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the jurogan experience how did you guys wind up with beavers and butthead there um so i had i was making these animated shorts in my house and uh just mailing out vhs tapes of them and uh there was a show called liquid television well i had gotten i'd gotten um i made three shorts before beavis and budded was the fourth one i'd made and the first three had gotten like the first one i made was on the show on comedy it was called the comedy channel um uh night after night with alan havey i remember alan havey yeah and so and then i'd gotten in some animation festivals and so people were starting there was a show called liquid television on mtv that um was on sunday nights and uh they would license animated shorts so i got i got like three or four of mine on there it all happened very quickly like i had they were gonna they they asked me to send my first three and i said i have a new one and it was beavis and butthead and um and then it so it got on that show and then there was a long weird cryptic negotiation where they said they want to buy it and i said what for and like and then i negotiated it was colossal pictures liquid did liquid with liquid television and then finally they said it's over oh it was a long ugly thing and then finally mtv came to me directly i still didn't know what they were going to do with it i thought those little station ids or something and i was elated i was like this is amazing i'm just making these things in my house outside of dallas and it's going to be on mtv that's amazing and then i sold it i i sold the whole thing to him for something like eighteen thousand dollars [Laughter] the whole property everything yeah i
mean i retained something that you'd never see any money from but i was able to get it back later years later but how did you do that just because they needed me to do it and i just you know but it was yeah i sold it uh but this was after months of negotiating and i'm like well it takes me it would i was animating everything by myself it would take me like six to eight weeks to make two minutes and after two beavis and budded shorts i was kind of out of ideas anyways i thought like okay i'll just this will be my you know admission fee to show business i'll just sell this off just to meet people and and have them know about me and and i you know after like i went to different lawyers and there like there was a this mob lawyer in dallas was just like don't sign it i said well then i just don't do this like i mean i don't regret it because i i think they were ready to walk away um it'd been months you know like five or six months which i guess in show business isn't that long of a negotiation all the time but yeah then they and then they flew me up there and then they started talking about we're gonna do 65 episodes and uh i was saying okay am i going to be involved i don't like i did and they said of course it's your baby and you know um but they didn't say any of that until they already owned it they didn't want to maybe it was part of the you know the whole poli shore of it all and those people that had gotten out of there but they did they did their lawyer had all the bad intentions of a good lawyer but she wasn't all that great and didn't know animation so there were some big uh holes in the contract that i was able to exploit yeah exploit later yeah she thought that i was going to be doing the entire all the animation myself so there was like a per minute fee that was like three seasons in
my i got mike still my manager michael rotenberg was also a lawyer said hey this thing says they owe you a ton of money so yeah we had we were able to i was able to get it back and now i own it like 50 50 with them so okay that was after the movie and they wanted a sequel and all that stuff and so this movie that you got coming out when did this start getting developed um let's see i had the idea for it a long time ago it was really about three years ago and then um right before the lockdown because it was friday the 13th march 2020. i had lunch with uh the um chris mccarthy and uh kai's hill edgar the paramount plus guys and and just sealed the deal right then and then made the entire movie with everyone on zoom and evercast so when you pitch a movie like a beavis and butted movie are you pitching uh are you just saying look i want to do a bavis and butter movie are you saying this is what happens with peterson butthead like what's the process well with this one with the sequel they've been wanting a sequel for years and i've pitched different usually when did you make the first one first one came out in 96. so it was like a couple years was it like so the show the short first aired on in 92 the series started in march of 93 so the show had been on a while before the movie came out like three years they wanted it sooner or later oh wow so it was off for a while