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I miss weird. I feel like there was a lot of weird in the 90s. Like you my first thought about the skibidi toilet thing was appreciating it for the weird.
...+ This = This
Thank you for making me double-check what was really in that pasta sauce I just ate...
My kids watch this show called Gumball. Its super random pretty weird. I honestly love it too but wife hates it because it doesn't make any sense. She is also a Xennial but I dont think she watched Liquid TV or Renn and Stimpy. I just sit and watch with the kids... And say its ok because Im watching with them.
Just watch adult swim
I couldn't wait for Liquid to start. I loved Aeon Flux
What was the other cartoon on liquid television ?
The Head? The Maxxx?
That was MTV's Oddities. Liquid TV was a kind of animated variety show. I believe Aeon Flux was a recurring segment, as was Bill Plimptons Sex and Death, I think?
The Maxx was so good! Granted, I loved the comic, but the show was such a spot-on reproduction of the comic that you just never really see with shows based on books.
I wanna marry a light house keeper and keep him company
I bought w tape that had the whole maxx series.
The Maxx was so good holy shit. And didn't Beavis & Butthead start there or am i dreaming?
Frog baseball!
Dog boy?
The feds have the orb, and theyβre taking it to a remote cabin in the woods!
Max headroom?
There were a bunch of them but the other big one that spun off into its own show was Beavis And Butt-Head
Yeah remember Frog Baseball as a precursor to Beavis and Butt-Head.
So many people forget that Beavis and Butthead started on Liquid Television.
The version that aired on Liquid Television had a voice over giving exposition like Deckard from the Blade Runner theatrical cut. I haven't been able to find a copy and I've been searching for a really, really long time. It gives it a different vibe.
The Vimeo link I posted is that version. It's narrated by Rafael Ferrer from XAOS/Liquid TV. The michael mconnohie dub featured in the Neo-Tokyo release is absolutely awful and ruined the sequence.
My man, you just ended the longest media side quest I've had in my life! Thank you!! I honestly didn't even read the title or the description on Vimeo and didn't watch it long enough. I just assumed it was the other versions.
Thank you!
I remember seeing this version first when it premiered back on October 1992. I had just finished watching Akira for the first time and this came on at midnight. That whole night made such an impression on me that it got me into collecting anime in a big way.
This Vimeo version is a fan edit that splices the Ferrer voice over with the uncut version of the sequence. Liquid TV aired a censored version that took out parts of the most violent deaths on the track (e.g., the head being split open on the windshield). Vimeo is the main video site you can see this sequence posted. The same goes for all of the Aeon Flux shorts that ran on Liquid TV.
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The early 90's was such an incredible era of discovery for me as well. Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend video, Vampire Hunter D and Robot Carnival on TBS, Heavy Metal was airing around that time on HBO I think. I found a train/tabletop hobby shop a couple of miles away that had a huge collection of anime VHS for super cheap rentals. Before DBZ hit big, anime felt like this awesome little secret catered right for me.
That Vimeo version is so much more than I expected. Great quality and it definitely shows somebody really cared to get it right.
I was so excited the first time I saw Neo-Tokyo for sale at Media Play (or was it Suncoast?) and just completely crushed with that version on the DVD.
I wonder if I can find the old Streamline dubs on Vimeo now.
I used to stay up all night to see if Kennedy would present Matthew Sweet's video for "Girlfriend" on Alternative Nation. His other video for "I've Been Waiting" was more rare.
What's funny is that Liquid TV and other underground animation is still niche. Spike & Mike is still known to those who know. This even goes for certain anime, esp. old anime made before 2010 and definitely before 2000. For starters, the whole OAV (original animation video) industry is pretty much gone now. It's back to either being a TV series or a movie, or both, but you won't see one-shot projects or things that are made direct-to-video (not in the same amounts).
Space Adventure Cobra, Vampire Hunter 'D', Robot Carnival, and Neo-Tokyo are all feature films. Those are still made and distributed. DBZ is a long-running series. Those are still made and distributed. Project A-Ko? Devil Hunter Yohko? Aim For The Top! GunBuster? Those were OAVs of their time. You'd have to scour the Internet for a boutique distributor to see if they have the license rights to market them in North America or to stream them over on Netflix, Prime Video, or Hulu. Your local Best Buy, Walmart, and Target won't carry them (RIP, Tower Records and Suncoast). In a way, we're still back to 1992 with some of these specialty shows! Hahah.
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Running Man (Neo Tokyo) changed me https://vimeo.com/397515669
Still incredible
Skibidi toilet gives me a warm nostalgic feeling for late noughties Garry's Mod humor
I'm not sure why people were complaining about it, it's irritating but all youth trends get that way, nothing about the video was groundbreaking tho. Fucking how many taco bell commercials did we have to endure with the zany little balls dudes or whatever they were.
Every generation has their slang and memes that exist alongside the greater shared culture. If you were to pick a kid from the last few decades and ask them to explain the weirdest example you could find, eventually you could probably tease out something of an explanation. Even if it were just that random and unexpected things were surprising and that was fun.
I saw a video yesterday of a kid trying to explain terms like rizz and he couldn't use anything but miming gestures or repeating buzz words. Couldn't even get to the word charisma, because he'd likely never heard it. He was functionally mute. Completely incapable of communicating or expressing an independent thought, and that was the concerning part.
It isn't the random or weird. It's the lack of communication. This kid is going to be a prisoner in his own mind if he can't escape this trap and I truly feel sorry him.
Or the noid
I loved catching Liquid Television. Before Adult Swim was fully formed, it was a good source of alt animation.
It really did feel like tuning into a broadcast from another dimension, especially late at night.
This and βThe Maxxβ were integral in expanding my young brainβ¦or at least I think they were. Itβs been 30 years and I still donβt know.
Iβm still trying to process The Maxx.
Same. I only caught some of the subtlety at that age. Only through time and re-watching it/reading it did I understand the deeper meanings.
The quiet man in the greenhouse at the end has always stuck with me the most. I e thought about the meaning of that more than anything. It makes so much more sense now.
I loved the comic of The Maxx, so I loved the animated series.
I loved Sam Keith so I was stoked when the comic came out and even more so with the animated series. Image opened so many doors, it was a great time.
I do not know. It's been over 30 years, and I still have no idea what was going on in this show.
Skinny running
Guns
Tension
Close up of tongues
Thatβs what I remember mostly
Lots of eyeball licking
Main character dies.
Shootin' plugs and runnin' up stairs
This aesthetic very deeply informed little me born in β83.
Aeon flux if I recall right. A MTV cartoon from the 90s
Was this the one where they had sex through a fence?
I honestly don't know, I didnt watch the show. I just remember this being part of the intro before switching shows
Yes, it was. I recall it distinctly as it was the first time I was actively turned on by watching something animated.
I just remember being so confused as a young teen like did I really just see that?!
yup
Yes
I worked in an office for a couple years with a woman who worked in Aeon Flux! She was super cool.
Oh wow, that's badass!
Knowing her was not badass, but everything about her was badass
yeah if you watch episode by episode it just seems like some weird shit
but there are some basic themes
two dystopian factions fighting with each other,
the bizarre love/hate relationship of AEon and Trevor
biological/biotech warfare (biopunk)
been quite a while since i watched it but i do recall the final few episodes focused on depopulation(viral pandemic and infertility)/the advancement of technology, and ultimately our race leaving earth and becoming those weird aliens who breed only through invitro fertilization.
- part of that plot was included in the live action movie but i forget and also haven't seen that in years
of course the ''story'' doesn't really tell you the full story you're just seeing glimpses of things going on in shorts and you're supposed to imagine the world within.
the movie lacks a bit as with all live action adaptations.
Great synopsis. Took me until my first acid trip to pick all that up from just having the shorts on VHS π
No one knew... but it was cool as hell.
Feet. That was all.
I've been rewatching a lot of The Maxx, Aeon Flux, Spawn, Ren & Stimpy as well as a few other cartoons from that era and I'm just so grateful I got to grow up during that period. And it was when it everything was still drawn by hand, too!
Fun fact: One of the principle animators for R&S is April March, the singer of Chick Habit.
Iβve been trying to watch Aeon Flux but havenβt really found more than the odd episode or segment on YouTube. Where can I find more?
Itβs on Paramount plus. Iβve had this service for a while because Iβm a Star Trek fan, and noticed it the other day.
As u/DifferentShip4293 said, it's on Paramount Plus. A lot of classic MTV and Nickelodeon shows can be found on there.
Ah thanks, thatβs like the only one I donβt have lol. Was thinking about getting it for Champions League, maybe Iβll do it next season
Spawn is so good. I didnβt actually discover The Max til my 20s but love it so much too.
The moment that sticks with me is a guy slitting open the tip of his finger, pulling out some fatty substance, and eating it on a cracker.
There's the one where she finds a guy chained up in a tiny cabinet, and she just keeps it moving
Yes! And when she takes a relaxing moment in a lab to look through a microscope and pull apart an embryo thing with tweezers in a petri dish.
And jam something up it's butt
Reminds me of the show Angel, where the heroes break into a place and find a guy chained up. They try to rescue him but he WANTS to be there.
"As a slave?!"
"Hey, don't judge me!"
Or the episode with kids eating cabbages, brutally
It's the eggs of the slicerbeetle looking thing. Like a weird caviar.
or where she reads a secret note, puts it in her mouth and swallows it
earwax. ate his earwax.
Ah right around the Green Jello and The Three Little Pigs era.
Bit of trivia, did you know MJK of Tool fame was a little pig?
Oh shit, I did not
His first band, along side Danny Carey (tool drummer)
The part in the song three little pigs, where they go,
"Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin"
Is Maynard. Although everyone called him Jimmy at the time. He didn't start going by Maynard until he started tool with Danny and Adam Jones.
I really wish that had been made into a movie like planned!
They made a live action one in 2005 with Charlize Theron.
We do not acknowledge this abomination.
I was not aware. How was it?
Terrible.
Itβs worth watching I think, but could have been way better. I need to look and see where this show is Streaming.
The episode with the little animals that grew those immortality beans or whatever? also one where she gets frozen in that liquid near some underwater building? i can recall vague thingsβ¦
Yes exactly, it wasnβt terrible but it had a lot of wasted potential
Watching Charlize Theron in very tight outfits - good.
Absolutely everything else about it - not good.
Ultraviolet came out around the same time, but I didnβt have enough money to see both. I wanted to see it but never got around to it. Maybe later this weekend.
I never saw it. I'm sure you can stream it somewhere.
Pluto TV right now
It's on Pluto TV as of now.
It was not good π
It's a shame because I really liked all the casting, and the aesthetics weren't terrible. It was just a very mundane plot unbefitting of such wonderfully weird source material.
I almost think Charlize could do it better at her current age now.
Am I the only one who remembers the dude's name was "Trevor"?
Trevor Goodchild. One of the best "villains" in anything, IMO.
Did anyone watch Under the Bridge on Hulu? Good crime drama with 90s vibes, but Riley Keough really really looked like Aeon Flux in it.
Aeon's creator Peter Chung has a patreon where you can get original art and storyboards from the shorts and episodes.
How much can YOUR sexuality withstand?
It's incredible how horny cartoons from that era could be. Not even just Aeon Flux, but things like Cybersix and Reboot even.
I think part of it was because anime was just hitting the West via Manga Entertainment, ADV, etc. Things like Cyber City Oedo, Ninja Scrolls, etc.
Aeon Flux was my sexual awakening. β€οΈ
Anyone know why the OG version we saw on tv is different from the version that is available to stream on Prime? Iβm not willing to buy the other one to find out but I definitely have memories of stuff that happened that arenβt in the streaming version.
There's two different sets. There are the 6 shorts from Liquid Television and the other is an actual 10 episode series. Looking at Prime right now, "Aeon Flux season 1" (1995) is the 10 episode series by itself, "Aeon Flux" (1991) is the 6 shorts plus the 10 episode series.
Thank you!
Man, the Maxx was awesome and I havenβt seen Aeon Flux in forever.
The rabbit in the shoebox is forever burned into my brain from The Maxx. Scratch, scratch, scratch.
Aeon Flux is on either Max or Prime Video these days. I rewatched it last year. So good and so weird.Β
I know! Pretty risquΓ© back in the day, but awesome nonetheless.
hunny bunny hunny bunny hunny buneeeee
Still our time, but first thing that came to mind was the Eddie Griffith joke on Def Comedy. Talking about the starving kids in Africa commercials. Having flies on their eyes and shit. You don't feel that fly? Blink motherfucker, blink!!
check out Scavengers Reign on Max, it has strong Aeon Flux vibes
It's still wild to me they were able to broadcast this back then. It was WEIRD even for anime
We called our Doberman Aeon Flux sometimes because she was all lanky and skinny and licking things with her tongue.
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I never knew what the hell was happening when that show was on.
This show changed my perspective on a lot of things, not the least of which being the level of artistry and story telling one could bring to an animated series.
Yes!!!!!
Loved this show
I know, but never watched. TV growing up was extremely limited.
I have this whole series on DVD still!!!!
I've got the box set at home, have had it for years and still planning to watch them all in a marathon.
I have the entire series on dvd! Somewhere around hereβ¦
Loved the movie too
I liked the Maxx
Aon flux!!
Aeon flux
It was on HBO Max recently, I don't have a subscription anymore, but I'm sure it's still there.
I used to sneak out of bed and watch Liquid Television with the brightness down and the volume on 3.
This show made me a man.
Did anyone like The Brothers Grunt?
Me neither.
I miss the Maxx
I miss this show
I wasn't a fan but I saw some episodes because I'd watch Liquid Television for The Maxx.
This was so gross and weird but we were starved for cool animation.
I loved Aeon Fluxx and The Maxx to much. I still have them on retail VHS tapes.
Here in Australia, they were on our "indie" channel SBS, which also introduced me to a ton of amazing Hong Kong cinema with their "Cult Movie" programming (including the work of John Woo) and a little show called Neon Genesis Evangelion which was my gateway to anime.
I JUST found my DVD box set today!
F*** i loved Aeon Flux as a kid. It was so bizzare and unlike anything else on at the time
Even tho itβs just a cartoon , this part always freaked me out as a kid
Liquid Television can viewed on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/liquid-television-complete
Excellent. Thank you!
oo yeah i have the dvd set
in the early shorts you can really see the rugrats influence from peter chung
I know what it is, but it was when I stopped watching.
We have to go back.
Hell yeah!
yep.
You need to watch scavengers reign on Netflix
Yep just like every concept or thing that exists. If you know? You do in fact know.
Love aeon flux and the maxxx
So much great material to work off of. How the fuck did they screw up the movie?
This was everything, a paragon of creativity, to me at 17. Animation could be the fucking weirdest, complex, and quietly (or not) brilliant
I went to Christian school and attended church 3x a week. I used to stay up late and watch this with the volume super low. Aeon Flux might have saved my soul. That and La Femme Nikita.
Aeon Flux
I have this as a box set somewhere. This is a staple of my youth.
Is this from Aeon Flux right. This always grossed me out.
Have a full file of Liquid Television
With the commercials outta Denver
Fired it up for my niece after a family dinner
I miiiiiiiight have shared some of my spliff (sheβs 20)
It broke her head
Aeon flux baby.
I've got Flux in my eye
I got the boxed set of DVDs for this awhile back. I used to love Aeon, she was the weirdest of the weird!
Goddamn, did I love Liquid Television.
I think The Head was probably my favorite.
I know
Had to get up at the butt crack of dawn to watch this though π
I don't know. what is it (perhaps I saw)
Aoxena or something like that
The head was better imo.
Liquid television was some wild shit back in the days. Itβs why Iβm not too hard on the whole skibidi toilet generation. We were into some weird stuff too