I watched nearly two hours of MTV.
First, I watched the last 50 minutes of some Christmas episodes of Beavis and Butt-head. It was actually kind of funny even though it was basically the same old tired jokes. But I hadn't seen those same old tired jokes for about two years. (The movie used different jokes, if I recall, so it doesn't count.)
Then, I watched about an hour of Cartoon Sushi. I had no idea MTV started playing cool stuff like that again.
Ultracity 6060 is the bee's knees, man. Reminds me of Fast Food Freedom Fighters. Probably done by the same people, but I haven't checked the 4F website so I can't be sure. One of the voices sounded familiar though.
Actually, a lot of Cartoon Sushi seemed to not really be that good. A lot of stuff that seemed to be special-made for MTV's audience.
A trend in productions of animations I've seen is a completely silent soundtrack, except for brief interludes of staticky speech or effects. This sort of gives the effect of an old Amiga animation.
It also proved that it's not just any two-bit animation can become a hit. It sort of gives South Park some legitimacy that Beavis and Butt-head had to do at least two short films on Liquid Television for a long time before being considered for a series, that the Simpsons had to do years of Tracy Ullman, and that many Liquid Television alumni never got their own series. And yet, South Park made it on television with comparatively NO effort. Trey and Matt made Spirit of Christmas, sent the tape out, and about a year later, Comedy Central called them up. It's the American dream.
Too bad the ads seem to have a habit of playing 10-second clips of rap songs. I had to keep flipping around.
Anyway, I'll find out when Cartoon Sushi is on and tape it so I can fast forward through the commercials.