Beavis and Butt-head....ressurection?

[WarThrash]

This will truly do the world some good. MTV better realize what an opportunity this is for their shitty channel. If not, give the series to adult swim or even comedy central or something. If this show gets the revival it truly deserves, I know Judge won't f*ck it up.

http://tv.ign.com/articles/110/1104511p1.html

Following in the footsteps of Family Guy and Futurama, it seems that Mike Judge's classic cartoon Beavis and Butt-head (http://tv.ign.com/objects/827/827299.html) may also be making a return to television in the semi-near future. Saying they've spoken to an anonymous source, REVIEWniverse (http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-43585-Entertainment-Reviews-Examiner%7Ey2010m7d6-REVIEWniverse-exclusive-Beavis-and-ButtHead-creator-Mike-Judge-working-on-30-new-episodes) reports that Judge, the mastermind behind Office Space (http://movies.ign.com/objects/040/040587.html) and King of the Hill (http://tv.ign.com/objects/825/825274.html), has been outlining 30 new episodes of the animated MTV series.

According to REVIEWniverse, Judge also plans to honor the show's roots, retaining the series' original format and faded aesthetic.

Whether MTV will actually pick up the show's resurrection remains to be seen, but in a worst case scenario, the show could make a viable transition from the small screen to the computer screen - and could be easily published on Judge's own website or an established online partner.

[marioman360]

Words cannot describe the joy i got when reading this.

[Pansa]

Posting Judge's work and skipping the awesome Idiocracy? Heresy!!

As for B&B ? Meh I like "Idiocracy" and "Office space" much more.

[WarThrash]

How many people are still even watching MTV? And out of those people, I wonder if they are even the same Beavis and Butt-head demographic that existed in the 90s. I mean now it's mostly reality shows. Back then there was various rock, heavy metal, hip-hop, and pop songs being played all around. I'd love for the show to return, but MTV just isn't what it used to be, so I'm not sure if it's the proper home for B&B anymore.

[Sang]

Don't get me wrong, Beavis & Butthead are tremendously funny, but are they still relevant? I mean, it's not like kids these days still all listen to metal and smoke pot all day, right? Nowadays kids are ignorant brats listening to poppy music.

Beavis & Butthead was intended as a social commentary on the youth in the 80's/90's, but things are different now. I feel the social commentary wouldn't work, meaning it wouldn't be as funny.. It's one of the reasons South Park is funny: they laugh at things going on in the world right this moment.

[WarThrash]

Don't get me wrong, Beavis & Butthead are tremendously funny, but are they still relevant? I mean, it's not like kids these days still all listen to metal and smoke pot all day, right? Nowadays kids are ignorant brats listening to poppy music.

Beavis & Butthead was intended as a social commentary on the youth in the 80's/90's, but things are different now. I feel the social commentary wouldn't work, meaning it wouldn't be as funny.. It's one of the reasons South Park is funny: they laugh at things going on in the world right this moment.

Metalocalypse seems to work fine, so the heavy metal audience isn't dead. Which leads me to believe that the proper home for the show may lie with Adult Swim, rather than MTV

[Xgthug]

This is incredible news, indeed. :)

Suddenly I am reminded of my early childhood. I thought Beavis and Butthead was the funniest thing in the world, but my parents forbid it, so I had to find ways to watch it in secrecy, which like all the other things I wasn't supposed to do as a kid, made it all the more special. :D

I've pretty much loved everything Mike Judge has done, with the exception of Extract.
King of the Hill is definitely one of my favorite shows.

[prophecy holder]

I liked Beavis and butthead except the occasional terrible music video medded in the middle. Hopefully they'll put it on Comedy central or Adult swim than MTV, MTV now a days is pretty much a shell of it's former self.

Oh and Metalocalypse's band Dethklok is Death metal, not heavy metal.

[WarThrash]

Oh and Metalocalypse's band Dethklok is Death metal, not heavy metal.

It fits into the "Metal" category. Besides that doesn't really matter demographic wise. Me and 2 other friends of mine love watching it and we've always been Heavy Metal fans rather than Death Metal, but we watch the show because it's actually funny and has elements for all metal fans. I've always disliked the "cookie monster" lyrics in death metal, but Metalocalypse made it tolerable through comedy.

Beavis and Butt-head was just all around a group of metalheads, who even enjoyed some rap videos every once in a while. I'd like to think the demographic is still there, but I'm just not sure it lies with MTV anymore, as I've said. What with all the reality TV garbage they play all day. I think it fits in with shows such as Metalocalypse, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and all the re-runs of King of the Hill on Adult Swim.

[Damien_Azreal]

Off topic... I personally don't care for the tons and tons of little sub-genres that pop up in music. DethKlok... is metal. End. I don't care if people say death, black, heavy, speed... whatever... it's metal.

Rock is rock, metal is metal... on and on and on. Why must we be so damn anal and give everything that sounds just a little different it's own genre. :p

On topic.... well, never a "big" Beavis and Butt-head fan, so I can't say I'm excited to see it come back. Though, it is interesting to see how well it would work these days.
But I will say... it should NOT be put on MTV.
back when B&B was originally on... MTV was the perfect place for it. But now... hell no. MTV now is basically Reality TV... there's next to nothing music related and I can't remember the last time they actually had an enjoyable show on.

I agree that if it does come back, it should go on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim line up. Or something along those lines.

[wayskobfssae]

Are they going to turn B&B into hiphoppers?

I'm terrified someone is going to say that Metal isn't "now" enough to be the focus of the show.

[Rider]

Why must we be so damn anal and give everything that sounds just a little different it's own genre. :p

Well, because there are people that define themselves by what music they listen to. And believe you me, people who're real heavy in to bands like Death and Vader don't like being stacked in the same category as folks who really enjoy Poison or Great White. They're just different demographics.

[Sang]

I can't remember the last time they actually had an enjoyable show on.

I liked Fur TV :o

[Xgthug]

Well, because there are people that define themselves by what music they listen to. And believe you me, people who're real heavy in to bands like Death and Vader don't like being stacked in the same category as folks who really enjoy Poison or Great White. They're just different demographics.

It's true. I like Industrial Metal, thrash, and some Norwegian Black metal... But I flucking HATE hair metal and death metal.
They're completely different.

[WarThrash]

I wonder if Beavis and Butt-head will finally upgrade their tube tv to an HD widescreen? :p

Or maybe they'll own a cheap game console this time around?

Or, most likely scenario...they'll be up to the same old shit, doing nothing, while watching music videos and shitty tv shows

One thing is for sure, though. I want absolutely NO character development in Beavis and Butt-head. They should still never get around to "scoring", they should still be in the same high school in the same grade with the same intelligence level, still wearing the same clothes, and should always have the same raunchy immature jokes. The fact that B&B were so one-dimensional is what made them so hilarious

[Xgthug]

I wonder if Beavis and Butt-head will finally upgrade their tube tv to an HD widescreen? :p

Or maybe they'll own a cheap game console this time around?

Or, most likely scenario...they'll be up to the same old shit, doing nothing, while watching music videos and shitty tv shows

One thing is for sure, though. I want absolutely NO character development in Beavis and Butt-head. They should still never get around to "scoring", they should still be in the same high school in the same grade with the same intelligence level, still wearing the same clothes, and should always have the same raunchy immature jokes. The fact that B&B were so one-dimensional is what made them so hilarious

I hope that Beavis and Butthead never leave the 90's.
If they sit around playing a shitty Xbox 360 or watching Lady Gaga videos, I'm out. :mad:

[Paroxysm]

God I miss the days when MTV was involved with quality programming... Beavis and Butthead, The Maxx, Aeon Flux, The Head, Liquid Television. SO GOOD!

[Xgthug]

Don't forget Celebrity Deathmatch. :cool:

I just miss the 90's, when everything made sense, and I didn't hate being alive.

[WarThrash]

I hope that Beavis and Butthead never leave the 90's.
If they sit around playing a shitty Xbox 360 or watching Lady Gaga videos, I'm out. :mad:

I was thinking more of a Genesis or Super Nintendo. And the widescreen tv was a joke...I don't think B&B should ever have a nice piece of modern technology ;)

Them railing on a shitty Gaga video wouldn't exactly be a bad thing, but yeah I'd like for the overall atomosphere to still be 90's-ish, and from the sound of it, Mike Judge will retain that

[WarThrash]

It's official folks! And it is apparently going to start off MTV's return their roots of playing actual music again! I hope it does well. I know I'll be watching.

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/they_re_back_PZVN8lcKHQYVIYx3xAJRtM?offset=8#comme nts

'Beavis and Butt-head" -- the show that celebrated the slacker way of life and helped make MTV into a network that did more than just play music videos -- is coming back.

The move to resurrect the hugely popular 1990s animated anti-heroes has been rumored for several days. But yesterday, sources at MTV confirmed that a new batch of "Beavis and Butt-head" episodes are in the works.

The new series would keep Beavis and Butt-head in their perpetual high-school state, but it would be updated so that the pals -- who obsessively watch music videos on a battered TV set -- could lob their snarky comments at more current targets like Lady Gaga.

The show's minimalist animated style is also expected to remain intact.

The return of "Beavis and Butt-head" will be a backdoor means for MTV to return to showing music videos -- something the network was founded upon but abandoned in the last decade to make room for popular reality shows like "Laguna Beach," "The Hills" and "Jersey Shore."

"Beavis and Butt-head," which premiered in 1993, began as an animated short called "Frog Baseball," which aired on MTV's "Liquid Television."

The basic plotline revolved around two shorts-wearing, spectacularly immature teenage pals whose banter was delivered against the backbeat of their constant idiotic laughter.

Series creator Mike Judge, who's also creating the new episodes, voiced both characters.

The guys worked at a fast-food joint and were always out to "score" with "chicks" when they weren't sitting on a ratty couch watching music videos.

Beavis, the blond half, usually wore a Metallica T-shirt and would morph into his crazed, gibberish-spewing alter-ego, "Cornholio," when he ingested too much sugar.

Butt-head was the "cooler" of the two. He usually wore an AC/DC T-shirt and often picked on Beavis in much the same way Moe would slap around Curly, Larry and Shemp on "The Three Stooges."

The duo was so successful they were spun off into a 1996 big-screen movie, "Beavis and Butt-head Do America" and a marketing juggernaut of T-shirts and character trinkets.

A recurring character on the show, high-school classmate Daria (whom they called "Diarrhea"), eventually got her own MTV series.

After MTV canceled "Beavis and Butt-head" in 1997, Judge went on to create "King of the Hill" for Fox.

He also wrote the cult-classic movie comedy "Office Space" and last year's big-screen movie "Extract."

MTV officials had no comment yesterday.

Judge is "not commenting at this time," his publicist said.

[Delicieuxz]

This is good news for all.

[wayskobfssae]

Don't forget Celebrity Deathmatch. :cool:

I just miss the 90's, when everything made sense, and I didn't hate being alive.

I had very mixed feelings about the 90's, but at the very least, the 90's had a solid identity. The 00's (and what an appropriate name) doesn't even have that.

[WarThrash]

The 00's had an identity. It was all flatscreens, internet music, CGI, and tiny touchscreen phones.

The identity of the 10's is apparently...realizing the mistakes of the 00's...and more flatscreens, internet music, CGI, and tiny touchscreen phones.

[Xgthug]

The 00's had an identity. It was all flatscreens, internet music, CGI, and tiny touchscreen phones.

The identity of the 10's is apparently...realizing the mistakes of the 00's...and more flatscreens, internet music, CGI, and tiny touchscreen phones.

Don't you own a big flatscreen TV? I'm willing to bet that you download music off the internet, own a tiny touchscreen phone, and watch movies with CGI. :D

[WarThrash]

Movies with CGI: I resent them if it's used heavily. I only excuse CGI when it's used cosmetically or in impossible situations that can't be accomplished with stunt men or practical special effects.

Flatscreen TV: Yes, I own one, but only because movies these days are all in widescreen format

Tiny touchscreen phone: No...I have a crappy prepaid phone that I barely use, and that's how I like it.

Downloading music: Nope. I don't do it. I only buy physical albums. I rip them to my computer, though, sure.

You'll find that I'm VERY behind on alot of things.

[crunchy superman]

Movies with CGI: I resent them if it's used heavily. I only excuse CGI when it's used cosmetically or in impossible situations that can't be accomplished with stunt men or practical special effects.

Flatscreen TV: Yes, I own one, but only because movies these days are all in widescreen format

Tiny touchscreen phone: No...I have a crappy prepaid phone that I barely use, and that's how I like it.

Downloading music: Nope. I don't do it. I only buy physical albums. I rip them to my computer, though, sure.

You'll find that I'm VERY behind on alot of things.

Sounds to me like you've got your head on straight, actually.

[Tetsuro]

Are they going to turn B&B into hiphoppers?
You do realize rap and metal are/were their favourite genres even in the 90's, right?

I don't think B&B should ever have a nice piece of modern technology ;)
They didn't even own a VCR. So yeah.

[Xgthug]

... Yet were somehow able to afford cable television...?

[Tetsuro]

Maybe it was stolen.

[WarThrash]

Yeah, I think the cable may have been stolen and I don't think I ever saw them turn a light on.

But oddly enough they used their phone once. So I guess they do have phone service

[prophecy holder]

They probably just had basic cable, which was free in some parts of America in the 90's.

[DerricktheW]

If they sit around playing a shitty Xbox 360 or watching Lady Gaga videos, I'm out.

...could lob their snarky comments at more current targets like Lady Gaga.

Oh god did I laugh.

[wayskobfssae]

You do realize rap and metal are/were their favourite genres even in the 90's, right?

Rap was still good in the 90's. :p

[nebiatsu]

Uah-hu-hu-hu-hu
Uah-hu-hu-hu-hu
Quit it.

hauh hauh, yeah, yeah.
CORNHOLIO !

Wish AS would have picked it up.

[DerricktheW]

Uah-hu-hu-hu-hu
Uah-hu-hu-hu-hu
Quit it.

hauh hauh, yeah, yeah.
CORNHOLIO !

Wish AS would have picked it up.

Then I'd be force to watch shitty shows like Tim and Eric or Suidbillies before I could watch B&B

[nebiatsu]

Then I'd be force to watch shitty shows like Tim and Eric or Suidbillies before I could watch B&B

Psssst

DVR

;)

[WarThrash]

Squidbillies is awesome.

Tim and Eric is utter garbage though. Although their Terry Crews Old Spice commercials were awesome.
"BLOCK! BUILDING KICK! EXPLOSION!!!!"

[Damien_Azreal]

God I miss the days when MTV was involved with quality programming... Beavis and Butthead, The Maxx, Aeon Flux, The Head, Liquid Television. SO GOOD!

Also... you know, back when they actually played music videos.
Now MTV is stupid ass "I'm 16 and pregnant!" reality shows.... MTV should die.

[Rapture_Rising]

Also... you know, back when they actually played music videos.
Now MTV is stupid ass "I'm 16 and pregnant!" reality shows.... MTV should die.

I totally agree with you there on that. My Pay TV provider Foxtel has changed MTV and put them with the entertainment channels now and not with the music ones.

[DerricktheW]

Isnt there 3 different MTV channels?

Does any one of em play music other than at like 4 AM with nocturnal state?

[Tetsuro]

Rap was still good in the 90's. :p
And Metal wasn't.

[WarThrash]

Isnt there 3 different MTV channels?

Does any one of em play music other than at like 4 AM with nocturnal state?

Well technically MTV, MTV2, VH1, CMT, VH1 ClASSIC, and probably a buttload more I don't know about are all owned by Viacom. So yeah MTV still plays music....just on their other channels.

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And Metal wasn't.

One word.

Pantera

[8IronBob]

Of course Judge should revive this series...almost anything of his would be better than King of the Hill.