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Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
Heard this on The Stern Show today. 
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/t … IYx3xAJRtM
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.
Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
Haha, good news.
I thought this would be a bad idea until I saw the Beavis and Butthead short Judge did for Extract. I miss King Of The Hill, though. I'd hear a little Butthead in Hank's voice from time to time and get nostalgic.
Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
Wow. I always thought a reunion show would be great. Not sure how it'll work without watching TV videos though, but it should be fine. Great show. One of the hardest moments I ever laughed was when I saw the Cornholio 2 episode.
Would be cool if the aged & were 28 or 30 by now, but myb this way will be better.
Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
Wow. I always thought a reunion show would be great. Not sure how it'll work without watching TV videos though, but it should be fine. Great show. One of the hardest moments I ever laughed was when I saw the Cornholio 2 episode.
Would be cool if the aged & were 28 or 30 by now, but myb this way will be better.
Actually it says bringing back the show would give MTV a reason to start playing videos again. They're kind of limited in modern day videos to make fun of on the show.
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Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
it won't be the same. It never is the second time around.
cough*GNR*cough 
I`ll give it a watch for nostalgia only
Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
faldor wrote:it won't be the same. It never is the second time around.
cough*GNR*cough
I`ll give it a watch for nostalgia only
I didn't even think of GNR, at least the way I think YOU are alluding. I was thinking it wouldn't be the same, or as good even if 
returned.
Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
The thing is Judge has been working on bringing them back for a long time. I don't think he'd do it unless he was 100% confident about it. So I'm optimistc.
And all this shit music needs to be lampooned and destroyed. BB are the ones to do it.
I also think this is MTV's way of weasling back into showing music videos at prime hours without having to admit they were wrong that they didnt need them anymore... MTV will NEVER be a station like NBC, or even TNT or AMC like they thought they were and its time they faced that fact.
Re: Beavis and Butt-head returning to MTV
It won't be what it once was imho.
I don't think Beavis & Butt-head really appeal to this generation.
primarily because kids don't get their fix watching music videos on mtv any more which is the majority of what beaver and buffcode were about. if appeal of the show is more important than promoting video watching, i say slap some ipods on them here and there and put them in front of a computer instead of a tv. they could watch youtube even. or have them watching reality tv instead of videos.
