European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Beavis and butt had who says things like a if i wanted to read id go to school plays along with Davis. Mtg provides a Complete description of the plot judge not Only Drew the whole thing but also provided when they say things suck they re having a Good  in Early october it became harder to accentuate the positive Side of the characters. After a 5-year-old in Ohio set his family a Mobile Home on fire killing his baby sister his Mother publicly blamed the show saying it had taught her son to play with fire. This prompted mtg to announce that it was a reexamining issues regarding Beavis and butt head Quot and to cancel an appearance judge had planned to make on Letterman a show. Beavis and butt head a butt head the Brunet is the Leader of the two though perhaps Leader is too Strong a word a live in an unnamed medium size City not unlike Albuquerque n.m., where judge grew up. They like heavy Metal and disdain what they Call a College music a which has too Many lyrics. Both in their musical taste and their world View they have Clear generic ties to Wayne and Garth but the protagonists of Wayne a world look by comparison downright literate. As Many have remarked Bart Simpson now looks like an overachiever. A i like Beavis and butt head Quot said Matt Groen ing who created the off Nasons. Quot anything that takes the heat off Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of Western  Beavis and butt head look like the kind of car. Toons you might find scrawled on the inside of a High school locker. They Are drawn with purposeful crudeness and their motions have the Jerky seasick Quality of marionettes. Judge is constantly on guard against creeping  in one episode he decided that a character s Mouth looked too much like what you would find in a Walt Disney movie and insisted it be changed. Judge taught himself animation while working As a Bass player in a blues band in Dallas. His first Short film office space about a Guy who is pushed around by his Boss was a modest Success at animation festivals two years ago. Still judge who graduated with a physics degree from the University of California at san Diego was considering becoming a math teacher when a higher calling intervened. Judge thought up Beavis and butt head while casting around for something to enter in a festival of a sick and twisted Quot cartoons. Butt Heads prototype already existed in an old notebook. A i was trying to draw a Guy i went to High school with Quot he explained. A it did no to really look like him but i thought it was funny anyway so i kept drawing it like that. I thought what if i just completely Cut Loose and made it really awful Quot the result was the first Beavis and butt head animated adventure titled Frog baseball. The title both voices and still does. Mtg bought the Little film for its liquid television program then decided to make it into a half hour series. The original order was for 35 episodes. Judge was taken Aback. A i was thinking i can to even think of one More thing these Guys could do Quot he said. Coming up with new stupid things for Beavis and butt head to do has been easier than judge thought. The pairs recent adventures include tossing a poo die into a washing machine deep frying a Telephone and posing questions to president Clinton at a High school Assembly. Butt head asks Why the president does no to invent some country and Light it on  each episode includes two cartoon adventures and several music videos. More than 50 cartoons have been completed. Mtg has already ordered up 130 More episodes for 1994, although some of the old adventures will be recycled in the new episodes. The Success of the show has certainly changed judges circumstances though he insists the change is not quite so dramatic As people have made out by cause he had to sell mtg the rights to the characters. He now lives in Westchester county . A he declined to be More specific a with his wife Francesca and 2-year-old daughter Julia. The animation for Beavis and butt head is done according to judges specifications partly by a team of animators in new York and partly by another team in Korea. When he is not in his office reviewing scripts or rough cuts of the show judge is Likely to be found at a sound studio in new York City doing the voice overs. Watching him do this is a wondrous thing. A vaguely malevolent glint enters his eyes and the Corners of Mouth slip Back into a parody of a Grin. A huh huh huh. Huh huh huh. Cool quo Many of judges fellow humorists seem to Admire Beavis and butt head for their unwavering stupidity. Letterman said on the air for example that he particularly prize the a a purity of their grossness. Similarly Mark Alan Stamaty whose Washington comic strip deals with the kind of political issues Beavis and butt head remain blissfully ignorant of said a you done to look to something like this for moral guidance. But there a a kind of pure intuitive humor about it that i  one of the challenges according to judge has been to make sure that Beavis and butt head never disappoint their fans by falling put of character. One script for example had Beavis receiving a special school pass and saying that the other students would suffer from Beavis envy. The line had to be Cut it was too close to sounding Clever. Butt head album # is mostly Cool a by . Considine the Baltimore Sun f first the Good news moral guardians nationwide Wilt be pleased to learn that Bea vis and butt a cad a debut album the Bea vis and butt head experience docs not include the duos version of Light Sty fire. Or ring of fire. Or even Ive did t Start the fire. Now the bad news that Sall the Good news the guardians get. Because apart from the Lack of fire songs the Beavis and butt head experience is every bit As loud Low brow and sex obsess cd As the Mit show itself. In other words its like totally Cool. Although the albums title alludes to the episode in which butt had while loafing on the Job at Burg or world fantasizes about taking his air guitar acl to the Arena Rock level butt head a duh non Dunnn Duhn Duhn duh Dah Quot girl in audience a Pooh butt head quo most of the music Here is performed by actual musicians with actual guitars. In fact the band lineup is not unlike what you a find in an average Beavis and butt had episode with songs by anthrax nirvana Primus White Zombie run-d.m.c., Mega ctr jacket and the red hot Chili peppers. That a not to say our boys done to get their licks in. The first thing we hear on the Beavis and butt had experience is another air guitar performance a and this one even features a Solo by Beavis. At least i think its a Solo. Frankly it sounds like a Squirrel caught in a blender. Then there a Cher s Cameo with / got you babe it starts typical enough with Beavis and butt had complaining about their Lack of female companionship. A we need a Chick that used to be married to some Dork so now she a like All wild and stuff Quot says butt head trying to imagine the sort of woman they could seduce. And it works a by the end of the song Cher is asking a you , butt had Quot a huh huh sch heh sch heh sch sch Quot is the an _ ser. Most of the other musical offerings Are pretty much played straight. What we get is the full Range of Beavis and Butl a cad a tastes from rap run  Bounce to hard Rock Mcgady the a 99 ways to Dieto alternative nirvana a i hate myself and want to Dieto hard Rock Aero Smith a deuces Are Waldback to rap sir mix a lots Mon Sta Mackto alternative that sounds like  the red hot Chili peppers remake of the stooges search and destroy to us hard Rock White zombies i am hell. All Are new tracks though Only one a Primus marvellously moronic poetry and prose a sounds like it was written expressly for the album. Still none Are throwaways and a few actually rank among these bands better work �?Ts Bounce for instance is a stronger single than anything since Down with the King while 99 ways to die is easily the catchiest thing megadeath has Ever recorded. And should you think the album is Little More than vulgar humor and cheap titillation Well. Of it. Pretty much is. But we do get a Brief philosophy lesson in which Beavis wonders Why things suck so butt head smacks him a that was Cool Quot laughs butt head. A no it Wasny to Quot says Beavis. A that sucked Quot Quot yeah but like you know after its Over Quot counters butt had. A does no to it like feel pretty Cool a a yeah yeah.  a see Quot continues professor butt head a it s like you need stuff that sucks to have stuff that s  and that dear readers is Why the world includes Michael Bolton albums As Well As the Beavis and butt head experience. December 19, 1993 a a sunday Page