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Liquid Television
Overview
Liquid Television is an Emmy Award–winning 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV. It has served as the launching point for several high-profile original cartoons, including Beavis and Butt-head and Æon Flux. The bulk of Liquid Television's material was created by independent animators and artists specially for the show, and some previously produced segments were compiled from festivals such as Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Mark Mothersbaugh composed the show's theme music. There were also a large number 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.
Status
Ended
Created By
Japhet Asher
Network
MTV
Seasons & Episodes
Season 2
Episodes
Episode #2.1
Segments: Uncle Louie's Travels, Æon Flux: Gravity, The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo, Beavis and Butt-Head: Frog Baseball, The Specialists, Winter Steele: Soft Heart, Hard Alcohol, Stick Figure Theatre: Night of the Living Dead, Dog-Boy.
Episode #2.2
Segments: The Safety Twins, Bobby and Billy: Let's Go to the Party!, Wishful Thinking, Dog-Boy, The Specialists, Office Space, The Listener, Was (Not Was): Hello Dad, I'm in Jail, Wishful Thinking: Part 2, Glove Story, Æon Flux: Night (a.k.a. Æon Flux: Mirror).
Episode #2.3
Segments: Concert, Joe Normal, Was (Not Was): What Up, Dog?, Speedbump the Roadkill Possum: Slipp'ry When Wet, Doktor Züm: Cafe Le Bad, The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo, Meggamorphosis, Stick Figure Theatre: Wm. Shakespeare's Henry V, The Specialists: Anti Matter World/Necator, Bobby and Billy: Winter Fun, The Killing of an Egg, Dog-Boy: Date with Rondy.
Episode #2.4
Segments: Stick Figure Theatre: Mr. Jimi Hendrix performing The Star-Spangled Banner (Woodstock, 1969), Doktor Züm: Typical Records, Elvis Meets the Spider People From Hell, Winter Steele: All Men Suck (Except Crow), Dog-Boy: Date with Rondy (Part 2), Getting to Know Each Other, Was (Not Was): Earth to Doris, The Honky Problem, Bobby and Billy: Camping Out, Bob the Frog in "Burp", At the Beach (excerpt from "Feggorama"), The Specialists: Necator (Part 2)/Fifi Breakout.
Episode #2.5
Segments: The Running Man (excerpt), The Specialists, Stick Figure Theatre: Sergei Eisenstein's silent classic The Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925), Flugbild, Ladies (by Candy Guard), Dog-Boy, The Running Man.
Episode #2.6
Segments: The Twelve Dangers of Skydiving, Bobby and Billy: Soap Box Derby, Speedbump the Roadkill Possum: Batt'ry-fied, Dog-Boy, Doktor Züm: Atom Bomb Factory, Stick Figure Theatre: The Crash of the Hindenburg May 6, 1937, Let's Chop Soo-E, Winter Steele: Rhinestones 'n' Concussions, The Specialists.
Episode #2.7
Segments: Door #8, The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo, This is Not Frank's Planet, Æon Flux: Leisure, Dog-Boy, In the Aquarium (Excerpt), Stick Figure Theatre: Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff in The Terror, The Specialists, Koko's Earth Control (short version with new music and sound effects).
Episode #2.8
Segments: Devil's Angels (trailer), Smoking Section, The End, Heads, Winter Steele: F.T.W., The Specialists, Pickpocket, The Street Sweeper, Speedbump the Roadkill Possum: Buck-a-Roost, The Hitchhiker, Beware of Dog, Dog-Boy.
Episode #2.9
Segments: Truck Turner (trailer), The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo, Conversations, Dog-Boy, The Specialists, Beavis and Butt-Head: Peace, Love and Understanding, Bobby and Billy: Earning Money, Æon Flux: Tide.
Episode #2.10
Segments: Amore Baciami, The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo, Æon Flux: War, The Specialists, Dog-Boy, Stick Figure Theatre: Miss Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage, Winter Steele: Desperate Beauty, Amore Baciami (sung by Nuccia Bongiovanni).
