Max Headroom (1987–1988)

Matt Frewer: Edison Carter, Max Headroom

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Quotes 

• Max Headroom : Now, I'm no librarian, in fact, I don't know what star sign I am. But, as a famous person once said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And as I - another more famous person - once said, "If you don't teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like."

• Max Headroom : Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm. Successful, isn't it?

• Max Headroom : Ah - love - the walks over soft grass, the smiles over candlelight, the fights over just about everything else...

• Max Headroom : Well, most people would agree that censors are a silly breed. In fact, it surprises me how they ever manage to breed at all.

• Theora Jones : [reading a list of complaints from the network censor]  "I have noted three 'damns,' four 'hells,' sixteen cases of sexual innuendo, a reference to self-abuse, two veiled remarks about network presidents, and a joke about the Son of God." Doesn't say which god.

  Edison Carter : I'm sure it's the current one. It's probably the guy who's running the censor computer.

• [Bryce and Grossman watch as Max is turned on for the first time] 

  Max Headroom : Say, would someone mind checking the ratings? I seem to have an audience of two.

• Max Headroom : Converts are the worst bigots.

• Max Headroom : How can you tell a network executive is lying? His lips move!

• Max Headroom : What do men do when women are distressed?

  Theora Jones : Run away or boast, normally.

• Max Headroom : Yes, t-t-t-t-tune into Network 23! The network that's a *real* mind-blower!

  [his head explodes then reappears] 

  Max Headroom : And I love, love, l-l-love... love those blip-blip-blip-blipverts!

• [last lines] 

  Max Headroom : As, 'tis Max Headroom here, and I quote from the bard, Shakespeare, a writer: "The quality of TV is not strained, it dropeth as the gentle ratings dropeth to a very tiny percentage share and, lo, 'tis gone." Of course, Shakespeare would have loved your rating system. Twelfth Night would have been lucky to have lasted *one*!

• Edison Carter : What happened to the old religions?

  Murray : I don't know. Television killed it. We have better miracles.

• Max Headroom : Freedom. You know, writers have no freedom on TV. One rude suggestion, and the censors are straight on their back. Not on their back in a rude way.

• Max Headroom : Y'know... I get the feeling there's a lot of faces out there... watching... me! And I can tell you it brings a lump to my ratings. Yes, this is Network 23. The net-net-net-net-network that puts it right... where they want you to be!

• Edison Carter : Bryce, what are you doing?

  Bryce Lynch : Well, I've discovered a new color and I'm working on a magnet that attracts wood.

  Edison Carter : What are you doing right *now*?