Synopsis

Man Or Astroman? turn their first music video into a compact blast of homemade science fiction and punk absurdity. The band performs amid deliberately low-budget space-age imagery, strange props, and chaotic visual gags, with Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard at the center of the most notorious stunt: running around with a television set on his head while it is on fire. The clip matches the band's instrumental surf attack with their extraterrestrial stage persona and taste for vintage sci-fi spectacle.

Factoids & Trivia

• "The Miracle of Genuine Pyrex" first appeared on the 1997 1000X EP, released by Touch and Go Records. The track runs for three minutes.

• This was Man Or Astroman?'s first music video. Its deliberately rough, handmade visual style reflected the band's broader live aesthetic, which included science-fiction props, projected imagery, vintage electronics, and pyrotechnic effects.

• MTV asked for several frames showing Coco running with a flaming television box on his head to be removed. The band eventually agreed to the edit, turning the sequence into one of the clip's best-known production anecdotes.

• The video received exposure through MTV's late-night electronic program Amp, as well as M2 and regional music-video programs.