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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
{{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]]'''}}
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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 tweaked -- the snark segments now covered both music videos ''and'' MTV original shows such as ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' and ''True Life'', presumably to prevent the sort of rights issues that surround the original series' snark segments -- the show remained the same otherwise.
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* [[Art Evolution]]: The animation was pretty crude in the earlier episodes, but by mid season 2 it got better.
** The quality of season 8's animation is [[Animation Bump|substantially bumped up]] from season 7, on par with ''[[King of the Hill]]'' in its later seasons. Unsurprisingly, [[Film Roman]], which was involved with the production of ''King of the Hill'', is animating season 8 (although it still uses [[Rough Draft Studios]] and [[Plus One Animation]]).
* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: There are occasionally hints that Beavis might have genuine mental problems in additional to being really stupid. For example, in "Most Wanted" he says that he hears voices and has pyromania (which was toned down when the show came under fire for influencing dangerous activity, but brought back when the show was revived in 2011).
** At one point while taking a lie-detector test the one thing that came up as 'True' was his statement that 'I killed a bunch of people one time'.
* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: Spoofed when [[RoboCop]] saves Christmas on one of the shows they flip through.
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** Principal McVicker has this with Beavis and Butt-Head themselves, the mere mention of the duo makes him edge closer to a nervous breakdown.
** Do NOT touch Billy Bobs scooter. It wont be pretty.
** The normally calm Mr. Van Driessen becomes very pissed if he catches someone harming one of his students, and he'll become more pissed off if you destroy his antique eight-track collection.
* [[Big Damn Movie]]: The film's bioterrorism plot.
* [[Big No]]: Beavis gives one when Butt-Head told him Yanni was his dad.
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* [[Courtroom Episode]]: "The Trial", "Snitchers".
* [[Cozy Catastrophe]]: This trope comes into play in one of the revival episodes, when the duo mistake an evacuation for the apocalypse. Rather than being horrified at the idea of being the last two people on Earth, Beavis and Butt-head seize the opportunity to loot the town and do whatever they want.
* [[Crapsack World]]: One of the more subtle jokes of the show is how, as stupid and irresponsible as Beavis and Butt-head are, the adults around them are even more irresponsible in dealing with them. Highland Texas itself appears to be a filthy, crime-ridden town populated mostly by [[Jerkass|assholes]], [[Too Dumb to Live|idi]][[Horrible Judge of Character|ots]], and [[Butt Monkey|complete pushovers]], even if one ignores the presence of the duo.
* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'', somewhat. (Due to the viewers' requests, the two appeared to fight each other.)
** They appeared in one episode in ''[[The Brothers Grunt]]''. Butt-Head made a [[Cameo]] in ''[[The Head]]''.
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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
'''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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* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest".
* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Beavis. Don't touch me, asswipe!
* [[Heh
* [[Helicopter Flyswatter]]: Parodied in the opening scenes of ''Beavis and Butthead Do America''.
* [[Helium Speech]]: In one episode, Beavis and Butt-Head buy balloons and try this on themselves. Upon hearing each other speak in high-pitched voices, the duo come to the conclusion that "WE'RE NEUTEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED!!!"
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* [[Hippie Teacher]]: Mr. Van Driesen; also a rare case of a male [[Granola Girl]].
** Also Dreama, the astronomy TA in "Let's Clean It Up".
* [[Homage]]: The short segment "Cinema Classics" is clearly a homage to ''[[Siskel and Ebert|At the Movies]]'' right down to the clothes Beavis and Butt-Head wear.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: The titular characters pretty much latch onto all the worst people. Similarly, some people (especially in the movie) can't see the bad in them.
* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]: Or, as [[Bill Clinton]] describes the boys in "Citizen Butt-Head", "hormonally challenged".
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'''Butt-Head:''' Uh, do you use that kind of language at home? }}
* [[Is That a Threat?]]: The Great Cornholio. "ARE YOU THREATENING ME!?"
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Despite their stupid destructive antics at School, Work, Mr. Anderson's yard, and everywhere else, Beavis and Butt-Head ACTUALLY get away with it most of the time. And when they do get caught and penalized for it, they won't learn anything. Huh huh huh huh. [[Heh
** 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.
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* [[Negative Continuity]]
** Better yet, in Mr. Van Driessen's very first appearance on the show, he actually ''gets killed'' by a monster truck. And then after that, he's still alive and well throughout the rest of the series.
* [[Never Learned to Read]]: Whenever Beavis and Butt-Head try to read, they typically mispronounce it. When they saw a sign that read "HORSE FARM: TRESSPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED", they thought it meant "whores and prostitutes."
* [[Never My Fault]]: Whenever they both screw up something, Butt-Head always blames it on Beavis, who, being the stupidest of the two, apologizes.
* [[Never Live It Down]] ([[In-Universe]]): When he thinks he saw Beavis crying over a television show (He actually [[Onion Tears|sniffed an onion]]) Butt-Head rides him about it. For a long time. Until the day he falls over dead in an old folks home.
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* [[Nixon Mask]]
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]/[[Captain Ersatz]]: Gus Baker, the [[Rush Limbaugh]] parody from "Right On".
* [[Non
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
{{quote|'''Beavis:''' I killed a bunch of people once.}}
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* [[Really Gets Around]]: Based on comments made by the titular characters, it sounds like Beavis' mom is quite promiscuous.
{{quote|'''Beavis''': "She's not a whore, she's a slut; she doesn't charge for it."}}
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Utterly averted in ''Crying'' where Butt-head constantly mocks Bevis for crying while watching The Bachelor (the result of finding an onion in his chili dog while watching the show).
{{quote|''"Huh huh. You were touched."''}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The title characters.
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: Ross and Harlan, the thieves who claim themselves as movers in "Stewart Moves Away" and steal B and B's TV in the movie.
** Arguably, Beavis and Butt-head could be considered this [[In-Universe]].
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: The end of "Holy Cornholio", in which [[Butt Monkey]] Stewart {{spoiler|goes off to have sex with dozens of beautiful female cultists--the same ones who were trying to mate with B&B through much of the episode}}.
* [[Trash of the Titans]]: In some episodes, their house is littered with trash and crushed soda cans, and in others, it's relatively clean.
* [[Toilet Humor]]: Lots of it, both literally and figuratively.
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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 (disambiguation)]]: Beavis and Butt-Head are both this to Tod, regardless of how much of a violent [[Jerkass]] he is to them.
* [[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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