The Max Headroom broadcast incident was a television hijacking that occurred on November 22, 1987 in Chicago, Illinois.
The first intrusion happened during a local newscast. It depicted an unknown man wearing a Max Headroom (a British, computer generated TV host introduced in 1984) mask sitting before a sheet of metal that resembled the original show’s background, along with a steady buzzing noise and no discernible audio. The hijack lasted about 30 seconds before finally being cut off.
The second intrusion cut in during a showing of Doctor Who, although this video came with distorted audio. The unknown man proceeded into various random phrases and antics, including a cut of being spanked with a flyswatter. The broadcast cut off after about a minute and a half. The above video is a recording from that particular hijacking. Fortunately (or unfortunately, damn), many copies of the hijacking were available from people who had been taping Doctor Who.
me at Olive Garden at 11:02 am staring down the elderly people impatiently waiting outside knowing we should’ve opened 2 minutes ago but my boss is in the back cheating on his wife with the girl who makes the salads and he has the key to unlock the doors
Most shows I’ve seen that mention fan fiction readers/writers portray them as kinda oddball super-geeks with no lives or social skills.
So I wanna take a moment to appreciate the fact that in Parks & Recreation, the character who writes fan fiction is the intelligent, successful, and good-looking primary love interest of the main character.
Also I want to read the full fic he wrote.
It’s only unrealistic because he said he finished it.
He’s obviously lying, so it’s very realistic.
Here we have Terry from Brooklyn Nine Nine. He’s an Absolute Unit, father, police officer, black, intelligent, kind, a main character……and writes fanfiction from The Good Wife.
B99 - breaking stereotypes all over the place.
ETA: gifset not mine, I think it’s from @msjessicaday
Note that both shows are from the same creator. Who also writes Kant fanfiction and calls it “The Good Place.”
