Mike Judge Revived Beavis And Butt Head Because He Still Loves Doing The Voices

We are days away from the return of television history’s most dimwitted duo as the new film Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe premieres on Paramount+ on June 23. Ahead of the release, creator Mike Judge recently appeared at Neuehouse Hollywood, per THR, to screen and speak about the film. He first explained how the return of Beavis and Butt-Head was finalized just before the start of the pandemic, meaning everyone involved had been working on the movie remotely. Judge gives particular credit to Paramount Media Networks & MTV Entertainment Studios’ Chris McCarthy and Keyes Hill-Edgar with pulling the trigger on the revival.

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Originally, Beavis and Butt-Head had a very successful run on television with seven seasons airing on MTV from 1993 to 1997. The first feature film adaptation, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, hit theaters in 1996. In 2011, Judge brought back the duo for an eighth season of Beavis and Butt-Head on MTV. In the years since, there have been rumors and chatter of another revival, but it has taken more than a decade to finally get the boys back on the screen again. As for why this new revival took so long, Judge says it was in part due to some friction behind the scenes.

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So, why now? Judge had been continuously asked about their return, but it wasn’t until these recent plans for a new film and TV show revival came along that he was ready for it. He explains that he had happened to record a guest appearance for the band Portugal. The Man at Coachella that involved doing the Beavis and Butt-Head voices. Judge realized upon revisiting those voices that he still had a lot of fun recording them, pushing his interest toward doing another revival.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe starts streaming on June 23 on Paramount+.