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...what happened to those lazy, listless baby busters who supposedly typified the new generation? Beavis and Butt-head were their icons; Beck's Loser was their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label...
...your story on the decline of audiences for foreign films in the U.S. [CINEMA, Jan. 13], you included the remarks of a specialized film booker who said, "Even college students" no longer go to foreign films but would rather watch Beavis and Butt-head. Hey, dude, listen up. As a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, I am offended by such a blanket statement. Believe it or not, there are mature, intelligent college students who can understand, follow and appreciate foreign films. We can even grasp all the topics that gramps knew. Your attitude is just part of the epidemic...
With King of the Hill, Judge's affinity has won out. Here he depicts low-rent suburbia far less brutally than he has with Beavis & Butt-head, a show set in a vast nowhere starring two cretins who do nothing, absorb nothing and stand for even less. No one on King of the Hill is skewered as savagely as educated elitists, whom Judge characterizes as blind bubbleheads incapable of seeing the world beyond their screen savers...
Although he never had a career in physics or engineering, Judge's training serves him well, for it left him with a scientist's sense of the exact. If Beavis and Butt-head seem unwavering in their testosterone-fueled stupidity, it is because their creator has been meticulous in executing his vision for them. Animators who first come to work on the show are given a long list of dos and don'ts. Judge insists that none of the characters move in any manner suggesting the effete. After rendering the image of a peripheral character shutting a car trunk...
Judge has always performed the voices for both Beavis and Butt-head, and he is taking on Hank Hill and one of his sidekicks, Boomhauer. The latter character's purposely inscrutable speech was inspired by a voice-mail message Judge received a few years ago from a ranting Southerner who, Judge ultimately deciphered, was calling to complain that Beavis &Butt-head didn't start on time. Judge listened to the tape 40 times initially and now plays it repeatedly every time he records Boomhauer's dialogue...