MTVog: Welcome to the MTV Arena this event with Mike Judge.

MTVog: Since their emergence into the living rooms of anyone with basic cable, Beavis and Butt-head have helped define the new pop culture. Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butt-head, as well as the person responsible for their voices and the director/co-writer of their great field trip onto the wide screen is here now to answer your questions. To ask Mike Judge a question, click interact, type in your question, then click question.

Welcome, Mike!

MIKE JUDGE: Hi everyone. It's good to be back. Ask me questions, huh huh huh.

MTVog: To begin, Cloud441 aks: Which one did you come up with first, Beavis or Butt-head, and which one's your favorite, and did you go to MTV or did they come to you?

MIKE JUDGE: I think I drew Beavis first. Butt-head used to be my favorite but now it's Beavis I called MTV once a long time ago to ask about submitting my stuff to Liquid TV and basically got the runaround. Then they called me a couple of months later after seeing my stuff in the animation festivals.

MTVog: SANDJ123 asks: what if any, kind of art schools did you attend?

MIKE JUDGE: When I was about 9 or 10 years old, my Mom took me to a cartoon class at the YMCA in Albuquerque NM. The teacher, I suspect, was a junkie. We saw him hitch-hiking on the street one day when we were driving home from school and that was the end of my art training. I have never taken another art class.

MTViolator: BParker06 asks, How long is the movie, and will there ever be a B&B Do America II?

MIKE JUDGE: The movie is about 80 minutes long, and if all of you go and see it, there might be a B&B Do Europe, or B&B Do India...

MTVog: Beavis, a blond guy in a Metallica t-shirt, and Butt-head, a dark-haired guy in an AC/DC t-shirt-- two teenagers obsessed with their as-yet unfulfilled desire to score with "chicks" have finally moved off the couch and onto the big screen. With "Beavis and Butt-head Do America," the duo go where the TV show has never gone before- not only off the couch, out of the living room, and beyond the limits of the town of Highland... but across America. "Beavis and Butt-head Do America" will be in theatres in just two weeks (opens Dec. 20th)!

MTVog: Poe 26 asks: how did you come up with the idea for Beavis & Butt-head?

MIKE JUDGE: It started out as a couple of sketches in a note book. I was making home-made animated shorts and the fourth one was a B&B short called Frog Baseball. Uh,...the rest is history.

MTViolator: Richnfamo asks, Who were some of your favorite animators and animated characters growing up--and why?

MIKE JUDGE: I liked Fog Horn Leghorn, Road Runner -- all that stuff -- Chuck Jones,etc. I also really an animated short called "Jack Mac and Rad Boy Go!" by Wes Archer. I guess I like all that stuff because, uh, because, uh.... I don't know. Next question?

MTVog: Richnfamo asks: What kind of feedback have you received from the rock musicians you satirize in the show?

MIKE JUDGE: I don't really talk to them often, but they all take it really well as far as I know, except for a few glam-rock guys who I won't mention.

MTViolator: PF HEY YO asks, Hey MIKE, What were you like in HIGH SCHOOL???

MIKE JUDGE: I was pretty pathetic -- especially the first couple of years. I was actually in honor society and I played in the all-state symphony and that kind of thing -- which explains why I never scored.

MTVog: CCreepyGir asks: Mike! Hi there... I want to know, why are B&B's heads much huger than anyone else's in their world? Thanks!

MIKE JUDGE: That's a good question. It's a really good question. That

question rules! Uh, I'm not sure why that is. I think when I first drew them, I was drawing really fast and kind of

MIKE JUDGE: deliberately sloppy. Then when it became a show, I didn't want to change anything and normally I would draw heads smaller. Maybe there's some freudian thing here -- I'm not sure.

MTViolator: Geezer68 asks, Is beavis EVER gonna score? i know butthead will cuz he's the smooth one..but Beavis?

MIKE JUDGE: I don't know. Is there anyone out there that would be willing to score with Beavis?

MTVog: NYMPH1997 asks: How did you come up with the idea for "The Great Cornholio?"

MIKE JUDGE: We were short a script in one batch (we record shows in batches of 5) and I had been thinking it would be cool to try to record a show without a script -- just improvise it on the spot. I had also been thinking of doing one where Beavis gets

separated from Butt-head. I figured, without Butt-head around to reel him in, Beavis would go off the deep end. It just sort of hit me one night that Beavis should pull his t-shirt over his head and start babbling. I don't really know what I was thinking with the

MIKE JUDGE: name "Cornholio". I basically just improvised the episode, along with Kris Brown (writer) prodding me along.

MTViolator: Crate1127 asks, did you write the theme song

MIKE JUDGE: Yes. I played it too. it's me playing guitar, bass, and piano -- and a drum machine. I didn't know when I recorded it that it would ever be a theme song. It was just meant to be music for the first short. I recorded it along with the voices for Frog Baseball all in about 2 hours. I always meant to record it or have someone else

do it, but I never got around to it.

MTVog: Gabfox asks: Why is Beavis so sexy? Did you plan for his pitifulness to turn women on?

MIKE JUDGE: I definitely didn't think it would turn women on, but you're not the first woman to say that Beavis is sexy. I get a lot of letters about that.

MTViolator: DylanNo1 asks, Mike did you ever consider using real people when writing B&B Do America?

MIKE JUDGE: Not really. There was a while when it looked like that might happen, but I didn't agree to write until I knew it was going to be animated.

MTVog: Virus 677 asks: does Beavis or Butt-head make a pass on Chelsea Clinton in da move????Huh Huh Huh

MIKE JUDGE: How did you know? Yes it's sort of true. You'll have to go see to get the whole story.

MTViolator: Talman830 asks, Why can't you put the Metallica on the shirts and posters?

MIKE JUDGE: MTV would have to pay extra for that.

MTVog: BBrown104 asks: is it hard to do all the voices?

MIKE JUDGE: Sometimes doing Beavis tears up my throat. I have trouble doing McVickar (the principal) sometimes. Otherwise it's easy.

MTVog: Rob Tamin asks: As a musician myself, I really appriciate how you make fun of all the music. What kind of music do you really like ?

MIKE JUDGE: I like a lot of music that wouldn't fit in B&B. Let's see... Right now in my CD changer I have a Perez Prado album, Ray Baretto, Snoop Doggy Dog, ... what else?... I actually like all kinds of stuff, even a lot of old country music. If I start listing stuff I'm going to regret it 'cuz I'll skip something really obvious. So

I'm going to stop.

MTViolator: Richnfamo asks, What was the biggest problem you faced adapting Beavis and Butt-head from television to film?

MIKE JUDGE: It was all a lot more work than the show -- everything from the writing to the sound mix.

MTVog: MALISTER asks: what type of perverted intellect does it take to create somthing as debaucherous as B&B???

MIKE JUDGE: Is debaucerous really a word? I've heard of debauchery, but I didn't know you could turn it into an adjective like that -- "debaucherous" -- I'll be damned.

MTVog: CreepyGir asks: Hi Mike. What is Butt-head's birth name? Bob? Joe? Asswipe???

MIKE JUDGE: He actually explains this in the movie.

MTViolator: Rooster73 asks,

Question: Mike I saw you on tv with Howard Stern, what do think of him and did you enjoy it?

MIKE JUDGE: I loved it and I did it again this morning, so it might be on E! again.

MTViolator: Ankhman2 asks, Why haven't they gotten any older. They look the same.

MIKE JUDGE: I guess it's the same reason that Charlie Brown, Bart Simpson, Dennis the Menace, and all those guys never get old -- $$$$$.

MTViolator: RhwareII asks, HOW COME THERE MOMS ARE NEVER ON THE SHOW? OR THERE DAD[S]

MIKE JUDGE: I hate to sound like I'm shamelessly plugging the movie, but half of that question is answered in the movie, "Beavis & Butt-head Do America" opening Dec 20th at a theatre near you.

MTViolator: HRB50 asks,

Question: How long does it take you to make an average episode?

MIKE JUDGE: On the average it's around 6-8 months.

MTVog: Sakic828 asks: Why did you choose the names Beavis and Butt-head?

MIKE JUDGE: Butt-head wasn't real hard to come up with. I actually thought about changing it several times, but finally stuck with it. Beavis was the last name of someone who lived near me when I was a kid. (He was nothing like Beavis. He was actually a football player.)

MTViolator: ORdreamin asks, Are Beavis and Butt-head planning to make appearances on shows like "Seinfeld" in the near future?

MIKE JUDGE: I would love to do something on Seinfeld. They haven't asked though. Seinfeld is great.

MTVog: Gumby3044 asks:do u do the voices for all the characters in the show?

MIKE JUDGE: All the male characters except for Stewart. I did Todd in the first "Todd" episode, "The Crush", but now Toby Huss does it. He's much better than me at it.

MTVog: We have time for just one more question- Coolguy28 asks: what does Beavis and Butt-head's future look like?

MIKE JUDGE: It looks bleak. I mean, they're never going to score or anything like that.

MTVog: Thanks to Mike Judge for joining us here in the MTV Arena.

MIKE JUDGE: Thanks for the questions and everyone watch Letterman tonight, because B&B are going to be on as guests. That's right B&B, not me. They will actually walk out, sit down and talk to him! Check it out.

MTVog: Thanks to our audience for their questions, and participation.

"Beavis and Butt-head Do America" will be in theatres in just one week. See it! CYA later!

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