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oh dude, my chode would straight up explode :smchode
Not sure what to think about this. Especially the music video aspect.
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/king...n-m-37578.aspx
It's official: We can add Beavis and Butt-head to the list of resurrected TV cartoon comedies, alongside the recently revived Futurama and Family Guy.
The news that MTV and Mike Judge are planning all-new adventures for our two favorite stupid slackers is exciting, because the show was awesome, but also surprising, given that B and B got canceled all the way back in 1997.
Why the revival, 13 years, a King of the Hill, one Office Space and an Extract later? If the New York Post is to be believed, the sheer quality of Judge's Beavis and Butt-head work, and the promise of nostalgia-ratings (and it IS a promise, at least from me), aren't the only reasons MTV is bringing the high-school anti-heroes back to life. The move is also a means of returning to the network's roots:
"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."
Music? On the Music Television Network? No. WAY!
Neither MTV nor Judge is spilling much about the new Beavis and Butt-head episodes, but we do know this: When B and B return, the metal-loving goons will still be in high school, but instead of lampooning 90's pop culture and bands, they'll "lob their snarky comments at more current targets like Lady Gaga."
Does that mean they'll trade in their Metallica and AC/DC t-shirts for a couple of more topical logos? We hope not. We want a revival, not a total revamping. You better not be a bunch of bungholes about this, MTV.
A little taste of the way things used to be:
oh dude, my chode would straight up explode :smchode
Still...beavis and butthead watching Lady Gaga and Black Eyes Peas and Drake videos?
For every video they made fun of they played a good one....and the pool of good ones is incredibly thin.
Awesome if they do it right, heartbreaking if they don't. Half the fun of the old episodes was the use of obscure videos, but I have a hard time believing MTV would let them do that these days.
@ the video where they said hey, that's the guy from all my uncle's movies! when Ron Jeremy was in it or the Carmen Electra video they watched. No way they could do the show without those. They need to make an episode where they almost score with Lolita & Tanqueray too.
One of the best episodes...lol
Another report...looking like it's real..
'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.
SCORE!: MTV is going back into the "Beavis and Butt-head" business with the first new episodes in 13 years.
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.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainmen...HQYVIYx3xAJRtM
This could be an epic show of genius or display of crap- ude. Imagine B&B criticizing generic ty music like all the popular emo/dance/rap...but also expose some obscure music that turns out to be amazing. It could save a generation of kids that at this point, on their current path, will grow up to throw this entire country away for Twilight, Miley Cyrus, and more ty 80s film remakes.
I don't see Mike Judge letting his greatest most timeless creation go to , but then again...we're talking MTV post 1999 here.
I cannot wait, I really hope they don't change their tshirts.
Stick with the formula that made it work. Metal shirts and hopefully it isn't that much different vocally or in the creativity.
1999? MTV, aside from Beavis & Butthead, went to about 1992.
Music videos on MTV? WTF?
I think it will be awesome!!!
I'll give them credit for being watchable for a bit longer than that. Maybe not good, but watchable.
The first few seasons of "The Real World," before its contrivances became so painfully obvious, were legitimately interesting/entertaining. Liquid Television was unique and generally worth watching. And for a few years, they actually managed to balance music and non-music programming in an okay way.
About 1994-95, shortly before they launched MTV2, was when it really became unbearable. With the exception of 1997, when they were first trying to fight the backlash from not playing music. I remember they aired a block of two or three hours of MTV2 every afternoon (a moment of silence for MTV2's original format of commercial-free, 24/7, genre mixing, and obscure music videos), a show called "12 Angry Viewers" that was specifically aimed at getting otherwise unknown videos into heavy rotation, and "MTV Live," which had a solid few months of being a good show with good information before Carson Daly showed up and it started to morph into TRL.
The start of the Carson Daly years is what signaled the end of me watching MTV with any regularity. VJs who were unattractive but actually knew music were almost wholesale replaced by pretty dumbasses, and you just knew what was coming.
I'm waitin' for a role in the movie version which you know damn well is comin'
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More proof that new ideas are slim and far between.
I never watch MTV. I feel like my brain is decomposing every time I even hear about the channel.
Yeah, do you think Edie Brickell and the new bohemians would even catch a whiff of air time in today's MTV? (huh huh, "Deep")
Meanwhile, there better be some GWAR! Oh and the shirts must stay the same. This just made my day, I have already texted this to a few people.
Duff was hot!
MTV was dead to me once Yo MTV Raps got relegated to one day a week and Fab 5 Freddy was sent packing in favor of boring Ed Lover & fatass Dr. Dre. Then a couple of years later they just pulled the plug completely and replaced it with some ed up R&B show that only played one of two rap videos an hour. Thankfully BET stepped to the plate with Rap City.
Awesome recall there. yeah I was wrong about 1999, I meant around this era. Carson Daly/TRL was the shark-jumping for the network if there ever was one. I enjoyed 12 angry viewers, especially when Vanilla Ice went ape when they destroyed his video.
That was different. That was a special in which Jon Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, Chris Kattan, and Dennis Leary made snarky comments about 25 videos considered lame enough to be taken out of MTV's rotation forever. Aired in 1999, I think, and was absolutely hilarious. It occurs to me I actually still have this on VHS somewhere, even though I no longer own a VCR.
12 Angry Viewers was hosted by Jancee Dunn and had people off the street (? - can't remember where they came from, but they were nobodies) voting on obscure/unknown videos to determine which one would get thrown into heavy rotation.
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