The Head 2-Disc Box Set DVD

The Head is the mid-1990s MTV animated series about Jim, an everyday New Yorker who wakes up one morning with a giant blue alien named Roy living inside his head, where Roy has been hiding from a sinister force trying to invade Earth. The series aired on MTV and later HBO Max across 1994 and 1996, with a 19-episode run that became a cult favorite of the network's adult animation lineage.

The format is the appeal: each episode pairs a fresh sci-fi complication (a cosmic mission, a museum case, a hillbilly town, a jungle escape, a rebellion) with Jim's running attempts to live a normal life while sharing his head with an alien, holding the show's signature blend of MTV-era absurdism and serialized sci-fi as the engine. Episode titles like "The Head Saves The Earth," "Jim's Plan," "The Invasion," "The Rise - Fall Of Jim," and "Rats" telegraph the show's commitment to its specific brand of strange storytelling. The animation has the unmistakable mid-1990s MTV look.

For mid-1990s MTV programming, this was a notable piece of the network's stretch of adult animation experiments, sitting in the lineage of cable-friendly cartoon programming. Suited for fans of the era's particular brand of MTV original animation, viewers who like their cartoons sci-fi-coded and willing to handle adult-leaning themes, and anyone with affection for the broader cult-cartoon tradition.

Standouts worth revisiting include "The Head Saves The Earth" (the opener), "The Mission" (an early classic), "Mona's Secret" (a fan-favorite character beat), "The Invasion" (a major-stakes swing), and "Rats" (the closer). This 2-DVD collection brings all 19 episodes of The Head plus extras into one place, the complete cult-favorite MTV sci-fi run in one set, ready for a long late-night marathon with one of the network's most-cherished animated experiments.