Max Headroom is the name of a fictional British artificial intelligence, known for his surreal wit and stuttering, distorted, electronically sampled voice. The character was created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and portrayed by Matt Frewer. Max Headroom was featured in a music video programme, a feature film, a dramatic television series and television commercials.
The video waiters at the Cafe 80's in 2015 had behavior patterns similar to those of Max Headroom, which had been a television show in Great Britain and in the United States in 1987. Marty McFly, who was visiting from 1985, would not yet have seen the program.
Behind the scenes
- In commentary on the DVD for Part II, Bob Gale described the "video waiter" scene: "This is a riff on 'Max Headroom', which was a popular show in the 1980s. We actually filmed that the Michael Jackson simulation with an actor in makeup, and the woman that supervised that, Larina Adamson, had been one of the producers or video directors on 'Max Headroom', so we definitely got it right."