Think about it. Someone who was 22 in 2007 was 12 when Beavis and Butthead went off the air. I was around 12 when they debuted and was very, very unique in that my parents allowed me to watch them. They were off the radar of most people under 14/15. If you’re under 27 now, it’s highly unlikely you ever watched a new episode of Beavis and Butthead, and they haven’t exactly been ubiquitous since getting canceled, so it wouldn’t be that hard to miss that boat all together.
Thank you. I made those myself and paid a lot of attention to detail. The fans we met that night and who we’ve shown them to since have all appreciated them.
Here is a confirmation of the new episodes being in the works. MTV is using the show as part of their plan to get back into more scripted fare, as well as a “backdoor” to going back to showing more videos.
On the occasion that I’ve seen the old ones in their entirety, they haven’t aged a bit.
My favorites are the ones with Ralph Nader, the one where they’re in the encounter group (“Share your feelings with the group”), and when David Spade plays the etiquette teacher. It’s probably the only time David Spade has been funny in his life.
The supporting cast was awesome as well - Daria, Stewart, Mr. Van Driesen, Buzzcut, and of course Tom Anderson, the proto-Hank Hill.
What am I saying? The greatest B&B supporting character was…
Todd.
BTW, I thought Cisco’s costume was totally recognizable. But I’m 38. Get off my lawn!
Here are the first few minutes of a live action Beavis and Butthead porn parody entitled “Beaver and Buttface.” This is a youtube link and there is no nudity or sex in this intro clip, but I’ll spoiler it to follow the NSFW two-click rule:
I love when he beats up a guy he runs into, because he ruined the paint job on his car.
One of my favorite lines from B&B is still when they got into lockup, and one of the teenagers goes “Hey look. It’s those wussies from Todd’s gang.” To which Beavis replies 'Yeah, and I’m gonna kick your ass!"
I became a Beavis and Butthead fan when they were just a short segment of MTV’s Liquid Television series. Frog Baseball!
Later, when I first started teaching, if some student was being too loud I would say
[Butthead voice]Uhh, settle down Beavis[/Butthead]
They would always get a kick out of that. I tried it a few years ago, though, and a lot of them had no clue what I was talking about.
I just checked and I still have my Beavis and Butthead books: “This Book Sucks” and “Ensucklopedia”. Got 'em new back in the early 90’s when they were published.
From the “Party Jokes” section of This Book Sucks:
“This dude is talking to this other dude and he goes, ‘My wife thinks she’s a chicken.’ And the other dude goes, ‘Why don’t you take her to the psychoticist?’ And like the other dude goes, ‘Cause like I need some milk.’ Huh huh huh huh.”
My favorite is the *Ensucklopedia *page for the letter ‘M’ titled “Mm… Uh, huh huh huh huh” Followed by a list of masturbation euphemisms such as:
batting practice
gunning the motor
launching the hand shuttle
punching your way into heaven
roughing up the suspect
squeezing out the toothpaste
whitewater wristing
Love these books–I’m glad I didn’t trade them in at the used bookstore. I’m going to have to read them all the way through for the first time in ages.
My friend had these (Butthead in the pic.) I think it was “This Book Sucks” that had the 3 columns of words, where you pick a word from each column and that’s your band name. For years we jokingly called ourselves the Poison War Rats.
I hope the new episodes start soon, rather than sometime in 2011.
