30 Bits of Trivia About the Many Hit Shows of Mike Judge

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30 Bits of Trivia About the Many Hit Shows of Mike Judge
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We’ve always had some serious reverence for Mike Judge, but this list brought that reverence to new heights. His string of awesome movies and shows is something of legend, so we wanted to honor them with a few behind-the-scenes factoids. 

These are just the shows, by the way. If viewership numbers tell us that you like this as much as we do, we can do a “Mike Judge Movies” list next time. We’d love that, so get to reading and get to sharing please!

A Dinner of Onions

One universe novel shows up again and again. A Amer O Drver af Onlons CRACKED COM Just about any time a book is being read, held, or just sitting on a table, it's A Dinner Of Onions. A film adaptation even makes an appearance in the episode 'Stressed for Success.

Hank Hill’s Politics

The writers all had to read a law professor's book on government overreach. CRACKED cO Writers were required to read The Death of Common Sense, a book by Georgetown Law professor Philip K. Howard. The book explains a very Hill-ian philosophy that bureaucracy causes common sense to atrophy.

Source: LA Times

The King of the Hill Album

There's an official King of the Hill album. CRACKED They put out an album of southern rock covers by some popular country music stars, including Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow, as well as some of the characters themselves.

Hank Hill

Hank Hill pitched himself to the network, MEME fle ykt CRACKEDOON Instead of animating a full pilot, Mike Judge opted to produce a short, no-frills, first-person plea from Hank himself.

Peggy Hill

Peggy Hill (a substitute Spanish teacher) being very confident, yet very terrible at speaking Spanish is a long running joke on KING OF HILL THE A rec

Kahn’s French

KING OF HILL THE In the episode De-Kahnstructing Henry, Kahn is speaking French on the phone while at work. Only French-speakers would notice that K

Daria

Daria CRACKEDG The disaffected Daria made a few appearances on Beavis and Butthead before Mike Judge plucked her out of Highland and dropped her in Lawndale. The only mention of her old life is in a promo for the first episode.

The Banned Beavis and Butt-Head Episode

BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD Comedians ANT NOLE ANATOR Note CRACKED.COM B&B accidentally burn down a comedy club (but only after Beavis suggests they go intentionally burn sh* elsewhere). The pro-arson episode was pulled after two children died in a trailer fire, ostensibly inspired by this episode.

Source: YouTube

Liquid Television

Beavis And Butt-Head CRACKED O The boys got their first taste of televised idiocy with a series of shorts on MTV's Liquid Television, a collection of animations from indie producers. Their first short is about them brutally murdering increasingly larger defenseless animals.

More of Daria’s Origin Story

daria As a classmateof BUTT-HEAD BEAVIS AND she had a fairly normal toneof voiceand vocal rhythm. As the star of owN show, she stopped showing emotion

His Version of The Office?

At one point, they wanted Mike Judge to do the American version of The Office. They sent him the British version, along with some of its reviews, one of which said The Office succeeds where movies like Office Space failed --and, apparently, that's part of why he passed. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

His Texas Neighbors

Animated TV-series King of the Hill was partially inspired by co-creator Mike Judge's experience with a broken fence. CRACKED.COM Many years back, Judge was fixing a fence outside his new home near Dallas after a storm. Without hesitation, his neighbors jumped in and took over the repair. Не said the show was about neighbors who ...do right by people and are basically good people.

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Butt-Head

Butt-Head SKULL CRACKED.COM Mike Judge once lived next to an annoying little kid who called himself Iron-Butt: 'Supposedly, you could kick him in the

Judge Can Play the Bass

Mike Judge Creator of King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt-head, (and an entire list of other great f*cking shows and movies) plays the Bass. He is prett

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30 Bits of Trivia About the Many Hit Shows of Mike Judge

Naming Shows

MIKE JUDGE THOUGHT SILICON VALLEY WAS A RIDICULOUS NAME. CRRACLS LLE Before it hit the air, the show's creator was strongly against the name, saying:

Boomhauer

CRACKEDOON Mike Judge based the voice for the marble-mouthed character of Boomhauer on King Of The Hill off of a rambling and angry voice mail he got

Silicon Valley

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