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My favorite MTV memory is Liquid Television. Weird cartoons like Aeon Flux and The Maxx and The Head
Those were all so good. Aeon Flux (even though it was American), Akira, and Ghost in the Shell got me into Anime.
That was also an incredible time for sketch comedy with The State!, Kids in The Hall, and Upright Citizens Brigade. You could just leave MTV on and always get something good.
Then they had to learn how much money they could make off reality tv with The Real World, and everything went to shit. It’s a damn shame.
Kids in The Hall
My favorite sketch show of all time, believe it or not. I'm squishing your head.
The Real World
Even the first Real World was a lot better than later years of MTV. I think one thing that MTV never gets credit for is helping to normalize homosexuality in US culture, which they did by always having a gay cast member in the show.
I was hooked on the Real World. just random people that looked so cool living in a crazy cool place. But honestly I'd say it really dropped off after Seattle or New Orleans. Then it was just painfully obvious manufactured controversy. They did Stephen dirty on Seattle as they REALLY played up the closeted homosexual thing with him. like almost spoon feeding it to you.
Did Kids in the Hall run on MTV? Damn I feel super old rn.
Mine is definitely Beavis and Butthead. That came much later, but I was just old enough to get beer and my friends and I would sit around, drinking beer watching Beavis and Butthead, and laughing our asses off. Yeah! Yeah! Cool.
I rewatched Beavis & Butthead Do America a few months back and laughed from start to finish. Mike Judge is a goddamn genius
For a long time whenever I wanted to mock creepy behavior I'd say "I see you wear braces. I wear braces too." In Butthead's seduction voice. People usually had no idea what I was referencing, but I got a kick out of it, and it was always pretty fun when someone got it.
Nirvana always gets credit for putting the nail in the coffin of hair metal, but I think it was more Beavis and Butthead's shtick of mocking 80s videos that did it.
Weren’t The Maxx and The Head part of MTV Oddities? Definitely a similar sort of vibe, but they were miniseries, rather than shorts on Liquid Television. I loved The Head. My friends and I thought it was hilarious.