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{{quote|''"Beavis and Butt-head are not real. They are not role models. They're not even human. They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by [[Mike Judge|this Texas guy whom we hardly even know]]. Beavis and Butt-Head are [[The Ditz|dumb]], [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|crude]], [[Villain Protagonist|thoughtless]], [[Gonk|ugly]], [[Casanova Wannabe|sexist]], [[Too Dumb to Live|self-destructive]] [[Idiot Hero|fools]]. Some of the things they do would cause a real person to get hurt, expelled, arrested, and possibly deported. But for some reason, the little weinerheads [[Rule of Funny|make us laugh]]. To put it another way: [[Don't Try This At Home]]."''
|'''The original preshow [[This Is a Work of Fiction|content disclaimer(s)]]'''}}
▲{{quote|''"Beavis and Butt-head are not real. They are not role models. They're not even human. They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by [[Mike Judge|this Texas guy whom we hardly even know]]. Beavis and Butt-Head are [[The Ditz|dumb]], [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|crude]], [[Villain Protagonist|thoughtless]], [[Gonk|ugly]], [[Casanova Wannabe|sexist]], [[Too Dumb to Live|self-destructive]] [[Idiot Hero|fools]]. Some of the things they do would cause a real person to get hurt, expelled, arrested, and possibly deported. But for some reason, the little weinerheads [[Rule of Funny|make us laugh]]. To put it another way: [[Don't Try This At Home]]."''|'''The original preshow content disclaimer(s)'''}}
{{quote|''"In time ''Beavis and Butt-head'' will become defined as a very, very significant part of American culture. It's brilliant. I've got all the tapes."''|'''[[Patrick Stewart]]'''}}
An [[The Nineties|early 90s]] animated cartoon on [[MTV]] by [[Mike Judge]], who would go on to make ''[[King of the Hill]]'', ''[[Office Space]]'', ''[[Idiocracy]]'', and
Its stated purpose is to skewer the then-public stereotype of their viewing audience as lazy and unintelligent teenage slackers who did nothing but watch videos all day and were easily amused by bodily functions and dirty jokes.
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The most common targets of the boys' pranks were their elderly neighbor Tom Anderson, their hapless school classmate Stuart Stevenson, and most of the faculty of their high school. The character who took the worst abuse was Principal McVicker, who was driven to drink, medication, and in the finale, an apparently fatal heart attack.
The dimwitted duo were, in turn, [[
It horrified the [[Moral Guardians]] from the get-go, and a few of its more controversial aspects had to be
Also spurring objections were the boys' constant use of fireworks to blow things up, along with their tendency to amuse themselves with physical violence and animal cruelty, most notably the infamous pilot episode "Frog Baseball".
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DVD and VHS releases of the series have left out most of the [[Music Video]] segments due to rights issues, losing a lot of the series' best moments.
In late 2011, the show returned to MTV; while the format had been slightly
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: In a recent{{when}} episode, it was stated that Beavis' mother tried leaving him behind at an IKEA so she could go to Vegas with a gang of bikers.
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: The guys' reaction to a joke from a ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' clip in "Used Car".
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Butt-Head and Beavis, the latter being close to the name of the title character from a Richard Jefferies adventure novel.
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** Almost all of Beavis' dialogue as Cornholio. "I am Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!"
** And the ever popular "Are you threatening me?"
* [[Caught with Your Pants Down]]: In ''Beavis and Butt-head Do America'', Beavis (in his Cornholio persona) sees Mr. Anderson's camper, pulls out a picture of the woman he was sent to "do" and then goes into the camper. Later, Mr. Anderson is curious to find out why his camper is rocking, and investigates. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Centipede's Dilemma]]: In the "Trouble Urinating" episode, the boys become unable to urinate after thinking too hard about how they actually do it.
* [[Chaotic Stupid]]: All they care about is food, girls, heavy metal, and whatever captures their interest at the moment, most notably, [[Pyromaniac|any sort of carnage]], to which effect they were too amused by the wreckage of an airplane crash to help the victims. They're too lazy and stupid to care about anything else, like work or their education. Sometimes their actions may cause harm to someone unintentionally. This is very clear in the movie, as there is a terrorist threat to Washington D.C. involving a biological weapon, all they understand about it is that they can "score with a chick".
* [[Chronically Crashed Car]]: Tom Anderson's Camper in the movie.
* [[Church of Happyology]]: One appears in "Holy Cornholio", believing that Beavis in his Cornholio persona is their recently
* [[Clip Show]]: The final episode (of the first series).
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: This fueled both B&B and the audience watching them.
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** During the "Ghosts 'n' Stuff" video in "Drones":
{{quote|'''Beavis:''' I know Daria killed herself, I remember that.
'''Butthead:''' Uh, [[No Longer with Us|she didn't kill herself]], [[Spin-Off|she just]] [[Daria|moved away]].
'''Beavis:''' Oh, really? Wow! That's kinda surprising. }}
* [[Cool Teacher]]: Mr. Van Driessen defies the principal for his students' sake, protects them with [[Berserk Button]] ferocity and happily works with them during his off-hours to encourage their interests. Most of the class seems to begrudgingly respect him for it, but his efforts are completely wasted on Beavis and Butt-head.
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** They appeared in one episode in ''[[The Brothers Grunt]]''. Butt-Head made a [[Cameo]] in ''[[The Head]]''.
*** In the pilot, Butt-head was trying to get footage of [[The Head]], but he got kicked out.
** And those who like ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'',
** Beavis and Butt-head were originally going to cross over with Daria when Daria got her own spin-off, but the show was so successful, the B&B crossover idea was dropped.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: In the film ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do America'':
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'''Beavis''': See, I wore this shirt cuz these are my colors.
'''Butt-head''': Beavis...
'''Beavis''': [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy|Yep, I'm a straight G.]]
'''Butt-head''': ...shut up.
'''Beavis''': Yep. Got out of a Compton swap meet with Snoop. Used to kick it with Dre.
'''Butt-head''': Beavis, shut up. [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|You've never been to Compton. you're never gonna go to Compton, you're gonna be here for the rest of your life, you're stupid, you don't have any money, and you're never gonna score]].
'''Beavis''': Um, oh yeah. }}
* [[Dirty Harriet]]: She's a [[Fair Cop]] posing as a prostitute in "Feel a Cop".
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* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: One [[Running Gag]] has Beavis and Butt-head constantly refer to long-haired men in music videos as "chicks". Sometimes they go as far as hitting on them.
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: Some of their comments on the music videos they watch, as well as on life in general, actually make a lot of sense, in a weird way.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The earlier episodes of ''
* [[Episode Title Card]]
* [[Every Episode Ending]]: Beavis and Butt-Head try to think of something cool, and say "Let'th go do thomething cool."
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* [[Falling Into the Cockpit]]: Literally happens to Butt-Head in [[The Movie]] (the cockpit of an airplane while it was plummeting), leading to this exchange:
{{quote|'''Pilot:''' Get the hell out of the cockpit!
'''Butt-Head:''' [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|Huh huh... you said--]]
'''Pilot:''' [[Curse Cut Short|NOW!!!]] ''(pulls Butt-Head out of the way)'' }}
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: In "Animation Sucks", Mr. Van Driessen shows the class an animated film he created about green and purple characters who didn't like each other because they were different colors.
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* [[Foot Focus]]: Although there isn't really any in the show itself, there was one music video by The Go-Gos on the show that had some close-ups of the girls' feet causing Beavis to admit that he likes women with nice feet. Butt-Head, however, didn't seem very interested.
* [[Franchise Zombie]]: Subjective from a [[Word of God]] standpoint; Judge has pretty much stated that the last couple of seasons were forced upon him by [[MTV]], who wanted to keep the cash-cow show going. Not that it kept the episodes from still being pretty damn funny in their own right.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [[Beavis and Butthead/Radar|
* [[The Ghost]]: It is implied that the duo live with their mothers who are said to be prostitutes. They sometimes talk about them and call to them (mostly in the music video segments) but we never see them.
* [[Good Ol' Boy]]: Tom Anderson.
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** Whenever the thieves Russ and Harlan commit some art of robbery (i.e. the time they robbed the Stevenson house, breaking into Beavis and Butt-head's house and steal their TV set in the feature film, not to mention that they were also meant to be hired by Muddy to kill Dallas, and looting a office in the 2011 revival) They NEVER get caught nor receive some comeuppance.
** Todd apparently takes advantage of and beat up Beavis and Butt-head and he never receives some sort of comeuppance for it and they would get in trouble with the law in his place... unless you count what happens to Todd in "Virtual Stupidity" as canon.
** However, it was subverted in the film shorty causing havoc in church after mistaking the priest's booths for bathrooms. They [[Laser Guided Karma| get stuck by]] [[Lightning Can Do Anything| a lightning bolt]] just as they were about to board a bus full of nuns.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
{{quote|'''Beavis''': So, um, are you gonna change the channel, Butt-Head?
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* [[Not Quite Dead]]: In the final episode of the original run, Principal McVicker supposedly died from a heart attack or stroke. Now he's alive and (relatively) well.
* [[Onion Tears]]: In a post-[[Uncanceled|UnCancelation]] episode, Beavis cries from exposure to a slice of onion found in his chili dog, and Butt-Head makes fun of him for it, much to Beavis' frustration.
* [[Only Sane Woman|Only Sane Woman:]] Two come to mind.
** Daria Morgendorrfer. She is one of the few people to ever put up with Beavis and Butthead, with some of her sanity still intact. They in turn have a bit of a love hate relationship for her. Teasing her over her name, but praising her when they see her do or say something they deem cool. Like when she told off Bill Clinton.
** Dallas Grimes. She's cautious, cool and calculated and has her gun ready, whenever potential assailants come calling. Which she initially mistook Beavis and Butthead. When she realized that although they were hired to do her, they misinterpreted Muddy's words as wanting them to have sex with her, [[Actually Pretty Funny|she laughs to herself]]. [[Sure, Let's Go with That|She then rolls with it]] and turns on [[The Vamp|the charm]] in an effort to smuggle the Unit to Washington D.C. by sewing it into Beavis' pants while they fight over who gets to "Do" her first.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]
{{quote|'''Mr. Manners:''' Listen, you little twerp. This is my job. This is how I make money. Don't screw with me.}}
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* [[Pixellation]]: Lampshaded in the True Life segment of the first Uncancellation episode where porn on a person's computer is blurred out.
{{quote|'''Butt-Head:''' Dammit, the porn's all blurry!}}
* [[Prank Call]]: It probably comes as no surprise that ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' had a prank call episode, called - of course - "Prank Call".
* [[The Precious Precious Car]]: In "Car Wash", the boys get to wash their neighbor's car while the owner goes out for a jog. They decide to take it for a joyride. Guess what happens.
* [[Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With]]: In the movie.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The title characters.
* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
* [[Revival]]: Now they make fun of [[Reality Show
* [[Rule 34]]: "[[The Cinema Snob|Beaver and Buttface]]"
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: During "Massage" the boys are left with two choices. Either give a massage to a disgusting old man, or get arrested for disrupting the massage guys business. They(Very reluctantly) choose the old man.
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* [[Seemingly-Profound Fool]]: About three out of every five episodes.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Beavis and Butt-Head are constantly attempting to score with chicks. These attempts always, without exception, end in failure.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Burger World is a reference to "Big Edna's Burger World" from ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]''.
** The restaurant is also based on the regional "Whataburger" chain (Judge worked at one in high school).
* [[Sick Episode]]: "Sick", in which Beavis and Butt-Head try to get prescription drugs in order to get high.
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** "I am Cornholio, I need TP for my bunghole"!
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: Due to the video mocking, the show has been considered one for [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]].
** Subverted and subverted big time with spin-off ''[[Daria]]'' and Judge's follow-up project ''[[King of the Hill]]'', both of which ran screaming away from ''
{{quote|'''Beavis:''' ''"I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!!!'' I need teepee for my bunghole!"}}
** Also, this may be like ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: The episode "Supersize Me" teaches us that "Teen obesity kicks ass".
* [[Sting (music)|Sting]]: Happens several times when watching the Violent Femmes video "Nightmares", whenever Butt-Head said "sucks", followed by Beavis screaming.
* [[Stock Footage]]: Over the years their music video commentaries would use animation from the earlier seasons. It got kinda weird seeing the two characters go from round and colorful to [[Art Evolution|disfigured and dark]] within a couple seconds.
* [[Stunned Silence]]: For a couple of videos (Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli), all they could do is stare in horror for several seconds before wordlessly changing the channel.
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* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|Who Names Their Kid "Butt-Head"?]]
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Coach Buzzcut and Muddy Grimes (who spends half of [[The Movie]] trying to hunt down and kill the boys).
* [[Yandere
* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]: The episode "Huh Huh Humbug" has Beavis in place of Scrooge. Anderson, Van Driessen, and Buzzcut and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, respectively.
* [[You Get What You Pay For]]: Van Driessen hired our heroes to clean his house as a way of teaching them the value of hard work. He only gave them a dollar each for their work, but in the end Van Driessen got what he deserved when he sees that Beavis and Butt-Head destroyed his irreplacable 8-track collection.
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