Before Waking Life, there was...

Good ol' fashioned eye candy. And of course nothing says "profound" like cross-episode narrative arc consistency, as seen in sequel video for The Sun Always Shines on TV.

Isn't it interesting to notice that "profound" is simply a mental phenomenon, and one which is especially readily synthesized by chemical influence on the brain? Even the sense of what is important and what isn't, the directing of attention which is the very essence of our perceptual construction of reality, is no more reliable than neurochemistry.

Aside from that, according to Wikipedia, the Take On Me video "mimicked the truck chase from Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil and the climactic scene from the Ken Russell film Altered States." And the lead singer, Morten Harket, seems to have been molded from pure MDA through the same technology used to produce David Bowie and some of those other androgynously angelic '80s boys...