Max Headroom (TV Series)

Rakers (1987)

Matt Frewer: Edison Carter, Max Headroom

Quotes 

• Max Headroom : This is Max Headroom, live on Net-Net-Net-Network 23, because what I want to know is, who's gonna stop this kind of wholesale killing-ing-ing-ing. Killing. It's time the network took a stand - a stand - a *stand* on this kind of murder. Murder. Murder. Preferably against it.

• Max Headroom : Hi. I'm doing a survey on this kind of mindless violence and its effect on the mind-mind-mind-mindless. Do you believe all that killing is necessary? Does it s-s-s-scare you?

  Raker : Me?

  Max Headroom : Yes! Yes! You with that plank on whee-whee-whee-whee-wheels. What is its effect-t-t-t on you?

  Raker : You can see me?

  Max Headroom : Well. That was a fas-fas-fascinating discussion and I think you've answered my question. Thank you-you-you-you, thank you... for your help.

• Murray : All right, talk to me, somebody... wake me up!

  Max Headroom : Murray? Murrrrayyy...

  Murray : Somebody except Max.

• [last lines] 

  Max Headroom : Hi... this is M-M-M-Max Headroom on Network 23, and if you thought raking was a vicious game, let me tell you - there are sponsors who'd give both-oth arms to get their hands on that sport! But... in a lighter vein, here are some really sporting off-off-offers on sale now from Network 23. Yes: music! Mu-Mu-Music! Sit back and tap your feet to the best Russian pop music with this really up to the minute Rus-ss-ssian album, "20 Great Funeral Marches"! Also... also-also-al-al-also an offer: Learn Chinese. Yes! A complete set of hour-long Teach Yourself Chinese tapes - one payment down and we will send you one tape per month, or, or, pay in full now and you get the entire easy-to-follow course immediately... plus! Tape number 527 absolutely free! Did you know that, in Chinese, there are often more than thirty-thirty-thirty different ways of saying one simple little word? And is that why their population is so big? Chinese men just don't know when to take No - ha-ha - No for an answer! Ha-ha.

• Max Headroom : Murray... I don't want to keep - I don't want to keep - I don't want to keep chewing on an old bone, but...

  Announcer : Missile Mike!

  Max Headroom : ...I'm talking about lives! Just how da-da-da-da-dangerous is this person?

  Murray : Does anybody know what he's talking about?

  Max Headroom : I'm talking about this guy-guy-g-g-*guy* with the inexhaustible ammunition-tion-tion-tion ammunition supply, ninety-nine lives and an urge to use 'em all up!

  [Missile Mike battle footage] 

  Max Headroom : *That-That-That-That's* who I'm talking about!

• Max Headroom : Murray. Murrrrayyy... *Murray*! Forget about that mad bomber jazz and listen up! There's a guy with a gun running amok-mok-mok in a crowd here every afternoon!

  Murray : I'm sorry to disappoint you, uh, Max, but that's, uh, Missile Mike. It's one of our children's shows.

  Max Headroom : You're kidding. Kids like ki-ki-ki-killing? Who *told* them about it!

  Murray : I'm never going to get used to this. Just because he lives in a TV, he thinks everything is TV!

• Max Headroom : I sense a prob-prob-prob-problem here! Why the long face? Hmm? Hmm?

  Theora Jones : I think I lost my brother.

  Max Headroom : Have you ch-ch-ch-checked your pockets?

  Theora Jones : Max, it's not funny.

  Max Headroom : Sorry.

  [Max inhales] 

  Max Headroom : Sorry.

  [Max inhales, Max inhales] 

• Max Headroom : Hey! *psst!* You look - you look - you look - you look like the man in charge. I'm looking for a new game - som-som-som-som-something with action, excitement, and *taste*... *taste*... the taste... of blood. Any ideas?

• Winnie : Theora, you should get a baby. Shouldn't she, Shawn? Shouldn't she, Edison?

  Edison Carter : Practice could make something perfect.

• Max Headroom : [exuberant]  And-And-And I'm going to be back with you - on Network 23 after these real-real-real-really exciting messages. So-So sit back and watch - I just can't *wait-wait-w-wait* to see them!

  [pause] 

  Max Headroom : [deadpan aside]  Wake me up when they're finished, willya?

• [Edison moves to talk to Rik Shaw, but Grace flips out a switchblade] 

  Grace : He's taking a nap.

  Edison Carter : I'd... like to talk to him.

  Grace : I said, he's taking a nap. Now, do you want to move along?

  Edison Carter : Well... I feel certain he'd talk to me if he *wasn't* taking a nap, but if he *is* taking a nap, then I wouldn't want to wake him!