David Van Driessen

David Van Driessen or more commonly known as Mr. Van Driessen is a supporting character on the adult animated TV Show, Beavis and Butt-Head. He is a kind, peace-loving teacher at Highland High.
He is voiced by the series creator, Mike Judge. He also voices the show's titular Beavis & Butt-Head.
== Personality ==
A soft-spoken, idealistic, aging hippie, he has tried to get his classes interested in animal rights campaigns and horticulture. Without a doubt the most positive and well-meaning character in the series, an issue of the comics reveals he's a secular humanist, who thinks Christianity has fallacies but still sees good sides to it. As he once sang in a song, there was no student he couldn't reach or inspire... until Beavis and Butt-head came along.
Mr. Van Driessen thinks Beavis and Butt-head can be helped and is tolerant towards them, being quite upset when they were thought dead (in "Beavis and Butt-head are Dead"). None of his attempts at helping them have ever worked, and they never take on board any of his lessons, but he rarely shows frustration and never faltered in his tolerant attitude to them. In his private moments, he will admit to discontent over them: he made a song about their behavior ("The Ballad of Beavis and Butt-head") in "This Book Sucks", citing their laughter as torture that even haunts him in his sleep and questioning if he'd be better off as a salesman at the mall, to be as far removed from them as possible; in "It's a Miserable Life" he prayed for God to make them go away out of concern that they might breed.
== Trivia ==
*Mike Judge stated that Van Driessen was inspired by a reporter he encountered while playing in a band with Sam Myers. His voice and personality are similar to that of Gerald Goode from Judge's later-released short-lived series The Goode Family.
*Van Driessen appears in the Sega Genesis game to give the duo cryptic hints for finding three of their ticket pieces. He also appears during the game's end credits, playing his guitar for a band of woodland creatures.
*Van Driessen also appear in the game Beavis and Butt-head Virtual Stupidity.
*Van Driessen is also a skilled guitarist and singer/songwriter. His songs featured on the show include "Men" and "Touch a mountain." Every time he tries to play a song, however, he is severely injured. This was a running gag on the show, continued in Beavis and Butt-head Do America when he sings "Lesbian Seagull" to his students and is then arrested by ATF agents.
*In his song "Chopping Wood with My Father" from the book This Book Sucks, Van Driessen reveals that he had a difficult relationship with his conservative father, who was dying from Alzheimer's at the time. He also had a brother named Tom, who died serving in the Gulf War.
*Van Driessen most recently appears on the track "Handle with Care" on the Kid Cudi album Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, in which he encourages Beavis and Butt-head to take hallucinogens and meditate.
*Van Driessen has also similarities, including of the end of the sentences then saying "m'kay", like Mr. Mackey from Comedy Central series South Park.
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