Mike Judge, who created the cartoon along with directing cult movies like Idiocracy and Office Space, is a master of the moronic. Sometimes life (and thus comedy) is stupid. Can I explain why Beavis pulling his T-shirt over his blond bouffant and declaring himself the Great Cornholio made me laugh louder than anything Bart Simpson has ever done? No, but it’s true.
This was no provocation but a considered take – one I don’t regret. Yet if you talked to me back then, I would have told you with sniggering teenage confidence that the critically ignored Beavis and Butt-Head, a crudely drawn cartoon about two idiots chuckling over music videos, was clearly better. Beavis and Butt-Head didn’t make the cut. Beloved by critics and comedy nerds, it was producing classic episodes like Marge vs the Monorail (written by Conan O’Brien), building a reputation that earned it second place on a recent Rolling Stone list of the 100 greatest shows in history. It’s all very timeless.When Beavis and Butt-Head premiered in spring 1993, The Simpsons was finishing up what many now consider not just its greatest season, but perhaps the greatest ever. Judge relies on a producer to scour YouTube to find videos that might spark a spontaneous put-down. The look, feel and snark of the show hasn’t changed even if there are fewer music videos these days. It goes awry, of course, when he gets on a shuttle bus to a retirement community. There’s also a visit to a polling place - the boys mistake it for a strip club - and later a scheme to buy beer by spray-painting Beavis’ hair with white paint to make him look older. “Now try to empty your mind of all thoughts,” says the teacher. “This sucks,” says Butt-Head, the dark-haired one in braces and an AC/DC T-shirt. “It is almost fun sometimes to just go to that lazy part of your brain where you’re just blurting out whatever stupid thought comes out,” says Mike Judge, who created the duo and voices them.Ī second season of “Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head” kicked off this month with our heroes at a school-mandated meditation class, an alternative to detention.
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