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| Formerly | Judgemental Films (1992-2010) |
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | January 2, 1991 |
| Founder | Mike Judge |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Products | Beavis and Butt-Head King of the Hill |
Judgmental Films (stylized as judgmental films) is the production company of Texan animator/film director Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head , and a co-creator of King of the Hill .
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beavis and Butt-Head | Adult animation satire | March 8, 1993 | 10 seasons, 270 episodes | 5–11 min | Renewed [1] |
| King of the Hill | Animated sitcom slice of life | January 12, 1997 | 13 seasons, 259 episodes | 20–22 min | Renewed [2] |
| The Goode Family | Comedy | May 27, 2009 | 1 season, 13 episodes | 22 min | Ended [3] |
| Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus | Documentary comedy | September 22, 2017 | 2 seasons, 16 episodes | 24–29 min | Ended |
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Seasons | Runtime | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silicon Valley | Comedy | April 6, 2014 | 6 seasons, 53 episodes | 28–47 min | Ended [4] |
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Runtime | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | Adult animation comedy | December 20, 1996 | 81 min | English |
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe | Adult animation comedy | June 23, 2022 | 86 min | English |
| Title | Genre | Premiere | Runtime | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Space | Comedy | February 19, 1999 | 89 min | English |
| Idiocracy | Science fiction comedy | September 1, 2006 | 84 min | English |
| Extract | Comedy | September 4, 2009 | 92 min | English |
Beavis and Butt-Head is an American adult animated sitcom created by Mike Judge. The series follows Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, lack of intelligence, lowbrow humor, and love for hard rock and heavy metal. The original series juxtaposes slice-of-life short subjects—in which the teens embark on low-minded misadventures in their Texas town—with the pair watching and commenting on music videos.
Daria is an American adult animated sitcom created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn. The series ran from March 3, 1997, to January 21, 2002, on MTV. It focuses on the title character, Daria Morgendorffer, an intelligent, cynical high school student, voiced by Tracy Grandstaff, reprising her role from Mike Judge's earlier animated series, Beavis and Butt-Head.
Michael Craig Judge is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He is the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head, and a co-creator of the television series King of the Hill (1997–2010), The Goode Family (2009), Silicon Valley (2014–2019), and Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus (2017–2018). He wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), Office Space (1999), Idiocracy (2006), and Extract (2009), and co-wrote the screenplay to Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022).
Beavis is a fictional character who serves as one of two protagonists from the MTV/Paramount+ animated series Beavis and Butt-Head. He is voiced by the show's creator, Mike Judge. In the movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, Beavis' mother is referred to as "Shirley Beavis", implying that Beavis is actually the character's last name. His father is a former Mötley Crüe roadie.
MTV Entertainment Studios is the film and television production arm of MTV Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Founded in 1991 as MTV Productions, it is a consolidation of the former MTV Films group established in 1996 and the MTV Production Development/MTV Studios group of 2003–2021. It has produced original television shows like Beavis and Butt-Head, Æon Flux, Jackass, My Super Sweet 16, Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, Clone High, and The Real World, and films such as Election, Joe's Apartment and Napoleon Dynamite. Its films are released by fellow Paramount Global division Paramount Pictures. Many of MTV Entertainment Studios productions are all aimed at adolescence and adult audiences.
Glenn Eichler is an American comedy writer. He is best known for co-creating the MTV adult animated series Daria, which originally aired from 1997 to 2002. Eichler started out as an editor for National Lampoon magazine. He then worked as story editor for the MTV television shows Beavis and Butt-head and The Maxx. Apart from Daria, Eichler also produced Hey Joel for VH1. He has also written for such shows as Rugrats, Bratz, Married... with Children, and The Wrong Coast, a stop-action animation mini-series for the American Movie Classics cable channel. He currently writes for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS after also writing for Stephen Colbert in Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is a 1996 American adult animated comedy road film based on the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. The film was co-written and directed by series creator Mike Judge, who also reprises his roles from the series; Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Robert Stack and Cloris Leachman star in supporting roles. The film follows Beavis and Butt-Head, two teen slackers who travel the US and unknowingly become fugitives.
MTV Animation is the animation department of the television network MTV. The department's parent company is MTV Entertainment Studios, which is owned by Paramount Global. MTV Animation gained substantial popularity in the 1990s, with many of their largest successes including the original broadcasts of Liquid Television (1991–1995), Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997), Daria (1997–2002), and Celebrity Deathmatch (1998–2007). Of the animated shows that aired, Beavis and Butt-Head and Daria ended up being the most successful, with both shows developing a cult following.
King of the Hill is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that initially aired on Fox from January 12, 1997, to September 13, 2009, with four more episodes airing in syndication from May 3 to 6, 2010. The series centers on the Hills, an American family in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas, as well as their neighbors, co-workers, relatives, classmates, friends, and acquaintances. Series protagonist, patriarch, and everyman Hank Hill works as assistant manager at Strickland Propane. He lives in a ranch-style house with his wife Peggy, his son Bobby, his niece Luanne, and his pet bloodhound Ladybird. Hank's neighbors are his longtime friends Bill Dauterive, a divorced, bald, overweight military barber and former high school football star; Dale Gribble, a paranoid, pro-gun, anti-government pest exterminator; and Jeff Boomhauer, a charismatic, soft-spoken, often unintelligible bachelor whose occupation is revealed in the final episode of the series. The show's realistic approach seeks humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life, such as blue-collar workers, substitute teachers, and the trials of puberty.
Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection is a series of three DVD box sets from MTV and Paramount Home Entertainment, each containing 40 Beavis and Butt-Head episodes chosen by series creator Mike Judge and special features such as interviews and music videos. The first entry in the series was released on November 8, 2005, while the final two volumes were released in 2006.
Butt-Head is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists from the MTV/Paramount+ animated series Beavis and Butt-Head. He is voiced by the show's creator, Mike Judge.
John Frizzell is an American film and television composer, known for his work with Mike Judge. He scored Judge's films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Office Space and Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022), and he supplied the music for Judge's television sitcom King of the Hill. Frizzell also gained notice for his score to Crime of the Century in 1996, followed by Dante's Peak and Alien Resurrection in 1997.
Frog Baseball is an animated short film created by Mike Judge in 1992, which marks the first appearance of the Beavis and Butt-Head characters. It premiered in The Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.
"Werewolves of Highland" is the first episode of season 8 and 201st episode overall of the American animated television sitcom Beavis and Butt-Head, as well as the first episode of the series' revival after its initial cancellation in 1997. It aired alongside "Crying" on October 27, 2011, on MTV.
This is a list of episodes from the first season of King of the Hill, which aired on Fox from January 12 to May 11, 1997 for 12 episodes.
John Altschuler is an American screenwriter and television and film producer. He is known for his collaborative projects with Mike Judge and Dave Krinsky.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is a 2022 American adult animated science fiction comedy film directed by John Rice and Albert Calleros and written by Mike Judge, Lew Morton, Guy Maxtone-Graham and Ian Maxtone-Graham. It is the second film based on the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head after Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996). The film follows teenage delinquents Beavis and Butt-Head, who are transported 24 years from 1998 to 2022, encounter parallel-universe versions of themselves and are hunted by the US government.
"The Special One" is the first episode of season 1 and 1st episode overall of the American animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. It is the second episode of the 2022 revival of the show, debuting on Paramount+ on August 4, 2022, along with the episodes "Escape Room", "Boxed In" and "Beekeepers", the first of which is this episode's sister episode.
"Boxed In" is the third episode of season 9 and 223rd episode overall of the American animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. It is the third episode of the 2022 revival of the show, debuting on Paramount+ on August 4, 2022, along with the episodes "Escape Room", "The Special One", and "Beekeepers", the latter of which is this episode's sister episode.
