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L.T. Hanlon's avatar

What’s truly inspired about the faux Max Headroom intrusion of Chicago’s WTTW is that the pirate transmission was pretty much indistinguishable from the low-production values of that era’s “Doctor Who.” What’s also interesting is that considering how woke a universe timelords are obliged to endure now, nobody would bat an eyelash at a scene today featuring some guy’s bare ass getting spanked with a flyswatter.

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Retroist's avatar

I do try and think about how I would have reacted to this if I had seen it live? I would like to think that I would realize it was an intrusion, but maybe I wouldn't have right away. Hard to put myself back in the mind space.

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