This short MTV movie has been converted into the first network movie

MTV is famous for its music videos, of course, but credit should be granted for its initiative to promote and display short films. Among the missing videos between missing people and “Weird Al” videos, the (strange) art channel will present from movie and animated films, just to add a variety to 24 -hour programming. It was not fashionable to play MTV in 1991 and watch the fully exotic and fully exotic animation bumps between the masses of music videos. Many new artists found his toes inside the cracks. Ultimately, MTV launched “Tiquid Television” as a display of its mobile projects, with its live shorts remain randomly spread throughout.

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John Payson Live-Action, “Joe’s Apt”. He first appeared on MTV in 1992, and he caught the attention of everyone, mostly because it was somewhat. In the palace, Mark Rosental played the role of Joe, the normal elegant who lives in a dirty apartment in New York shared by thousands of conversation, and sings cockroaches. At the beginning of the film, his “room colleagues” warns that he has a date coming that night, so he needs to stay hidden. Put the meat slices under the carpet as a width. Cockroaches, as they are friends, decide, unilaterally, they will help, instead, to help. When the history of Joe Bareikis comes, cockroaches are skillfully pushed around snacks and furniture to make them comfortable, all of which are seen from the walls and lighting fixtures. Unfortunately, when an atmosphere tends to get a kiss, cockroaches are excited and spread from the lights, directly in its history. Covered with insects, screaming and escaping in terror. Unfortunately, a atmosphere sighs. Maybe next time, Joe, and promise of cockroaches.

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MTV has been affected by “Joe’s Apt.” , So that it approached Payson about developing a feature film version for them. MTV has not presented any feature films that have been released so far, but she wanted it. As a result, “Joe Apartment” became the first full movie ever in MTV when he achieved theaters in 1996.

The “Joe Apartment” feature was a very strange and ambitious monster. The film expanded only on the palaces, and even loves the original short events in the middle. This time, the atmosphere, as Jerry O’Connell played, is a modern transplant for New York that has a problem to find an accessible place for everyone to live. When an old woman dies in the street in front of him, Skusi’s friend is encouraged by Walter S *** (Jim Turner) Joe to say that she is his mother until she inherits the flat that is controlled by rent. Of course, thousands of cockroaches displayed in Brooklyn are also living there. Can an atmosphere live with a group of conversation, singing cockroaches as well as romance his potential girlfriend Lily (Megan Ward)? Also, can he – and cockroaches – defend the evil Senator aggression (Robert Von) who wants to destroy the apartment?

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Cockroaches were visually achieved with some brides, but mostly with CGI on the latest Blue Sky, making it the first time in the feature. The animation is so detailed that it places one of their lunch; The public can make every increased scratch in the exterior of wood. Cockroaches, as in short, work as a well -organized bloc, as evidenced by the fact that they sing Capella (only developed, such as Chipmunks). Singing voices in cockroaches were provided by the famous Rockapella group, with their songs that extend from the species of the country (“Kitty Cat Rodeo”) to Funk (“Funky Towel”) to Barbershop (“Garbage in the Moonight”) My “”). The leading cockroaches, Ralph and Rodney Roche were expressed Billy West Futurama And Real Hadlin, respectively. Other cockroaches were played by BD Wong, Tim Blake Nelson, Bam Bam Bigelow and Dave Chapel (again before we know how terrible).

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The animation on cockroaches is likely to be the reason why the “air apartment” costs a lot. The budget amounted to only $ 13 million (about 27 million dollars in 2025 dollars), but that was still a great danger to a studio for the first time in a total error -based comedy. The movie logo was “Sex, insects, and Rock and Roll”. John Bison also collected multiple external characters to appear in his movie. Paul Bartel is suffering from the worship of “Apartment Joe”, as the director underground does Nick Zaid (the director of “Eating” and “Magot Bengo”). There is even a thug plays played by Don Ho (!), Along with small roles for Mobie and Sandra Denton, known as Pepa (from Salt-N-PEPA).

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Joe apartment is delighted, by the way. A lot of time, energy and financing went to a strange movie about the total, and the cockroaches, and feels that someone was escaping something. This was an underground film that somehow deceived a major studio for granting them $ 13 million. It is strange that the “air apartment” must look as the case, as it looks like a lot of dark filth under its professional shine, waiting for the bubble to the surface. The lower humor is highly highlighted. It is a film worship in studio clothes.

MTV may exaggerate the popularity of her short movie, as “Joe’s Apartment” (toilet) was at the box office, and only got $ 4.6 million. He also mocked critics because they were disgusting as it was 21 % approved by 21 % on Spoiled tomatoes. Strangely, for the year 1996, there was no successful audio record (which one might think, would have been a mandate for MTV).

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MTV at the box office later recovered with that year with the “Beavis and Butt-Head DO Arica”, so he fled his face a little. Meanwhile, Besson moved to direct TV programs such as “Arli $$” and “The PJS” (which had a hidden intersection with “Futurama”, enough). He also maintained his external by directing a video clip of the population in 2001.