Beavis and Butt-Head

***Beavis and Butt-Head*** is an American adult animated television series created by Mike Judge. The series follows the eponymous Beavis and Butt-Head, both voiced by Judge, a pair of teenage slackers characterized by their apathy, lack of intelligence, lowbrow humor, and failure to attract women.

The characters originated in Judge's 1992 short film *Frog Baseball*, which was broadcast by MTV's animation showcase *Liquid Television*. After MTV commissioned a full series around the characters, *Beavis and Butt-Head* ran for seven seasons from March 8, 1993, to November 28, 1997. The series was revived with an eighth season airing on MTV from October 27, 2011, to December 29, 2011, but was cancelled a second time following the season's conclusion. A second revival consisting of two seasons is scheduled to release on Paramount+ and NickAdult.

During its initial run, *Beavis and Butt-Head* received widespread critical acclaim for its satirical, scathing commentary on society. The show's popularity spawned various related media, including the theatrical film *Beavis and Butt-Head Do America* in 1996. A second film *Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe* has also been announced to be released in July 2022 on Paramount+ and in September 2023 on NickAdult.

## Premise

The series centers on two unintelligent teenage delinquent couch potatoes named Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced by Judge) who lack social skills. They attend school at Highland High in a town named Highland, located somewhere in Texas or New Mexico. If they are not at school or out causing mayhem, they are at home watching TV, looking at pornographic magazines, or eating nachos and other junk food. Beavis and Butt-Head have little to no adult supervision and are barely literate. Both lack any empathy or moral scruples even when regarding each other, and have no hesitance to inflict serious physical harm to each other. They will usually deem an experience "cool" if it somehow involves heavy metal, violence, sex, destruction, or the macabre. While inexperienced with women, they share an obsession with sex and tend to chortle whenever they hear words or phrases that could be even vaguely interpreted as sexual or scatological. Butt-Head tends to be very emotionless and lackadaisical with regard to his conduct, whereas Beavis tends to be more "over-the-top" and extroverted (he is also shown to be somewhat more aware of social norms and certain morals than Butt-Head is, though Butt-Head seems to be somewhat more intelligent at reading and planning ahead).

Each episode features frequent interstitial scenes in which they critique music videos using commentary improvised by Judge (much in the same way as *Mystery Science Theater 3000*; in season eight, they also commented on clips from other MTV shows such as *Jersey Shore* and *True Life*, plus shows from other Viacom-owned networks such as Spike). The remainder of the episodes depict the duo embarking on various schemes or adventures. The staff at Highland High are often at a loss as to how to deal with them, and, in many episodes, Beavis and Butt-Head skip school altogether. Their actions sometimes result in serious consequences (sometimes for themselves but often for others), for which they themselves do not express any remorse due to being too stupid to understand that their actions have caused serious problems.

## Cast and characters

* Mike Judge as Beavis, Butt-Head, Coach Buzzcut, Principal McVicker, Mr. Van Driessen, Tom Anderson, many others
* Tracy Grandstaff as Daria Morgendorffer
* Adam Welsh as Stewart Stevenson