Beavis and Butt-Head
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Beavis and Butt-Head |
| Original title | Beavis and Butt-Head |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English (AE) |
| Year (s) | 1993-1997, 2011 |
| Production company |
MTV Animation, Judgmental Films, Tenth Annual Industries (S2-7) , MTV |
| length | 3–21 minutes |
| Episodes | 252 in 8 seasons |
| genre | Comedy |
| idea | Mike Judge |
| production | Mike Judge |
| music | Mike Judge |
| First broadcast | March 8, 1993 (USA) on MTV |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 9, 1995 on RTL II |
Beavis and Butt-Head (original title: Beavis and Butt-Head , English for about "idiot and ass face") is an American cartoon series by Mike Judge , which was broadcast from 1993 to 1997 on the television station MTV . It is based on Judge's short film Frog Baseball from 1992. The series has received critical acclaim, particularly for its satirical, scathing commentary on society. The series "enjoys" cult status in the USA .
In July 2010, MTV announced that it would continue to produce the series. The eighth season aired between October 27 and December 29, 2011. In July 2020, the station Comedy Central commissioned two new seasons as well as specials and spin-off series. Series creator Mike Judge will take over the lead.
action
The main characters are Beavis and Butt-Head, best friends, two idiotic heavy metal fans who live in Highland, a fictional Texas town, who spend most of their lives sitting in front of their television commenting on music videos, watching nachos eating, lounging around haphazardly, doing nonsense and berating each other and others. The main goal of the two is to finally have sex with a woman (in English "to score", in the German version "to get stuck"). Both seem to be hard to read , which means that they often misunderstand (warning) signs and thus end up in the most impossible situations. There are always attempts to discipline them, but these invariably fail. They try everything to finally get ahead, which is prevented again and again by their inability. Beavis and Butt-Head are easy to influence. Both work at “Burger World”, but they don't spend the time there at work, but rather deep-frying dead mice, telephones or flies and harassing customers at the order counter and the intercom.
main characters
- Beavis
Beavis is blonde, has an underbite and mostly wears a blue Metallica T-shirt (in the first episode he wears a Slayer T-shirt). If Beavis consumes too much caffeine or sugar , he pulls his shirt over his head and transforms himself into his second self, the so-called Cornholio (slang cornhole: "asshole", hence "asshole" in the German version) has an eternal need for TP (toilet paper). When Beavis becomes Cornholio / Asslochio, he almost always says in a shrill voice: “I am Cornholio / Asslochio! I need toilet paper for my asshole! Do you want to threaten me? "Beavis seems to be very impressed by fire, because he often yells, when the word fire is mentioned, with an enthusiastic tone and clenched fists:" Fire! Fire! Fire! ”Beavis is the follower of Butt-Head. Beavis's birthday is on October 28, 1979. He is 14-17 years old. He seems disgusted with water. Beavis also seems to be unlucky.
- Butt-head
Butt-Head, a little more intelligent than his best friend Beavis, has brown hair combed back with slime, is dressed in a black AC / DC T-shirt and bright red shorts, and wears braces, which makes him lisp. Butt-Head sets the tone and often influences Beavis. In contrast to Beavis, he sometimes even gives the impression of being able to assess the consequences of his actions to some extent, but this does not prevent him from deliberately causing the damage in order to amuse himself. He is particularly happy when Beavis or one of his teachers is affected. Another noticeable feature is his upper lip, which mostly reveals the gums of his upper jaw. His sentences almost always begin with "Äääh" and always end with a laugh. His birthday is October 4, 1979 and he is 14-18 years old. So he's grown up. His last name could be "Head" as it is mentioned a lot. Butt-Head owns the house where they both watch TV. He's apparently scared of the dentist.
- Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson is Beavis and Butt-Head's neighbor. He's conservative, retired, and likes to talk about his military service, especially when he wants to reprimand Beavis and Butt-Head. Often he and his property, which has been carefully maintained, suffer from the pranks of the two. He has a wife, Martha. His relationship with Beavis and Butt-Head is strained, he repeatedly reprimands them, but in some episodes he trusts them and asks them to B. to take care of his garden (against payment) or to do his shopping for him. (For example in the episode “Shopping List”) Beavis and Butt-Head usually don't buy the products they put on with their money, but rather porn magazines, sweets or condoms.
- David van Driessen
Mr. van Driessen is one of Beavis and Butt-Head's teachers. He's a hippie who often forgives Beavis and Butt-Head and is generally more reserved. He is the only teacher who takes the two boys halfway seriously - often he even gives them an A because he finds creative even the most pointless ideas.
- Bradley Buzzcut
Another teacher. Mr. Buzzcut was prior to his career as a biology, physical education, and swimming instructor with the United States Marine Corps . He has a very military character, wears uniform-like clothing and uses every opportunity to reprimand Beavis and Butt-Head with his loud and penetrating voice.
- Principal McVicker
The school director. Thanks to Beavis and Butt-Head, he has developed into a depressed and trembling bundle of nerves with an alcohol problem, as the two stop at nothing with their ideas and pranks. He often wants to punish the two of them by expelling them from school, which they are more pleased about. In the episode No Laughing , he forbids Beavis and Butt-Head to laugh for a week. The voice of McVicker in the original English version comes from Mike Judge , as with the two characters before it .
- Todd Ianuzzi
Todd is a young petty criminal and head of a gang in Highland. He is the great role model of Beavis and Butt-Head, but he doesn't like them at all himself. In almost every episode that Todd appears in, he beats up Beavis and / or Butt-Head. In the movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do It in America , he and an accomplice steal their television sets. He is very good friends with Earl.
- Stewart Stevenson
Stewart goes to the same school as Beavis and Butt-Head and often sees himself as their friend. However, the two of them tend not to like him and take advantage of him, for example to put the blame on him. He always wears a black Winger t-shirt, which his popularity not just increases. Stewart's father is a teacher at Beavis and Butthead and his son's school.
- Daria Morgendorffer
A classmate of Beavis and Butt-Head, of the two often Diarrhea called (diarrhea). She is a model student and quite the opposite of the two, but she speaks to them every now and then. Daria got its own spin-off called Daria in 1997 .
- Earl
Earl is one of Beavis, Butt-Head and Daria's classmates. He is aggressive, Beavis and Butt-Head seem to be afraid of him. He owns several firearms and, like Todd Ianuzzi, frequently threatens them both.
production
In 1993 the music television broadcaster MTV started broadcasting the animated series drawn by Mike Judge , which soon achieved a high level of awareness. Beavis and Butt-Head was created through an animated film called Frog Baseball drawn by Judge , which was shown on the Spike & Mike's Sick And Twisted Festival Of Animation and on the American cartoon program Liquid Television . The two cartoon characters became so popular that MTV included them in their program.
animation
One of the features of the animation of the series is that not only the part of the body that moves in the film, but also the hair or certain parts of the face are redrawn in every single frame, making the face shape of the character acting slightly from frame to frame changed. This makes the face seem to wobble slightly. In older episodes, the whole body is rarely redrawn as well. The animation evolves as the series progresses.
revival
On July 14, 2010, it was announced that the series would be re-enacted and will return the following year with new episodes on MTV. The new episodes aired on MTV from October 27 to December 29, 2011. In April and May 2012, the new episodes ran in English with German subtitles on pay TV on MTV Germany. Shortly afterwards, VIVA and MTV broadcast the German-dubbed episodes.
synchronization
In the summer of 1995, the German broadcaster RTL II broadcast the first 30 episodes of the series in German synchronization. The dialogue director was Mike Betz , who also wrote the dialogue books together with Rainer Raschewski . Apart from the synchronization, the following titles and text content (lettering etc.) within the episodes were e.g. T. Germanized; Original video clips have also been exchanged for German songs or songs that are better known in Germany. These replaced video clips could be recognized by the words "Beavis and Butt-Head" (instead of "and"). The broadcast on RTL II was stopped because of low ratings. For the broadcast on Premiere World , the remaining episodes were also dubbed in German, but without graphic translations and music video exchanges.
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Beavis | Mike Judge | Julien Haggége |
| Butt-head | Tommy Morgenstern |
reception
The series was launched in the US by some organizations such as B. Morality in Media blamed, among other things, for accidents and deaths among young people, which is why the station broadcasts a notice before the beginning of each episode that Beavis and Butt-Head are only cartoon characters and are by no means role models. In addition, numerous scenes from the early episodes, in which z. B. was handled with fire, censored for later broadcasts.
The characters Beavis and Butt-Head can be seen as an ironic, socially critical confrontation by MTV with its own youth culture, neglect by adults ( key children ), satirical media commentary and as a response to the efforts for political correctness in the 1990s.
After several long breaks, MTV is broadcasting the series again at irregular intervals. The scenes in which the two music videos comment on have been cut out. From 2006 to January 2008, many B & B episodes were repeated on the pay TV channel VH1 Europe (e.g. Astra 19 °, Hotbird 13 ° / Kabel T-Home).
DVD publications
The Mike Judge Collection by Beavis and Butt-Head has been available on DVD since 2007. So far, three DVDs, each containing two main discs and one disc with bonus material, have been released. On the bonus disc of the third Mike Judge Collection DVD so far, there is an extensive interview with the creator Mike Judge as well as bonus material.
Seasons
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Mike Judge Collection 1-3 , 2006-2007
- Languages: English, FSK: Approved for ages 16+
- Subtitles: German, English, Turkish, Danish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Icelandic, Croatian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian
Movies
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Beavis and Butt-Head do it in America , 1996
- Languages: English, German
- FSK: Approved for ages 16 and up
- Subtitles: German, English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
Complete DVD boxes
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Beavis and Butt-Head - The Mike Judge Collection contains all three Mike Judge Collections , the film Beavis and Butt-Head Doing It in America and a bonus disc.
- Languages: The episodes are in English, with subtitles on request (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Serbian, Slovenian, Hungarian).
- FSK: approved from 16 years.
The studio was Paramount Home Entertainment. For licensing reasons, the video and DVD editions do not contain integrated music videos (the DVD editions contain some video clips as a bonus).
Outside of the series
In addition to television, the two appeared in the Cher music video for I Got You Babe . In 1996, the movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do's was released in America , for which the Red Hot Chili Peppers covered a song by the Ohio Players , Love Rollercoaster or Rollercoaster of Love . In the corresponding (animated) video clip of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beavis and Butt-Head can also be seen.
The two have a guest appearance on a Christmas program on the American comedy show Saturday Night Live . In the film "Airheads", Beavis and Butthead call a radio station, but they just stammer stupid things. There is also an episode that was made for the AC / DC Ballbreaker Tour. This episode, in which AC / DC guitarist Angus Young makes a brief appearance as a cartoon character, was presented on a big screen at the beginning of every concert. The clip can also be found on AC / DC's Plug Me In DVD set .
There is also an episode of the MTV series Celebrity Deathmatch , broadcast for the first time on January 27, 2000 , in which Beavis and Butt-Head compete against each other. In the course of the fight, Beavis mutates into Cornholio and wins by killing Butt-Head. As part of the promotion of the film Beavis and Butt-Head are doing it in America , special “interviews” were produced with the two of them. During a presentation of the MTV Movie Awards , special scenes of the two were shown, in which Beavis & Butt-Head were apparently in the audience and commented directly on the course of the show. In the opening credits of the film Jackass 3D , the two characters can also be seen and tune the audience into the 3D technology in their own way .
In the credits of the film "Sandy Wexler", lead actor Adam Sandler in his role as Sandy Wexler talks to Beavis and Butt-head on the phone.
comics
In Germany, from July 1994 to August 1996, 26 translated issues of the American comics (published by Marvel Comics , in Germany by Dino Verlag ) were published on a monthly basis. The stories in it were partly based on the TV episodes or contained their own stories.
Video games
Various B&B computer games were released, including two adventure games for the PC and a platform game for the SNES , in which the two characters fight against the music band Gwar at the end of the game . There was also a game for the Sega Mega Drive , the Sega Game Gear and the Nintendo Game Boy . Only in Japan was the point-and-click adventure Virtual Stupidity, originally developed for the PC, also released for Sony's PlayStation . An online video game called Hock a Loogie has also been released, the game is mainly about spitting on different characters from the series. In 2019, UK-based game studio Blueprint Gaming launched the online slot Beavis and Butt-Head. The new slot offers moments and scenes from the TV show and the film.
Discography
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Studio albums:
- 1993: The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience
Singles:
- 1993: I Got You Babe (with Cher )
Web links
- Beavis and Butt-Head in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beavis and Butt-Head website from MTV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beavis and Butt-Head Returning With Two New Seasons (and Spinoffs) at Comedy Central , accessed July 1, 2020
- ↑ UNIMAG.AT: Michael Judge in portrait
- ↑ Michael Starr: They're back! . New York Post . July 14, 2010. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ^ Robert Seidman: MTV Presents Full Slate At Their Summer TCA Presentation; New 'Beavis and Butt-Head' & 'Good Vibes' to Premiere October 27 . TV by the Numbers . July 29, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2011.
- ↑ Betavis & Butt-Head at Animation Series
- ↑ Beavis and Butt-head (Series: 1993–1997 / 2011) . In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on July 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Sandy Wexler | Netflix Official Site. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Hock a Loogie . mtv.com. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
- ↑ MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head make their casino game debut. In: The Casino Wizard. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US