The Honky Problem

The Honky Problem
The Honky Problem
Directed by	Mike Judge
Written by	Mike Judge
Produced by	Mike Judge; Cesca Judge; Dan Dudley
Starring	Mike Judge
Edited by	Mike Judge
Music by	Mike Judge
Distributed by	Spike and Mike
Release date	1991;
Running time	1:49
Country	United States

The Honky Problem is a 1991

animated short film by Mike Judge.^[2]^[3] It features an original character, Inbred Jed, who is playing with his country music band somewhere in the desert by a trailer for a small audience of American white trash

.

Like Mike Judge's early

Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation

Volume One VHS.

Plot

The Honky Problem opens with Inbred Jed, a very emotional

honky tonk outdoors concert for a small group of similar white trash citizens in a Texas trailer park.^[1]

Jed introduces himself and the band, bringing himself to tears explaining how good it is to be there, playing a concert. He performs one of his songs, "Long-Legged Woman".

After the song is finished, Jed tearfully proclaims how much he loves the song he just played, and performs it again. During the encore, a narrator warns the viewers that what they have just seen is real, and could have been avoided. The narrator further urges viewers to check the

Mormon church that they and their spouse are not related before having children, reminding everyone that "inbreeding

is everybody's problem".

In other media

One character in the film, the one who yells "Play some

The Butt-head Experience

".

The character Inbred Jed's only other appearance was in the opening titles for the first Beavis and Butt-Head short, Frog Baseball. Before the cartoon starts, there's an "Inbred Jed's Homemade Cartoons" title card styled like the MGM logo with country-western music playing and Inbred Jed giving a somewhat evil hillbilly cackle, animated similarly from the short's closing shot.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Honky Problem (1991)". imdb.com. IMDb. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
^ Makin' Toons: inside the most popular animated TV shows and movies, Allan Neuwirth, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2003, pg. 85
^ Appalachian Journal, Volume 21, 1993, pg. 251

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[6.7/10-1] "The Honky Problem (1991)". imdb.com. IMDb. Retrieved July 3, 2017.

[2] Makin' Toons: inside the most popular animated TV shows and movies, Allan Neuwirth, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2003, pg. 85

[3] Appalachian Journal, Volume 21, 1993, pg. 251

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