MTV is always looking for ways to be edgy and hip and cool like it used to be. Occasionally they must have meetings about getting their old mojo back, and some says - timidly, cringing as if he expects to be beaten - "why don't we do what we did before everyone gave up on us?" Looks like someone listened: they're bringing back "Liquid Television." Since that was a name for a showcase that had all sorts of different animated programs, you may wonder it means to bring it back. Well. Let's go to the Wrap.

Can we please stop using "dish" to mean "discuss" or "reveal"? Just drop the word already. It makes you sound like a computer program that runs old Joan Rivers jokes through a People mag stylebook. Now, here's the amusing part:

He's right, I suppose, but it's amusing to say "shorts are not an easy thing to have" when MTV used to be entirely about shorts. Nothing but. Short videos, short news, short promos, shortshortshort. This was roundly attacked for eliminating the attention span of the young & impressionable, which was possibly the reason MTV began to downplay videos in favor of longer-form reality shows. They were concerned about their impact on the developing brains of American youth." Yes, that's the reason. Read the rest of the interview for a master class in corporate palaver, or PRBS if you wish. Read how everyone at the company loves the brand. Do you know why? Because it reminds them that the company used to be hip and edgy and cool, and if they're resuscitating a brand from that era, it means everyone connected is hip and edgy and cool again. Even if everyone left them for Adult Swim. Years ago.

As for Aeon Flux, I never got into it - seemed pretentious, didn't like the visual style, and the whole idea of "incredibly acrobatic beautiful female assassins who are six-feet-tall and have huge breasts and do not dress appropriate for the workplace" seems a big played out. According to wikipedia, don't think I missed much:

Aren't they always?

Anyway, here's a reminder of what those "shorts" on MTV used to be. It was a big thing when they had a new ID segment. These took work.

I think this one ran once.