# Creepy MTV animation from the '90s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749 "2015-04-03T21:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harg\_Fargusen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Harg\_Fargusen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harg_Fargusen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749/1 "2015-04-03T21:59:01Z")
Been looking for one of those pointless, deeply weird shorts MTV used to run back a couple decades ago. Description follows…black and white, included shots of grubby, shabby interiors peopled with moving baby dolls (perhaps just their heads, can’t recall) and what I recall as magnet-dancing metal filings. And…that’s about it. I’m sure there was more but can’t recall/blocked it out. It was not a cartoon, it was live action, sort of. Anyone recall it? Have found no trace of it so figured someone here’d have better luck. If anyone knows, that person or persons reads TSD. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749/2 "2015-04-03T23:41:14Z")
Actually sounds like one of the music videos I remember. Can’t remember the name of the song though. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749/3 "2015-04-03T23:42:34Z")
Something by Tool? They did a lot of stuff like that. [Prison Sex](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf1vC8ubnkY)? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749/4 "2015-04-03T23:43:47Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749/5 "2015-04-03T23:45:40Z")
The MTV animation stuff used to be called Liquid Television. Maybe searching on that will help you find it (if it’s not a video you are remembering). ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749/6 "2015-04-04T00:31:05Z")
It sounds like [_Stille Nacht I: Dramolet_](https://youtu.be/tFYuqqhNGeM) by the [Brothers Quay](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Quay). They also did [this MTV spot](https://youtu.be/zlwL4fHqzV8), but not the Tool videos. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-mtv-animation-from-the-90s/716749/7 "2015-04-04T00:55:27Z")
[Sober](https://youtu.be/hglVqACd1C8) by **Tool** has a similar vibe to that described in the OP, and was in heavy rotation on MTV for a while.