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Climbing for Dollars is from The Running Man[0], the Arnie version from 1987 - same year as Robocop.

Then in 2001 was "Series 7"[1] (which I got flashbacks of from the 2013 White Bear[2] episode of Black Mirror).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(1987_film)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_7:_The_Contenders

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bear_(Black_Mirror)

Trivia for music nerds like me: Mick Fleetwood and Dweezil Zappa are in The Running Man.

Very good point. My brain is just one big 80s mashup at this point.

Verhoeven makes some extremely heavy handed satire.

A decent litmus test is whether someone understands that the Starship Troopers movie is satire or not.

And I’m reminded of The Dark Knight Returns (1986) graphic novel. There are grotesque parodies of talking head news anchors and even a caricature of then-president Ronald Regan. Situation all fracked up.

Based.