Liquid Television was groundbreaking: a funny, offbeat, edgy home for experiments in animation. Even better for the featured artists: it was hosted on the hottest cable channel of its day, MTV.

I loved Stick Figure Theatre, Miss Lydia’s Makeover to the Stars, Cintra Wilson’s Winter Steele, and the initial Aeon Flux spots, but what I really looked forward to each week was The Art School Girls of Doom, featuring Miss Cody Ravioli and some other queen who was lovely, I’m sure. To this day, I still quote the episode where they go to the beach.

And so, the episode where they go to the beach: