Rox is an American independently produced television and subsequently web series, noted for its political activism as well as for its aesthetic and technical achievements.

Though an underground production with virtually no budget, the show has generated significant controversy and garnered major media coverage, as well as scholarly attention, especially during its earliest years.

[5] Originally conceived as a "mixed drink cooking show,"[4] the program had no budget and was produced under extremely primitive conditions in the basement of a rental property on the town's northeast side.

As the producers became more ambitious, the program expanded to public access cable stations in other cities through the laborious process of sending individual tapes through the mail.

The debut internet episode, "Global Village Idiots," was produced in segmented fashion and encoded as a series of short QuickTime videos for download from the show's website at rox.com.

[14] Over the course of four seasons and almost a hundred episodes, Rox has covered a wide variety of topics, from the banal task of defrosting a freezer to broader social issues such as poverty and marijuana legalization.

Since the beginning, Rox has courted controversy, initially through attempting to air allegedly obscene material and later through provocative, politically charged depictions of illegal activities.

Episode 5, "Rum & Coke Special," featured a segment titled "Coprophagia Corner," in which the hosts displayed a photo, downloaded from the internet, which "depicted a woman defecating into a man's mouth.

When two of the episodes were held back for review, Everson and Nickell chose to run a looping message in their place, which asked viewers to write in.

"[25] In April 1994, episode 59 generated the show's biggest controversy to date, when the hosts smoked marijuana in front of the Monroe County Courthouse, as a way of dramatizing the argument for legalization.

"[1][29] Undeterred, Rox responded with episode 64, "The Overt Promotion of Anarchy," which reveled in the designation, explored the political philosophy of anarchism, documented police brutality at a Critical Mass bicycle ride, and provided explicit instructions on how to construct a "red box" for circumventing payphone fees on long-distance calls.