MTV was best known for its music videos, of course, but a loan should be given to its initiative to promote and expose short films. Among its missing videos and the "Strange Al" videos, the channel, the channel will present (often strange) art of growing directors and animators, only to add a certain variety to its 24-hour programming. It was not uncommon to include MTV in 1991 and to see full animated live bumpers and bizarro among the blocks of music videos. Many new artists have found their Friday in the cracks. In the end, MTV launched "liquid television" as an exhibition of its animated investments, with its live shorts remain accidentally scattered around the world.

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The short live movie with Johnon Peon's action "APTO is apt". He first made his debut on MTV in 1992, and attracted everyone's eye, mostly because it was gross. In short, Mark Rosenthal played the OEO, an average friend who lives in a filthy new New York apartment that he shares with thousands of conversations, singing cockroaches. At the beginning of the film, he warns his "roommates" that he has a date that comes during that night, so he needs to stay hidden. He puts steak under the rug as an offer. Rose, as OEO friends, unilaterally decide that they will, instead, help OEO to be an orbus. When the date of OEO (Aria Bareikis) is completed, the Rouses subtly push snacks and furniture to make it comfortable, everyone looks at Wallsids and light bodies. Unfortunately, when OEO relies on a kiss, the Roses are excited and poured out of the lights, to the right of his date. Covered with mistakes, she screams and runs away in horror. Eo sighs in regret. Maybe the next time, they promise OEO, Rockes.

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MTV was so impressed by APTO APT. " MTV has not yet made theater feature films, but she wanted. As a result, "OEO's apartment" became MTV's first film when it hit the 1996 theaters.

The "aptanceo" feature was a very strange, very ambitious Astver. The film just expanded to short, even by embarrassing the events of the original short in the middle. This time, OEO, as Jerry O'Connell plays, is a recent transplant of Newouper, which has a problem finding an acceptable place to live. When an old woman dies on the street in front of him, a pure friend named Walter S *** (Jimim Turner) encourages Jo to say that his mother is able to inherit her apartment controlled by rent. Of course, there are thousands of cockroaches with Brooklyn's accent. Can Oeo live with a bunch of conversation, sing Rose and also romance his girl girl Lily (Megan Ward)? Also, can he - and the Rouses - use the aggression of a wicked Senator (Robert Vaughan) who wants to spoil the apartment?

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The cockroaches were visually realized with a puppet, but mostly with the latest CGI provided by Blue Sky, making its debut of features. The animation is so detailed that it will delay their lunch; The audience can make any revolted scratches in the exoskeleters of mistakes. Rose, as in short, work as a well -organized mass, which is confirmed by the fact that they sing a chapel (only up, like chips). The cockroach singing voices were provided by the celebrated pop -leading band Rokapela, with their songs that include genres from the ground ("Kitty Cat Rodeo") to Fank ("Funky Towel") to the barber shop ("Trash of the Moon") to the Gospel). Leading cockroaches, Ralph and Rodney Roach, were expressed by Billy West from Futurama's fame And Reginald Hadlin, respectively. Other Rose played BD Wong, Tim Blake Nelson, Bam Bam Bigellow and Dave Chapel (back before we knew how terrible it was).

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The cockroach animation is probably why the "OEO apartment" cost so much to do. The budget was only $ 13 million (about $ 27 million in $ 2025), but that was still a significant risk for the studio for the first time that brought a gross comedy based on error -based. The film's mark was "Sex, Errors and Rock and Roll". UN Pezson also collected more foreign figures to appear in his film. The cult Luminus Paul Bartel has a godfather in the "OEO apartment", as well as underground director Nick Zed (director of "they eat fertilizers" and "Geek Maggot Bingo"). There is even a strong Slumlord stronger than Don Joe (!), Along with minor roles for Moby and Sandra Denton, who are better known as Pepa (on Salt-N-pepa).

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"OEO's apartment" is wonderful, by the way. A lot of time, energy and finance have entered this strange film about gross, singing cockroaches and feels like someone moving away from something. This was an underground film that somehow deceived the mainstream studio to give them $ 13 million. It is strange that the "apartment of OEO" should look as fat as it is, because it feels like a very dark dirt is only under its professional glow, waiting to bubble on the surface. Scatological humor is highly prominent. It's a cult film in studio clothing.

MTV may have overestimated the popularity of its short, though, as the movie "OEO" (toilet) was moving to box office, earning only $ 4.6 million. It was also made by critics because it was just as disgusting as it was and has only an approval for approval of 21% Rotten tomatoes. Strange, for 1996, there was no hit record of soundtrack (which, one might think, would have been a MTV film mandate).

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MTV recovered at the box office later that year with the release of "Beavis and Butt-Head do America", so it saved the face slightly. Peenson, meanwhile, moved directed on TV shows like "Arley $" and "PSS" (who had a hidden crossover with Futurama, stunning enough). He also kept his outsider impressium directing a music video for residents in 2001.