Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-head, Part 3 concludes the retrospective documentary that began on Volume One. This 24-minute piece follows the same format as the previous two installments, mostly interview clips with Mike Judge and others who worked on the series, mixed with clips from episodes (far too many, in my opinion). Here you can see Mike Judge discussing how he was feeling bored by the series in it's final two seasons. We see a few brief shots of him in the studio voicing the characters — far too little, I would've loved to seen more of that.
Many 'Special Appearances' are found on disc three. The funniest stuff is Christmas-themed. The "Letters to Santa Butt-head" is really hilarious — and was originally part of the hour-long B&B Christmas special. Also included are a few short clips from the 2005 VMAs that constituted B&B's return to MTV - the first new material since the series ended. Nice to have, even if Judge can't quite do Beavis's voice like he used to. Rounding out the set are some promos including a few priceless clips of Mike Judge directing the boys on the set of the movie. Also noteworthy: there are newly done promos that were shown in '05 when MTV was promoting the first of these Mike Judge Collection DVDs. In the final one of these promos the infomercial "Decade of Power," featuring Billy Dee Williams interviewing Beavis and Butt-head to promote Volume One, is mentioned. Considering that the infomercial had a considerable amount of new B&B material, it's a shame that MTV did throw that on the DVD as well.
We fans can only hope that Mike Judge eventually sees fit to release the remaining episodes on DVD. But until then, Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection Volume 3 provides plenty of laughs.
Article comments
1 - RJ Elliott
Huh-huh. Dude...was this written by a chick?
Dude! I think so! Heh-heh-heh!
Co-o-ol. Do you think she's hot?
Heh-heh-heh! Yeah! I'd do her! I'd do her in the butt! Heh-heh-heh!!!
Heh...co-o-ol...
2 - Dynamo of Eternia
It is disapointing that the entire series may not get released, and it's also disapointing that the episodes are not in order.
With all due respect to Mike Judge, it just seems like his involvement has complicated things more than it has helped. If he hadn't pushed for things his way, we probably would be getting all of the episodes in their proper order.
Maybe he wouldn't have been as involved with the extras as a result, which would stink, but to me the extras are secondary to the main content, and having all of the episodes is much more important to me.
Does anyone know if any of the episodes from the TimeLife releases are ones that were not included on the Mike Judge Collection DVDs?
I've also heard that even though it was recalled, a few of the History of Beavis and Butthead DVDs still leaked out into the hands of some people. I wonder if there's any content on those not included on these sets as well.
3 - patmann
they should include the muic vids with the episode to complete each episode as seen on tv. that would be great :P. Oh well, i'll just have to deal.