Pretty much as premiered last night at Sony’s The Untold Story special events, here’s the first full trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. This time there’s Lizard, there’s more back story and there’s a good sense of the “new” Peter Parker. I say “pretty much” because those of usat the events got to see it in…
Although Before Watchmen wins the story of the week, if you count up all the separate articles, it’s Doctor Who that wins the day by busting through them all. Go Doctor! Woo! Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week 1. Moffat Sets Up Doctor Who Season Seven And A New Companion. 2. BEFORE WATCHMEN…
This weekend, Alan Moore engaged in his first mass webchat, to help promote the Kickstarter appeal to raise money for a tribute statue to the late Harvey Pekar. The two-and-a-half hour video has been made available on Vimeo, and those who enjoy it are asked to consider making a Paypal donation towards the fundraising effort…
We’ve finally been given a look at Loki’s forces in the new, extended trailer for The Avengers, as premiered online just after a cut-down version graced the Superbowl. Here are four screen grabs from the single shot in which they appear with any degree of clarity: So it’s not the Skrull or the Kree –…
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It’s easy to forget what an impact Beavis and Butthead originally made. After a couple of 1992 shorts aired on MTV’s Liquid Television, the series proper kicked off in March ’93. Pretty soon their catchphrases, such as they are, had proliferated into schoolyards, pubs, toilet door graffiti, the bedroom – anywhere that people are routinely coarse and off-putting. In the hands of a witless public gestalt, Beavis and Butthead were quickly reduced to the level of obvious innuendo behind the faintest veil of supposed irony. Disappointing.
A new report at The Examiner’s REVIEWniverse column (found via JoBlo) states that Mike Judge, the show’s creator, is now working to revive the dumbass duo. He’s said to be outlining 20 new episodes for MTV, though it’s also suggested the network have yet to sign on the dotted line for them. I suppose there might be some kind of faked-up quasi-reality show about spoiled tan-bed casualties they’d rather air.
If Beavis and Butthead does come back, how will the show have changed? Says the report:
Judge plans on retaining the show’s original ghetto-tech aesthetic, right down to the faded color palatte. The source also reveals that theExtract director intends on keeping B and B‘s format identical to its original sketch-videos-sketch incarnation, but with more contemporary music clips for the cartoon slacker-duo to skewer.
There was barely any internet during the last run of the show, no SMS text messaging, no iPods and peer-to-peer file sharing. I’m curious to see what sort of impact these cultural shifts might have had on Beavis and Butthead’s world. And while it’s probably safe to assume they haven’t aged at all in the last 13 years, perhaps – just perhaps – Judge will make a break with toon-tradition and let them grow up, in body if not in mind.
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