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Mike Judge wants a live-action Beavis and Butt-head

By Jeremy Dick

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 25: Mike Judge speaks at the premiere of Scene 308 of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' at Cinefamily on March 25, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 25: Mike Judge speaks at the premiere of Scene 308 of HBO's 'Silicon Valley' at Cinefamily on March 25, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images) /
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Beavis and Butt-head haven’t had any new adventures since 2011, but creator Mike Judge has suggested the dimwitted duo could return in a live-action movie.

We may not have seen the last of pop culture’s most beloved animated teenage idiots just yet.

Back in 2011, one of my biggest wishes came true when Mike Judge brought back to life one of my all-time favorite TV shows. The new episodes were just as hysterical as they were before, but just as I was getting comfortable with having Beavis and Butt-head back on TV, they disappeared again just as quickly.

I don’t know who in particular it was to make the decision to stop producing new episodes of the show, but seriously— what a buttmunch.

The light at the end of the tunnel here is that Mike Judge is still open to bringing the characters back to pop culture once more, though he has an interesting concept in mind. In an interview with Radio Times, Judge suggested that Beavis and Butt-head could potentially return in live-action form some day, joking that it could show how Beavis was homeless by now.

Now, don’t expect to physical versions of the two on your TV screen anytime soon. Judge is keeping himself plenty busy with his successful HBO series Silicon Valley, and probably isn’t in a rush to get a live-action Beavis and Butt-head film to the masses. But just the possibility of seeing more B&B in any way at all is still good news for a mega fan like me.

But if this live-action Beavis and Butt-head movie thing doesn’t work out— why not just resurrect the cartoon series elsewhere? Maybe the problem was that it just no longer appealed to the MTV’s current demographic, which had traded in music videos for “reality” teenage drama.

If Full House can find new life on Netflix, then why can’t Beavis and Butt-head?

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