Mike Judge and Comedy Central are "reimagining" Beavis and Butt-Head for Gen Z

[Fake News Anchor]

Not to brag, but I actually have some leaked stills from the first episode. Edgy of Mike Judge, but hey - 2020 calls for controversial television.

Spoiler: Episode 1 plot synopsis

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Why are people concerned about Judge going woke? A lot of think pieces were written about Silicon Valley not being diverse enough and Judge’s response was basically “have you seen the people who work for these companies?”

 

[Judge Holden]

Music videos are essentially dead at this point

Counterpoint: Nekrogoblikon

 

[Dom Cruise]

I really liked the 2011 reboot and was saddened it was so short lived.

That one took the approach where it was then present day but they were still the same as they were in the 1990s, actually updating it I admit makes me kind of curious.

Mike Judge just does not strike me as someone who would go full "woke"

So rate me cautiously optimistic for this.

 

[sasazuka]

(I'm in the "Beavis and Butthead 2011 was great" club.)

I gotta wonder if they'll change the timelines for the military veteran characters so that Mr. Anderson will be a Vietnam war vet while original Vietnam vet Coach Buzzcut will now be a Gulf War 2.0 or Afghanistan vet?

As a World War II vet, Mr. Anderson would probably be in his mid-90s if not older at this point.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Beavis and Butthead was a product of its time. 90s millennial humor from an adult's perspective. The attitude, the music, the themes, the controversy.

Remember when MTV got heat for Beavis saying fire because some kid burned down his own house? Imagine the controversy it would get NOW.

Normally, I'd be happy at these news. I was for the 2011 reboot; that was okay. Maybe this would be the counterculture the SJW age would need OR be a shallow shadow of its former self.

Best of luck to Mike Judge.

I'm still in the "it was all fabricated" camp

 

[The Last Stand]

Beavis and Butthead are parents now? The whole point was them being brain dead losers who would never score, even hookers and mail order brides turned them down in a few episodes.

I don't see anything about them being parents.

Are you talking about this?

Judge will write, produce, and lend his voice to the “reimagined” Beavis And Butt-Head, which, per a press release, will encompass “meta-themes relatable to both new and old fans—Gen X parents and their Gen Z kids.” Comedy Central has committed to two seasons of the show, as well as “additional spin-offs and specials” that we’re hoping finds some way to fold Daria into the mix...

No, no, Gen X was the audience then. Some may have kids (Gen Z), so they want to appease to both. That's what it's saying?

 

[FuckedUp]

Not to brag, but I actually have some leaked stills from the first episode. Edgy of Mike Judge, but hey - 2020 calls for controversial television.

Spoiler: Episode 1 plot synopsis

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Oh God, that's exactly the kind of stuff that should happen in the reboot.

In the original show, the world around them was kind of a gritty satirical view of reality; each of Mike Judge's works does this in their own unique style. The world in this show is going to be one of these two:

1. a typical Current Year self-righteous take where every liberal is portrayed as Daria was in the original show, and right-wingers get the predictable straman treatment
2. one that's actually legit satire and makes fun of both sides instead of being propaganda, like in those "leaked stills"

My gut instinct tells me it's going to be the former due to being Current Year + 5, but it seems like Mike Judge might have somewhat more integrity than the rest of the industry, like Scott Adams does. I have no idea at this point.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Judge has never really been a woke kind of guy. I honestly get the feeling he's either moderate right wing or libertarian. King of the Hill took just as many potshots at pretentious, smug leftists as it did with fuddy duddy Reagan era conservatives. Van Dreissen on B&B was a great parody of the touchy feely hippy boomer PC crowd in the 90s

 

[Travoltron]

I don't know anything about current year music, but I'm pretty sure metal or some descendant of it still exists. At the very least there must be edgelord bands. Just change their T-shirts to whatever those bands are.

One problem I foresee is that my generation enjoyed being parodied. These younger ones seem to be super sensitive. They want to be represented, but only as perfect Mary Sues.

 

[I Love Beef]

Man, fuck this. I'm going to be the person I've always been: The asshole who just says whatever even if I get big red buzzers, puzzle sets, wastebaskets, and magic do it yourself kits.

I honestly believe B&B should remain done. Just about everything has been taken from my mouth, but my input is that unless Judge is willing to showcase, dare I say, a coherent character development based plot and arc for the show like Daria, and not just "social commentary", it's going to fucking flop. I'll sum up the already obvious reasons: B&B being very obvious products of their eras, and some of its best representatives in popular media and entertainment, how their dynamic is obviously very out of water for the current times, and that they risk becoming The Simpsons at this point.

This is probably personal opinion, but I believe every decade needs its "representative dysfunctional satire sitcom/show". They work like not just time capsules but comedic analogy records to the absurdities that also exists within human experience that every age comes to experience. A bit deep, I know, but you go watch the current The Simpsons and tell me how they're faring. B&B also doesn't work like South Park. South Park strangely works because all of the characters are not designed in mind with "being current"; they are absolutely basic caricatures with little characterization who are meant to be funny and to have nary any investment in at your own choice, all as the world goes apeshit zoo exhibit crazy with heads up asses of fire doing crazy shit.

Unless Judge gives us a story about B&B living through the then changing times and having that affect them and Highland as their own characters as a sort of send off biopic, I won't be interested. I saw the 2011 reboot too, I was absolutely indifferent to it and not convinced. If he reboot King of the Hill, I probably wouldn't mind, but he already hit the nail on the head with Iditocracy.

Judge has never really been a woke kind of guy. I honestly get the feeling he's either moderate right wing or libertarian. King of the Hill took just as many potshots at pretentious, smug leftists as it did with fuddy duddy Reagan era conservatives. Van Dreissen on B&B was a great parody of the touchy feely hippy boomer PC crowd in the 90s

You're not wrong.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Judge has never really been a woke kind of guy. I honestly get the feeling he's either moderate right wing or libertarian. King of the Hill took just as many potshots at pretentious, smug leftists as it did with fuddy duddy Reagan era conservatives. Van Dreissen on B&B was a great parody of the touchy feely hippy boomer PC crowd in the 90s

I've always got the vibe he leans conservative as well, the one big exception being the dig at Fox News in Idiocracy.

So he's not a diehard conservative, but definitely leans in that direction I'd say.

 

[Pissmaster]

The one thing I have no idea how they would tackle would be Beavis and Butthead's taste in music. Back in the day, they were metalheads and you could buy that they represented the kinds of music Gen X listened to. These days, Zoomers listen to trap beats and similar kinds of music. You change that, you're kinda changing the fundamental identities of the characters. I dunno, something about that just rubs me the wrong way.

The 2011 season sort of had that problem, but the music video commentary was pretty good. Just about everything in the 2011 season was some form of pop or electronica that 90's B&B would have just said "what is this crap?" to, but 2011's B&B ripped on the actual videos. Plus, it's surreal to see B&B listening to Skrillex and MGMT.

Hell, I'm looking forward to new music video commentary, I've found some obscure bands through those.

Only problem with the 2011 season was not every episode got a music video, some just used clips from MTV's reality shows, which were just B&B ripping on essentially lolcows, but I'd have preferred more music videos.

edit: also they've missed so many great videos I'd love to have seen them react to, like Benny Benassi - Satisfaction and Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch.

I really liked the 2011 reboot and was saddened it was so short lived.

That one took the approach where it was then present day but they were still the same as they were in the 1990s, actually updating it I admit makes me kind of curious.

Mike Judge just does not strike me as someone who would go full "woke"

So rate me cautiously optimistic for this.

Yeah they did that time shift really well. B&B still had an old TV set, they didn't have phones or anything, but Beavis at one point mentioned GTA San Andreas. They even had an episode that was a parody of the Twilight craze. The show was even presented in 4:3, despite being 720p.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I don't know anything about current year music, but I'm pretty sure metal or some descendant of it still exists. At the very least there must be edgelord bands. Just change their T-shirts to whatever those bands are.

One problem I foresee is that my generation enjoyed being parodied. These younger ones seem to be super sensitive. They want to be represented, but only as perfect Mary Sues.

The current state of metal is interesting (though bear in mind that I'm speaking from a British perspective here). I've heard Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Megadeth playing from speakers in public over the past few months and all those classic metal bands still have significant followings, though at this point they're all considered retro and no one is listening to them to be edgy. I saw a boy skateboarding with a Pantera shirt on who wasn't even alive when they existed. Metal is still being released too but at this point the new bands are very much underground and not at all representative of mainstream culture (aside from Sabaton in certain countries in Europe). What seems like a reasonable compromise would be to have them be retro metal heads but review and laugh at modern rap music videos, although I wouldn't bother trying to update a 1990s TV show to 2020 to start with.

It's true that no one really cares about GWAR anymore, but they weren't a "big" band in the 1990s in the way the others I mentioned were, at least not here.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The 2011 season sort of had that problem, but the music video commentary was pretty good. Just about everything in the 2011 season was some form of pop or electronica that 90's B&B would have just said "what is this crap?" to, but 2011's B&B ripped on the actual videos. Plus, it's surreal to see B&B listening to Skrillex and MGMT.

Hell, I'm looking forward to new music video commentary, I've found some obscure bands through those.

Only problem with the 2011 season was not every episode got a music video, some just used clips from MTV's reality shows, which were just B&B ripping on essentially lolcows, but I'd have preferred more music videos.

edit: also they've missed so many great videos I'd love to have seen them react to, like Benny Benassi - Satisfaction and Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch.

To be fair the funniest part to me from that whole season was when they were watching some reality show, "this guy has watched so much porn he's starting to turn into a schlong"

You got me thinking back to the music videos though and 2011 in general and how different it was from today and now I'm realizing 2011 was almost a decade ago and well...

 

[XYZpdq]

There could be some good mileage of Beavis and Butthead, still never aged, just walking around Current Year being dumb at people.

 

[The Last Stand]

There could be some good mileage of Beavis and Butthead, still never aged, just walking around Current Year being dumb at people.

I could imagine B&B just being their usual selves during Current Year. And then some girl tries to MeToo them, only that they don't have anything to lose. Or unintentionally starting a protest.

I think they did the latter one time, about the Theory of Evolution in school.

 

[FuckedUp]

FYI, Mike Judge had nothing to do with the Daria series other than coming up with the character. It's why the art style looks more like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon than Beavis and Butthead or King of the Hill.

 

[nohull]

I hope they don't plan to go woke.

 

[TokiBun]

Can we have a King of the Hill special about Bobby and his friends being adults instead? At least that has the potential to be something. Enough with Bevis and Butthead already just let it go.