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Mike Judge's 1998 comedy classic Office Space made it clear to anyone who needed convincing that the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head had more up his sleeve than Cornholio and frog baseball jokes.
Judge had become a household name thanks to that ever-chuckling boneheaded duo, who'd taken over MTV and become one of the decade's defining pop culture phenomena. He'd followed it up with another animated hit, FOX's King Of the Hill. The success of Beavis & Butt-Head on MTV led to Judge's first feature-length directorial feature, Beavis & Butt-Head Do America, but Judge had way more up his sleeve.
With Office Space, Judge gave voice to the disaffected American cubicle warrior. The movie captures a time just before the internet became a ubiquitous part of our lives; email is never mentioned, nor is Google. You still had to fight with the office printer on a regular basis, and always had to fill out your TPS reports.