Of course, MTV was most famous for its music clips, but the loan must be provided for its initiative in promoting and short films. Between the videos of the disappeared people and the video « Amazing Al » Yankovich, the channel would submit (often strange) the art of ascending directors and animators to just add some variety to 24-hour programming. In 1991, it was not uncommon for MTV and look at full -scale short and bizarre animated bumpers between the music videos. Many new artists have found their thick as part of cracks. In the end, MTV launched « Liquid Television » as a showcase for animated enterprises, and the live -action shorts remained accidentally scattered.
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John Peson’s short film « Ja, Joe ». He first made his MTV debut in 1992, and he caught his eye, mainly because it was a kind of rough. In the short mode, Mark Rosental played Joe, a medium dude who lives in a dirty apartment in New York, which he shares with thousands of conversations singing cockroaches. At the beginning of the film, he warned his « room neighbors » that he had a date, so he needs them to remain hidden. It puts steak under the carpet as a proposal. The roach, being friends Joe, unilaterally decide that instead they will help Joe with love. When Date Joe (Aria Boreikis), the roaches are thinly pushing snacks and furniture to make it comfortable, they all look out of the walls and lamps. Unfortunately, when Joe leaves the kiss, the roaches are excited and poured out of the lights, right on his date. Covered with mistakes, it shouts and runs out with horror. Joe sighs from regret. Perhaps the next time, Joe, the roaches promise.
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MTV was so impressed with « Apt. Joe’s » that he approached Peson about the development for their version of the feature film. MTV has not yet filmed theatrical films but wanted. As a result, « Joe’s apartment » became the first in the history of MTV when he was in the theater in 1996.
Joe’s apartment was a MTV movie full of sex, errors and rock -n -role «
Joe’s apartment function was very strange, very ambitious. The movie just expanded on the short, even hiding the events of the original in the middle. This time Joe, who played Jerry O’Conmel, is a recent transplant in New York, who has problems finding an affordable place for life. When an old woman dies outside in front of him, a bite friend named Walter S *** (Jim Turner) urges Joe to say that she was his mom to inherit her apartment. Naturally, thousands of cockroaches with Brooklyn live there. Can Joe live with a bunch of conversations, sing roach, and romance to his future girlfriend Lily (Megan Ward)? In addition, can he – and the roach – affect the aggression of the vicious senator (Robert Won) who wants to deploy the apartment?
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The cockroaches were visually implemented with some puppet product, but mainly with the modern CGI provided by Blue Sky debut in its function. Animation is so detailed to postpone one of the dining; Viewers could deal with each revolutionary scratch in exoskeletons of mistakes. The roaches, as in the short mode, act as a well -organized mass, as evidenced by the fact that they sing the chapel (only crashed as chipmunk). The cockroach voices were provided by the famous variety vocal group Rockapella, and their songs covering the genres from the country (« Kitty Cat) to Funk ( » Funky Rowel « ) to the Hairdresser ( » Garbage in the Monthly Light « ) to the Gospel. Leading cockroaches, Ralph and Rodny Row, voiced Billy West from the glory of « Futurama » And Reginal Hadlin respectively. Other roaches played BD Wong, Tim Blake Nelson, Bam Bigb, and Dave Chapel (back before we understood how terrible it is).
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Joe’s apartment was a iconic movie in studio clothes
The cockroach animation is probably why « Joe’s apartment » costs so much. The budget amounted to only $ 13 million (about $ 27 million in $ 2025), but it was still a significant risk to the first studio that puts a rough comedy based on errors. The film was « sex, errors and rock -n -role » in a jar of the film. John Peson also gathered several outsiders to appear in his movie. The iconic luminaire Paul Bartel has a kamey in « Joe’s apartment », as well as an underground director Nick Zedd (director « They eat jump » and « Geek Maggot Bingo »). There’s even a chatter played by Don Ho (!), And together with the small roles for Mobi and Sandra Denton, which is better known as Pepa (with Sal-N-Pepa).
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By the way, « Joe’s apartment ». A lot of time, energy and finance has entered this amazing movie about rough, singing cockroaches, and it seems like someone goes with something. It was an underground film that somehow deceived the main studio to give them $ 13 million. It is amazing that Joe’s apartment should look just as much as it feels that a lot of gloomy dirty is under its professional shine, waiting for the bubbles to the surface. The total humor is highlighted. This is a iconic film in studio clothing.
Perhaps MTV has overestimated the popularity of its short, because the movie « In Joe’s apartment » (toilet) at the box office, earning only $ 4.6 million. Critics also ridiculed for being as disgusting Rotten tomatoes. It is strange that in 1996 there was no hit -Sandrak (which you might think would be a mandate for MTV).
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MTV resumed at the box office later this year with the release of « Beavis and Butt Head Do America », so it saved the face a little. Meanwhile, Peson switched to TV shows such as « Arli $$ » and « PJS » (in which the crosswalk of « Futurama » was hidden, ridiculous enough). He also kept his outsiders, sending a music video for residents in 2001.
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