[4] Created by Celebrity Deathmatch creator Eric Fogel, The Head is the story of Jim, a trade-school student in New York City who awakens one morning to find that his cranium has enlarged to mammoth proportions.

[5] Roy needed a place to stay to adapt to the Earth's environment while on a mission to save the world from a power-hungry alien named Gork.

The group consists of Ray, a landscaper who has a lawnmower blade lodged in his skull; Mona, a beautiful young woman with a short tail; Ivan, a Russian who has a mouth in his chest; Raquel, who has an enormous nose and buckteeth which give her a slightly ratlike appearance; Earl, who has a fishbowl in his mouth; Chin, a long-limbed former freak show performer from China; and the annoyingly normal head of the group, Shane Blackman.

The second season lacked the serialized story structure and each episode began with a secondary opening sequence (following the Oddities credits) which introduced the characters/premise.

This release omits the MTV's Oddities opening credits sequence, "Inside The Head," and the extended preview of The Maxx that followed "The Invasion."

The show was featured in Fleer's 1995 trading card set "MTV Animation" alongside Beavis and Butt-Head, The Brothers Grunt, and The Maxx.

A video game version of the show was planned and was going to be released both for Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis in February 1995, but was cancelled very early into development.