Principal McVicker



The principal of Highland High in Highland, Texas, where Daria attended ninth grade with Beavis and Butt-head, in the TV series Beavis and Butt-head. He was voiced by Mike Judge.

A bald, rotund man of unknown age, having to be responsible for Beavis and Butt-head destroyed his mind: he commonly had a horrified expression, sweated & shook constantly, would keep stuttering and uttering "uhhhh!!" mid-sentence, and was taking unidentified pills. "It's a Miserable Life" even stated he had hair before he met them, meaning he lost it all within a very short time of meeting them. Every so often he'd have a scheme or opportunity to get them out of school (and sometimes to injure them and in "Wet Behind the Rears" simply humiliating them), but something would always ruin it - in "April Fools!" he was forced to not expel them after realising they'd then spend even more time being annoying.

Daria was one of Highland's honour students, and in "Citizen Butt-head" McVicker gave her and the others pre-assigned questions to ask a visiting President Clinton; Daria would ignore this and ask her own question. He never found out she did this as far as we know, being primarily focused on the two buttmunches. "Boxing Daria" has her say she started "writing violent revenge fantasies just to get a reaction" and her teachers got called into school, which presumably happened in Highland - McVicker would have seen her parents about this.

In the "Miserable Life" alternate universe, the happier, calmer McVicker leads a Christmas caroller group that includes a happier, better-adjusted Daria. They may have more interaction in this world.



He came to believe that either he or the demented duo were going to kill the others, and was ecstatic when he thought they'd died in "Beavis and Butt-head are Dead"... only to have a heart attack when they turned up again. He may have been revived but probably wasn't.

Trivia
Beavis and Butt-head caused McVicker to lose his hair, according to an agent of Heaven. Daria appears take place across her tenth to twelfth grades, putting Beavis and Butt-head as her ninth grade, so he must have lost his hair really damn quickly!

In the DVD feature "Taint of Greatness: The Story of Beavis and Butt-head Part 1", Mike Judge said McVicker's voice was bsed on a real person from his childhood.