Welcome Back Beavis And Butt-Head!

Remember those awful Beavis and Butt-Head impressions your annoying friend used to do? Well, he has reason to dust it off. Beavis and Butt-Head have returned, and I while I didn’t miss them, I am grateful to have them back. I have to admit there was a little trepidation when I initially sat down to watch what is now called Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head. I have just been burned over the years with “reimaginations” of beloved 80s and 90s pop culture classics. How could Beavis and Butt-Head escape the same fate? Very simple, Beavis and Butt-Head remain Beavis and Butt-Head.

While others would try and relaunch an old franchise with fresh new faces, or a good looking “Bosley”, the genius of Beavis and Butt-Head’s return is that they are exactly the same. Beavis still wears a Metallica T-shirt. Butt-Head still has braces and wears an AC/DC t-shirt. (Their friend Stuart even still rocks the Winger T-shirt) They sit on the same pink couch and watch the same broken TV. In fact the only thing that has changed is the world around Beavis and Butt-Head.

When the show first aired, a staple of the show was Beavis and Butt-Head making fun of the silly and stupid videos playing in heavy rotation on MTV. Unfortunately for our heroes, in the fourteen years since the boys last sat on the couch, MTV has all but stopped playing music videos in favor of its reality TV programming. Luckily for us, Judge has turned this negative into a positive, replacing the silly and stupid music videos with MTV’s silly and stupid reality programming. It works wonderfully. Be it watching Beavis and Butt-Head call out Jersey Shore‘s JWoww for referring to her future grandchild as “bitch” or wondering aloud during the “l am Addicted to Porn” episode of True Life, if definition of the word pornography is the “study of porn.” They also do a pretty good job of making fun of the last remaining videos MTV still plays.

The boys’ time off the couch is spent in the pursuit of their other favorite pass time, “trying to score.” Again because the world has changed but Beavis and Butt-Head haven’t, the boys get caught up in the Twilight phenomenon. After wondering first if Kristen Stewart is a mannequin, “like the slut from Sex in the City“, Butt-Head (ever the brains of the operation) decides a surefire way for them to “score” is to become vampires. Unable to find a vampire to “infect” them, they settle for a werewolf or a crazy homeless man, who happily agrees to bite them. They spend the remainder of the episode feeling weak as “the change” happens. The change unbeknownst to them is coming down with Hepatitis C.

All and all, I didn’t realize how much I had missed Beavis and Butt-Head until they came back. Free hopefully of all the merchandizing MTV shoved down our throats 17 years ago, I can now just sit back and enjoy watching the boys do what they do best. Be idiots. Welcome Back Beavis and Butt-Head.

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- Jason Williams

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November 5th, 2011 | Mara | Comments Off |