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MTV Opens Online Archive of ‘Liquid Television’ Shorts (slashfilm)

I'm not sure how long this has been online, but judging by the reaction I see
it getting on Twitter today, either it hasn't been long or no one realized
what MTV had done. But for those who spent late nights with MTV in the early
'90s, when the channel celebrated the unusual corners of pop culture as well
as the fat, chewy center, this is going to be one hell of a trip. And for
younger animation fans that haven't had a chance to experience some of these
shorts, it's a goldmine. Liquid Television was a ground-breaking animation
anthology that featured some very early computer animation and very strange
and funny shorts by noted animators and designers such as Charles Burns,
Richard Sala, David Daniels, and Bill Plympton. It ran from 1991 to 1994; some
of the included shorts were new, and others, like Mike Judge's Frog Baseball
(the introduction of Beavis and Butthead) were sourced from traveling
animation festivals like Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of
Animation. Liquid Television was also the home for the original Aeon Flux
series. The series has been collected in a couple of VHS and ...

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