Beavis and Butt-Head/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • And the Fandom Rejoiced: They're baaa-aaack...
    • And if that wasn't enough, Beavis will be saying "FIRE! FIRE!" again.
  • Awesome Music: The last montage of the final (at the time) episode clip show had a compliation of the two wreaking havoc set to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" with Beavis and Butt-Head's vocal air-guitar riff dubbed over it.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: The White Zombie video in the movie.
    • To be fair, it was a peyote-triggered trip that only Beavis had.
      • He even expresses awe in how it's like a music video.
      • BLAM? Hell, that was out-and-out Nightmare Fuel.
      • Uh huh huh huh huh, you wuss.
  • Complete Monster: Muddy and Dallas Grimes in The Movie may qualify.
    • Coach Buzzcut. He threatens to assault/murder his students, and flat-out encouraged his class to beat up a new student whom did nothing to provoke him.
    • Zombie Farmer in "Cow Tipping" and "Bungholio:The Lord Of Harvest". In "Cow Tipping" he attempted to kill Beavis with chainsaw. and in "Bungholio:The Lord Of Harvest" he killed Butthead and later killed Beavis with chainsaw.. Both cases show that he has no problem with killing teenagers and it is implied that he buried someone.
    • Todd, somewhat, too.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Really, this show lived on this trope, but "Way Down Mexico Way" was its apotheosis.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: They've played plenty of great music videos, but The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated" was one of the few songs to get the boys to just shut up and rock out.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Snark Knight Daria Morgendorffer was popular enough to get her own series.
    • The biggest Ensemble Darkhorse of the show is Beavis's alter-ego, The Great Cornholio, he only appeared in few episodes and The Movie, but it is one of the most popular and funny characters in the show.
  • Freud Was Right: The boys can find sexual innuendo in literally anything.
    • Huh huh huh, you said "thing".
  • Funny Aneurysm Moment: There was at least two moments in the “Beavis and Butthead: Do America”
    • Early on the boys find their way to the cockpit, causing it to nose-drive before Butthead was moved out of the way. After 9/11, now it’s in poor taste.
    • Later on, when the boys arrive in Washington DC, they go on the intercom looking for Dallas, the woman they were suppose to score with. Fast forward to the Lewinsky scandal where… you know what happened.
  • Growing the Beard: In the early episodes, the duo didn't go through the range of jokes as later seasons, and most of the time they were just playing pranks or causing all around mischief. When the show started to get popular (and when MTV got scared that kids may be imitating the duo's destructive behavior), their personalities changed into the way most people recognize them now by. Of course, this made everything a hell of a lot funnier.
    • Which is funny, because their earlier music video reviews were very little except jabs or praise for the band/artist. Their later reviews had a more intellectual insight, implying that the characters are savants.
    • Most agree that the revival is even better than where it left off, mostly thanks to Mike Judge being able to apply a lot more years of experience on perfecting the comedy.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, in which Beavis and Butt-Head pop up from time to time, urging viewers to put them back on the air by voting for them in the MTV Viewer's Choice Award (not realising they're not a voting option).
    • This poster released several years ago more or less captured what the fourth episode, Holy Cornholio, is going to be about.
    • In "Baby Makes Uh, Three", the boys and paired together as a couple because none of their female classmates wants to deal with them. Forward to 2010s, where same-sex couples are the norm.
  • Ho Yay: Huh huh huh huh, Todd's cool. (floating hearts)
    • At the end of "At the Movies", the duo is hung from the marquee butt-naked, leading Butt-Head to make comments on Beavis' rear end.

Beavis: Why are you so interested in my butt?
Butt-Head: Uhhh... have you heard the new GWAR album?

    • In "Sporting Goods", the two try on athletic supporters in the same dressing room.
    • In "Baby Makes Uh, Three", Beavis and Butt-Head are partners to take care of a flour sack for their health class. Buzzcut justifies this by telling them that with the increase of homosexual couples adopting children, it makes the project more realistic. Surprisingly, the duo makes no comment.
    • This exchange from the tie-in book "This Book Sucks":

Beavis: Hey, Butt-Head. Do you think you'll ever, like, get married?
Butt-Head: Uh, are you proposing, dude?
Beavis: No.
Butt-Head: That's OK, I'd only marry somebody dumb anyway. Huh huh.

  • Idiot Plot
  • Jerkass Woobie: Principle McVicker. It was heavily implied many times that before duo came into his life, he was happier and less medicated.
    • Beavis himself could be this. There are numerous hints dropped throughout the original series that Beavis, despite being a thick-headed pain in the ass to most everyone he meets, actually has a heart in there somewhere, but Butthead is too much of an abusive bad influence for him to even remotely realize that potential.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Some fans of the show only watched Beavis and Butt-Head for the music video segments. Other fans hated the music video segments and only watched for the actual cartoons.
  • Magic Franchise Word: Many of the boy's insults for each other, like "dillweed", "fart-knocker", or "assmunch".
  • Memetic Mutation: Diarrhea cha-cha-cha! Diarrhea cha-cha-cha!
    • Stop trying to change the subject! Hey everyone! Beavis was crying.
    • I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO! I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE!
  • Misaimed Fandom: Show garners a cult following of the very slack-jawed teen morons that the show attempts to satirize.
  • Misblamed: The family who blamed the show for their son setting their mobile home on fire? They didn't even have cable, so their son was never able to watch the show in the first place.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Coach Buzzcut in "Young, Gifted & Crude, where he flat-out ordered his studends to beat up a new student for no reason.
  • Nausea Fuel: Beavis and Butthead as "werewolves" in "Werewolves of Highland" [1]
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: Notably Averted with Beavis and Butt-Head In Virtual Stupidity, a really excellent point-and-click adventure.
    • Played Straight with the SNES and Megadrive adaptions, which were mediocre platformers.
  • Recycled Script: Both "Good Credit" and "Customers Suck" begin with the duo watching "The Bunch".
    • "Heroes" and "To The Rescue" both involved the duo checking out an airplane crash, although the endings are different.
  • The Scrappy: Stewart is probably an intentional example, but Todd's not really a fan favorite. It mainly stems from him being an Ungrateful Bastard, despite Beavis and Butt-head's loyalty towards him.
  • Technology Marches On: In many episodes, some of the items, like a landline phone, would’ve been replaced with social media today… in fact, what ever happened to caller ID.
  • Uncanny Valley: The faces look weird and realistic.
  • What an Idiot!: The duo, pretty much all of the time.
    • A notable example is in 'Vidiots' when the two go to a video dating service, Beavis gives a fake name to the lady working there (Heraldo, which she interprets as Mexican), and she mistakes Beavis' sexual answers to her questions as romantic while Butt-head is doing his video, and tries calling Beavis, only for Butt-head to hang up on her, shortly after Beavis answers the door for a Woman asking to turn on "The pleasure machine" (Butt-head, as he mentioned twice in his video), Beavis thinks she is talking about the TV and slams the door on her.
  • What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?: Lost in the tragedy of a child burning down a house, or part of a house, is the question Why is a child watching Beavis and Butthead?!? It's animation, right? Must be OK for the children, then.
    • There's also the fact that the kid's family didn't even have cable. It's quite possible the child in question could have watched the show at a friend's house, but who cares? Moral Guardians certainly don't.
  • The Woobie: Beavis during his "We're never gonna score" speech in The Movie - even though it's Played for Laughs.
    • You may remember a speech similar to that from Teen Talk.
  1. ↑ The result of being bitten by a bum with numerous STDs whom they mistook as a werewolf.
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