Liquid Television was an animation showcase that appeared on MTV^[3] from 1991 to 1995. It served as the launching point for several high-profile original cartoons, including Beavis and Butt-Head and Æon Flux.^[4] Independent animators and artists created the bulk of Liquid Television's material specifically for the show, and some previously produced segments were compiled from festivals such as Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation.

The first season of Liquid Television also aired on BBC Two in co-production with MTV. Ultimately, MTV commissioned three seasons of the show, produced by Colossal Pictures. The show was eventually succeeded by Cartoon Sushi. Mark Mothersbaugh composed the show's theme music.

The show was broadcast in Canada on MuchMusic, in Asia on Channel V, in Australia on SBS and in New Zealand on TV3.

There were also a large number of animation pieces adapted from the work of Art Spiegelman's comic compilation, RAW. RAW featured underground cartoonists such as Mark Beyer, Richard Sala, and Peter Bagge. In particular, Dog-Boy by Charles Burns was based on the artist's series from RAW.^[5]

Due to the extensive use of licensed music throughout the series (episodes often began with a contemporary music video being "liquified"), full episodes of Liquid Television have not been seen in any form since their original run.^[6] Selected segments from the series, including the first appearances of Æon Flux, were released on two VHS tapes in the late 1990s as The Best of Liquid Television parts one and two.^{[lower-alpha 1]} A collection volume, titled Wet Shorts (The Best of Liquid Television), comprising the two VHS tapes, was released on DVD in 1997.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

1. Japhet Asher – Executive Producer/Creative Director
2. Prudence Fenton – Executive Producer/Story Editor
3. Mark Mothersbaugh – Composer, Theme Music
4. XAOS Inc. – Title Sequences, Liquid Lips, Liquid Eyes, End Credits Bed
5. A BIG Pictures & Noyes & Laybourne Collaboration
6. Produced by (Colossal) Pictures for MTV & BBC-TV

• Winter Steele – A puppet show about a biker chick searching for her long-lost love (see below).
• Soap Opera – A parody of daytime soaps, with bars of soap as the actors.
• Cut-Up Camera – A parody of Candid Camera involving outrageous situations.
• Miss Lidia's Makeover to the Stars – A short about an unseen makeup artist (with live-action hands) who gives celebrities mock make-overs via her computer.
• Invisible Hands – About a turban-clad sleuth who solves murders.
• Buzz Box – A short with changing patterns set to rock music.
• Stick Figure Theatre – A series of shorts recreating scenes from popular movies using stick-figures drawn on 3 × 5 cards.
• Dangerous Puppets – About two puppets who violently destroy each other.
• The Art School Girls of Doom – A live-action short in the early 1990s about two art school girls. Codie Field and Gina Varla Vetro, transgender actresses, played the girls in an animated environment.^[14]
• Footworks – Stories featuring footprints as the characters.
• Æon Flux – About a scantily-clad female secret agent (later spun off into its own series; also adapted into a 2005 live-action film starring Charlize Theron).^[15] The series later became part of Liquid Television's online version in 2012.
• Beavis and Butt-Head – About two adolescent morons who cause their own trouble; later spun off into its own series.
• Psychogram – A series of stories told with postcards and voiceover narration.
• The Specialists – A 10-episode series about three private detectives.
• Dog Boy – A live-action, comic book-style story about the adventures of a young man who received a dog's heart in a medical transplant.
• The Adventures of Thomas and Nardo – A computer-animated series about a man and his anthropomorphic house done in a 3D paper-style, created by Mark Beyer. It had an original soundtrack composed by The Residents.
• Speedbump the Roadkill Possum – About a possum who often gets run over.
• Was (Not Was) – A series of fast-paced chalk animations to the tune of songs by the titular band.
• Uncle Louie – A series of cut-out animations about an older yet jovial uncle and his young nephew in various adventures.
• Bobby & Billy – A series of cut-out animations, drawn similar to Norman Rockwell paintings, about two younger boys who display malevolence and immoral behavior in various situations. The cartoon often satirizes indecency set in the 1960s.
• Brickface & Stucco – A live-action series about two grease monkeys and their custom hot rod gear head adventures.
• Brad Dharma: Psychedelic Detective – An animated series about a psychic private detective in the future megacity of Timbuktu. It mixed cyberpunk and fantasy tropes.^[16]

On October 13, 2011, MTVX, MTV's cross media group, announced the return of Liquid Television.^[17] It is now a network that is available on the internet and social media. The first content to debut on the network was "F**KING BEST SONG EVERRR" by Wallpaper, available on the website. Full-length episodes featuring the online content and all-new material were released in 2013.

• Adult Swim
• Cartoon Sushi
• Exposure
• Nicktoons Film Festival
• Eye Drops
• KaBlam!
• Off the Air
• Raw Toonage
• What a Cartoon!
• Random! Cartoons
• Too Cool! Cartoons
• Go! Cartoons
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons
• Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation
• Short Circutz