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“Twelve Dangers of Skydiving” was a cute little five part serial from season 2, episode 6.  I only have two of the dangers in video form, but the first includes the full Liquid TV opening sequence, which always brings back happy memories.

They were created by Dominic Polcino and Scott Tygett and produced by Michael Polcino.  Dominic and Michael (brothers) have gone on to work on The Simpons, Mission Hill, King of the Hill and Family Guy including the wildy popular Blue Harvest Star Wars spoof.

In addition, it looks like you can find Dominic’s comic work here and his blog on Blogspot here.

First Danger (show opener): Ripcord = baby doll sayings

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-IdMTyTTJU[/youtube]

Second Danger: Parachute takes head and spine with it when deployed.

Third Danger: Parachuting in near full body cast and not being able to pull ripcord.

Fourth Danger: Umm.. having a psychedelic hallucination then falling past the Earth?

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RM6lWHzDVg[/youtube]

Fifth Danger: Getting shot down by Men In Black?  hah.. really not sure.

And I guess we’ll never know what the sixth through twelth dangers were.

Dominic Polcino (wikipedia imdb)

Michael Polcino (wikipedia imdb)

Scott Tygett (imdb)

Seasons 1 and 2 of Liquid Television featured the fantastic and always entertaining, Stick Figure Theater.  Such a simple idea, but executed with great humor and quirikiness.  The formula was simple, take classic film clips, recreate the video in “stick figure” format and have a little fun with the topic matter.

The director, Robin Steele, seems to have taken this idea further with a series called “Stickin’ Around” which added color, but had the same silly stick figure animation style. (Click for “Stickin’ Around” intro)

SFT compilation #1 (ZappVid1)
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• Mr. Jimi Hendrix performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” (Woodstock, 1969) (alternate video: YouTube from zappazombie) (season 2)
• Mister Alfred Hitchcock (trailer for “Psycho”) (season 1)
• Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff in “The Terror” (season 2)
• John Wayne in “Angel and the Bad Man” (season 1)
• Edmund O’Brien in “D.O.A.” (season 1)
• Madonna in “Express Yourself” (alternate video: YouTube from viralguru) (season 1)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj7WnDVGU24[/youtube]

SFT compilation #2 (ZappVid1)

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• “Night of the Living Dead” (season 2)
• The Crash of the Hindenburg May 6, 1937 (season 2)
• Sergei Eisenstein’s silent classic “The Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925)” (season 2)
• José Ferrer in “Cyrano de Bergerac” (season 1)
• Miss Bette Davis in “Of Human Bondage” (season 2)
• William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” (season 2)
• Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (season 1)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5QRGqy04w8[/youtube]

And from Season 3, we have an extended run as Stick Figure Theater delves into the 1961 Gary Cooper flick, “The Naked Edge”. (wikipedia, imdb)

The Naked Edge compilation #1 (ZappVid1)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7FTxSIw1qk[/youtube]

The Naked Edge compilation #2 (ZappVid1)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXgTns_-oy4[/youtube]

The Naked Edge compilation #3 (ZappVid1)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0W7rw2vUY[/youtube]

Thanks to ZappVid, viralguru, zappazombie and krw703 for posting the LTV videos and all the others for posting the originals.

Created by the cartoonist, Charles Burns.  Apparently Burns’ “Black Hole” may be in the process of being made into a movie by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary (co-writer, Pulp Fiction) and produced by David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club).  Might be kind of interesting.

Anyway, on to Dog Boy…

What if Dick Tracy had a dog?  Or a son?  Or a son who was a dog?  It might look something like this…

Episode 1: Pilot – Dog Boy’s origin story.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhHooV2zJ8[/youtube]

Episode 2: Disastrous Date – Dog Boy acts doggy, goes on a failed date with Nurse Betty and somehow attracts the attention of Rondy.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxmIIFjIJys[/youtube]

Episode 3:Nauseating Next Door Neighbors – Dog Boy takes Rondy on a date to Club Robo and his stuck up neighbors spy on him.  Preacher Jerry makes his first apperance.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vHLSywNk_g[/youtube]

Episode 4: Red Hot Robot Romance – The date with Rondy at Club Robo continues, then back to his..err.. her place.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEaw1VIZoEQ[/youtube]

Episode 5: Carnal Chaos – Dog Boy sleeps with Rondy.. sort of, and Rondy gets jealous of the new girl, Cindy

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ8-MjtfbiA[/youtube]

Episode 6: Passion Pit -Cindy and Dog Boy play in the park, until she notices his true nature.  Then off to the drive-in with Rondy.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzVywjn2BT0[/youtube]

Episode 7:Long Arm of the Law – The neighbors suspect Dog Boy of being a mass murderer. Cindy has some issues with her coworkers, that clumsy bitch!

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEgoewe5wcU[/youtube]

Episode 8:The Psycho Shrink – Dog Boy goes to a shrink and spreads his dog cooties!

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnFH2XiRKh4[/youtube]

Episode 9: House of Half-Wits – Time to visit Preacher Jerry and then wind up in the clink!

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RPigxY6-Sk[/youtube]

Episode 10: Calling All Cons – Dog Boy plays with his new friends in jail before getting bailed out by Rondy.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooCJrbOIoJA[/youtube]

Thanks to ZappVid and digloid for posting the videos.

A quaint little short by John Dilworth, who went on to create Courage the Cowardly Dog (and you were wondering why the dog looked familiar, eh?).  Odd, but not quite as brilliantly strange as “Courage” was.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQu-Sq_sAS8[/youtube]

Thanks to nunlover and ZappVid for posting this video.

The Art School Girls of Doom is one of those LTV items that didn’t really stick with me very well, but now that I’m watching it again, I do remember it.  Not the cream of the crop, but LTV wasn’t always about “great” or “mass appeal”, but more about showing a wide variety of videos so there’s a little bit for everyone.  I hope I can capture some of these more esoteric choices when posting new videos and not just choose things I personally like.

Before you get too excited, boys. Those are dudes.

Oh.. and apparently Gina is a fan.

The Beat Down

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lAFpBmNKJs[/youtube]

The Beach

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11CyMbhOVVU[/youtube]

The Bra

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWGSU_0G8AI[/youtube]

Thanks to ZapVidd and scythrop for posting the videos.

Not so tough without THAT are ya?…  Just a badge and a mustache!

A double feature, with “To Officer with Love” and “Fast, Loud, Dumb and Proud” from Season 3!

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v94b6nWQTo[/youtube]