The Boys Are Back! Mike Judge Drops New 'Beavis And Butthead Do Space' Trailer For Paramount+
And, because we didn't know how much we needed this right now: Director Mike Judge took to Twitter this morning to drop the new Beavis and Butthead movie trailer, and the first time they have had a new project for about a decade.
Beavis and Butthead, for the uninitiated, was a wildly popular, ahead-of-its-time cartoon series that aired on MTV starting in 1997.
It began as a short which aired on Liquid Television, a show on the network that showed animated shorts. In no time flat, Beavis and Butthead became one of the show's most popular spin-offs. The idiotic duo would get into over-the-top, farcical scenarios that were nothing more than low-brow humor with a hidden social commentary from the perspective of two inept narrators.
This time around, they are training to go into space. Why? Who knows - but the new movie, Beavis and Butthead Do The Universe feels like a worthy successor to their first and only theatrical release Beavis and Butthead Do America, a Clinton-era spoof of the country as it was in 1998.
From what is promised in the trailer, it seems the boys have been somehow tasked with going into the space program - only to travel through time from the late 90s to the present day.
This kind of fish-out-of-water commentary rings reminiscent of Judge's 2006 film Idiocracy, where a normal guy from the past is frozen and wakes up to an idiotic future 500 years later, and finds himself to be the smartest man alive.
If Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe is anything as genius as that, it's going to be a big hit.
Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe will stream on Paramount+ on June 23rd.
