Trey Parker Says There Was Nearly A Crossover Episode Between ‘South Park’ and ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’
The Flintstones met the Jetsons, the Simpson family has hung out with both the Futurama gang and Jay Sherman from The Critic — but South Park, on the other hand, is the rare long-running animated show that has never featured a single crossover episode. Unless you count the time they crossed over with Russell Crowe: Fightin’ Around the World.
But apparently, South Park came surprisingly close to joining forces with another iconic cartoon series that drove adults nuts in the late ‘90s: Beavis and Butt-Head.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone returned to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time in nearly a decade on Thursday evening, appearing on a panel alongside Mike Judge and Andy Samberg. In addition to discussing South Park’s season premiere (and the debate over censoring deepfake Trump’s minuscule dong), the pair revealed that they nearly collaborated with Judge on an episode.
When asked by moderator Josh Horowitz about a potential South Park-Beavis and Butt-Head crossover (a fan-fiction favorite), Parker admitted that they “talked about it a long time ago.”
“I think it was like the second or third season (of South Park),” Parker explained. “(We thought), ‘Oh Beavis and Butt-Head should have to come over and babysit Cartman.’ Something like that.”
“We should do it,” he added.
“It’s a good idea,” Stone agreed.
It’s not too surprising that this idea was floated in the early aughts, considering that Parker and Stone were “huge fans of Beavis and Butt-Head, and huge fans of Mike Judge” (although they didn’t love Beavis and Butt-Head Do America). In fact, Judge took the pair out for a meal before South Park had even premiered, simply to give them some helpful advice for how to succeed in the animation world. The advice? “Don’t let people take advantage of you, because they’re dumb.”
Parker once called Beavis and Butt-Head a “great satirical look at where a lot of teenagers in America were at the time,” noting that the show was “actually trying to say something.”
Not to mention the fact that it was Judge who Parker and Stone tapped to voice Kenny for the climactic goodbye scene in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
Judging from the applause that the crossover discussion generated at Hall H, people are into the idea of combining these cartoon worlds now that Beavis and Butt-Head is back. And since both shows are under Paramount’s corporate umbrella — and Paramount’s merger wasn’t completely upended by South Park’s season premiere — it’s not impossible that the crossover might happen one day.
Although Samberg did warn everyone that Comedy Central might force them to include his Digman! character.
