This show is extremely creatively comforting. It's too insanely complex to articulate. I could feel forever. It makes me feel like my weird shit can also, on some level, be appreciated by someone for some reason. I love you, Adult Swim.
True! People tend to shut themselves down more often than anything or anyone else does, especially creatively minded people. It's something I tend to struggle with, and a lot of other people I know have experienced the same sensation as well. Human beings of any skillset or mindset tend to be their own worst enemy when it comes down to expression and judging themselves, and I have anxiety as well, which certainly doesn't help. But it's good to get a reminder every now and then to just let the spice flow. :)
effluviah I agree. What I like most is how they mix media, either on top of each other, or just side by side. It takes a certain fearless-ness to be able to give up the normal constraints and just do your thing. The one thing I can assure you is that someone, somewhere will appreciate what you do, no matter what you do.
i watched this for the first time on my first ever acid comeup. my homie and i CRIED laughing at the part with the foam animals expanding in water. it was absolutely beautiful, will never ever forget it. now i try not to watch too many off the air episodes, because i want to save them for all my future trips. this show is truly amazing.
SAMEEE but got us it was when the water drop fell and transformed when I tell you that was the most mind blowing life altering drop of water Iv ever seen
Eat Mushrooms and watch all the episodes of this show and consequences will never be the same. I'm so amazed to live in a time and place where things like this exist. Every episode of this show is unbelievable. So good.
I’ve been coming back & watching for the past 8 years & i just realized the cactus scene at the end was about the dehydrated feeling of a desert and the “light” of the liquid in a cactus! 🌵
i love this so much. its really hard to type right now but its worth it to thank the creators of this. this creation will forever hold a place in time.
I was trippin' balls on the same manner last night and I *so* regret forgetting to put this on! I saw it for the first time last weekend on Bicycle Day when I had taken the other tab. I'm thinking this is either residual dopeness, sober excellence, or I still vape hella canna and just ate a *superb* sangwich. "Namaste about it-- our sangwiches are delicious."
That's borderline nightmare fuel. With all the comments of people watching this while tripping, imagine someone doing that but in a vr setting. Especially with the price of eggs right now. David would show up and steal their soul only for them to turn into a bubble born on a beach by a golden retriever whistling Irish folk songs.
I think we've all had those moments where we fell asleep with the TV on Catoon Network and then woke up in the middle of the night still half asleep to one of these.
I watched this last night when I was baked, came back this morning and it's still a beautiful piece of art. I'm salty that I haven't started watching these sooner
ragganyc yeah, there's things you notice and messages you receive that the author of the works of "art" put out there but most people can't see. on those substances you see them easier and clearer!
they run marathons on the adult swim streaming app, usually for quite some chunk of time as well. They also seem to upload a new episode every month too so it's bit always going to just be the same few episodes.
All right so I'm tripping balls, so this might not seem like a coherent perspective: To me, I think the piece that started playing at 8:25 represents the consequences of not recycling and generating endless plastic waste instead. It starts with the man pushing his cart of what seems like groceries back to...wherever. Then comes the parallel where we see the same man, or possibly the personification of a dying planet, pushing the non-recyclable items into the sea. So much waste ends up here, with decaying humanity following close behind. At the end, we see the man pushing his groceries, but the face of the ocean emerges from the cart. The man stops and stares into the incredible awe from its raw power. He realizes in that moment that he has taken his planet for granted. The man looks too deep in, however, and it consumed by the earth's last solution to save itself: the destruction of Humanity. The moral of the story is: buy eco-friendly items or be recruited to the hive mind of a giant, Ocean-Fish-Plastic-Beast
I love the hyper analysis of one of these clips because I'd go down a whole path of thinking like yours and want to talk about it but couldn't capture how I felt before the next experience began
Liquid was 12 minutes long, NewNow was 11 minutes long and yet Liquid went by much quicker....time dilation and dimensional rifting. THIS Is a Quality Product.
you could get a similar effect irl by using lens with shallow depth of field, racking the focus, and simultaneously sweeping very bright but very thin but wide slits of light across the surface.. lasers for would be brilliantly precise .. that's how I would do it anyways
10:03 I have experienced this exact same thing when I took acid at the beach and the light reflecting off the wet grasses became super fantastic looking, like a rain of alien sparks landing from the sky.
8:25 just takes me to a different world. I wish I could disappear into that shopping cart and live with that shopping cart monster forever. Forget the world that surrounds the shopping cart that the monster and I reside in.
Agree. the full cart and old looking person represent each of us pushing around our baggage and turmoil that has made our lives what they are/were and then its realizing/coming to love the fact that the cart full of your baggage is what makes/made you, you.
I think surrealism is a great medium that explores the realm of art, humor, nature, the human mind/condition from a fresh and creative perspective. BUT I do believe it can be employed as a dangerous and chaotic tool in the hands of nihilism (which surrealism is largely associated with unfortunately), a philosophy that seems to be close to the hearts of many of Adult Swim's creators. I would watch more of Adult Swim if it focused on the BEAUTY of LIFE and it's MEANING rather than its SEEMINGLY incoherent and hopeless nature. This episode (for the most part, in contrast to Off the Air's "Food") did just THAT, and perfectly I might add through the creative genius of a surrealist mind.
don't often see logical thought wading through the RUclips pits. Some might think what you said is a book but it's that's the simple tarts for you. i watch AS to see what I can of the beauty, sometimes I see grose stuff but that compared to these comment sections is just more beauty. AS opened my eyes to Cowboy Bebop and part of the love I have for that is shared with the late night programming section.
I disagree with the "hopeless" part of your analysis, I would think that "hope" or it's counterpart are both concepts completely alien to thd philosophy behind these works.
And what would the problem with nihilism be? In my eyes, nihilism does absolutely no harm, nor does it get to be dangerous. As a matter of fact, it can be quite soothing. And it does not contradict the beauty of life--life can still be pretty, you know. It can be pretty and not have any meaning... which is exactlly the point behind these videos. Some cuts of them are coherent, but mostly it's just an amalgamation of aesthetic and mindless absurdity. It's not hopelessness, it's realism--realism in surrealism--that's in today's minds.
When I am stoned I prefer something more put together. Actual shows like Westworld, Black Mirror, etc. Last week I was tripping on acid and this show changed my life. This show is meant for hallucinagens
This video has played a role in many of my positive experiences. For some reason, I can't watch the dog running and jumping in to that water without crying tears of....I dunno....but its not sadness.
I've loved this episode for a while. I've recently become lost. I think watching it again has helped me in some small part to find myself again. I can't express my appreciation to the creators more. Thank you.
You gotta get high in order to know how it is like. I heard stories and I had assumptions about being high but it's not close to actually being high. You gotta try it to know what it's like, because it's a different state of consciousness
I really can't begin to explain how much adult swim has contributed to my life, I mean sometimes its so vulgar that it shouldn't be funny and some stuff is just plain stupid but its stupid in a good way. And sometimes I just feel weirdly comfortable when I watch these, as if this shit is like, getting me high without drugs, and I feel like stuff like this can finally get recognized the way it should be, weird as fuck but funny, which a lot of people can relate to. So thanks guys. Thanks for making my life better (and worse at the same time) and giving me something that I can watch and feel, sorta at home. Cont know why I chose to say this on this particular video but I just needed to get it out
Remembered watching it while on a trip that made me change my life and be a better person, and everytime I feel I'm slacking and getting distracted from my goal I rewatch it sober and it somehow motivates the shit out of me.
Those are some thick bubbles. In the bubble scene the song reminds of the girls singing in "The Sound of Music" it has that nostalgic feel to it I love it.
This show is extremely creatively comforting. It's too insanely complex to articulate. I could feel forever. It makes me feel like my weird shit can also, on some level, be appreciated by someone for some reason. I love you, Adult Swim.
effluviah its easy to articulate! maybe don't think about it so much
True! People tend to shut themselves down more often than anything or anyone else does, especially creatively minded people. It's something I tend to struggle with, and a lot of other people I know have experienced the same sensation as well.
Human beings of any skillset or mindset tend to be their own worst enemy when it comes down to expression and judging themselves, and I have anxiety as well, which certainly doesn't help. But it's good to get a reminder every now and then to just let the spice flow. :)
effluviah creator of the show is david hughes
That's good to know, thank you! :D
effluviah I agree. What I like most is how they mix media, either on top of each other, or just side by side. It takes a certain fearless-ness to be able to give up the normal constraints and just do your thing.
The one thing I can assure you is that someone, somewhere will appreciate what you do, no matter what you do.
This is a radically different experience when you're sober
It... it almost isn’t
I can attest to this. Yesterday, it was a religious experience. Now it's just... alright.
Did you watch this trippin first???
Dude I watch this on a DMT vape pen while tripping on L
@@orelalcantar937 Yeah, I was about 8 dabs deep the first time I watched this
i watched this for the first time on my first ever acid comeup. my homie and i CRIED laughing at the part with the foam animals expanding in water. it was absolutely beautiful, will never ever forget it. now i try not to watch too many off the air episodes, because i want to save them for all my future trips. this show is truly amazing.
Same here, I also save them for later. Good thing they occasionally release new episodes tho
You had me at the Foam Animal part. I peaked when it startef 😍
Watch adult swim smalls Volume 2 it’s amazing
Bro me too 😭😭😭
SAMEEE but got us it was when the water drop fell and transformed when I tell you that was the most mind blowing life altering drop of water Iv ever seen
Eat Mushrooms and watch all the episodes of this show and consequences will never be the same. I'm so amazed to live in a time and place where things like this exist. Every episode of this show is unbelievable. So good.
Shroom seasons otw 😀
Micah Ellenbrand All episodes... except the Nightmares one.
+Merv Thomas even the nightmare one! Fight the darkness! Embrace the battle!
words was messed up tho
did this but with lsd. 10/10 would do again
I’ve been coming back & watching for the past 8 years & i just realized the cactus scene at the end was about the dehydrated feeling of a desert and the “light” of the liquid in a cactus! 🌵
I don't remember sweetening my coffee with any tryptamines this morning
I'll never comprehend how Adult Swim is so perfect. XD
It's just a bunch of brilliant minds and a shit ton of weed.
Ash lee I think there's more than just weed involved...
+dickface mcgee AGREED. way more than weed involved lmao
+Siam Pho Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
i love this so much. its really hard to type right now but its worth it to thank the creators of this. this creation will forever hold a place in time.
Liquid is by far the most comforting episode of off the air, they should make a Christmas or holiday themed episode
So you like to separate the H from the H2O
Upvote Xmas
Liminal is also good
Winter is goated
Trippin acid right now this shit is crazy lol
+Lynna Richards I have a u contect
its beautiful
Insane acid trip
Draven Duggan facts Lmfaooooo
I was trippin' balls on the same manner last night and I *so* regret forgetting to put this on! I saw it for the first time last weekend on Bicycle Day when I had taken the other tab. I'm thinking this is either residual dopeness, sober excellence, or I still vape hella canna and just ate a *superb* sangwich. "Namaste about it-- our sangwiches are delicious."
Whoever makes these is a genius
Fishout ofWater David Hughes composes this out of different footage made by others, to create this beautiful audio-visual journey.
Not really they just have taken lots of acid
Eighty Seven damnit now i cant unhear it
Dave did it.
@@DMVGREY im pretty sure they do
The cool thing about these shorts is that you don't necessarily have to be on hallucinogens to enjoy them.
But it helps
No you need to be or else
You don't, but if you have, you know how much its enhanced
The 'necessarity' is PURELY subjective...TEREASA!!!!
Adult Swim should make these compatible with virtual reality
Impossible, though. These footages are from various random sources.
TRO
jojolafrite90 as makes their own content, too. Not under the Off The Air title, but it’s a “maybe one day” thing for now.
That's borderline nightmare fuel. With all the comments of people watching this while tripping, imagine someone doing that but in a vr setting. Especially with the price of eggs right now. David would show up and steal their soul only for them to turn into a bubble born on a beach by a golden retriever whistling Irish folk songs.
@@johnbyrd7400 THIS COMMENT WINS
its like baby Einstein's for adults
Holy shit this is so true
ledzep22100 LMAO
I said this exact thing about 5 hours ago lmao
Jesus you right
Thank you
The fuzzy shopping cart is everything. I keep rewatching to this day.
the first clip brings me joy
Me too
5:19 "Sponges grow in the ocean, that kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen?"
Steven Wright, Hysteria
I think we've all had those moments where we fell asleep with the TV on Catoon Network and then woke up in the middle of the night still half asleep to one of these.
"Adult Swim: TV for Stoners"
Nah for trippers
Sigma and you can be an a adult who happens to be stoner as well. It doesn't matter ✌️😌
no it's more than just stoners spacing out. this is an artistic staple. off the air is a monument to future generations.
this shit would be boring af on weed, acid would be the way to go, infact i'm bookmarking this been looking for tripping shit for awhile
on a trip rn and its worth it bud
6:51 probably the most hilarious Off the air segment
I watched this last night when I was baked, came back this morning and it's still a beautiful piece of art. I'm salty that I haven't started watching these sooner
i just did the exact same thing haha
That’s how I’m feeling… 6 YEARS LATER
@@etherealjay what a community hahaha
I took my first acid trip last night and my friends had me watch off the air. It was the beginning of an amazing night..
it was the beginnig of an amazing life
Me too man
so... a guy called Dave Hughes is the mad wizard making these.
I just gained so much respect for Adult Swim. That was a work of art.
Who needs acid when you have off the air.
U need acid to watch off air 😂
Azarie Nyan really not the best idea
Just some mushrooms Not enough to trip balls but enough to see all😺🙀😹😺
ragganyc yeah, there's things you notice and messages you receive that the author of the works of "art" put out there but most people can't see. on those substances you see them easier and clearer!
ragganyc Honestly, I think DMT mixed with this shit is gonna work pretty well.
off the air should have its own channel. I'd watch it all day.
they run marathons on the adult swim streaming app, usually for quite some chunk of time as well. They also seem to upload a new episode every month too so it's bit always going to just be the same few episodes.
All right so I'm tripping balls, so this might not seem like a coherent perspective:
To me, I think the piece that started playing at 8:25 represents the consequences of not recycling and generating endless plastic waste instead. It starts with the man pushing his cart of what seems like groceries back to...wherever. Then comes the parallel where we see the same man, or possibly the personification of a dying planet, pushing the non-recyclable items into the sea. So much waste ends up here, with decaying humanity following close behind.
At the end, we see the man pushing his groceries, but the face of the ocean emerges from the cart. The man stops and stares into the incredible awe from its raw power. He realizes in that moment that he has taken his planet for granted. The man looks too deep in, however, and it consumed by the earth's last solution to save itself: the destruction of Humanity.
The moral of the story is: buy eco-friendly items or be recruited to the hive mind of a giant, Ocean-Fish-Plastic-Beast
I love the hyper analysis of one of these clips because I'd go down a whole path of thinking like yours and want to talk about it but couldn't capture how I felt before the next experience began
Literally a day after I run out of weed I discover this show. For fuck's sake.
you don't need drugs to experience something loser
Wow! Really? I wasn't aware. Thank God Brice Smith was here to let me in on the big secret!
Brice Smith to experience this bs in another dimension, youll definitely need drugs.
lol
this comment and banter is the best lolzez
that zooming noise when the dog hits the water and then the cry blew my eye balls back into my skull. fuuuuck
Bulee Ser lol
Every time I sit through an ad I become less interested in whatever they're selling
this show in 4k would be rad
I'm so glad that you guys have all of this show on youtube. It is seriously one of the best shows you guys make, along with Rick and Morty that is...
this is beautiful beyond words! it feels like a consolation prize for having remained in existence
Haha I love that description
And for staying up until 4am to watch it!
@@g3rbluu
😅
is that guy cooking on a volcano?.. what a bad ass
Yep 16 year old me on acid never stood a chance when I first seen this
I'm speechless. This is unfathomable artwork.
Liquid was 12 minutes long, NewNow was 11 minutes long and yet Liquid went by much quicker....time dilation and dimensional rifting. THIS Is a Quality Product.
I would really love to know how that lighting of the cactus part was made. It's all mind blowing to say the least.
If I remember I think they put a load of leds into them, I remember seeing something about it somewhere
Adam C Vsauce featured it in a recent bidipi, that's where I saw it at least
LEDs? IIt's CG
you could get a similar effect irl by using lens with shallow depth of field, racking the focus, and simultaneously sweeping very bright but very thin but wide slits of light across the surface.. lasers for would be brilliantly precise .. that's how I would do it anyways
I need to borrow some salt. Takes eggs
Facepalm Interactive "i just need a teaspoon of salt... And a dozen eggs, here i go!"
10:03 I have experienced this exact same thing when I took acid at the beach and the light reflecting off the wet grasses became super fantastic looking, like a rain of alien sparks landing from the sky.
Salute Soldier!
8:25 just takes me to a different world. I wish I could disappear into that shopping cart and live with that shopping cart monster forever. Forget the world that surrounds the shopping cart that the monster and I reside in.
Tbh this clip actually gave me nightmares for a bit
What's teh song?
dude this changed my life...thank you
?
Lmfaooooo
holy fuck im so high.
The scene at 8:25 makes me cry for some reason. It's like man was taken to another world where he can be happy and at peace. Very comforting.
Agree. the full cart and old looking person represent each of us pushing around our baggage and turmoil that has made our lives what they are/were and then its realizing/coming to love the fact that the cart full of your baggage is what makes/made you, you.
@@benkopa6419 everyone is interrupting this in their own different ways I see this as myself and a friend taking me to a different universe lol
I think surrealism is a great medium that explores the realm of art, humor, nature, the human mind/condition from a fresh and creative perspective. BUT I do believe it can be employed as a dangerous and chaotic tool in the hands of nihilism (which surrealism is largely associated with unfortunately), a philosophy that seems to be close to the hearts of many of Adult Swim's creators. I would watch more of Adult Swim if it focused on the BEAUTY of LIFE and it's MEANING rather than its SEEMINGLY incoherent and hopeless nature. This episode (for the most part, in contrast to Off the Air's "Food") did just THAT, and perfectly I might add through the creative genius of a surrealist mind.
Bruh it's just supposed to be cool when ur high, which it is
don't often see logical thought wading through the RUclips pits. Some might think what you said is a book but it's that's the simple tarts for you. i watch AS to see what I can of the beauty, sometimes I see grose stuff but that compared to these comment sections is just more beauty. AS opened my eyes to Cowboy Bebop and part of the love I have for that is shared with the late night programming section.
This is surrealism guys
I disagree with the "hopeless" part of your analysis, I would think that "hope" or it's counterpart are both concepts completely alien to thd philosophy behind these works.
And what would the problem with nihilism be? In my eyes, nihilism does absolutely no harm, nor does it get to be dangerous. As a matter of fact, it can be quite soothing. And it does not contradict the beauty of life--life can still be pretty, you know. It can be pretty and not have any meaning... which is exactlly the point behind these videos. Some cuts of them are coherent, but mostly it's just an amalgamation of aesthetic and mindless absurdity. It's not hopelessness, it's realism--realism in surrealism--that's in today's minds.
Where's my drugs, why am I watching this sober
This shit is awesome when ur high
chronoslv7 this shit is awesome when you're sober
DUDE WEED LMAO
When I am stoned I prefer something more put together. Actual shows like Westworld, Black Mirror, etc. Last week I was tripping on acid and this show changed my life. This show is meant for hallucinagens
this shit is awesome when potato
When you're high it is awesome! When drunk it makes you feel sick... fuck booze, everyone get high and experience it!
This video makes me feel free and the dog from the beginning is the best! I love him!
THAT WAS FUCKING AMAZING!! My mouth is still open at the end, where can I go on those kayaks?
i ate some mushrooms and watched this omg i melted. i died laughing for hours when the boat explodes 7:17 for some reason
The happiest dog on earth in 3...2...1...0:05
Me when I’m going to store
4:16 bro that part hit me diff
I think this is becoming one of my favorite shows.
Everything about this is so beautiful! I can't describe it. I am in awe. :) I feel so trippy right now. I feel happy. XD LOL, that wool guy tho!
This video has played a role in many of my positive experiences. For some reason, I can't watch the dog running and jumping in to that water without crying tears of....I dunno....but its not sadness.
Yes, it’s very joyful. I always watch Walter when I’m feeling down.
Nobody is sober watching this
great show when on a psychedelic :)
i could see these being too weird at times
Very
Tripping balls rn watching this
soooooo beautiful, experiencing this rn
The opening to this episode is so powerful.
THIS WAS SOOO GOOD I’m glad to see creativity is still with us
4 years now...still the best visual demonstration I've ever watched...video editing level GOD I remember watching this while high..I almost lost it
i love this show. Bring it back to Saturday mornings!!
I've loved this episode for a while. I've recently become lost. I think watching it again has helped me in some small part to find myself again. I can't express my appreciation to the creators more. Thank you.
i'm trippping balls
7:54 bliss to this day
@ 1:40 Space Ghost on acid with ice cream.
+Juan Delgado (Speed Painting) Moltar on the left bottom 2:51
That bit with the cacti has to be the coolest thing I've ever seen regardless of category.
Ahh... So this is what it's like to be high.
not even close bruh
You gotta get high in order to know how it is like. I heard stories and I had assumptions about being high but it's not close to actually being high. You gotta try it to know what it's like, because it's a different state of consciousness
ROTMG DaBeatz yup
Being high isn't anything like this- these videos are for tripping
The man at the biginning is saing "Slowly, all' right?" It's italian.
I really can't begin to explain how much adult swim has contributed to my life, I mean sometimes its so vulgar that it shouldn't be funny and some stuff is just plain stupid but its stupid in a good way. And sometimes I just feel weirdly comfortable when I watch these, as if this shit is like, getting me high without drugs, and I feel like stuff like this can finally get recognized the way it should be, weird as fuck but funny, which a lot of people can relate to. So thanks guys. Thanks for making my life better (and worse at the same time) and giving me something that I can watch and feel, sorta at home. Cont know why I chose to say this on this particular video but I just needed to get it out
THANK YOU ADULT SWIM FOR SO MUCH! You have just made my freaking morning!!
WOW AMAZING!!!!!! THE DOG IS THE BEST PART I LITERALLY LAUGHED SO HARD IT WAS SO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHA
frrrr
"splash me up and I'll splash you back"
Damn david bowie stealing eggs >u< hHhhh
This is emotionally invigorating. Just perfect.
Happy New Year to everyone who spent it the right way 😂✌🏻
adult swim is one of that rare places you would be so really proud to work at.
the dude made of wool scared me
Best visual poem on liquid since H2O by Steiner (from 1929!!!). Y'all are the greatest show on television.
Interesting to see how much Deacon and Roche play a role in these episodes
Thanks for being here with me Adult Swim. I love you. Never forget that.
Star balancing intertwined razor wire.
“Getting ready for your TED talk I see” hahah that part is so fucking funny haha
i hope this show never ends
Edgar C same
8:40 scared the shit out of me.
What is the song that's around 4:20?
The fuzzy guy with the carnivorous shopping cart gave me an acid flashback. Thanks Adult Swim.
i love these off the air videos.
I miss this Adult Swim. Illegal Drugs....that song at 04:15....
this is my favorite off air of all
Honestly that David Bowie impression was better than i expected it to be
Watching adult swim as a teen I never understood off the air. So I'd change it.
But now that Im a little psychonaut....it aaaallll makes sense! 😂
Spent 3 years looking for this video again. Could just cry reliving the memories
God this video blew my fucking mind
“Oh Theresaaaaa!!!!” Lives in my brain rent free.
Man I hope that dog at the beginning of the video is doing okay after all these years I forgot how old that video was
bro really grabbed a tea spoon of salt and a dozen eggs then proceeded to call it a day 😂
Is no one gonna mention the DUCK EXPLOSION!!!??? 👀
Whoever produced this knows the beauty and gratification given to us by psychedelics
dude i remember when i first saw this show and i litirally thought i accidently took hallucinagins, i was creeped tf out
. I LOVE IT
alter was für ein GEILER zusammenschnitt
Remembered watching it while on a trip that made me change my life and be a better person, and everytime I feel I'm slacking and getting distracted from my goal I rewatch it sober and it somehow motivates the shit out of me.
Those are some thick bubbles. In the bubble scene the song reminds of the girls singing in "The Sound of Music" it has that nostalgic feel to it I love it.