
This makes it a lot easier to dismiss Beavis and Butt-Head, in its extremes, as entirely farcical, and to some, worth the messages they present. The big difference, as with their leads, Daria did it in a 'smart' way (wordplay, cultured references, low-key jabs) whereas Beavis and Butt-Head did it in a much cruder, raunchier, and vicious way: Daria was never going to do a tongue-in-cheek story about violence at schools by having guns fired in class and nobody caring. Like Daria, the show often took satirical aim at American society. This includes many of the background characters from the Highland High classroom scenes, and minor supporting characters. Apart from the first season, the show was inked and painted onto cells by hand and then projected on film, and Judge has said it didn't have an art director until the film.īeavis, Butt-Head, and Daria in a class photo. The episodes (airing in two-episode blocks) are generally ten to fifteen minutes long, including music video commentary, while the second run has also used commentary of other MTV shows like Jersey Shore. A third run is set to begin airing in July 2022. The second run began fifteen years later, on October 28, 2011.

This first run consisted of two pilot episodes and seven seasons, and the character of Daria Morgendorffer was created for the series. Its original run was on MTV from Mato November 28, 1997, starring Judge as the voices of the eponymous Beavis and Butt-Head. Beavis and Butt-Head is an adult-animated created by Mike Judge.
