They started to hum the theme song to Clutch Cargo and say random phrases from various television shows and screaming nonsense. They proceeded to flip off the camera with a rubber item over his finger and sang the lyrics, “your love is fading,” from the song (I know) I’m Losing You by the Temptations.
The catchphrase for this new generation of Coke showed a display of pop culture references.
Then after manically laughing, the figure held up a Pepsi can while saying Coca-Cola’s slogan, “Catch the wave,” which was an advertisement at the time featuring Max Headroom as the spokesperson for Coca-Cola. Their distorted phrases consisted of, “That does it! He’s a frickin’ nerd,” followed by a distorted sinister laugh and then stated, “Yeah, I think I’m better than Chuck Swirsky, frickin’ liberal.” Swirsky was a sports director at WGN Radio station in Chicago and had a history of sports broadcasting. The same neon-lined background appeared as before with distorted audio and the same Max Headroom lookalike staring at the camera.
On Channel 11, PBS’s affiliate WWTW was airing an episode of Doctor Who before the screen turned black. Studio workers and residents all over were still in shock and confusion over what just appeared before their eyes but the third party with the Max Headroom figure hijacked again two hours later. It was then discovered the recording was pre-recorded and performed by a third party in a different location. People at WGN inferred that the hijack was a sort of inside job and searched the studio for a masked intruder but was not found. The hijacking lasted 30 seconds until signal engineers broadcasting Channel 9 then moved the frequency of the studio to try to link another transmitter which successfully brought back the current channel of Dan Roan discussing sports. with the Max Headroom-dressed figure moving around a bit while a buzzing noise played with no other sound. The first hijacking took place at Chicago’s WGN station at 9:14 P.M. The background in most of his shows consisted of a futuristic lined with neon colors which resembled the background of the two parts of the hijacking. Max Headroom was a British artificial intelligence known for his stuttering and electronic-sounding voice and was portrayed by Matt Frewer. as the television screen turned black for 15 seconds until a man in a rubber mask and sunglasses with a square-like face resembling Max Headroom shocked the nation and, is known as one of the most cryptic TV hijackings. On Sunday night of November 22nd, 1987, if you were one of many Chicago residents watching Channel 9’s “Nine O’Clock News” you would’ve heard the voice of a newscaster discussing the Bears game.
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