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| Name | Beavis and Butt-head | | Genre | Comedy / Music clips | | Format | Animated series | | Created by | Mike Judge | | Written by | Mike Judge
Joe Stillman | | Directed by | Mike Judge
Yvette Kaplan | | Voices of | Mike Judge
Tracy Grandstaff | | Theme music composer | Mike Judge | | Composer | Mike Judge | | Country of origin | United States | | Language | English | | No. of seasons | 7 | | No. of episodes | 200 | | List of episodes | List of Beavis and Butt-head episodes | | Executive producer | Mike Judge
Abby Terkuhle | | Running time | 3 - 6 min (without music videos)
5 - 11 (with music videos)
12 - 21 min (specials) | | Production company | J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. (first season/launch)
MTV Animation | | Original channel | MTV | | Picture format | 4:3 (NTSC) (1993-1997) | | Audio format | Stereo | | First aired | Original Series: March 08, 1993 | | Last aired | November 28, 1997 | | Status | Revived | | Followed by | Beavis and Butt-head Do America (Film) | | Related shows | Daria |
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'Beavis and Butt-head' is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. Judge's 1992 short film Frog Baseball was the first appearance of Beavis and Butt-head and cable channel MTV signed Judge to turn the concept into a series. Beavis and Butt-head aired from March 8, 1993, to November 28, 1997. The series has retained a cult following and is rated TV-14 when reruns are aired in the United States.
The show centers on two socially inept rock/metal-loving teenage boys, Beavis and Butt-head (both voiced by Judge), who live in the fictional town of Highland, Texas. They have no apparent adult supervision at home, are woefully undereducated, and seem quite dim-witted. Although they are teenagers, they are young enough that they are barely through puberty. They attend Highland High School, where their teachers are often at a loss as to how to deal with them, although in many episodes the two skip school altogether. They occasionally work part-time at Burger World and sometimes other side-jobs when people mistake their odd behavior as outgoing and assertive. Their recreational activities (besides watching television) range from chasing women to skeet shooting. They have little remorse for their actions, such as when Butt-head misfired a rifle, hitting a Boeing 747 (which had a number of pregnant women inside) and Butt-Head simply nudging Beavis with his shoulder and saying "Did you hear that Beavis? There's a chick on that plane who scored."
The comedic value is partly based on the pair's lack of conventional values: they are highly obnoxious, perverted, and rude to almost every other character in the show, including each other. However, they do not realize this and seem to function on an instinctual level. They survive their often hazardous misadventures without serious consequences, though others around them do not fare as well. Mixed within each episode are segments in which Beavis and Butt-head watch music videos and provide commentary improvised by Judge.
In 1996, the series was adapted into the animated feature film Beavis and Butt-head Do America. On July 14, 2010, it was announced that the series would be revived and begin airing on MTV with new episodes to begin airing sometime during summer 2011. The series is expected to keep its animation style, and to keep Beavis and Butt-head the same age as they were during the show's original run.
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| Beavis |
Voiced by Mike Judge. Has an underbite and a fixated stare on his face, which is almost always shown in profile. Beavis grunts when he laughs, has a more guttural voice and has a penchant for picking his nose. He is the more excitable of the two and though he is oblivious to what should be obvious he is also prone to moments of insight (another source of humor) and is nicer and more optimistic than Butt-head. He often suffers physically in the show, either by Butt-head or various other characters or situations. He usually takes the beating and screams in pain before quickly reverting to his trademark laugh. Before controversy erupted (see below) he exhibited an obsession with fire and his trademark phrase was "FIRE FIRE" which he would render with a maniacal gaze in his eye. (He was the one of the two who smoked as well.) One episode showed that he has voices in his head telling him to engage in destructive activities; however, generally he has a passive demeanor in contrast to Butt-head's more dominant personality. Beavis also originally wears a Metallica shirt with grey shorts. When Beavis consumes large amounts of caffeine or sugar products, he transforms into his hyperactive alter-ego, Cornholio. |
| Butt-head |
Voiced by Mike Judge. Wears dental braces has squinty eyes and a drooping nose with prominent nostrils. His top gums are often exposed due to a small upper lip and he speaks nasally with a deep voice and a slight lisp. He begins almost every statement with "Uhhhhhh..." and ends with his short trademark laugh "Uh huh huh huh". Calmer, though cockier, and marginally more intelligent than Beavis, Butt-head is oblivious to subtlety of any sort and is usually 100% confident in everything he says and does no matter how ridiculous or frivolous it is-unless it has to do with females, in which case he either wavers or comes on too strongly. His trademark phrase when approaching women is "hey baby". As the more dominant personality of the duo it seems he derives pleasure from regularly abusing Beavis. Butt-head also originally wears an AC/DC shirt with red shorts. |
| Tom Anderson |
Voiced by Mike Judge. The nearsighted, elderly neighbor of Beavis and Butt-head. He often hires them to do chores which results in them destroying his yard, home, or personal belongings. Due to his poor eyesight and mild senility he never seems to recognize the two and he never remembers their names (in one episode the two wore horn rimmed glasses in an absurd disguise which Anderson did not notice). He served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War. |
| David Van Driessen |
Voiced by Mike Judge. A teacher at Highland High School and arguably the only person who cares about Beavis and Butt-head. Van Driessen is a devoted hippie with a forgiving nature and gentle demeanor. His repeated attempts to teach the duo useful life lessons typically end in disaster as they almost always deduce the wrong message. He often plays songs on his acoustic guitar which typically end in him being severely hurt and in some cases almost killed. He has been shown teaching classes on biology, art, animation, economics, health, history, and literature, among others. He also owns a substantial 8-track tape collection, which is ruined in one episode by Beavis and Butt-head. His voice and personality are similar to and may serve as a basis of sort for the character of Gerald Goode in Judge's latest animated series The Goode Family. He was probably a base of the character "Mr. Mackey" from South Park, Due to his "Mmkay"s, and he's always trying to bring peace to people (as Mr. Mackey is a Counselor). |
| Coach Bradley Buzzcut |
Voiced by Mike Judge. Another of the duo's high school teachers and the antithesis of Van Driessen. Angry, impatient and short-tempered Buzzcut is a Gulf War veteran who served in the Marine Corps and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character. He is shown substitute teaching regular classes but usually teaches physical education. It has been implied that he has on occasion committed assault and battery against the duo. |
| Principal McVicker |
Voiced by Mike Judge. Principal of Highland High; hates the duo. The two have unintentionally ruined his life. Many episodes begin with Beavis and Butt-head in his office. They refer to him as "McDicker." He is constantly stressed out due to having to deal with Beavis and Butt-head: he shakes when he speaks, he is frequently rummaging through his desk for prescription medications and Maalox, and in one early episode he is shown guzzling a bottle of Old Crow. In one episode, when he thought that Beavis and Butt-head were dead, he immediately stopped shaking and became much calmer and more cheerful. It is currently unknown if McVicker will return to the series since he suffered a heart attack and may have died at the end of the original series finale "Beavis and Butt-head Are Dead". |
| Daria Morgendorffer |
Voiced by Tracy Grandstaff. Daria is a sarcastic, vaguely alt-rockerish, nerdy girl who attends Highland High with Beavis and Butt-head and she is one of the few people who sees the two for what they truly are. While not above taking jabs at them for their lack of intelligence, she also offers occasional help and advice. The duo nicknamed her "Diarrhea" but once said she was cool after she asked President Clinton a poignant question during a school assembly. Indeed, she is one of the few characters they respect at all. She eventually went on to star in her own spin-off series, Daria. It is unknown if she will return to the series since it could take place after she moves out of Highland. |
| Todd Ianuzzi |
Voiced by Rottilio Michieli. Todd is a trashy deadbeat and violent criminal. Although Beavis and Butt-head greatly admire him and aspire to join his "gang", Todd despises the two and frequently beats them up and takes advantage of them when he needs something, such as money, or a place to hide from other gangs or the police. In the episode "Steamroller" it is said that Todd had dropped out of school two years before. Even though Todd's last name "Ianuzzi" was never revealed in the series, it was revealed to be "Ianuzzi" in This Book Sucks. |
| Stewart Stevenson |
Voiced by Adam Welsh. A nerdy, wimpy, short kid who admires Beavis and Butt-head and mistakenly believes they are his best friends. Beavis and Butt-head relate to him mostly as Todd relates to them. They bully Stewart and regularly take advantage of his attempts to befriend them usually resulting in Stewart getting in trouble with his parents for something actually done by Beavis and Butt-head. Stewart wears a Winger t-shirt as a not-so-subtle reinforcement of his wimpiness (as opposed to the "coolness" of Beavis and Butt-head wearing Metallica and AC/DC t-shirts). |
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