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Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection is a series of three-disc DVD sets from MTV and Paramount Home Entertainment, each containing 40 Beavis and Butt-Head episodes handpicked by series creator Mike Judge plus supplements. The first entry in the series was released on November 8, 2005, with the final two volumes were released in 2006.

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[edit] Precursors

The first Beavis and Butthead release on DVD was entitled "Beavis and Butthead: The Final Judgement". It was released in the USA on July 2, 1997. Running time was 50 minutes, and the program included: 1) Program Start 2) No Laughing 3) Scared Straight 4) They're coming to take me away ... 5) Manners Suck 6) Liar! Liar! 7) The Great Cornholio 8) The Final Judgement

A second DVD release was attempted in September, 2002**. Paramount announced the release of a two-disc DVD release set titled "The History of Beavis and Butt-Head", but the set was cancelled shortly prior to release. Some copies of the set mistakenly put on store shelves, only to be immediately recalled. The set promptly became a highly-prized item on eBay, selling there for prices up to $300 USD. The reason for the recall of the set was not immediately known, but it was later revealed that Mike Judge (who holds approval rights for video releases of Beavis and Butt-Head) had the set recalled at his demand. Judge stated that the History set contained episodes he had previously rejected for home video release, and was prepared without his consent of knowledge, leading to the recall.

The third DVD release of Beavis and Butt-Head was two series of three-disc sets released by Time-Life in December 2002. The first set in the series contained the same program content of 6 of the Beavis and Butt-Head VHS compilations previously released by Sony Music Video from 1994 to 1999: Butt-O-Ween, Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas, Innocence Lost, Chicks 'n' Stuff, Feel Our Pain, and Troubled Youth, with two VHS compilations combined into a single disc. The set was advertised considerably on networks such as Comedy Central and on the Time-Life website.

Sometime after the first release, a second set of Time-Life Beavis and Butt-Head DVD's was released. This set contained the programs of the remaining SMV VHS compilations: Work Sucks, There Goes The Neighborhood, The Final Judgement, Law-Abiding Citizens, and Hard Cash. Two of the discs in the set once again contained the program content of two of the VHS tapes, while the last disc (Hard Cash) contained only the content of the final VHS program, but did additionally include 4 of the music video segments from the original broadcasts with Beavis and Butt-Head commentating. The second Time-Life set was not advertised, and subsequently became rarer.

[edit] Beavis and Butt-Head's Return to DVD

After the Time-Life sets, all DVD release plans for Beavis and Butt-Head were put on hiatus, until 2005.

In July 2005, reports began circulating around various Web sites, that a banner found at that year's Comic-Con proclaimed that a new Beavis and Butt-Head DVD was coming. The news was promptly divulged by TVShowsonDVD.com: A New Beavis and Butt-Head DVD would be released on November 8, 2005. The set was revealed to contain 40 episodes including director's cuts of certain episodes, as well as some of the Music Video segments (see below). Subsequent new reports revealed that 23 of the episodes would be Director's Cuts, 11 music videos would be on the set, and that the set would contain promos, interviews, and the first part of a new interview entitled "Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head".

[edit] Music Videos

Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection is notable in that it's one of the few times that a home video release of the show has retained Music Video segments. All prior VHS and DVD releases have lacked these segments except for the VHS release of Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas, and the last disc of the second and last Time-Life set, presumably due to the difficulty involved in acquiring music rights for the videos. This last disc, entitled "Hard Cash", appeared to have made room for four music videos since it contained half the episodes (one VHS worth) of most of the other volumes (typically the combination of content formerly occupying two VHS tapes).

[edit] Controversy

Although The Mike Judge Collection represents the most comprehensive home video treatment of Beavis and Butt-Head to date, it has attracted some controversy from fans of the show, particularly about Mike Judge's treatment of the actual episodes.

The first of the controversies is the omission of certain episodes from the collection. When the set was first officially announced, it was revealed that only 3 volumes of The Mike Judge Collection would be released, leading fans of the show to believe that a considerable number of Beavis and Butt-Head episodes would not receive DVD treatment. The fears of the fans was confirmed shortly prior to the release of the first volume, in the form of a letter from Mike Judge that was leaked to the internet (the letter was also included with the first volume). In the letter, Mike Judge stated that he found one-third of all Beavis and Butt-Head episodes to be very good, another third to be mediocre, and the last third to be awful, and made arrangements with MTV to create a DVD series containing only the "very good" and "mediocre" episodes. The letter brought anger and concern to many fans of the show, who felt that Mike Judge would label many of the older and rarer episodes from the earlier seasons of the show as "awful" and thus omit them from the Mike Judge Collection. However, many earlier episodes were indeed included on the first volume, but the second was composed solely of later episodes.

The second of the controversies is the Director's Cut episodes. When news of the Director's cuts was first revealed, they were described has containing "previously censored material" which led many fans of the show to believe that the new cuts would contain footage that MTV had previously excised for home video and broadcast, particularly the infamous "fire" sequences. However, shortly prior to the DVDs retail date, a member of the DVD Talk Forums discovered that the majority of the "Director's Cut" episodes were actually missing footage from their original broadcast versions, although two episodes (Home Improvement and Lawn and Garden) did indeed have excised footage reinstated. The reason for these edits is unknown, although it has been speculated that the edits in question were made to adjust timing issues in the individual episodes. Lending credence to the speculation is a Houston Chronicle article on the DVDs in which Mike Judge states that he corrected certain animation mistakes on the DVD that he found to be troublesome. The edited episodes nonetheless angered many fans of the show, which led to the set being unfavorably compared to the similarly edited Ren and Stimpy DVDs and George Lucas' updated Star Wars DVDs on many websites and on Amazon.com. However, it should be noted that many of the affected episodes were previously released on the Time-Life and History DVDs complete and unedited.

[edit] DVDs

[edit] Volume 1

Volume 1 of Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection was released on November 8, 2005, and contains the following 40 episodes (Director's Cuts are noted with an asterisk):

[edit] Volume 1, Disc 1

  1. No Laughing*
  2. Home Improvement*
  3. Lawn and Garden*
  4. Washing the Dog
  5. The Crush*
  6. Plate Frisbee*
  7. Most Wanted
  8. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Huh Huh
  9. Patients, Patients
  10. Blackout!*
  11. Rabies Scare*
  12. 1-900-BEAVIS*
  13. Madame Blavatsky*
  14. Late Night With Butt-Head*
  15. Pool Toys*
  16. The Final Judgement of Beavis
  17. Right On*
  18. Date Bait
  19. Butt Is It Art?*
  20. Figure Drawing*

[edit] Volume 1, Disc 2

  1. Mr. Anderson's Balls
  2. Teen Talk*
  3. Manners Suck*
  4. The Pipe of Doom
  5. Safe Driving
  6. Liar! Liar!
  7. Generation in Crisis
  8. Beavis and Butt-Head vs. The Vending Machine
  9. Radio Sweethearts
  10. The Great Cornholio
  11. Held Back*
  12. Choke*
  13. Killing Time
  14. Safe House*
  15. Dude, A Reward
  16. Walkathon
  17. Temporary Insanity
  18. Tainted Meat*
  19. Dream On*
  20. Beaverly Buttbillies*

[edit] Volume 1, Disc 3

  1. Music Videos:
    1. Matthew Sweet: "Superdeformed"
    2. Pantera: "This Love"
    3. Moist: "Push"
    4. dEUS: "Suds & Soda"
    5. Grim Reaper: "Fear No Evil"
    6. Monster Magnet: "Negasonic Teenage Warhead"
    7. Korn: "Blind"
    8. Catherine Wheel: "Waydown"
    9. Beastie Boys: "Pass the Mic"
    10. Wilco: "Box Full of Letters"
    11. Hum: "Stars"
  2. Taint to Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head Part 1
  3. Special Appearances
    1. 1994 Video Music Awards
    2. 1994 Video Music Awards with David Letterman
    3. 1996 Video Music Awards
    4. Beavis and Butt-Head Thanksgiving Special with Kurt Loder
  4. Promos
    1. Clinton Promo
    2. Waco Promo
    3. Dumb Fun in the Sun Promo
  5. Montages
    1. Greatest Hits
    2. Terms of Endearment

[edit] Volume 2

Volume 2 of Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection was released on June 13, 2006 (moved up from the original June 6, 2006 date). The set contains 40 episodes (including 17 that are new-to-DVD), 13 Music Videos, Part II of "Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head", "previously unaired segments", and other features.

[edit] Episode list

  1. Plastic Surgin'
  2. Stewart Moves Away
  3. Top O' the Mountain
  4. Bad Dog
  5. Lightning Strikes
  6. Party
  7. What's the Deal
  8. Wet Behind The Rears
  9. Animation Sucks
  10. Candy Sale
  11. Here Comes The Bride's Butt
  12. Pregnant Pause
  13. Oil Change
  14. History of Women
  15. Beavis, Can You Spare A Dime?
  16. Premature Evacuation
  17. Bang the Drum Slowly Dumbass
  18. Close Encounters
  19. Vidiots
  20. Tired
  21. Whiplash
  22. Spare Me
  23. Womyn
  24. Murder Site
  25. Another Friday Night
  26. Patsies
  27. Spanish Fly
  28. Sexual Harassment
  29. Green Thumbs
  30. Bus Trip
  31. Blood Pressure
  32. Feel A Cop
  33. U.S. History
  34. Date Watchers
  35. Gang of Two
  36. Stewart is Missing
  37. Prank Call
  38. Babysitting
  39. Buttniks
  40. Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest

Volume 2 contains the following 13 Music Videos:

  1. "Sabotage" by Beastie Boys
  2. "Kid Candy" by Seaweed
  3. "I'm Broken" by Pantera
  4. "The Bellwitch" by Mercyful Fate
  5. "Delivery" by Compulsion
  6. "Secret" by Madonna
  7. "Parlour Games" by Six Finger Satellite
  8. "Twiggy, Twiggy" by Pizzicato 5
  9. "Stick It Out" by Rush
  10. "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead
  11. "Hole-Hearted" by Extreme
  12. "Pat's Trick" by Helium
  13. "If I Only Had a Brain" by MC 900 Ft. Jesus

[edit] Volume 3

Volume 3 of Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection was released on August 1, 2006. This collection includes 42 episodes, the uncut Frog Baseball Beavis and Butt-Head short, 15 music videos (including ones by Soundgarden, Alice Cooper, and Sonic Youth), "rare special appearances and promos", and Part III of "Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head"

[edit] Episode List

  1. "No Service"
  2. "Sprout"
  3. "Yard Sale"
  4. "P.T.A."
  5. "Substitute"
  6. "Shopping List"
  7. "Buy Beer"
  8. "A Very Special Episode"
  9. "Just For Girls"
  10. "Head Lice"
  11. "Vaya Con Cornholio"
  12. "Nosebleed"
  13. "Underwear"
  14. "Follow Me"
  15. "On Strike"
  16. "Take a Lap"
  17. "Pierced"
  18. "Ding-Dong-Ditch"
  19. "Huh-Huh-Humbug"
  20. "It's a Miserable Life"
  21. "Citizens' Arrest"
  22. "A Great Day"
  23. "Dumbasses Anonymous"
  24. "Woodshop"
  25. "Shopping Cart"
  26. "Bride of Butt-Head"
  27. "Special Delivery"
  28. "T.V. Violence"
  29. "The Miracle That is Beavis"
  30. "Impotence"
  31. "Inventors"
  32. "Canned"
  33. "Drinking Butt-ies"
  34. "Garage Band"
  35. "Die Fly, Die!"
  36. "Breakdown
  37. "Speech Therapy"
  38. "Work is Death"
  39. "Graduation Day"
  40. "Butt Flambé"
  41. "Leave it to Beavis"
  42. "Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead"

Volume 3 contains the following music videos:

  1. "Stakka Bo: Here We Go"
  2. "Crowbar: Existence is Punishment"
  3. "Salt 'n' Pepa (feat. En Vogue): Whatta Man"
  4. "Poison: I Want Action"
  5. "2 Unlimited: Get Ready For This"
  6. "Tripping Daisy: I Got a Girl"
  7. "Jesus Lizard: Glamorous"
  8. "Sonic Youth: Dirty Boots"
  9. "Soundgarden: Spoonman"
  10. "Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Dang"
  11. "PJ Harvey: Down By the Water"
  12. "Alice Cooper: Teenage Frankenstein"
  13. "Toadies: Possum Kingdom"
  14. "Rollins Band: Liar"
  15. "Paul Broucek: Hollywood Halloween"

Now, MTV offers us all three volumes of the Mike Judge Collection and a bonus t-shirt with the first sketches Mike Judge ever created on it.


Beavis and Butt-head
Characters: Beavis | Butt-Head | Mr. Anderson | David Van Driessen | Coach Buzzcut | Principal McVicker | Daria | Todd | Stewart | Cornholio | Minor Characters | Featured musicians
Media: List of episodes | Beavis and Butt-head (video game) | The Mike Judge Collection | Beavis and Butt-head Do America | The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience
Other: Burger World | Frog Baseball | Daria | Mike Judge | Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation


[edit] External links

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