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Post by Sideshow Bob on Jul 8, 2010 8:02:32 GMT -6
www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/popcornbiz/New-Beavis-And-Butthead-Episodes-May-Be-Coming--THAT-IS-COOL-97939184.html“Beavis and Butt-Head” has been off the air for 13 years, and I don’t know if that fact makes feel older, or sadder, or both. Likely both. Anyway, the world has missed this show desperately. Music has somehow gotten WORSE. Videos have somehow gotten DUMBER. A nation in need cries out for two cartoon idiots to cruelly mock everything around them with a blunt stupidity that is practically zen in its truth. And now, people of Earth, we may just see the comic duo finally return. Website Reviewniverse says creator Mike Judge is working on THIRTY new episodes of the cult classic. Thirty! YES! YES! THIS KICKS ASS! I AM CORNHOLIO!
Mike Judge is currently outlining 30 new episodes of his iconic animated comedy Beavis and Butt-Head for its native network…
Even better news for fans is that, should this come to pass, Judge plans on retaining the show's original ghetto-tech aesthetic, right down to the faded color palatte. The source also reveals that the Extract director intends on keeping B and B's format identical to its original sketch-videos-sketch incarnation, but with more contemporary music clips for the cartoon slacker-duo to skewer.
Oh, that is just the best news I’ve heard all month. Actually, it’s the ONLY news I’ve heard all month because things are slow. Still, AWESOME.
I grew up with “Beavis and Butt-Head.” There isn’t a single guy my age who doesn’t look back on that show fondly. Somehow, Judge was able to perfectly emulate stupid teenagers while also mocking them and somehow making them smarter than everyone else around them. I still don’t know how that’s possible, but Judge did it. He told a story once about writing lines for the duo during Sir Mixalot’s “Baby Got Back” video, and how all the writers were trying to come up with clever lines. Then Judge just said in Butt-Head’s voice: “He’s standing on a butt,” and that got more laughs than anything. Somehow, the dumbest thing to say was also the smartest. Something like that can only happen on this show, and I pray the reports of its resurrection are true.
BY Drew Magary // Wednesday, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:46 CDT
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Post by matt51180 on Jul 8, 2010 8:11:24 GMT -6
Veeeeery nice
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Post by bigdave on Jul 8, 2010 8:22:20 GMT -6
VEEEERY VEEEEEEERY Nice!!!
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Post by Terd Ferguson on Jul 8, 2010 9:35:07 GMT -6
awesome....my dad will be pumped about this too. HUGE Beavis and Butthead fan.
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Post by mexicanjunior on Jul 8, 2010 10:06:23 GMT -6
Since Goode Family was failed, glad to see Mike Judge returning to his roots...
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Jul 14, 2010 12:28:06 GMT -6
Even more confirmation that this will happen: www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/they_re_back_PZVN8lcKHQYVIYx3xAJRtMThey're back!By MICHAEL STARR Last Updated: 2:14 PM, July 14, 2010 '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. |
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Post by mexicanjunior on Jul 16, 2010 14:13:01 GMT -6
Is this an end around way of bringing King of the Hill back (Anderson)?
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Feb 3, 2011 7:53:46 GMT -6
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Post by matt51180 on Feb 3, 2011 13:09:57 GMT -6
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Post by mexicanjunior on Feb 3, 2011 13:26:54 GMT -6
VEEERRRYYYY nice...
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Post by Terd Ferguson on Feb 3, 2011 14:01:58 GMT -6
GREATNESS!
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Post by "Hollywood" Matt Shannon on Feb 15, 2011 16:40:52 GMT -6
THIS IS AWESOME! *clap, clap, clap-clap-clap* THIS IS AWESOME! *clap, clap, clap-clap-clap* And how about I link to my favorite Beavis and Butthead episode of all time, "Ding Dong Ditch." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0Xnhmq6ZQ |
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Feb 17, 2011 10:29:51 GMT -6
consequenceofsound.net/2011/02/17/mtv-president-details-beavis-and-butt-head-revival/Six months ago, word came that 90’s animated icons Beavis and Butt-Head would be returning to MTV. Now, in an interview with Rolling Stone, MTV president Van Toffler has given the first details on the upcoming series.
Fans should feel like they’re reuniting with old friends when the show premieres sometime this year, as it will hold very true to the original — only the videos your favorite halfwits are watching will be totally modern. Toffler explains the episodes will feature “self-contained segments with the boys in different situations like they used to be. But this time they’ll watch Jersey Shore, UFC matches and user-generated videos from YouTube, in addition to music videos.” Regardless of the origin, all the material will be displayed on the boys’ TV set.
Don’t expect those boys to have changed much either, as there are no plans to age them from when they last appeared almost 14 years ago. “They’ll have the same intelligence,” Toffler continues. “They’re the same boneheads sitting on the same couch, commenting on things through a really simple prism.” Seeing how that prism refracts things like Snookie, Lady Gaga, or David After Dentist might not solve the problem of Music Televisions lack of, well, music, but it’ll still probably be damn amusing.
Be prepared for a massive marketing blitz surrounding the show, as well. Just as Beavis and Butt-Head 2.0 will be brought to the modern era, so will the promotion take full advantage of current technology. “We’re going to plant seeds of the characters throughout social-media networks like Facebook and Twitter, in addition to traditional programming on television and, potentially, in theaters,” Toffler says. Beavis and Butt-Head Re-do America, anybody?
With creator Mike Judge returning to the show’s reins, there’s potential that even without focusing only on music videos, these two idiots could sort of save MTV. Think The Soup on E!; almost makes all that network’s slop bearable with Joel McHale there to mock it along with us. So, are you excited for this nostalgic return, or would you rather they leave Beavis and Butt-Head in 1997? Let us know in the comments section, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated.
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Post by Sideshow Bob on Oct 18, 2011 9:52:01 GMT -6
Debuts on Thursday, October 27 at 9:00.
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Post by matt51180 on Oct 30, 2011 16:29:42 GMT -6
On my DVR now
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