BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD's Totally Stupid, Totally Awesome Legacy Gets the Fun History
The Weird History Channel just dropped The Complete History of Beavis and Butt-Head, and it’s the kind of video that makes you go “uhhhh... cool.”
It’s a funny, surprisingly thoughtful look at how Mike Judge’s two brainless icons went from whacking frogs with baseball bats to becoming pop culture lightning rods, surviving censorship battles, parent outrage, and even a near-miss live-action reboot.
The doc tracks their crude rise on Liquid Television, their MTV domination, the ‘90s firestorm, and their recent resurrection on Paramount+.
The video comes with the note: “Created and voiced by animator Mike Judge, Beavis and Butthead is an adult animated cartoon about two lazy, dim-witted teenagers who don’t care about much in this world beyond heavy metal and music videos.
“Their original series would run for more than two hundred episodes over six seasons, while spawning a theatrically released movie, a spin-off, several books and video games, two television revivals, and this video.”
The video packed with the kind of trivia and chaos only Beavis and Butt-Head could inspire. If you’ve ever headbanged to dumb metal riffs while yelling “fire!” this one’s for you.