# I Miss Beavis and Butt-Head **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809 "2006-07-10T01:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/21 "2006-07-10T18:14:23Z")
_apprently_ I can’t spell. Sorry about that. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/22 "2006-07-10T18:25:11Z")
I liked the one where they kept calling that guy “Harry Sachs” and flushing the toilet. Then he ends up tracing their phone number, calls back, and asks for their address. They give him Stewart’s. It ends up with Stewart’s dad having his cordless phone shoved up his ass. I don’t blame Mike Judge for the lack of videos-it’s very hard to get the rights, probably. Still sucks. From the movie: Guy in confessional: I’m sorry, _how_ many Hail Marys? Beavis: A thousand! And I want you to hit yourself-right now! ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/23 "2006-07-10T18:33:26Z")
Another thing - one of the YouTube clips was recorded from MTV2. Not only do they have the MTV2 “bug” in the lower right corner (which is a huge proportion of the screen as it is), during the video, a banner appears right across the middle of the screen, which says: “YOU ARE WATCHING BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD.” Gah! The crazy thing is that there is \*already \*a sizeable “Beavis & Butt-Head” bug at the bottom of the screen, but it’s covered up by the MTV2 logo! I already cannot stand MTV (and other channels, but MTV seems to be the worst) running ticker-tapes and distracting promo ads at the bottom of the screen when I’m watching a show, but now they are running pointless announcements that take up the middle of the screen? Why don’t they just run constant ads, with a ticker-tape at the bottom of the screen saying “If this ad for Pepsi wasn’t on, you would be watching _Beavis and Butt-Head_ right now”? This is why I don’t have cable, and watch most of the shows I like on DVD (or BitTorrent). Why should I pay to watch a show when the network blocks out half the screen? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/24 "2006-07-10T18:50:30Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Daria is to Beavis and Butt-head as “Archie’s Place” was to “All in the Family.” [/QUOTE] Rubbish. B&B is the Three Stooges gone gross. Daria is a depressed Groucho. Daria was the better written show, the better animated show, & of the two, had a better supporting character cast. B&B is vular humor. Daria is _subversive_ humor. No comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/25 "2006-07-10T18:56:59Z")
[QUOTE=thelurkinghorror] [What’s this? Is that a tear Pantera? Aww, is daddy’s little girl upset?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gg_1w6SixY&search=beavis%20pantera) [/QUOTE] And that one is my very favorite. Thank you for linking it! ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/26 "2006-07-10T19:08:12Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] But of all of them why is Beavis and Butthead the _only_ one that’s seemingly missed by a _huge_ number of viewers? I’ve never heard any kind of call for a return of The PJs. Or Ren and Stimpy. [/QUOTE] They actually made new Ren & Stimpy episodes. Count yourself lucky if you never saw them. Proves your point rather well, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/27 "2006-07-11T03:01:29Z")
I never saw _Beavis and Butthead_ as a social commentary against political correctness, or even just for shock value. I saw it as a funny show that made fun of stupidity. Didn’t Mike Judge basically say it was because he KNEW people like that in high school? Oh, another favorite line from the movie: Butthead (to Chelsea Clinton, in a seductive voice): I noticed you wear braces. I wear braces too. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/28 "2006-07-11T03:45:10Z")
I loved that show, and watched it religiously when it was on (with my DAD, even!) and so did my brother and best friend. We still quote it often. I came upon a large in-tact (albeit crappily recorded) stash of the complete series on a “hush hush” site and grabbed them all. I was overjoyed that 10 years later (yup! 10!) I still enjoy the show as much as I did then. Anyone else here a fan of the British show [Bottom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_%28TV_series%29)? I usually describe it to people as a live-action _Beavis & Butthead_ set in England…with older guys. Absolutely brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/29 "2006-07-11T04:21:30Z")
Holy crap what **DKW** said is brilliant. There was a New Year’s eve in the early 90’s when I hosted a party for New Years. (That’s how I can peg the date, a party at my house is a rare occasion.) It was the first time we ever saw the Cornholio episode. I don’t ever remember laughing that hard at something I’ve seen on TV before. It was the perfect storm where the guys and the wives/girlfriends also that something that crude could be so funny. Today, even if I was the same age, I don’t think it would have the same effect. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/30 "2006-07-11T13:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] Anyone else here a fan of the British show [Bottom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_%28TV_series%29)? I usually describe it to people as a live-action _Beavis & Butthead_ set in England…with older guys. Absolutely brilliant. [/QUOTE] Yes! Just last night I was watching some B&B and this similarity occured to me. And both shows are in the Three Stooges tradition, where the main characters, who range from stupid to _very_ stupid, spend a lot of their time perpetrating mindless, over-the-top violence against each other. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/31 "2006-07-11T13:53:01Z")
“Testy, testy, one, two… _three_?” ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/32 "2006-07-11T17:24:44Z")
The best B&B ever was entitled **Pregnant Pause**. Beavis is convinced he’s prenant, when really he just needs to take a dump. The payoff is near the end of the episode. A video comes on, and a bunch of children are sitting around a piano. Butthead: “Life. What a beautiful choice.” Beavis: “Life. It sucks.” Beavis: “All these kids have one thing in common. They’re here because a couple of people did it.” Butthead: “Oh no. Wait a minute. This is… Yanni!” Beavis: [screams in horror] After the video ends, Butthead is shown sitting on the sofa while Beavis is off-screen, screaming in short burts. After the end of a prolonged scream, Beavis says “Aaahhhh…” and the toilet flushes. Comic gold, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/33 "2006-07-11T18:14:06Z")
[QUOTE=DKW] Or Duckman (which baffles me to this day, as I thought this show was in a class by itself). [/QUOTE] Not to hijack, but I loved Duckman (and B&B too). You’ll get no links from me, but all the Duckman eps are floating around BitTorrent. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/34 "2006-07-12T02:41:11Z")
I AM CORNHOLIO! I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE! I think the Cornholio episodes hold up even without the videos included. The Nosebleed episode still freaks me out. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/35 "2006-07-12T03:04:31Z")
[QUOTE=SHAKES] “Testy, testy, one, two… _three_?” [/QUOTE] Wasn’t it “Testes, testes…?” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809/36 "2006-07-12T03:43:52Z")
[QUOTE=HeyHomie] The best B&B ever was entitled **Pregnant Pause**. Beavis is convinced he’s prenant, when really he just needs to take a dump. The payoff is near the end of the episode. A video comes on, and a bunch of children are sitting around a piano. Butthead: “Life. What a beautiful choice.” Beavis: “Life. It sucks.” Beavis: “All these kids have one thing in common. They’re here because a couple of people did it.” Butthead: “Oh no. Wait a minute. This is… Yanni!” Beavis: [screams in horror] After the video ends, Butthead is shown sitting on the sofa while Beavis is off-screen, screaming in short burts. After the end of a prolonged scream, Beavis says “Aaahhhh…” and the toilet flushes. Comic gold, I tell you. [/QUOTE] "Now let’s see, this chick says it changes color if you’re pregnant. Maybe it goes here-"_jams stick in bellybutton_-“No. Okay, otra esti que la pueblar. Hmmm…maybe it-eheheheh…you’re supposed to pee on it.” Unzips pants, starts peeing on the stick. “Aaaahhhhhh better not change color…IT TURNED YELLOW!!! AAAAHHHH NOOOOOO!!!” Love that episode. I loved “Nosebleed”, for this line only: “Can you tell me where they keep those things, that you put in your thing, when you get your thing?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-beavis-and-butt-head/363809.md?page=1)