I guess a Liquid Televison DVD box set is too much to hope for, huh?

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Why is MTV so stingy with the rights to their shows? I know I'd pay for DVDs of The State, Liquid Television and others - why must I rely on bad VCR copies I taped off the TV when I was 14?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You really want multiple DVDs filled with... with... Dogboy? I mean, I know there were many other great one-off animation shorts in those seasons, and I have about four tapes worth of stuff. I love the Mark Mothersbaugh theme song. But then you have Dogboy.. and the Specialists (zzzzzzz).

Then again, you have the very first Beavis And Butthead's, and you have the original non-dialogue Aeon Flux, and you have Stick Figure Theatre, and the weird animation of Elvis meeting the Something People From Hell. and the Adventures of Thomas And Nardo with Mark Beyer art and Residents music and...

goddamn... roger is right... a Liquid TV DVD set is OTM.. we just need them to trim off Dogboy, and I'd be happy.

― REFICUL!, Monday, 4 October 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"We're the Spider People from Hell!"

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 4 October 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mighty nice people"

― Elvis (Andrew Thames), Monday, 4 October 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I really liked the Specialists, it was overwhelmingly shit overall tho, mostly cos the poorest segments (tedious as fuck Dogboy, beyond dismal puppet crap w/uh Winter Steele (was that it) were by far the longest. That may not be a coincidence.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 4 October 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is the one with the guy going, "I'M NORMAL! I'M NORMAL! THIS IS MY DOG, MONSIEUR BOEUF LA TETE! I'M NORMAL I'M NORMAL" and then his breakfast of bacon and eggs starts talking to him going, "YOU'RE A FREAK! YOU'RE A FREAK!"
I haven't seen this in 10 years but I often think of it...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 4 October 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron, you should order more guitarfreak dvds for our amusement...

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 4 October 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm serious man, I go around quoting "This is my dog, Monsieur Boeuf La Tete." all the time, and I don't even know who did that short. (pretty sure the title was simply "I'm Normal")

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 4 October 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Normal or something? I've got that one on tape somewhere. His dog starts eating his leg towards the end, always hated that bit.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 4 October 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a bunch of these on tape, way back when.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 4 October 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally gonna name my next dog that. I'll call him "Boeuf" for short.
This was my favorite LT bit by far.
(I think the only ones I have on tape are like the last five min or so before 120 Minutes when I would set my VCR at 11:55 so as not to miss the beginning at all. I've got over a hundred 120 Min tapes in stroage from about 1992-1996 or so.)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 4 October 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

stroage = storage

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 4 October 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

roger there's at least one Liquid TV compilation you can buy on VHS. i know because i own it. it's patchy tho. i liked The Specialists personally

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Monday, 4 October 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure there's a rights hell surrounding the series--multiple artists, etc. That said, I do miss the Art School Girls of Doom.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to have some of these on tape. i have no idea if i still do or if i tossed them.

haha the art school girls of doom!!!

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

what was that one that was like "dear mum, today i..." blah blah blah with the postcards and violence-oriented double-entendres? and the soap opera starring...bars of soap!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just thinking of those postcards, Andrew. And I can't remember the bikergirl puppet's name, only that she was searching for Crow Burlingame.

When I worked for the college station, the techno guys named their weekly show "Liquid Radio". Those were the days.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

She was searching for Crow DICKERSON, I think, and her name was in fact Winter Steele. I liked that one.

Remember "Hello, Dad - I'm in Jail?"

Hard to believe that was ever on MTV

― people get ready, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

FROG BASEBALL.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody else remember one with some like NASCAR 3030 shit in it?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that the one with the racecar driver's face ripping off?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 4 October 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

YES!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

it was a disturbing yet fitting end to the greatest racer of all

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

He was going so fast the g-force tore his fac off right? That one's gotta be top ten for me, up there with the I'm Normal bit and the Aeon Flux where she dies at the beginning and it just keeps going without her. Amazing how this stuff just burned into your brain, there really is no equal in animation for some of it.

On a side note, the Aeon Flux guy did what is probably the best short on that Animatrix DVD.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, what seems so mindnumbingly obvious to us (have thousands of hours of tape sitting around? put it on digital media and sell it!) still, somehow, must be either too confusing for the suits or they're just too stupid. They have tons and tons and tons of various series from throughout their history at MTV that niche markets would buy up in bundles and could concievably spark new old hits (much the same way Family Guy got its audience), and what have they released? One show? They could print 10,000 copies of The Complete Brothers Grunt and sell them, for christs sake.

And this goes for virtually anyone and everyone in the entertainment industry. Comedy Central made inhuman amounts off of the Chappelle Show DVDs, not to mention every other show they've put on the format. The WWE, a niche market if there has ever been one, realized really, really fast that if they throw a whole bunch of matches on DVD that they already own, they can practically guarantee making the Billboard Charts. And for how much cost? $50,000 for graphics and design, at most? My friends make DVDs for each other with full loading screens. Someone needs to get their shit together and realize that they're sitting on money.

― Alan Conceicao, Monday, 4 October 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Part of it could always be rights for whatever reason. More clear in some cases than others (it's part of the reason why MST3K DVDs can only come out a bit at a time as more rights are secured).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i want a DVD of Alex Winter's sketch show, "The Idiot Box"

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

You know, it's really not too late to make an Art School Girls of Doom film.

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

Most of this stuff was on a torrent site called Myspleen years ago. Not sure if it's still around.

― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

gasp!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOAjW3q7MDg

― kate78, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 18:11 (fifteen years ago)

honey? girl?
could we be slightly more serious?
could we approach reality?

― kate78, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 18:13 (fifteen years ago)

I've started calling my lady friends (singularly) "babes" after I had an obsession with the Beach episode. As in "Later, babes!"

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CyMbhOVVU

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

3:33 for reference

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

I bet surm would eat this shit up.

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

ha, I already call everyone "babe", now I must pluralize it.

― kate78, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

"'sup, babes!" works especially well.

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

also love the shortened "beb"

― kate78, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fmTJ5mCGPc

MONSIEUR BOEUF LA TETE (mushrrr brrrf la tete!)

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhHooV2zJ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evs1jZnYziU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjI6kUCncXU

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6_26BIjp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DU_2FYp1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZaXnMhUaak

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

had a soft spot for these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpLf19ZCUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_YC_16TpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qsvSpm_t9c

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

liquid television was my favorite shit

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 06:58 (fifteen years ago)

I think part of the reason I am so in love with this show is because I never saw it when it aired, so to me it's this wonderful, magical time capsule that I can't imagine ever actually airing on television. I get so excited about it and there was a phase two summers ago where I showed episodes to, like, everyone who came over my house and all of them were just all "Uhhhh.... what is this? This is terrible."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKh25eDQDHA

Such a serious girl to be trapped in a haircut of the funniest Stooge.
You say, we are sick of this look. You say, where is the glamour? Where is the versatility?
Who's got a happier look than Mr. Gumbo? What makes us happier than Freezy Foster?

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:59 (fifteen years ago)

haha, gf was watching these with me last night saying "uhhhh... this is terrible." Some of it's nostalgia, some of it is the incredible unlikeliness of this ever being aired, some of it is pre-pixar where half-brained ideas like Ms. Lydia couldn't be done with a flash animation.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:07 (fifteen years ago)

hello mom, i'm in JAIL

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

I just love the batshit kookiness of it, with a dose of borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered early 90s. I think that if I saw it at the time I might have thought things like Miss Lidia were maybe stupid and half-brained (which it kind of is) but instead I just lap it up. Some of the traditional animations were kind of boring, though (The Specialists, etc). This is one of the very few televisoin programs I'd actually pay >$50 to own on DVD. Can we organize a letter-writing campaign to MTV or Viacom or whomever?

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:19 (fifteen years ago)

i gotta assume it's a rights issue.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:22 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't think any of it was in-house. I can't imagine trying to contact AND clear all the shorts from all these people that did them 20 years ago. Alas, we'll always have Demonoid.

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

Also, all the Aeon shorts are on the beyond-beautiful Æon Flux box set, as well as a bonus Liquid TV episode (which is where I discovered it)

― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

I feel like I must have seen them all at least twice. Raised on MTV tbh.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

^yep, me too.

― kate78, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)

i can remember at least two weeks where i stayed glued to the screen for teen spirit to come on

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)

I feel like I must have seen them all at least ~~twice.~~ dozens of times

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

probably the music would be the hardest thing to clear.

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

because there was a lot of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJEwo_gwO9M

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

how the fuck is that on the same album as walk the dinosaur

― karma chamillionaire (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:03 (fifteen years ago)

I have heard many utter the same disbelief.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:59 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

You know, it's really not too late to make an Art School Girls of Doom film.
― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:35 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

It is now. RIP Codie Ravioli

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:23 (twelve years ago)

*gasp!*

― kate78, Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:32 (twelve years ago)

― oxnard christian soldiers (get bent), Thursday, 24 October 2013 23:33 (twelve years ago)

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