Due to the fact that I am currently suffering from a head cold that makes me feel as if someone has injected my cranium with rubber cement, I had a hard time coming up with a joke for today’s comic.
Having covered Gamer on Wednesday, Extract and Something About Steve were the only new movies left this weekend worth discussing.
Since it would appear from the trailer that Something About Steve is a joke unto itself, I was really only left with Extract. And since I couldn’t think of a good joke to go with it, my mind turned to the most visible piece of marketing for the film – a short video of Beavis and Butthead introducing a clip and then talking about the inequity of prostitution (I.E. no one wants to pay men for sex)
Extract director and Beavis and Butthead creator shared the clip with David Letterman on The Late Show Tuesday night and made the rounds online shortly thereafter.
I worried that the joke in the comic played a little too inside. If you hadn’t seen the video, you would have no idea what Tom was talking about. I also hate to make you read the blog in order to understand the joke.
But then I figured if you weren’t a teenager in the 90’s, you probably wouldn’t get the joke anyway. So let’s have a little fun with things and have Jared pull his shirt over his head and announce “I AM CORNHOLIO!”
You can’t please everyone, so you might as well please yourself, right?
Switching gears for a moment, I wanted to give everyone a head’s up that I’m taking next week off.
As you may or may not know, I’ve been unemployed since June and, frankly, my severance is starting to dry up with no strong job leads.
I’ve made the decision to position myself as a freelance web and graphic designer. To do that, I need to design and build a web site where I can show off my portfolio and attract clients.
So I’m taking next week off partly to get the freelance business off the ground and partly to give myself a break from the grind of the comic. I haven’t taken any time off (I don’t think) since the beginning of the year and I need to recharge my batteries a little bit.
I’ll be sure to point everyone to the new site once it’s up and running. I might actually try a little networking with you guys to see if you know anyone who needs a site designed in the next few weeks. Thank goodness web design is the ultimate telecommuting job.
I have two guest comics already lined up and I’m asking around for one more. If anyone out there is interested in trying their hand at a guest comic, there’s no reason I couldn’t publish it on Tuesday or Thursday. So send me what you have to theaterhopper@hotmail.com and we’ll see what happens.
That’s it for now. Thanks for checking up on me this week and be sure to check out the site next week for some guest comic mayhem!
Have a great weekend!
Man, seeing those two brought back some memories!
Remember when MTV had to put a disclaimer in front of their show because a bunch of kids were committing copycat crimes and setting things on fire?
WHOA, DUDE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
I AM CORNHOLIO!
Hey bro, sorry to hear about the ongoing hardships with employent. Thsi site may be a good place to at least get some sort of income until you get something more solid: http://www.elance.com/p/landing/provider.html
Hey, um, I didn’t think you’d do the whole “Beavis and Butthead” comic today. I figured someone would Tweet you out of it. But, even so, nothing like a good reference to bring back memories.
Wren, I totally agree with you on everything you said. The rant is a-okay in my book.
Lance, sorry no one got around to talking me out of today’s comic. But like I said, I’m not a 100% right now and just needed some filler.
And yes, Lauren, I still have a Hotmail account. Although, these days, I have it forwarded to my G-mail account. It’s just easier to keep the Hotmail one around so I don’t have to go through the hassle of losing contact with people.
People still have hotmail accounts? How quaint!
Sorry, comic is great and good luck with the new biz, but I am going to rant on the whole Beavis & Butthead/Kids setting fire to their houses situation.
One of the worst incidents was in my beloved town: Dayton, Ohio. Several children under ten perished in a mobile home fire that one of the kids started with a lighter. The kid’s mother blamed Beavis & Butthead because her child that loved to watch the show and started the fire kept saying ‘Fire, he he, Fire’ like Butthead. What actually transpired was bad parenting pure and simple and the mother should have been brought up on neglect charges. She left her kids alone and that is when the fire started. There was actually a video of her running from a neighbor’s house in the middle of the afternoon, which she was visiting at the time, toward her burning home yelling “My kids are in there!” Also, I could never understand how kids under ten were watching the show because at the time of the fire, Mtv only aired it after 9 PM and it was clearly geared for teens/adults. Why were such young children up that late watching a teen/adult oriented show? Again poor parental judgement. I just have a real problem when the parents try to blame a tragedy that they cleary contributed to on everyone/everything but themselves! Beavis and Butthead were never the same after that…
Again, sorry for the rant.
a) Am I the only one who was put off by Beavis’ voice change? It was subtle but…
b) Hey, Tom, any idea what rates your thinking about charging? I’m in the need for a small logo for one site, and a bigger, more versatile logo for a different site…. =)
Hey, as much as LOVE your comic (and I do) I understand unemployment woes. Being a native Iowan myself, I also understand jobs aren’t easy to come by there. So, hey, take the time off and good luck on your job search.
The clip was pretty funny – good job Mike Judge! And I’m not even a big B&B fan…
Hi guys, I liked Beavis and Butthead back in the day and I thought the movie was pretty good too. This clip was OK, nothing like a little melancholy… but Extract I’m not so sure about. A part of me wants to go, but a part of me hears alarm bells. Hey check out my animation: it’s not Beavis/Butthead quality, but it is funny (i hope). http://www.aniboom.com/competitions/Fox/393597/Jolly-Holly/
No, John, you are not alone in your a) point. I thought it was just me and my slowly deteriorating
memory. The voice has definitely changed and not for the better. Maybe Mike Judge forgot how
to do it or else he is getting to an age where he can’t do it properly.
is it just me or did Beavis’s voice sound off in the clip.
@chuckers Butthead sounded all right, at least. Beavis’ voice is definitely pretty grating on the voicebox, so I wouldn’t be surprised that a now almost 50 year old Mike Judge can’t hit the same screech.