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PUERILE animated comedy Beavis and Butt-Head makes a comeback tomorrow night, after 15 years, and their creator still thinks they’re different from all the rest.

Exploding on to MTV in 1993, the creepy cartoon characters became a cult phenomenon, made the cover of Rolling Stone and were name-checked in Hollywood blockbuster True Lies.

Juvenile, gruesome and boobs-obsessed Beavis and Butt-Head broke ground as an aminated series dealing in adult comedy.

It spawned playground catchphrases and inspired a new wave of adult cartoons, the best of which are South Park and Family Guy.

But Mike Judge, 49, the man and the voice behind the despicable duo, still thinks there still isn’t anything quite like his troubled teens.

He said: “I think that Beavis & Butt-head is more character-based than joke-based.

“I do happen to think it’s very funny, and there are a lot of jokes.

“But it’s not really ‘joke writing’. A lot of it is funny because of the way things are said, and the way the characters look, walk and talk .

“I would like to think the characters are pretty different than a lot of the other animated shows.

“There are shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill (which Mike also created) – which are all great shows – but they’re all about families, and Beavis and Butt-Head are not a family.

“So, it’s kind of like this old school Three Stooges-style.”

The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Mike.

MTV saw the short and the series ran from 1993 until 1997 with a film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, released in 1996.

The animation was rough, as was the language. The pair - Beavis, who wears the Metallica T-shirt, and Butt-Head, who wears the AC/DC T-shirt - sat on their couch making fun of music videos, most of which “sucked”.

The duo, both voiced by Mike, live in the town of Highland, Texas and are obsessed

with girls.

Butt-Head begins almost every sentence with “Uhhhhhh...” and ends with his short trademark “Uh huh huh huh” laugh.

He also had the series’ best-remembered catchphrase – “This is going to be so cool”.

Mike got the name Butt-Head from two people he knew during his childhood: “Iron Butt” (who liked to encourage people to kick him in the butt in order to demonstrate his strength) and “Head-Butt”.

In 1997, after seven series, Mike decided to pull the show before he had “run it into the ground”.

But MTV hadn’t finished and dogged him for years for a sequel to the film.

When the channel brought Jersey Shore to the world, MTV bosses thought it would be funny to see what Beavis and Butt-Head made of the real-life cartoon characters.

Eventually Mike agreed to give his famous destructive characters a reboot.

Mike said: “When I started watching Jersey Shore, which I got hooked on myself, I tried to figure out how to approach it.

“And when it clicked for me, it was cool to have them know the show inside and out, and just have fun with it. I think there’s plenty of good stuff for them to watch now.

“I think I have a little bit of their tastes, too, like Sons of Guns and Jail – plenty of shows where they just blow stuff up.”

Beavis and Butt-Head gave Mike a $90million fortune and turned the characters into video games, action figures, fancy dress costumes and even air fresheners.

They have been referenced in Friends and in films like Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Clueless, Airheads and Jackass 3D.

“Hearing Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie True Lies dropping the Beavis and Butt-Head reference was one of my favourite moments.

“True Lies was this big blockbuster movie, I was just sitting there, and all of a sudden, my little cartoon was referenced.

“That was really cool,” he said.

“Being on the cover of Rolling Stone was amazing. Another favourite moment was when I was in a park when the first episodes were airing on MTV, and people were walking their dogs past me. I heard one of them say, “You need to wash your dog.” And then I heard some other guy say, “Washing the dog! Washing the dog!” – quoting the show.

“I remember thinking how cool that was.”

How does it feel that Beavis and Butt-Head has become not only an American classic, but a pop culture phenomenon around the world?

Mike laughed: “I’d say that it feels good!

“I try not to think about that stuff too much, especially when I’m in the midst of doing the show.

“But it’s always nice to hear that kind of stuff.

“And it’s also cool because they’re these drawings, and even though it’s my voice, not many people know what I look like.

“I’m sure if you’re a big actor, it could really mess you up being a big icon, but it’s kind of nice to just have it in these drawings.”

For their comeback Beavis and Butt-Head will unleash their skewed perspective on today’s society for 12 episodes starting tomorrow.

They’ll be commenting on everything from music videos, reality TV shows (including MTV favourites Jersey Shore and 16 and Pregnant), movies, vampires and viral videos.

They may look the same but the world, with mobile phone apps and the internet, has changed since their 90s heyday.

For non-fans Beavis and Butt-Head probably seems infantile, badly drawn and easy to write, but Mike claims it’s far from easy being dumb.

He said: “I’ll find that a lot of the time, I’ll be working with writers who are getting too clever with Beavis and Butt-Head who wouldn’t be smart enough to say something like that, or about that video.

“It’s kind of tricky, and definitely harder than it looks.

“A lot of people – especially when it first came out – thought, ‘Oh, that’s a dumb show’.

“I’ve had dumb ideas, too, so I should be writing for this.

“And it’s really not as easy as it looks. It is part of the challenge – even with the plots.

“They aren’t characters that are like, ‘Oh, I have this problem. I will devise a plan and solve it’.

“It’s kind of like Peter Sellers writing where things happen to him by accident, and you can never be successful at what you’re doing.

“It’s a similar process in writing.”

Beavis and Butt-Head seem a million miles away from the real life Mike Judge.

Mike was born in Ecuador to an archaeologist dad and librarian mum.

He played trombone in the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of California.

He certainly isn’t a drop-out kid like Beavis or Butt-Head. Mike tried his hand at engineering, but soon found out he wasn’t cut out for a ‘normal’ 9-5 job.

Mike felt that he was not in control of his own destiny and started playing music full-time, while living in Dallas and raising a family.

His move to animation came when he went to a festival and saw a short made by a local artist.

Mike claimed he’d been interested in animation since he was eight and used to create flipbook cartoons in his spelling book.

The festival made Mike realise that anyone can make animated shorts, and that you don’t need to have lots of money or connections to do so.

And that’s when he began writing and drawing animated shorts.

Mike described the first moments of Beavis and Butt-Head.

He said: “It started as two drawings, where I was trying to draw the same guy.

“I tried four or five different times.

“It was supposed to be this guy that I went to high school with, who is actually nothing like those characters.

“One of the drawings eventually became Beavis, and the other one became Butt-Head.

“I just saw a quality in them that I thought was funny, so I just exaggerated that.

“I’d go back to my sketchbook and start drawing them again.

“I started making animated shorts and coming up with different ideas, so I looked at these guys and wanted to do something with them.

“I actually went for a walk, and thought of the names and what the first short was going to be.

“I came up with it all in five minutes.”

And Beavis and Butt-Head are still going strong more than 20 years later.