Frog Baseball

Frog Baseball
Butt-head hits the frog with the baseball bat
Written by	Mike Judge
Directed by	Mike Judge
Starring	Mike Judge
Music by	Mike Judge
Country of origin	U.S.
Original language(s)	English
Production
Running time	2:53
Distributor	Spike and Mike
Release
Original release	1992
Chronology
Followed by	Peace, Love and Understanding

Frog Baseball is the pilot episode of Beavis and Butt-head, created by Mike Judge in 1992 for Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, which aired on MTV's Liquid Television. It marks the first appearance of the Beavis and Butt-head characters. It is available on Disc 3 of Volume 3 of The Mike Judge Collection as a special feature. It is also slightly edited from the original TV broadcast. The end title card that showed a still from the cartoon in which Butt-head's bat made contact with Beavis' head and reads "No animals were harmed in the making of this film...except for Beavis.", is removed from the DVD version.

Plot

The short starts out with a title card that says "Inbred Jed's Homemade Cartoons," with the character of Inbred Jed staring at the camera giving a somewhat evil hillbilly cackle. Beavis and Butt-head are then shown switching channels on their TV, watching various TV commercials and laughing at a Suzanne Somers Thighmaster commercial. While blowing up insects with firecrackers in a field, Beavis and Butt-head spot a frog and proceed to play baseball with it. When they kill the frog, they see a poodle and charge after it with a baseball bat. The credits roll as you hear the duo hit the poodle with a bat and the poodle yelping in pain (not seen). The screen then reads "To be continued...", the credits roll, and a disclaimer reads that no animals were harmed in the making of this film, except for Beavis.

Cultural references

The duo play Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" and Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" on air guitar.

The short, along with the episode "Held Back", was also mentioned in the Beavis and Butt-head episode "Snitchers", the 20th episode in the 8th season. The way the duo scream "Frog Baseball" in the short was also used in one of the music video commentaries in the first canon episode.

References

Beavis and Butt-Head

Characters	Beavis Butt-Head Daria Morgendorffer

Episodes	"Frog Baseball" "Peace, Love and Understanding" "Comedians" "Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead" "Werewolves of Highland" "Crying" "Daughter's Hand" "Tech Support" "Holy Cornholio" "Drones" "Supersize Me" "Bathroom Break" "The Rat"

Media	Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience

Video games	Beavis and Butt-Head Virtual Stupidity Calling All Dorks Wiener Takes All Little Thingies Screen Wreckers Bunghole in One Do U.

Other	Daria Mike Judge Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation

Mike Judge

Television

Animated TV series	Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997; 2011) King of the Hill (1997–2010) The Goode Family (2009)

Live-action TV series	Silicon Valley (2014–present)

Feature films

Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)
Office Space (1999)
Idiocracy (2006)
Extract (2009)

Other

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