Butting Heads Over a Pair of Buttheads

An Oklahoma City company that says it originally marketed a character called “Butthead” has settled out of court its lawsuit against MTV over the animated show “Beavis and Butt-head.”

“There will still be a ‘Beavis and Butt-head,’ ” said George Dahnke, an attorney who represented MTV. He declined to discuss terms of the settlement reached earlier this month.

Laid Back Enterprises, which makes and sells novelty items, claimed it owned the rights to the trademark. The owner, Max Colclasure, said his company’s Butthead is the opposite of the rude, crude MTV character.

“Our Butthead is a real fun-loving guy who is cute in a pathetic kind of way,” he said.

Laid Back, whose products have included a Saddam Hussein voodoo doll created by a Colorado grandmother, alleged in its lawsuit that MTV’s distribution of “Beavis and Butt-head” products violated Laid Back’s trademark.