Beavis and Butt-Head have returned to television after a 14 year absence with 3.3 million watching with the first of twelve new episodes for MTV. In 1993, Mike Judge, creator of “Beavis and Butt-Head,” and MTV knocked their heads together and launched a cartoon series starring a couple of lunkheads, and unwittingly started an animated pop culture revolution. Almost as soon as the world’s most famous slacker teenagers wearing heavy-metal T-shirts reared their heads, they became self-appointed arbiters of “cool.” But, for the most part, Beavis and Butt-Head spent their time just sitting on a couch making fun of what they watched on television.When Mike Judge decided to revive Beavis and Butt-head, he knew he had to adapt to MTV's current climate. When the show originally aired, the majority of the network's programming consisted of music videos. And Beavis and Butt-head would spend most of the episode critiquing and making fun of them. Today, that angle no longer applies. Over 60 percent of MTV's schedule features reality television, which will become the characters' new focus.
Judge told MTV, "With the reality shows, it just feels like pay dirt to me. Those shows have just been really fun to have Beavis and Butt-head watch." The main reason the characters are so popular is because they say what the audience is thinking. They're relatable to the Average Joe. With the glutton of junk TV on the air, Beavis and Butt-head will have more than their fair share of mocking material.
Beavis and Butt-head airs Thursdays on MTV.
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