Beavis and Butthead

Beavis and Butthead is an animated comedy show that aired on US TV station MTV from 1993 to 1997. It was created by Mike Judge[?], who later went on to write and produce the TV series King of the Hill and the live action movie Office Space.

Beavis and Butthead started life as an animated short created by Judge for an animation festival. This short, named "Frog Baseball", was aired on MTV's independent animation showcase Liquid Television, which was presumably the catalyst for MTV becoming interested in pursuing a television series featuring the characters.

An episode of the show typically consists of Beavis and Butthead making juvenile commentary while watching music videos. Between the videos, stories are advanced involving the duo's adventures in troublemaking both at home and at school. Targets for their carnal humour include authority, high school life and even themselves. Beavis and Butthead's characteristic features are that they are obsessed with sex and somewhat mentally challenged. Butthead is apparently marginally more intelligent than Beavis.

Early episodes gave the duo a juvenile obsession with fire. The show was blamed for numerous child deaths as the result of house fire, and the fire references were excised from further broadcastings. MTV also responded by broacasting the program after ten at night, and adding a disclaimer reminding parents that the show was not for children.

A full length movie, Beavis and Butthead Do America[?] was released in 1996.

Beavis and Butthead along with other (arguably) mainstream cartoons such as Ren and Stimpy and the The Simpsons pushed the boundaries of cartoons away from clean material for small children only. While some might say they were crude, it offered succinct social commentary and a disturbingly accurate portrayal of life in America for many. Some critics note that the show is actually a satire on MTV itself. Beavis and Butthead, they argue, are prime examples of latchkey[?] kids who have been turned into idiots by staying home and doing nothing except watch music videos all day. Because they are raised entirely by MTV, they are unable to adapt to social life at all, and (especially) they are unable to meet girls (or, as the duo states, "score with a chick"). Beavis and Butthead's parents are never seen, except for a small part during the movie, where Beavis and Butthead run into two older look-alikes who then tell of how they met prostitutes at Beavis and Butthead's hometown, leading watchers to believe that they are, in fact, Beavis and Butthead's biological fathers.

Along with the usual merchandising, a comic was released and several video games. A spinoff show based on their maligned classmate Daria Morgendorfer, Daria was also created.

Episode List - Note: In some of the early seasons, there were 2 epsidoes per 30 minutes.

Pilot Episode

1. Frog Baseball - shown on MTV's Liquid Television

Season 1

1. Blood Drive
2. Door To Door
3. Sign Here
4. Balloon

Season 2

1. Customers Suck
2. Heroes
3. Home Improvement
4. Stewart's House
5. Yogurt's Cool
6. Babes R Us
7. Friday Night
8. Scientific Stuff
9. At The Sideshow
10. Be All You Can Be
11. Washing The Dog
12. Lawn & Garden
13. Burger World
14. Bedpans & Broomsticks
15. Good Credit
16. Way Down Mexico Way
17. For Better Or Verse
18. Beware Of The Butt
19. At The Movies
20. Sick
21. No Laughing
22. Baby Makes Uh, Three
23. The Butt-head Experience

Season 3

1. Comedians
2. Carwash
3. Couch-Fishing
4. Kidnapped
5. Naked Colony
6. Tornado
7. Incognito
8. Cleaning House
9. Scratch 'N' Win
10. Scared Straight
11. Sperm Bank
12. Citizen Butt-head
13. True Crime
14. The Trial
15. Ball Breakers
16. Buff 'N' Stuff
17. Canoe
18. The Crush
19. Eating Contest
20. Foreign Exchange
21. Meet God
22. Young, Gifted & Crude
23. Plate Frisbee
24. Politically Correct
25. Sporting Goods
26. Closing Time
27. A Very Special Christmas With Beavis and Butt-head
28. Most Wanted

Season 4

1. Wall Of Youth
2. Cow Tipping
3. Trouble Urinating
4. Rabies Scare
5. They're Coming To Take Me Away, Huh Huh
6. Jump!
7. Pumping Iron
8. Let's Clean It Up
9. 1-900-BEAVIS
10. Water Safety
11. Blackout!
12. Late Night With Butt-head
13. The Final Judgment Of Beavis
14. Pool Toys
15. Madame Blavatsky
16. Beavis and Butt-head's Island
17. Figure Drawing
18. Date Bait
19. Butt Is It Art?
20. Right On
21. Manners Suck
22. The Pipe Of Doom
23. Safe Driving
24. Mr. Anderson's Balls
25. Patients Patients
26. Teen Talk
27. Crisis Line
28. Vs. The Vending Machine
29. Generation In Crisis
30. Radio Sweethearts
31. The Great Cornholio
32. Liar! Liar!

Season 5

1. Held Back
2. Killing Time
3. Beard Boys
4. Choke
5. Safe House
6. Hard Sell
7. Walkathon
8. Temporary Insanity
9. Dude, A Reward
10. Walking Erect
11. Career Day
12. Plastic Surgin'
13. Take A Number
14. Beaverly Buttbillies
15. Tainted Meat
16. Stewart Moves Away
17. Top O' The Mountain
18. Party
19. Wet Behind The Rears
20. Bad Dog
21. Lightning Strikes
22. Dream On
23. Candy Sale
24. Animation Sucks
25. What's The Deal?
26. The History Of Women
27. To The Rescue
28. I Dream Of Beavis
29. Pregnant Pause
30. Here Comes The Bride's Butt
31. Screamers
32. Beavis, Can You Spare A Dime?
33. Skin Trade
34. Oil Change
35. Buttniks
36. Bang The Drum Slowly Dumbass
37. Another Friday Night
38. Tired
39. Close Encounters
40. Womyn
41. Premature Evacuation
42. Whiplash
43. Spare Me
44. Patsies
45. Murder Site
46. Spanish Fly
47. Sexual Harrassment
48. Bus Trip
49. Green Thumbs
50. Steamroller

Season 6

1. Bungholio - Lord Of The Harvest
2. The Mystery Of Morning Wood
3. U.S. History
4. Feel A Cop
5. Date Watchers
6. Blood Pressure
7. Christmas Special

Season 7

1. Babysitting
2. Vidiots
3. Stewart Is Missing
4. Gang Of Two
5. Sprout
6. Prank Call
7. No Service
8. Yard Sale
9. PTA
10. Substitute
11. Shopping List
12. Buy Beer

Season 8

1. Butt, Butt, Hike!
2. Vaya Con Cornholio
3. Evolution Sucks
4. Ding Dong Ditch
5. Just For Girls
6. A Very Special Episode
7. Dumbasses Anonymous
8. Underware
9. Head Lice
10. Cyber-Butt
11. Nose Bleed
12. Citizens Arrest
13. Pierced
14. A Great Day
15. On Strike
16. Follow Me
17. Nothing Happening
18. Take A Lap
19. Shortcuts
20. The Bride Of Butt-head
21. Special Delivery
22. Woodshop
23. TV Violence
24. Canned
25. Garage Band
26. Impotence
27. The Miracle That Is Beavis
28. Shopping Cart
29. Inventors
30. Die Fly, Die!
31. Drinking Butt-ies
32. Work Is Death
33. Breakdown
34. Graduation Day
35. The Future Of Beavis and Butt-head
36. Speech Therapy
37. Leave It To Beavis
38. Butt Flambe
39. Our Founding Losers
40. Beavis and Butt-head Are Dead

Movie - Beavis and Butt-head Do America