Max Headroom got old and bitter

If you grew up geeky in the '80s, this clip will be a nostalgic kick in the head... But it will also make you spend the rest of your Saturday feeling really depressed.

In December of 2007, the UK's Channel 4 resurrected '80s icon Max Headroom for a series of ads announcing their switch to digital TV. But this was not the suave, stylish Max we knew from the Coke commercials and his own superb sci-fi TV series back in the '80s... This Max was old and bitter, living in a rest home and ranting to his long-suffering caretaker about being abandoned by the media and the public. The ads are funny, but there's something truly sad about seeing this endearingly smarmy CGI character from your youth brought back as such a decrepit, miserable creature. If even Max Headroom is subject to the ravages of old age, what hope have you got?

At least things have improved a bit for Max since these ads ran. He's working again, and has recently been doing announcements on Sirius radio's '80s channel. A long way from his '80s glory days, but a boy's gotta w-w-w-work.



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