Liquid Television was a 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV. The first season of Liquid Television originally aired on BBC Two. Six months after it debuted on BBC Two, MTV picked up the show, and began producing it. It has served as the launching point for several high-profile original cartoons including: Beavis and Butt-head, Æon Flux, Cartoon Sushi, and The Head. The bulk of Liquid Television's material was compiled from festivals such as Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Mark Mothersbaugh composed the show's theme music. It was broadcast in Australia on SBS. Image File history File linksMetadata Liquid_tv. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of 2-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ...     Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series. ... Æon Flux is an avant garde American science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV. It premiered in 1991 on MTVs Liquid Television experimental animation show as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. ... Cartoon Sushi was an animation showcase program that aired on MTV from 1997 to 1998. ... The Head began as an ongoing series which originally ran under the title MTVs Oddities, on MTV. Created by Eric Fogel, The Head is the story of Jim, a trade-school student, who awakens one morning to find that his cranium has enlarged to mammoth proportions. ... Spike and Mikes Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation is an animation festival, founded by Craig Spike Decker and Mike Gribble in 1990. ... Mark Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950, in Akron, Ohio) is an American musician, composer, singer, and painter. ... The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is one of two government funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television networks, the other being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ...

There was also a large amount of animation pieces adapted from the work of Art Spiegelman's comic compilation, RAW. RAW featured underground cartoonists such as Mark Beyer, Richard Sala, and Peter Bagge. In particular, Dog-Boy by Charles Burns was based on the artist's series from RAW. Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, Maus. ... Cover to RAW volume 1, number 1 (July 1980). ... Mark Beyer (born 1950) is a comic artist who is known for his bleak story lines, often featuring death, disfigurement, depression, and humiliation, which contrast with his childlike, geometric drawing style. ... Richard Sala is an American cartoonist , illustrator and comic book creator with a unique expressionistic style whoses books often combine elements of mystery, horror and whimsy. ... Peter Bagge is an American comics artist and creator of Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, and Sweatshop. ... Charles Burns (cartoonist), cartoonist/illustrator Charles Montgomery Burns, fictional character from The Simpsons cartoon This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Selected segments from the series, including the first appearances of Æon Flux, were released on VHS in the late 1990s as The Best of Liquid Television. This tape is long out-of-print and has yet to be released on DVD. A collection volume, however, titled Wet Shorts (The Best of Liquid Television), was available on DVD. Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... DVD (commonly Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

Series episodes

Season 1 (1991-1992)

First Episode

1. Open: Robert Palmer "Addicted to Love"
2. Soap Opera "A Steamy Scene"
3. Buzz Box
4. Grinning Evil Death
5. Æon Flux
6. Invisible Hands (by Richard Sala)
7. Lea Press on Limbs
8. Stick Figure Theatre "John Wayne in Angel and the Bad Man"
9. Miss Lidia's Makeover to the Stars "Sinead O'Connor"
10. The Art School Girls of Doom
11. Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

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Second Episode

1. Winter Steele "Eat Crow"
2. Invisible Hands
3. Stick Figure Theatre "Mister Alfred Hitchcock"
4. Rocky (by Malcolm Bennett)
5. Footwork "Dog Flirting"
6. Dog Brain (by J. Falconer)
7. Dangerous Puppets
8. Cut-Up Camera
9. Excerpt from Joy Street
10. Weird (by Derek Philips)
11. Æon Flux
12. Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

Third Episode

1. Open: Faith No More "Epic"
2. Soap Opera "Diandra Washes Away"
3. Buzz Box (a short film by David Daniels)
4. Snookles (by Juliet Stroud)
5. Stick Figure Theatre "Edmund O'Brien in D.O.A."
6. Cut-Up Camera
7. Miss Lidia's Makeover to the Stars "Sylvester Stallone"
8. Invisible Hands
9. Prophet & Loss (by Jonathan Bairstow)
10. Black Hula
11. The Art School Girls of Doom
12. Beach Chair
13. Æon Flux
14. Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

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Fourth Episode

1. Open: Dental Health
2. Winter Steele "Ball of Communion"
3. Jac Mac and Rad Boy "Go!"
4. Footworks "Scoring"
5. Dangerous Puppets
6. The Thing What Lurked in the Tub
7. Invisible Hands
8. Monk's Purpose
9. Stick Figure Theater "Madonna in Express Yourself"
10. Æon Flux
11. Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

Fifth Episode

1. Open: B-52's "Love Shack"
2. Soap Opera "Caught in the Act"
3. Push Comes to Shove (Enemies) (by Bill Plympton) (serialized throughout episode)
4. Cut-Up Camera
5. Face Like a Frog - Mystic Knights "Don't Go in the Basement"
6. Invisible Hands
7. Miss Lidia's Makeover to the Stars "George Michael"
8. Stick Figure Theatre "José Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac"
9. The Art School Girls of Doom
10. They Might Be Giants "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"
11. Æon Flux
12. Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

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Sixth Episode

1. Open: Chalk test bars and tone
2. Winter Steele "Stupid Hippies"
3. Cut-Up Camera
4. Invisible Hands
5. Stick Figure Theatre "Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life"
6. Æon Flux (entire first season)
7. Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

Season 2 (1992-1993)

First Episode

1. Open: Uncle Louie's Travels (by Drew Friedman)(serialized throughout episode)
2. Æon Flux "Gravity"
3. The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo
4. Beavis and Butt-head "Frog Baseball" (by Mike Judge)
5. The Specialists
6. Winter Steele "Soft Heart, Hard Alcohol"
7. Stick Figure Theatre "Night of the Living Dead"
8. Dog-Boy (by Charles Burns)

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Second Episode

1. Open: The Safety Twins
2. Bobby & Billy "Let's Go to the Party!"
3. Wishful Thinking (by Candy Guard)
4. Dog-Boy
5. The Specialists
6. Office Space (by Mike Judge)
7. The Listener (by Chris Landreth)
8. Was (Not Was) "Hello Dad, I'm in Jail"
9. Glove Story (by Miles Flanagan, Mole Hill, Mark Slater)
10. Æon Flux "Night" (Renamed "Mirror" on the Æon Flux DVD collection)

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Third Episode

1. Open: Concert (excerpt from a short film by Ondrej Rudavsky)
2. Joe Normal (by Stephen Holman)(serialized throughout episode)
3. Was (Not Was) "What Up, Dog?"
4. Speedbump the Roadkill Possum "Slipp'ry When Wet"
5. Doktor Züm "Cafe Le Bad"
6. The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo
7. Meggamorphosis (by Sean Schur, featuring the voices of Tim Curry and Annie Potts)
8. Stick Figure Theatre "Wm. Shakespeare's Henry V"
9. The Specialists
10. Bobby & Billy "Winter Fun"
11. Killing of an Egg (by Paul Driessen)
12. Dog-Boy

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Fourth Episode

1. Open: Stick Figure Theatre "Mr. Jimi Hendrix performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" (woodstock, 1969)"
2. Doktor Züm "Typical Records"
3. Elvis Meets the Spider People From Hell
4. Winter Steele "All Men Suck (Except Crow)"
5. Dog-Boy
6. Getting to Know Each Other (by Candy Guard)
7. Was (Not Was) "Earth to Doris"
8. The Honky Problem (by Mike Judge)
9. Bobby & Billy "Camping Out"
10. Bob the Frog in "Burp"
11. At the Beach (From Feggorama)
12. The Specialists

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Fifth Episode

1. Open: The Running Man (excerpt)
2. The Specialists
3. Stick Figure Theatre "Sergei Eisenstein's silent classic The Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925)"
4. Flugbild (by Thomas Meyer-Hermann)
5. Ladies (by Candy Guard)
6. Dog-Boy
7. The Running Man (by Yoshiaki Kawajiri)

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Sixth Episode

1. Open: The Twelve Dangers of Skydiving (serialized throughout episode)
2. Bobby & Billy "Soap Box Derby"
3. Speedbump the Roadkill Possum "Batt'ry-fied"
4. Dog-Boy
5. Doktor Züm "Atom Bomb Factory"
6. Stick Figure Theatre "The Crash of the Hindenburg May 6, 1937"
7. Let's Chop Soo-E (by Eric Pigors)
8. Winter Steele "Rhinestones and Concussions"
9. The Specialists

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Seventh Episode

1. Open: Door #8
2. The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo
3. This is Not Frank's Planet
4. Æon Flux "Leisure"
5. Dog-Boy
6. In the Aquarium (Excerpt)
7. Stick Figure Theatre "Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff in The Terror"
8. The Specialists
9. Koko's Earth Control (by Max Fleischer, 1927)

Eighth Episode

1. Open: biker/rebel film
2. Smoking Section (Feggo)
3. The End
4. Heads
5. Winter Steele "F.T.W."
6. The Specialists
7. Pickpocket (Feggo)
8. The Street Sweeper
9. Speedbump the Roadkill Possum "Buck-a-Roost"
10. The Hitchhiker
11. Beware of Dog (Feggo)
12. Dog-Boy

Ninth Episode

1. Open: Truck Turner
2. The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo
3. Conversations (serialized throughout episode)
4. Dog-Boy
5. The Specialists
6. Beavis and Butt-head: Peace, Love & Understanding
7. Bobby & Billy "Earning Money"
8. Æon Flux "Tide"

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Tenth Episode

1. Open: Amore Baciami
2. The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo
3. Æon Flux "War"
4. The Specialists
5. Dog-Boy
6. Stick Figure Theatre "Miss Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage"
7. Winter Steele "Desperate Beauty"
8. Amore Baciami (sung by Nuccia Bongiovanni)

Season 3 (1993-1994)

First Episode

1. Open: Stick Figure Theatre "The Naked Edge part one"
2. The Blockheads "Mall"
3. Crazy Daisy Ed "To Officer with Love"
4. Gas Planet
5. Smart Talk with Raisin
6. The Dangwoods "Nightmare in Trailer City"

Second Episode

1. Open: The Day of the Dead Guy
2. Uncle Louie' Party
3. Anyway (serialized throughout episode)
4. Technological Threat
5. Brad Dharma: Psychedelic Detective
6. Stick Figure Theatre "The Naked Edge part two"
7. One Less Ant
8. The Bill and Willis Show

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Third Episode

1. Open: Strangers in Paradise
2. Brad Dharma: Psychedelic Detective
3. Nightwatchman
4. Nietzsche Pops
5. Beat Dedication
6. Doctor X vs Mister Y
7. Stick Figure Theatre "The Naked Edge part three"
8. Crazy Daisy Ed "Fast, Loud, Dumb and Proud"
9. Sound Asleep

Fourth Episode

1. Open: Uncle Louie "Blind Date"
2. Genie Junkie
3. Stick Figure Theatre "The Naked Edge part four"
4. Cat and Mouse
5. The Blockheads "TV"
6. The Chore
7. Human Bomb

Fifth Episode

1. Open: Krazy Teens USA
2. Rico & Klein
3. Honey Bunny (serialized throughout episode)
4. Stick Figure Theatre "The Naked Edge part five"
5. Crazy Daisy Ed "Let's Go to the Stinkin' Movies"
6. Balloon Guy
7. Sweat
8. Green Beret

Sixth Episode

1. Open: Medallion Love
2. Crazy Daisy Ed "Hill Bomb Skate Sniper"
3. Swine Cowboy
4. Stick Figure Theatre "The Naked Edge part six"
5. Autoguard 2000
6. The Big City
7. Beat
8. Brad Dharma: Psychedelic Detective
9. The Invisible Man in "Blind Love"

External links

• Liquid Television at the Internet Movie Database
• Online petition to MTV - bring Liquid Television to DVD