“Settle down Beavis.”
Mr. Buzzcutt can, if nothing else, intimidate the boys into sitting down and shutting up. That’s the best anyone can hope for.
But Mr. Van Driessen is WORSE than useless. If anything, he makes the boys’ behavior worse, because his hippie sensiibility leads him to encourage kids to “do your own thing, man” or “do what your heart tells you.” He just doesn’t comprehend that, to idiots like Beavis and Butthead, that’s DANGEROUS advice, because their “thing” is pointless destruction, and their hearts only tell them “Watch TV.”
Can you just imagine if Mike Judge was commissioned to do an animated commercial for one of those anti-depressants or other similar drugs that are getting a lot of play on TV lately? Abilify, Seroquel, etc…
I would love to hear Beavis and Butthead read through the possible side-effects “hey dude, that could lead to upset stomach and anal seepage - huh, huh, huh.” Let alone showing them in their natural habitat (on the couch) and documenting their conditions as indicators that maybe they should “check with their doctor.”
On a more serious note, do you really think that Judge is depicting folks who have “a condition” or, with B&B, Office Space, Idiocracy, etc., more commenting on the condition of “your average American”? Are B & B displaying conditions to be medicated or are they meant to be a commentary on deeper problems, played for humor?
They were portrayed as a plague upon the land, so awful that their Guardian Angel was ordered to assassinate them in the Christmas special. They are definitely portrayed as being much worse than average people, even by the low standards of “average” in the B&B universe.
I think it’s just due to poor parenting.
Teenage slackery…plain and simple.
THIS, a million times. I’m not educated enough to say what is wrong with Beavis, but something is. Butthead is just a dumb teenager, really. Beavis could be a good kid if he had better influences and help with whatever is wrong with him.
Butthead is just a dumb teenager…with a hairlip.
Butt-Head is cool. Beavis sucks.
Or is it the other way around?
Butthead is a real sociopath. There was one episode where he thought Beavis was truly dead so his response was to just did a hole and bury him. He didn’t even think how much it would suck for him if Beavis was really dead let alone care about Beavis himself.
Was that before or after Butthead nearly choked to death on a chicken nugget, and Beavis totally forget he was supposed to go get help? Maybe Butthead held a grudge after that.
I will have to look up the order of those episodes. All I know is that in the one I mentioned, this little poodle comes up and sniffs Beavis’ butt when he is laying their dead and all Butthead can think to say is “Beavis is not dog food. He’s worm food.” That proves he understood Beavis’ condition and the permanence of it. Not good.
Teenageboy-itis.
Well, I remember that episode and I think we have to consider it from Butt-head’s severely limited perspective and understanding. He thought his friend had died and what’s one of the things we traditionally do with dead people? We bury them in the ground. Maybe he thought he was doing what he was supposed to?
Let’s just be glad he didn’t think Beavis needed to be cremated or he might have tried to shove him in the oven.
Aren’t Beavis and Butthead half-brothers? I don’t know if there is conclusive proof but I think they came from the same mother and that is why they are together. They have an absent parent somewhere who owns the house. I don’t know if they are fraternal twins from two different fathers or just Irish-twins who happen to be close enough in age to be in the same grade.
If so, they probably had fetal complications from their mother’s substance abuse. Butthead looks like he has a touch of fetal alcohol syndrome while Beavis seems to favor the Crack even from early development.
In the episode I mentioned above, I think Daria asked them if they were brothers. IIRC they said they weren’t sure, because they had different mothers but weren’t clear on who their fathers were.
And if the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America is canon, then they had separate fathers, whom they resemble.
In the movie “Beavis and Butthead DO America,” they meet their Dads, who were stupid redneck bikers who had once been roadies for a rock group.
And with that, “Questions of Beavis and Butthead canon” becomes an actual category in my mind. Not something I ever expected to happen.
I had this discussion all of last week with my best friend, as we re-re-re-re-rewatched the Mike Judge collection on DVD. “A great Day” appears to be our consensus favorite, with “blackout” a close second.
Do you ever see their mothers? They only accidentally meet their fathers. ONCE. Maybe having no parental influence and being left on your own at age fourteen has something to do with it.
I mean, even if we assume their moms took off immediately before that series started, I’m amazed that they hadn’t gone completely feral. Seriously. There are some real self-motivated people coming out of the suburbs, but I for one can’t imagine getting my own job, AND going to school as often as they do, and presumably being (relatively) ok, completely devoid of parental interaction. Not in this day and age.