There was also a 12-year-old who called himself “Iron Butt” (because he claimed to never get injured from a kick to the posterior) who had a friend called “Butt-head.” 5. Beavis and Butt-head were named after kids that lived in Mike Judge's neighborhood.īobby Beavis was “kind of an athletic kid” that lived three blocks from Judge while he was in college, and not similar to the character with the Metallica shirt christened with his surname. Time was saved on the animation for the music video commentaries by having an editor take footage from earlier episodes and sync it up with new mouth positions. He opted to add to his workload by winging it when it came to Beavis and Butt-head's taste-making opinions on music. Judge voiced virtually all of the characters on the show and was one of just a handful of people who made up the writing staff. Mike Judge improvised most of the dialogue during the music videos. It made its return more than six weeks later on May 17th with “Scientific Stuff” and “Good Credit.” 3. Not because of any controversy, but because Judge and his animation staff couldn’t keep up with the demand for new material, forcing MTV to stop airing the show entirely two weeks after it premiered. Shortly after greenlighting Beavis and Butt-head, MTV had to halt production. MTV pulled Beavis and Butt-head from the air shortly after it premiered. MTV then paid Judge for the rights to the two characters and ordered 65 four-minute cartoons. In 1992, Beavis and Butt-head made their loud, violent first impression in his short Frog Baseball. Cartoon short Milton, the origin of the character from his live-action cult classic Office Space, appeared in a 1991 episode. Mike Judge went from teaching himself animation and playing bass for Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets to having one of his cartoons played on MTV’s animation showcase program Liquid Television in one year’s time. Beavis and Butt-head got their start on Liquid Television.
With the recent announcement that the series is coming back for two new seasons on Comedy Central, here are some things you might not have known about Mike Judge's animated headbangers.
While some people considered it the end of the civilized world, TIME Magazine critic Kurt Andersen lauded its irreverence, writing that it “may be the bravest show ever run on national television.”įrom its original 200-episode run to the books (yes, plural), movie, and soundtrack it inspired-plus its brief return in 2011- Beavis and Butt-head has not lost any of its original charm.
On March 8, 1993, Beavis and Butt-head made its debut on MTV-to the delight of young viewers, and the annoyance of their parents.
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