King of the Hill
Life: A Loser's Manual
Sunday 18 May 2008 on FOX

Luanne's long-lost father and Peggy's brother Hoyt, a two-strike felon, comes to Arlen. After Hoyt gets caught committing another crime, he convinces Lucky to take the fall. Meanwhile, Dale skirts zoning regulations and builds a 39-foot guard tower on his property.

Mike participated in Boy Scouts as a Cub Scout. (edit) Mike is good friends with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. (edit) Mike is one of the most respected cartoonists amongst his peers. (edit) In 1999, Mike wrote and directed the live-action movie Office Space, in which he had a cameo. The movie, which had a mere $10 million budget, only grossed $10.8 million in box office receipts, but has gone on to make millions in video and DVD sales. (edit) Mike's short Office Space was picked up by Comedy Central in 1991 following a Dallas animation festival. (edit)

Mike Judge:(when asked what changes he would like to see in the industry) It would be nice-and some directors have this-if you could go out and cast whoever you want with no arguments from the studio. (edit) Mike Judge:(when asked what about animation appealed to him in his youth) I've always loved the way cel animation looks, particularly in a theatre. And it seems like people my age (he was 41 at the time of this interview) just assumed good animation was gone. It seemed like it had all just gone to hell. Saturday morning stuff was pretty bad, especially for people like me who loved the old Warner and Disney stuff. So when I first saw an animation festival in 1985 while I was in college I was blown away, as there was all this cool-looking stuff being done independently. I wanted to be a part of that, but I thought, "Well, I have no idea how to do that. Even though it's being done independently, it's being done by people with commercial studios." (edit) Mike Judge: (when asked how he went from engineering to animation) I'd always wanted to try animation, and as a separate pipe dream, I wanted to go into comedy somehow, but I knew stand-up wasn't for me. Engineering didn't last very long for me, so I was a musician for, I guess, six years. I thought of animation as something I wanted to try if I was ever rich or retired. I went to an animation festival, and there were some cels from a local animator there. I'd always assumed that you had to buy an expensive camera, and it seemed like something I couldn't afford. I never thought about it long enough until I saw this guy's cels. Then I thought, "Okay, you can probably rent a camera to do all the work." So that's what I did. Actually, I bought a Bolex camera for $200 and started messing around with it. I just nerded out on this stuff, and the first thing I finished was the first "Office Space" short.

(edit) Mike Judge: They (Beavis and Butthead) are the bastard children of the sexual revolution. (edit) Mike Judge: (On being asked when he realized Beavis and Butthead had become more than just TV characters) Well, two things come to mind. The first was hearing senators talk about them in Congress. And the second was hearing Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies saying, "I've got Beavis and Butt-head after me." That's when it really hit home. (edit)

Star
Beavis and Butt-head Beavis/Butt-head/Principal McVicker/Tom Anderson/David Van Driessen/Bradley Buzzcut/Additional Characters (voice)	ChalkZone Joe Tabootie (Japan)
King of the Hill Hank Hill	The Head Director/Creator/Various Voices

Recurring Role
King of the Hill Boomhauer's Grandmother	Late Show with David Letterman Guest

Guest Star
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Antenna Alien #2	Celebrity Deathmatch Fandemonium III Beavis And Butt-Head
Frasier The Harassed Van	King of the Hill Hank Gets Dusted Boomhauer
Lloyd in Space Boomer's Secret Life Orange Alien	MTV Video Music Awards MTV 9th Annual Video Music Awards Beavis/Butt-Head

Writer
Beavis and Butt-head The Pipe Of Doom	Beavis and Butt-head 1995 Christmas Special
Beavis and Butt-head Bungholio - Lord Of The Harvest	Beavis and Butt-head Couch-Fishing
Beavis and Butt-head The Great Cornholio	Beavis and Butt-head No Laughing

Other
The Goode Family n/a	The Goode Family n/a
VH1 Goes Inside Primetime Cartoons Music