The song is mostly about all the good stuff you'd catch on commercial TV during the low-rent hours in the 1980s.
"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You", "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room", and "On Thursday We Leave for Home" are all Twilight Zone episodes.
"I bring you a warning…" is from The Thing—the 1951 original, not the John Carpenter 80s remake.
In the last verse, "thought police" are from 1984, and Dementia 13 is Francis Ford Coppola's first (real) movie. I'm not sure about the rest of it—the first line sounds like a Judge Dredd/Halo Jones mashup; maybe he was reading 2000AD while something boring was on telly, until 1984 came on?
The song is mostly about all the good stuff you'd catch on commercial TV during the low-rent hours in the 1980s.
"Number Twelve Looks Just Like You", "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room", and "On Thursday We Leave for Home" are all Twilight Zone episodes.
"I bring you a warning…" is from The Thing—the 1951 original, not the John Carpenter 80s remake.
In the last verse, "thought police" are from 1984, and Dementia 13 is Francis Ford Coppola's first (real) movie. I'm not sure about the rest of it—the first line sounds like a Judge Dredd/Halo Jones mashup; maybe he was reading 2000AD while something boring was on telly, until 1984 came on?