30 minSeason 3 • Episode 6
LatestSegments: Medallion Love, Crazy Daisy Ed: Hill Bomb Skate Sniper, Swine Cowboy, Stick Figure Theatre: The Naked Edge (Part 6), Autoguard 2000, The Big City, Beat, Brad Dharma: Psychedelic Detective, The Invisible Man in "Blind Love".
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.
Direction
Japhet Asher's curator eye for raw underground talent.
Score
Mark Mothersbaugh's iconic synth theme that screams 'dangerous cable'.
Production
Seamless blend of festival shorts and original MTV commissions.
Creator
Japhet Asher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Liquid Television essentially created the adult animation pipeline that led to Adult Swim, proving cable could fund art school weirdos.
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival provided several segments, meaning some shorts premiered at film festivals before MTV sanitized them slightly for broadcast.
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