Max Headroom (character) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, in a scene set in the year 2015, the main character Marty visits a stylized 1980s-themed diner. The "waiters" are interactive electronic monitors showing the faces of Michael Jackson, Ronald Reagan and Ayatollah Khomeini, portrayed in a Max Headroom-like manner.
• The comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau had a character fashioned after Max Headroom named Ron Headrest. He was to be a temporary replacement for a vacationing or napping Ronald Reagan.
• The season 4 episode of Farscape, "John Quixote" featured the actor Ben Browder appearing as a Headroom-type version of his character, John Crichton.
• The Canadian rock band Sum 41 wrote a song called "Second Chance for Max Headroom" for their album Half Hour of Power.
• In the 1987 film Spaceballs, a parody of Max Headroom appears as the character Vinnie, henchman of mobster Pizza the Hutt. Vinnie also appears in 2008's Spaceballs: The Animated Series, but without Max Headroom's characteristic stutter.
• In the music video for Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino's song "Another Way", the main character bears Max Headroom's appearance, stuttering and robotic motion.
• During the final season of the educational television series Square One Television, another parody of Max Headroom named FAX HEADFUL had his own segment. FAX's monologues typically involved statistics and estimation, such as his musing on population density, or average yearly doughnut consumption.
• Channel 8 of Sirius Radio, which features songs from the 1980s, will sometimes have a character called "Less Headroom" between songs. He is billed as Max's "younger, more sophisticated brother".
• Usher's video for OMG pays homage to him in the beginning scene.
• In the music video "Love you like a Love Song" singer Selena Gomez appears in Max Headroom-esque scenes.
• In the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, the main character uses Max Headroom as the avatar and personality representation of his personal assistant.
• Within the episode "A Clockwork Hammer" of the Sledge Hammer series, there's a fake Max Headroom Sledge Hammer look-a-like.
• In the YouTube video series titled "Baby Cakes" by Neely Comics, Max Headroom is mentioned in Diary #4
• In the late 1980s, activists in the Social Democratic Party recut a video interview with the Right Hon David Owen MP (now Lord Owen) in Max Headroom style, presumably in the hope of attracting the interest of young voters.