Indeed, Liquid Television was the crucial 1990s platform responsible for the emergence of would-be MTV hit series Beavis and Butt-Head, along with the bizarre, ultraviolent and titillating assassin series Æon Flux, which, in 2005, would be adapted as a movie starring Charlize Theron. Now, the series has been made available for consumption in its originally-aired form, thanks to the folks at Internet Archive, who have uploaded the whole kit and caboodle, providing – with equally-nostalgic commercials and MTV News breaks – all 27 episodes from Liquid Television’s 1991-1994 run. Besides biggies like Beavis and Butt-Head and Æon Flux, the avant-garde variety showcase of Liquid Television included other recurring segments such as The Specialists, Brad Dharma: Psychedelic Detective, Invisible Hands and even live-action segments such as Dog Boy, which featured a male hero who sports a transplanted dog heart in his chest. In another noteworthy factoid, the initial Beavis and Butt-Head segment, which aired in Season 2 on September 24, 1992, spawned the catchphrase “Frog Baseball” (distasteful as it may now seem, hitting frogs with a baseball bat), which became an early t-shirt-spawning meme for the property. After Beavis and Butt-Head broke away from the showcase in early 1993 to resounding pop-culture-invading success, Liquid Television would manage to spawn a spinoff showcase starting in 1994, called MTV’s Oddities, which focused on the colossal-cranium-sporting character The Head (who would eventually take over the series), as well as the acclaimed animated adaptation of Image Comics’ Sam Kieth-created title, The Maxx.
