YMMV / Liquid Television

• Adaptation Displacement: Few people know that Office Space started as an animated short by Mike Judge that aired both on Liquid Television and some mid-1990s episodes of Saturday Night Live (mostly on the show's 19th season^note the 1993-1994 season).
• Growing the Beard: The first season is pretty weak; aside from Aeon Flux, many of its recurring segments aren't very strong and some even barely count as animation (Psycho-Gram is just a series of still postcards with narration), or aren't animation at all (The Art School Girls of Doom). Season 2 put more focus on animation, and this is also when Beavis and Butt-Head and other Mike Judge works debuted.
• I Am Not Shazam: Originally, Æon Flux did not refer to the female assassin character.
• Memetic Mutation: Y'know that famous "SUBALUWA!" sound effect from Ed, Edd n Eddy? That came from the Genie Junkie short, yelled by a sumo wrestler as he's falling from the sky.
• More Popular Spin-Off: Many things started here, like Beavis And Butthead and Æon Flux.
• Nightmare Fuel: The short The Listener. It features the top half of a human face and three wires acting as its legs. A recurring voice keeps asking the creature, "Are you comfortable?" The short ends with "Everything is Beautiful" as the creature meets a reflection of itself in a pitch black environment only lit by a bunch of candles. What does it mean? Who knows, but it's freaky.
• Older Than They Think: A few of the shorts featured on the show weren't actually created for it, but were acquired and shown between all the others, so one could assume they were. One of the shorts, Cat and Mouse at the Home, was made in 1983, a full decade before it was shown on Liquid Television.
• Retroactive Recognition: Remember the Life With Loopy shorts in Kablam!? Their creator, Stephen Holman, debuted a few years earlier with his Joe Normal segments, which use a similar (though more crude) stop motion style with cut-out characters. But it’s not just Holman, do you remember seeing a short film called “The Green Beret”? You won’t believe this, but the short’s creator is also the creator of “SpongeBob SquarePants”.
• Spiritual Successor: Stickin' Around, at least for Stick Figure Theatre.
  • Cartoon Sushi for Liquid Television.
  • KaBlam!, which aired on fellow MTV Networks station Nickelodeon, premiered three years after Liquid Television ended. Like Liquid Television, it was an animated anthology consisting of various shorts from independent animators (with one short, Life With Loopy, sharing a studio with Joe Normal), however aimed at a preteen audience.
  • Off the Air, which takes the more surreal aspects of Liquid Television and turns them up to eleven.