
"Liquid Television is an Emmy Award winning 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV. The first season of Liquid Television also aired on BBC Two in co-production with MTV. Ultimately, MTV commissioned three seasons of the show, which was produced by Colossal Pictures. It has served as the launching point for several high-profile original cartoons, including Beavis and Butt-head, Ĉon Flux, Cartoon Sushi, and The Head. 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. It was broadcast in New Zealand on TV3 and in Australia on SBS.
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.
Selected segments from the series, including the first appearances of Ĉon Flux, were released on two VHS tapes in the late 1990s as The Best of Liquid Television parts one and two. These tapes are long out-of-print . A collection volume, titled Wet Shorts (The Best of Liquid Television), comprising the two VHS tapes, was available on DVD but this too is out-of-print."
Season 1 - 1991
Episode 1 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D4...laynext_from=PL
1. Open: Robert Palmer "Addicted to Love"
2. Soap Opera "A Steamy Scene"
3. Buzz Box
4. Grinning Evil Death
5. Ĉon 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 "Drummer"
11. Psycho-Gram "Serum" (serialized throughout episode)
Episode 2 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=53...laynext_from=PL
1. Open: John Denver PSA
2. Winter Steele "Eat Crow"
3. Invisible Hands
4. Stick Figure Theatre "Mister Alfred Hitchcock"
5. Rocky (by Malcolm Bennett)
6. Footwork "Dog Flirting"
7. Dog Brain (by J. Falconer)
8. Dangerous Puppets
9. Cut-Up Camera "Aerobics Instructor"
10. Excerpt from Joy Street
11. Weird (by Derek Philips)
12. Ĉon Flux
13. Psycho-Gram "Hostage" (serialized throughout episode)
Episode 3 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=99...laynext_from=PL
1. Open: Faith No More "Epic"
2. Soap Opera "Diandra Wastes 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 "Roller Coaster"
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 "Beach"
12. Beach Chair
13. Ĉon Flux
14. Psycho-Gram "Operative X" (serialized throughout episode)
Episode 4 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4D...laynext_from=PL
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. Ĉon Flux
11. Psycho-Gram "Music Industry" (serialized throughout episode)
Episode 5 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5B...laynext_from=PL
1. Open: The 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 "Pizza Delivery"
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 "The Bra"
10. They Might Be Giants "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"
11. Ĉon Flux episode 5 (bug in glass, cracker spread, news show) [1]
12. Psycho-Gram "Suburban Housewife" (serialized throughout episode)
Episode 6 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=77...laynext_from=PL
1. Open: Chalk test bars and tone
2. Winter Steele "Stupid Hippies"
3. Cut-Up Camera "Elevator"
4. Invisible Hands
5. Stick Figure Theatre "Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life"
6. Ĉon Flux (entire first season)
7. Psycho-Gram "Time Travel" (serialized throughout episode)
Various Shorts & Clips http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F2F1B39E67750C39