I miss Beavis and Butt-head!

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I do! They were insightful and damn funny most of the time. Sure, it was a lowest-common-denominator kind of humor, it was crass and clueless, it was offensive, but dammit, it was hilarious!

I mean, forget the videos, although they offered some excellent commentary on them. The cartoon shorts were a stitch. Frog baseball? Biker chicks? Kidnapping Stewart? Oh man, oh man, oh man.

And the movie was just as good! It wasn’t just a long version of the TV show, it was damn inventive, with excellent celebrity voices.

Very clever and entertaining. And it’s gone. :frowning:

O, why? Why, O Lords of the Airwaves, hath thou forsaken me? Hath thou forgotten how much awesome publicity - good and bad - you got?

Then again, Mike Judge decided to stop doing the episodes, right? Even so, someone should bring back the old ones, show them again. That would rock.

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Off to Cafe Society.

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Heh. I remember watching it with my brother. We would always try to horrify our mother, which always worked. In fact, we’d watch it on the French equivalent of MuchMusic (MusiquePlus) when we got the channel. (now, it’s been replaced by MuchMoreMusic) There were French subtitles on that version, so it was pretty hilarious.

In fact, I remember watching an episode of Beavis and Butthead (in English?) the day that Princess Diana died. After the show was over, we switched channels to find that her death was on practically every single other channel.

I also remember watching the very last episode… again, with my brother. The humor wasn’t that great, but if we wanted to horrify and shock our mom, that would do it. (I believe this was pre-South Park days… and even if it wasn’t, we wouldn’t watch that to horrify her; some things were meant to be kept from parents)

It’s still on occasionally, but with nowhere near the frequency that it was on before, of course. Maybe if I find it on again, I’ll watch it for nostalgic purposes, heh.

F_X

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Oh, do I LOVE B&B! Plus, it spawned Daria!

The best thing about it, I knew people like that in high school. I also think the show really evolved. When it first came on, it was REALLY crass, and B&B would smoke, want to get high, etc. Then, as it went on, it was more about them being stupid. I also loved how Beavis, when not around Butthead, usually managed to make it on his own-and better too.

“I am Cornholio! You must bowdown to my bunghole!!!”

I have the B&B book, “The Butt Files”. It’s hysterical.

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Get ready for B&B on DVD:

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I used to tape MTV’s Liquid Television and I saw the world premiere of B&B, Frog Baseball. I liked it the moment I saw it. I so remember guys like that. Dim-witted morons who did nothing but listen to heavy metal and play with matches. And Mike Judge captured them perfectly.

I remember seeing the subsequently banned-for-life episode where B&B are getting high sniffing gas from Stewart’s kitchen stove (and, of course, blow up his house in the process). One of the best!

And their music video commentaries were often great! Especially when a band that sucked came on. When the video for that Sting-Rod Stewart-Brian Adams ‘Robinhood’ song came on they both just screamed! Butthead commented, “This is horrible!” And when they played ‘Ice Ice Baby’ B&B kinda looked at each other and just changed the channel. It wasn’t even worth their time!

I really wished they had developed the show more. The movie showed that they could have. When you watch them on store bought video (without the music video sections) you really notice how short and often simple the episodes were.

I also wished they had done a better last episode. Beavis & Butthead are dead was a disappointment. I was expecting them to really get killed and then get brought back to life after being kicked out of heaven, or something significant. Instead it was just a retrospective clip show.

I was also a huge Daria fan and always wished they had made some kind of cameo appearance.

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“I need TP for my bunghole! Where I come from, we have no bunghole!”

I don’t wanna pay for the episodes, though. I just wanna seem em on TV again. In fact, why not resuscitate the series? I’d love to see it again (he said dreamily)…

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What a coincidence. My brother and I were talking about Bevis and Butthead a few days ago, and musing about what the show would have been like if they’d had really good vocabularies.

" huh huh huh, the video is both surreal and subversive."

" Yeah, yeah, subversive! subversive! And it challenges the dominant paradigm."

" huh huh huh, you said ‘dominant’ huh huh."

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dantheman, I agree wholeheartedly. :frowning:

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The other day a P. J. Harvey song came on the radio and I blurted out, “Hey look, it’s Mallory!” ala Beavis and Butthead. Damn near had a wreck, I was laughing so hard. Rumor has it that one of the reasons Mike Judge killed the show was that Mtv wasn’t paying him diddly for it, even though it was so highly rated. It did give Mike Judge the inspiration for Boomhaurer’s voice on King of the Hill. It seems that someone called up and complained about one of the Beavis and Buttheads they’d just seen, and their voice was totally incomprehensible! :smiley:

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And Hank Hill was in the early B+B episodes, but as “Mr. Anderson” - at least that was the inspiration for H.Hill, wasn’t it?

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Yeah, I’m pretty sure. He took Mr. Anderson, shaved about 30 years off him, gave him a wife and kid and various other friends and family, and presto…Hank Hill. I’d love to see a B&B cameo on “King of the Hill”…heh heh, that would be cool…but they can’t revive the show, because a big part of it was B&B watching videos on MTV, and MTV doesn’t show videos anymore.

Of course, B&B was one of the shows that started that trend in the first place, or anyway accelerated it. Isn’t that…ummm…isn’t it…uhhh…what’s that song by Alanis Morissette?

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They showed the episode “Stewart’s House” later, but cut the sniffing stove gas scene.

Really, I liked them better when they were just stupid-rather than when they were getting high and such.

Like when they drank near-beer and thought they were drunk!

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Andserson was married - remember, he was in the movie. He was a WWII vet, too.

“That boy ain’t right in the head.”

This was said by Anderson in reference to Beavis at the burger joint, and by Hank Hill in reference to his son, Bobby. I think.

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There’s one kid at Bobby’s school in King of the Hill with a voice (and personality) just like Butthead’s. I guess that’s as close to a resurrection as we’re going to get.

Heh heh, I said “urrection.”

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The kid in Bobby Hill’s clas really only shares Butthead’s voice. His personality is actually very tolerable. The show’s best lines come from him.

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Any chance for a movie sequal?

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No news on a movie sequel from the usual sources - entertainment weekly, IMDB etc. (I know because I happened to be checking up on that very question just last week.)

I disagree that the video critiques were secondary to the enjoyment of the show. For me the absolutely no-question funniest moments from B&B came from their video commentary. I can go out and buy every episode on VHS or DVD, but all the funniest parts are cut out, so why should I?

A great crime, that the record companies/bands/lawyers/whoever are too uptight to allow the perpetuation of B&B’s video critiques.

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All right, I’ve done this before, but here it is again.

I’m not Catholic. Heck, I’m not even Protestant. I appreciate good satire. I understand the value of humor in “keeping everyone humble”. I know that B&B weren’t role models or anything.

I still thought this was the most unwatchable thing on the planet.

I still don’t understand why this gets absolutely universal, unqualified praise from anyone who isn’t a bible-thumping, flag-waving, think-of-the-children dope. (Is there anything else in our popular culture from the past three decades that’s gotten such blanket praise?)

Sure, it had plenty of screwball comedy. So did Animaniacs. But that show didn’t delve into unfunny scatological humor.

Sure, it was unafraid of controversial stujects. So was Duckman. But controversy wasn’t the begin-all and end-all of that show; there was something for the rest of us, too.

Sure, it had some great satire. So does The Simpsons. But that show didn’t feel the need to fill each episode with 5 minutes of “huh huh huh” filler.

Sure, it explored the whole teenage nihilisim thing. And it was topical. So is Pepperann. But that show doesn’t focus on the very worst aspects of the teenage mentality.

Sure, it had spot-on riffs of pop culture. So did The Critic. But even Jay Sherman didn’t use “It stinks!” all the freaking time (let alone it’s opposite…it doesn’t stink or whatever).

What has B&B done that a far more watchable show hasn’t done better?

What was so great about this show, dammit?

(Anyone care to explain how cartoons that require pages of rationalizations somehow became the Next Big Thing while they’re at it, go right ahead.)

No, I don’t miss Beavis and Butthead…hard to miss something I never even liked in the first place.

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:rolleyes:

With all due respect, maybe you should begin a thread for that purpose.

Why did you feel the need to even post in this thread? Does it bother you that people like something that you do not?

You just don’t get the humor. It’s not for you. Perhaps it’s your own churlish attitude that’s ruining the experience for you. But face it, a lot of people did like it.

To be quite honest, if you don’t understand now why millions have enjoyed it, you probably never will.

And just because other cartoons have also done satire, controversy, and screwball antics does not automatically mean this particular cartoon is complete rubbish. Surely you see that.