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You probably know close to nothing about “Underemployed” — other than the fact that the MTV show spent the summer filming in Chicago. The brand new series doesn’t have a star like “Boss,” as many recognizable faces as “The Mob Doctor” or any of the controversy that surrounded “Mob Wives Chicago.”
So what does “Underemployed” have?
A good looking cast, according to the new trailer. They’re playing recent college graduates, so they’re also really young. Oh, and they have pretty sweet lofts in the city, too.
“Underemployed” premieres October 16.
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Some Chicago residents should expect disruptions in the coming weeks as MTV shoots a new scripted dramatic series, titled ‘Underemployed’, throughout the city.
MTV describes the Chicago-set show thusly: Five college grads are set to dazzle the world with their brilliance. A year later, cold reality has set in and the group struggles, often comically, to stay optimistic through dead-end odd jobs, terrible bosses, romantic mistakes and major life changes.”
In a slight departure from the network’s usual reality series, the Chicago-based show will be shot in various Chicago locations through Aug. 10, according to the Chicago Film Office.
“Film production, whether it’s MTV’s ‘Underemployed’ or ‘Boss,’ all come with a number of production vehicles, trucks, crew and equipment,” said Rick Moskal, director of the Chicago Film Office. “That’s the normal course, so there is a disruptive element. But residents have been given notice in order to mitigate any disruptions.”
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Tim talks Chicago music, radio and more. Kevin gets busted picking his nose…but hey it’s radio. This was before he became a TV star on MTV. We kid Kevin, because he’s handsome AND successful….and gets to hang out with “Sway” at the MTV studios.
Tim opens up about radio politics, let downs, build ups…and Rancid opening up for Rise Against!
If you want to see Rise Against Jan. 27th you can meet the band and film their next video!
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Q101.com was so excited for this premiere, our cornholio ached. After 14 years in retirement — or perhaps misdiagnosed brain death — the animated, teenage couch potatoes have returned, no wiser for the wear, to a new generation and a world of YouTube, mixed martial arts and Jersey Shore.
“I feel like it still works, and it’s really fun to do,” creator and Beavis/Butt-Head voice Mike Judge says. “I’m keeping Beavis and Butt-Head the same pure characters they were, but the world has changed a little bit around them.”
That may be the only pure thing about the dunderheaded miscreants: blond Beavis, who’s “got a little bit of a screw loose,” and Butt-Head, a brown-haired adolescent with braces who’s “a little more sane but probably just as dumb,” says Judge (King of the Hill, Office Space, Idiocracy).
MTV executive Van Toffler, who was there at the begining of B&B, thought it was the right time for their return.
“I was up in the middle of the night, and I saw a Gaga video and some Jersey Shore footage and some mixed martial arts, and it kind of hit me that the culture was missing Beavis and Butt-Head and their comment on everything that was going on,” says Toffler, who asked Judge if he was interested in bringing the cartoon boys back.
Judge says he ended B&B in 1997 because he was getting burned out after about 200 15-minute cartoons (two per episode) and wanted to do other shows. His Fox comedy King of the Hill premiered that year. “I also wanted to stop before I felt like I had run it into the ground, and I think I did stop before I’d run it into the ground,” he says.
After years away, Judge felt it was a good time to come back to his popular creations.
“It seemed like I had enough ideas I wanted to try,” he says. “I decided that even if it doesn’t do well, worst-case scenario, I think these will be fun to do and it’ll be good. I look at it like if that’s something to be proud of and show my friends and family, then that’s worth it.”
The addled teens, whose infectious cackles were once mimicked by the masses, became a phenomenon during B&B‘s four-year MTV run (including a hit feature film) with idiotic escapades, focused on trying to score, interspersed with monosyllabic but often very astute analysis of the era’s music videos.
Many of the old characters, such as classmate Stewart and hippie teacher Mr. Van Dreesen, will be back, as will Beavis’ alter ego, Cornholio.
In one of the new cartoons, they watch an episode of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, and Butt-Head notes the soon-to-be father “might be stupider than us.” The animated characters also make hay with Jersey Shore, which Judge has gotten “addicted to,” though he hadn’t watched until Toffler sent him some episodes. (The boys still watch music videos, too.)
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