Beavis and Butt-Head return to MTV
"Beavis and Butt-Head" will return to MTV later this year. The show originally ran on the network from 1993 to 1997. Credit: Handout
Huh! Huh! Huh! Beavis and Butt-Head are coming back to MTV. Cool.
MTV has announced that the cable channel's iconic 1990s series "Beavis and Butt-Head" is returning this summer. The news was delivered at a presentation to advertisers by the cast of one of MTV's newest series, "Skins."
The brainchild of animator Mike Judge, who went on to create the animated sitcom "King of the Hill" and to direct the live-action cult-hits "Office Space" and "Idiocracy," "Beavis and Butt-Head" ran for 200 episodes from 1993 to 1997. Judge provided both voices. An MTV spokesman confirmed to Newsday "that we will be bringing new episodes to MTV later this year," but did not specifically state what or how much Judge's involvement would be. Judge could not be reached for comment.
With a minimalist and crudely animated style, the show featured two grunting, hormonal, teenage heavy-metal fans who typically sat on a couch and critiqued rock videos, usually with snarky invective that was often brilliantly stupid. The series began as a segment of MTV's animation anthology "Liquid Television" and eventually spun off the 1996 theatrical film "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America" as well as the MTV animated series "Daria."
Rumors of a revival have surfaced sporadically, often after the duo appeared in a promotional clip, an awards-show sequence or some other one-shot that Judge has done throughout the years.
After Beavis and Butt-Head hosted a promo clip for Judge's live-action feature "Extract" in 2009, Judge told CinemaBlend.com, "I don't ever want to close the door on" a Beavis and Butt-Head project, but lamented that animation takes so long. "[I]t would take at least two years, and I haven't had two years to spare in a while. . . . I worry that as I get older my voice is going to change, so I don't sound the same."
It was unclear if the boys would still be teens in the new series. Judge said in 2009, "I was thinking, God, it would be so fun to just have them working tech support. They're the guys you get when you call."
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