"I'd worked so many jobs where I'd never had anyone work for me, and then on Beavis, I suddenly had 35 or 40 people under me, and maybe 90 when the movie was going at the same time. As the deal comes together it's threatened from all angles: by a possible lawsuit from an employee who's lost one of his testicles (a "mid-body injury") in a workplace accident by a crooked temptress (Mila Kunis) whose beauty and sweetness blind everyone to her larcenous, deceitful true nature and by the self-destructive behaviour of the company's shop-floor employees.
Jason Bateman plays Joel, owner of a small food-flavouring company trying to negotiate a deal with a corporate buyer. It also partly inspired his latest movie, Extract, in which he tackles the conundrum of feeling sympathy for the boss as well as for his workers. But thinking about that, about the worst kinds of high-school students you could possible have, was partly what inspired Beavis And Butt-head."
I was thinking, 'What's going to become of me?' I had this sinking feeling I wouldn't like being a math teacher, especially in a high school. "When I had a job I was always real grateful to have it," he says on the phone from his home in Austin, Texas, "but I was sitting in a cubicle all day doing the same thing.
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