Tina Turner's video) or even this (shows a clip of the Rutger Hauer interview). | ||
* Video: The Housemartins, "Happy Hour" | * Video: The Housemartins, "Happy Hour" | ||
| − | ** Max interrupts: "Let me play you something really, really good." | + | ** Max interrupts: "Let me play you something really, ''really'' damned good: my favorite album." |
| − | *** Plays | + | *** Plays a birdsong clip, with rock-fan commentary. |
| − | *** Record scratch ends the bird sounds; Max rages. | + | *** Record scratch ends the bird sounds; Max rages. "Whaddya mean they won't get it? It's a ''bootleg!''" |
* Mac McDonald comedy clip, sticking bread all over his head to protect when "the bomb" goes off. | * Mac McDonald comedy clip, sticking bread all over his head to protect when "the bomb" goes off. | ||
| − | * Max bops to a heavy techno beat, with dogs barking. | + | * Max bops to a heavy techno beat, with dogs barking. "Get down... get down... GET DOWN!" as the dogs drag him away. |
* This week, we're in... Scandinavia! Land of flickering Volvo headlights and scenery ranging from forests to... forests. | * This week, we're in... Scandinavia! Land of flickering Volvo headlights and scenery ranging from forests to... forests. | ||
* Video: Tina Turner, "Typical Male" | * Video: Tina Turner, "Typical Male" | ||
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(''Max's speech in this season finally stops using the extreme stuttering and repetition, probably as much for technical, audience and production reasons as because it was getting tiresome. I am still trimming such repetitions to minimum indicators here in the transcriptions.'') | (''Max's speech in this season finally stops using the extreme stuttering and repetition, probably as much for technical, audience and production reasons as because it was getting tiresome. I am still trimming such repetitions to minimum indicators here in the transcriptions.'') | ||
| − | + | * <span class="speaker">Max:</span> "Air... c-clean as a surgeon's knife. A place where the sharp scent of pine cuts through the thickest of colds... mmm. Yup-yup-yup: I'm in Scandinavia. The continent with that unmistakable smell of the perfume tablet under a toilet seat. Yup, Scandinavia, with its night sky lit by that strange incessant flickering phen-n-nom-nomenon of the northern hemisphere, known as... the Volvo headlamp. These are strange lands, wreathed in myth and legend. They say that on a still night, when the moon is full, a lucky traveler may see Bjorn Borg's eyes pass above his nose on their nocturnal migration to the opposite side of his face. A land of ever-changing scenery, from the lakes and forests of Norway to the... lakes and forests of Sweden. And it has a silence broken only by the far-off wailing of an inconsolable Abba fan. And the occasional soft distant ''*pump*'' of an exploding Russian power station." | |
| − | * <span class="speaker">Max:</span> " | ||
* <span class="speaker">Max:</span> " | * <span class="speaker">Max:</span> " | ||
Revision as of 16:47, 17 November 2015
| Episode CH4.3.5 | |
|---|---|
| Title | The Max Headroom Show |
| UK Air Date | 3 Feb 1987 |
| US Air Date | 26 Sep 1986 |
| Length | 30 minutes |
| Creative | |
| Guests | Rutger Hauer |
| Links |  Photos on Rutger Hauer's website.
|
| Crew | Talk Show Crew |
| Matt Frewer | Max Headroom |
The fifth episode of the second Channel Four season of the Max Headroom talk show featured actor Rutger Hauer.
The MaxRchives contains a complete recording of the UK broadcast of this episode. Hauer's web page contains a dozen photos of the show. Charles McGrew's page contains a number of audio clips that precede the Hauer interview.
Videos & Segments
- Max appears from the hairline up and has a long argument with the stage crew - "Yeah, well it's been the right height for every other show!"
- The crew puts a box under his chair, with some difficulties in positioning. It's still not tall enough; we see Max from the nose up. He tries to start, then complains again.
- They put another box under the chair. He's almost tall enough... and then falls off the stack. ("Holy shit...!")
- The show titles begin but are inverted and black-and-white with murky audio.
- We cut to Max spinning on a vectorscope display. There's a rewind scrape, then Max appears normally. He mutters threats at the crew ("...put them all up against the wall and shoot them... that'd teach 'em a lesson").
- The normal show opening rolls.
- Max gives a giggly introduction to the show but notes that they have so many things, they might have to cut things like this (shows a credit slide) or this (shows a clip of Tina Turner's video) or even this (shows a clip of the Rutger Hauer interview).
- Video: The Housemartins, "Happy Hour"
- Max interrupts: "Let me play you something really, really damned good: my favorite album."
- Plays a birdsong clip, with rock-fan commentary.
- Record scratch ends the bird sounds; Max rages. "Whaddya mean they won't get it? It's a bootleg!"
- Max interrupts: "Let me play you something really, really damned good: my favorite album."
- Mac McDonald comedy clip, sticking bread all over his head to protect when "the bomb" goes off.
- Max bops to a heavy techno beat, with dogs barking. "Get down... get down... GET DOWN!" as the dogs drag him away.
- This week, we're in... Scandinavia! Land of flickering Volvo headlights and scenery ranging from forests to... forests.
- Video: Tina Turner, "Typical Male"
- Max interrupts to show us "The Truth Tester" (another snarky commercial-break lead-in).
- Commercial break with "THE MAX HEADROOM SHOW" placeholder card.
- Max interrupts to show us "The Truth Tester" (another snarky commercial-break lead-in).
- We're back in Scandinavia! Land of language and drinking problems, and... sex.
- Tina Turner, "Typical Male" continues.
- Max and his guest Rutger Hauer talk about:
- Max introduces his guest as "Rootbeer Hauer," then addresses him as "Rut."
- His part in "Blade Runner" is Hauer's favorite - it was kind of like Max - in that both have artificial souls.
- Video: Martini Ranch, "How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?" begins (black and white clip from "Metropolis").
- Hauer has a lot of energy, and was restless and wanted to find out things for himself.
- Being a man of action - he's physical and likes to trade lines for physical action.
- Golf: Hauer doesn't play, but he's walked on a few courses. There's one behind his house but he's not yet good enough to play on it. The walks are nice, though.
- Hauer admits being color-blind.
- Hauer doesn't get angry - unless someone hits a dog in the street. Animals can't hit back.
- Why was "Blade Runner" so good? (The design was so good and so real, and the music.)
- But no, it was nothing like "The Max Headroom Show."
- Max thanks 'Rootbeer' for being a great guest... and his biggest.
- Martini Ranch: "How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?" continues.
- Max tells children at home alone... "Don't do that!"
- And it's Max & Max & Max this time... one lead, two harmony!
- They sing a vaguely country-rock song about Mary Lou, a dog and a motorbike leading to tragedy. The backup singers keep stopping to comment on the storyline of the lyrics. It fades out to their sobs.
Notes & Commentary
Mac McDonald appears as a comedian in this show. Fans of the film "The Fifth Element" will recognize him as the older cop who ends up with a full lap of McDonald's soda ("Whoa!")
We don't have the US version of this show on tap, so we don't know what might have filled the "truth tester" sequence on Cinemax. Probably the full length of the Tina Turner video.
The credit slides are scattered through the show at 4 or 5 minute intervals.
Although Rutger Hauer is only 6'1", he dwarfs the chair that seems to have fit other interviewees so comfortably. ("It's like a little nest.") Max later calls him the biggest star he's interviewed - in name and size, it would seem.
Has there always been a Sputnik in the background of the set?
Quotes & Caps
Rutger Hauer dwarfs the interview "nest."
Oh, no... now there's three of them.
(Max's speech in this season finally stops using the extreme stuttering and repetition, probably as much for technical, audience and production reasons as because it was getting tiresome. I am still trimming such repetitions to minimum indicators here in the transcriptions.)
- Max: "Air... c-clean as a surgeon's knife. A place where the sharp scent of pine cuts through the thickest of colds... mmm. Yup-yup-yup: I'm in Scandinavia. The continent with that unmistakable smell of the perfume tablet under a toilet seat. Yup, Scandinavia, with its night sky lit by that strange incessant flickering phen-n-nom-nomenon of the northern hemisphere, known as... the Volvo headlamp. These are strange lands, wreathed in myth and legend. They say that on a still night, when the moon is full, a lucky traveler may see Bjorn Borg's eyes pass above his nose on their nocturnal migration to the opposite side of his face. A land of ever-changing scenery, from the lakes and forests of Norway to the... lakes and forests of Sweden. And it has a silence broken only by the far-off wailing of an inconsolable Abba fan. And the occasional soft distant *pump* of an exploding Russian power station."
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- Max: "I know a lot of children are watching my show along with their parents, but I know there's some kids who are sitting there w-w-watching on their own. And maybe mom and dad have gone out, or they're in another room, so, here's a word for you: Don't do that!
