Activision has revealed the latest crossover for Call of Duty, and it seems to be the unlikeliest yet.
As revealed by the Call of Duty Twitter account itself, Beavis and Butthead are coming in with full military gear to Call of Duty Season 4 Reloaded, playing the super soldiers that they could not have possibly become in the 1990s MTV animated show.
We will likely get a full trailer later, but for now, we got a preview image that clearly shows Highland’s most notorious troubled teens. At the background we can make out their biggest bullies, Todd Ianuzzi and Coach Bradley Buzzcut.
For those who are too young to remember, Beavis and Butthead was an adult animated sitcom broadcast on MTV, originally as a short feature in the show Liquid Television, and eventually becoming its own show with seven seasons going through the 1990s.
Beavis and Butthead came two years after The Ren & Stimpy Show and six years after The Simpsons. But its brand of crass, often mean spirited sense of humor, would find an audience in a counter-cultural zeitgeist where what was ostensibly labeled ‘underground’ would hit the mainstream, and even go international in that way.
But then, even this feels like a nostalgic curio thirty years later, way after the genre had been irrevocably changed by the success and popularity of South Park, and then Seth MacFarlane’s shows between Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show.
Beavis and Butthead’s creator, Mike Judge, would go on to show his full potential as a storyteller with his take on the great American animated sitcom, King of the Hill. But getting back to Call of Duty, there’s definitely an ironic turn to having these counter cultural icons be absolutely incorporated into what even its own fans see as one of the most corporate video game franchises active today.
Even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles makes more sense getting added into Call of Duty than Beavis and Butthead, but if anything, Mike Judge’s voice acting sold this show hard. His work will sell this crossover to the fans, alongside some other actors, like Toby Huss playing Todd. We certainly wonder if Activision managed to go as far as bringing in Daria Morgendorffer, or perhaps if we’ll also be able to play the middle aged and declining versions of Beavis and Butthead showing up in game as well.
Judge obviously signed off on this crossover so we have to assume he put some work on the sound booth for this one as well. We’re looking forward to seeing, and hearing, more about this crossover soon.
