LTV Season 1 (1991)

Season 1 brings us lasting classics like Peter Chung’s “Æon Flux” and the beautifully simplistic idea of “Stick Figure Theater.” I’m sure some of the others will ring a bell when I go back over them, but those are the two that stood out most for me after all these years.

Episode 1 – June 2, 1991

  • Open: Robert Palmer “Addicted to Love” ( wikipedia )
  • Soap Opera “A Steamy Scene”
  • Buzz Box
  • Grinning Evil Death
  • Æon Flux
  • Invisible Hands (by Richard Sala) ( wikipedia )
  • Lea Press on Limbs
  • Stick Figure Theatre “John Wayne in Angel and the Bad Man”
  • Miss Lidia’s Makeover to the Stars “Sinead O’Connor”
  • The Art School Girls of Doom, “The Beat Down” ( wikipedia )
  • Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

Episode 2 – June2(??), 1991

  • Open: John Denver PSA
  • Winter Steele, “Eat Crow” ( wikipedia )
  • Invisible Hands
  • Stick Figure Theatre “Mister Alfred Hitchcock”
  • Rocky (by Malcolm Bennett)
  • Footwork “Dog Flirting”
  • Dog Brain (by J. Falconer)
  • Dangerous Puppets
  • Cut-Up Camera
  • Excerpt from Joy Street
  • Weird (by Derek Philips)
  • Æon Flux
  • Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

Episode 3 – June 9, 1991

  • Open: Faith No More “Epic” ( wikipedia )
  • Soap Opera “Diandra Wastes Away”
  • Buzz Box (a short film by David Daniels)
  • Snookles (by Juliet Stroud)
  • Stick Figure Theatre “Edmund O’Brien in D.O.A.”
  • Cut-Up Camera
  • Miss Lidia’s Makeover to the Stars “Sylvester Stallone”
  • Invisible Hands
  • Prophet & Loss (by Jonathan Bairstow)
  • Black Hula
  • The Art School Girls of Doom, The Beach ( wikipedia )
  • Beach Chair
  • Æon Flux
  • Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

Episode 4 – June 16, 1991

  • Open: Dental Health
  • Winter Steele”Ball of Communion” ( wikipedia )
  • Jac Mac and Rad Boy “Go!”
  • Footworks “Scoring”
  • Dangerous Puppets
  • The Thing What Lurked in the Tub
  • Invisible Hands
  • Monk’s Purpose
  • Stick Figure Theater “Madonna in Express Yourself”
  • Æon Flux
  • Psycho-Gram (serialized throughout episode)

Episode 5 – June 23, 1991

  • Open: B-52′s “Love Shack” ( wikipedia )
  • Soap Opera “Caught in the Act”
  • Psychogram “Informant” (serialized throughout episode)
  • “Punches” (by Bill Plympton) (serialized throughout episode) ( wikipedia )
  • Cut-Up Camera “Pizza Delivery”/”Wild Dog Pizza”
  • Face Like a Frog – Mystic Knights “Don’t Go in the Basement”
  • Invisible Hands
  • Plimptoon – (baseball head/lawnmower head)
  • Miss Lidia’s Makeover to the Stars “George Michael”
  • Psychogram “Suburban Housewife cover”
  • Stick Figure Theatre “José Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac”
  • The Art School Girls of Doom, “The Bra” ( wikipedia )
  • Psychogram “Skewered agent Y”
  • They Might Be Giants “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” ( wikipedia )
  • Plimptoon (firecracker/pets/rope face/electrocution)
  • Æon Flux episode 5 (bug in glass, cracker spread, news show)
  • Plimptoon (flick!-cry)
  • Note: All Plimptoons during this LTV were from “Push Comes to Shove (Enemies)”

Episode 6 – June 30, 1991

  • Open: Chalk test bars and tone
  • Winter Steele “Stupid Hippies” ( wikipedia )
  • Psychogram “Prof. Allergy”
  • Cut-Up Camera “Elevators”
  • Psychogram “Timetravel”
  • Invisible Hands
  • Psychogram “All a dream?”
  • Stick Figure Theatre “Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life”
  • Æon Flux (complete version, episodes 1-6)

Episode guide compiled from the following sites as well as my personal LTV collection: