Beavis & Butt-Head Do America

[School of Movies 2024]

After many years of thinking about how to tackle these two absolute idiots, we found the best angle for us. Ostensibly this is about the 1996 movie, which still holds up today and makes for an appealing, surprisingly general-audience-friendly and brisk hour and 21-minute comedy. This is an achievement, considering their extremely sketchy first incarnation as a pair of cruelly observed Texas teenagers being horrible to frogs.

What Sharon and I do here is fill out the absence of texture in this rare 2D American-animated adult(ish) film by delving into who the boys are, and their pitiful background, as portrayed in various key episodes of the original show, which ran for only four years, but made two comebacks -both solid- with the current one still ongoing on Paramount Plus (which means most people can't see it, or the 2022 sequel movie which propels them into the 21st Century).

If you HATE Beavis & Butt-Head this podcast probably won't change your mind, but if you have never delved into this grubby world or indeed have some fond memories from their mid-90s heyday we may bring you a persistent giggle.

 

10 Recommended Beavis & Butt-Head Episodes to Watch

1. No Laughing (S2E12)

2. The Great Cornholio (S4E31)

3. Prank Call (S6E13)

4. Walkathon (S5E7)

5. Butt Flambé (S7E28)

6. Candy Sale (S5E23)

7. Werewolves of Highland (S8E1)

8. Dumb Design (S8E12)

9. It’s a Miserable Life (S6E8)

10. Choke (S5E4)