They were all exposed to the summer of love 2020. Who knows what damage was done to children from having to see their cities being burnt to the ground.
In the 90s I worked at a video store near the real Highland High in Albuquerque, where Mike Judge went to high school. The hippie teacher that inspired Mr. Van Driessen used to come in all the time, looked and sounded exactly like the character on the cartoon, never understood why we asked him weird questions, laughed strangely (huh huh, huhhuhuh) and started spontaneously singing "Lesbian Seagull". He was a nice guy who didn't deserve the guff we gave him. And you could do a whole episode about the real origins of the song Lesbian Seagull, which was a real song and not written for the movie.
Years later that same 5-year-old kid, as an adult stated he had no idea what Beavis and Butthead was and apparently his mom made the whole thing up just to find someone to blame other than herself. So yeah there's that.
Yeah, even back then when the story came out, I was like “That was YOUR FAULT for allowing a 5 year old to get hold of a lighter and have it long enough to figure out how to light it. You should have had the lighter kept out of reach of any 5 year olds, or better yet, not smoked in a house with kids.” Turns out they didn’t even have cable. I love when I get proven right by time.
This is why I’m glad my mom finally retired so that both of us can finally spend more time together. Some parents barely have enough time and energy to nurture their children because of how much they’ve wasted out in the workforce in order to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table, otherwise they’d have to face the serious consequence of the entire family getting evicted from the home.
@@rwdplz1 At least I now know what led to that stigma of animation as a children's medium with origins tracing back to the 50s when TV sets became more prominent in numerous American households and the Interstate Highway System was literally paving its way into the scene, especially since kids have to keep waiting until they're finally old enough to drive. This can obviously be the same for escaping the torture of any of those so-called "daycare nightmares" when they also have to keep waiting until they're finally old enough to fend for themselves besides just dealing with both their parents having to work.
Not just parents also Congress. That's why with pretty much every new media form that becomes remotely popular, there's legislation to force it to basically sanitize itself for the pearl clutching "won't someone please think about the children" types.
You gotta give it to Mike Judge. He created an animated classic, ran it for seven years until burn out hit him and instead of continuing the series till it became a worn out husk like so many others, he let it rest. When hit by new inspiration he revived the series with fresh ideas.
he also got the opportunity to make actual wholesome content that had a positive cultural impact. so its not like he ever really got hit by burn out. he was allowed to continue his artistic endeavors through diversifying his products. if he had been a modern artist, he would have already had all his ideas stolen by someone in europe.
I remember back in the 90's when parents believed that as long as it was animated it was intended for children. Enter Ninja Scroll and Wicked City. LoL 😂😂😂. I had them both on VHS!
Yup. Our babysitter got fired after my parents found out she was talking on the phone to her friend all night and never checked up on us. She put in a cartoon from the video store for us tho. That movie was called 'Fritz the Cat'.
I can't get enough of the video editing jokes, like the one at 10:44. Everytime you do it, I giggle. Nightmare on Elm Street door scene, Star Wars Sarlaac pit scene, please mashing them up with everything. It's perfect.
I remember my middle school banning Beavis & Butt-Head apparel. If you wore a B&B shirt to school you either had to turn it inside-out, or wear a gym shirt. If you wore it again, they would confiscate it, make you wear a gym shirt, and send you home with a referral. They had the same policy for Marilyn Manson shirts.
Butthead actually IS a sociopath. When watching the video for "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo, Beavis asks what the word "Sociopath" means. Butthead tells him "That school psychiatrist said I was one of those. But it didn't matter, because I don't care about her at all, or anyone else really. I don't care about others, uh-huh-huh-huh.".
eurocentric culture is just incentivized sociopathy / psychopathy lol. where in our culture are we told to place the needs of others before our wants? every well off person i've ever seen was told from birth that no one else mattered at all. they should always put more priority and importance on personal desires/goals over the general well being of any lifeform outside of their own flesh tombs. you get punished for unselfish desires / actions in our culture and its always been that way. hell, there was many decades where you could face imprisonment / lynching / being rejected from societal participation for just expressing humanitarian concerns for the well being of anyone who wasnt born well off or loyal to european monarchists over the rest of the worlds people. you'd be called a "communist" if you thought banana republics and installing psychotic blood thirsty dictators to destabilize and plunder any given country outside of europe was a bad thing in any measurable way. if you didnt believe in rich european loyalists having free reign to torture life on earth to their rotten little hearts content, you were cast out of american society.
I remember watching Beavis and Butthead ever since the Frog Baseball short on Liquid Television (which needs a Secret Galaxy spotlight). The show was hilarious with great cast of characters. Daria and Mr. Anderson were my favorites. The 2011 reboot was OK, but the recent series was much better.
This show passed me by in the UK, partly because of no access to MTV in my house at the time. The story of the mother blaming the show reminds me of South Park's early years, where parents and teachers were blaming that for their kids swearing. The excuse from parents of "but it's a cartoon" was weak as it completely ignores the fact it was on late night, so clearly wasn't intended for kids.
For me, the genius of Beavis & Butt-Head is that they are incredibly stupid, but the humor itself often isn't stupid. There are some pretty creative jokes mixed in with the slapstick violence and fart jokes, especially when the jokes revolve around B&BH fundamentally misunderstanding something. Also, Mike Judge is willing to let the characters be the right level of stupid for the situation, so sometimes they are the dumbest people on the face of the earth, and other times they make surprisingly clever jokes when watching a music video. I've also been pleasantly surprised by the latest Paramount Plus/Comedy Central run of the show. The new cleaner, modern animation style is a downgrade from the sloppy hand-drawn charm of the original run in my opinion, but the jokes are as good as ever in a lot of cases, and having them watch stuff like RUclips videos in addition to music videos is the perfect approach for the present day.
It's stupid to blame Beavis and Butthead for the bowling ball because there was a MaCaley Culkin and Elijah Wood movie called The Good Son where they did exactly that...
Supposedly, the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America exists only because Mike Judge wanted out of his TV contract early. MTV initially wouldn't let him out of the contract, but after some negotiations, MTV agreed to shorten the series by one season in exchange for a full-length movie.
Judge grew up in Albuquerque? I grew up in Albuquerque. For years whenever someone asked what my father was like I would answer "Hank Hill." It all makes sense now. yep.
14:40 “30 years ago… the US government moved the censor… Today any kid with a phone can watch an unbroken stream of the most awful people doing the most awful things.” Careful, you might hurt Mr Beast’s feelings.
I was a little too old for any animated characters to convince me to start fires, but I sure did love their music video commentary. And hey, Mike Judge gave me Office Space, which I adore. You guys did a great job framing this one, well done Secret Galaxy!
the reason it was funny is because they were the example of what NOT to be. That was then. Today, too many Tik Tok personas are bad examples. Different time, and Beavis and Butthead were the exception. Today, they are the rule.
Parents blame a tv show for the actions of their children, translation: The lawyer they hired to try and protect them from being negligent parents makes up excuse about a TV show. Seriously, 5 year old sets fire to trailer and kills baby sister? Was mom sleeping off a drunken stupor or something?
@@Mike__B exactly. Who’s fault was it that there was a lighter in the house in the first place, much less that the 5 year old had it in their hands long enough to play with it and figure out how to light it? It sure as hell wasn’t Beavis and Butthead.
My parents did not have cable during the early run of Beavis and Butthead, but my grandparents did. I was a pre-teen when the show started and my grandparents were in their 50's when it aired, my grandfather didn't care what I watched as long as I wasn't bothering him, but oh boy my grandma threw a bitch fit when I was watching it. I watched 1 of 3 things when I was over at their house, WWF Raw\WCW Nitro, Beavis and Butthead, or WGN (later on in the 90's that was replaced with ZDTV\TechTV). I had a very bad childhood, my father was a meth addict and my mother was an enabler, if Beavis and Butthead were supposed to influence kids I never got the message, with how my home life was I should have been playing with fire and doing the other stupid shit that they were doing on the show. I hate the argument of "The TV made me do it", it's a lazy cop out to skirt taking responsibility for your actions. No Marilyn Manson didn't cause the assholes in Colombine to shoot up their school, it was their own pathetic choice to do so. If Cartoons influence kids then why didn't you see kids in the 70's and early 80's dropping anvils on each other?
One of the funnest things I've ever seen was when Beavis & Butt-Head were watching videos a Yoko-Ono video popped up. They screamed as it cut back and forth between them screaming and the video for a minute.
Then I'd say that you seriously lucked out, because you watched the _vastly_ superior show. I don't think _The Simpsons,_ has ever actually been very funny, and apart from the novelty of a cartoon character saying "damn" when the show started (I was 13) I'd say it has always been very _pedestrian_ and I am honestly baffled why so many people act like it's so amazing. (Seriously, I'm not trying to be contrarian; I am _absolutely baffled_ by it.) But _Beavis & Butt-Head_ was always fantastic,
When i was 14-16 my entire group of friends loved Beavis & Butthead. We all thought it was the funniest thing ever. We all went and watched DO AMERICA the night it premiered and we ended up stealing 6 B&B posters from the theater. What we didn;t do was play baseball with frogs, set fires in our living rooms, or hurt people, we knew it was just a cartoon and not a way of life. I watch it now and i can;t believe i ever liked it as much as i did, but i did.
it's so weird, that in the past 30 years since Buffcoat and Beaver entered our airwaves, the Democrats have been the ones who say we should have freedom to watch what we want and the Republicans are against anything that isn't Leave it to Beavis. It just blows my mind how narrow minded the Democrats were back then.
I watched a little bit of it, and all of Daria. When it came out I was in a boarding school and there was a boarder there from Texas who told me about the production, how familiar it was and how local the work of Mike Judge had been in that State. Decades later I would do an internship at MTV on Celebrity Deathmatch while Daria was being worked on next door (technically in the same office, of course), so the show has made a connection with me one way or another. And I do recall seeing it on Liquid Television, which I tried to watch any moment I could catch it. Great Stuff, as always!
The one random Beavis and Butthead mome t that live in my head rent free is when they go to Mexico and try to get tacos, and the cart owner says "Uno" and the boys have that shocked look on thier faces. Dont know why, but thier reaction cracks me up every time
The best critique I remember about “Do America” came a couple years after its release from Trey Parker and Matt Stone when “South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut” was coming out. In an interview for their movie they said that they were excited about Beavis & Butthead’s movie but in the end were disappointed in how safe it was played. It was just a long episode of the show without any videos and didn’t take advantage of it being a movie where they could get away with so much more than on TV. Something they both remembered and took into account when they got their chance to jump their characters and that world to the screen, as we all know.
I am completely surprised you didn't just use Jason throwing girl out window/boba fett bit even though you were talking about Scream 2. You've done that before! Love it every time.
I use this quote all the time: "The more things change, the more they suck."--Butt-Head I thank B&B for my first kiss: She said," if you keep laughing like that, I'm going to have to shut you up." She sure did!
As I have aged and especially since becoming a parent, I've realized i watched an entirely unhealthy amount of television in my youth. Much of it unsupervised as I had a television in my bedroom. What i find interesting about the era of Bevis and Butthead, and the controversy of it and similar shows, was that I was strictly not allowed to watch them. Pretty much anything that was on Fox aside from the kids club was especially out of line in my mother's household. More fascinating still is that my mother was in no other way a parti ularly srict or generally restrictive parent, but it was made abundantly clear that those were "adult shows". Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure this restriction extended as far as South Park as well all the way up through high school. Idk, it is just so weird to me (understandable but still weird) that so many parents struggled to keep their kids away from OBVIOUSLY, not kid-friendly programming. To this day, people find it preposterous that i have no interest in the Simpsons, Married With Children, Ren and Stimpy, etc. simply due to a lack of nostalgia as a result of a lack of exposure because I was not allowed to watch them.
"If it wasn't Hard Rock or Heavy Metal, it sucked." Actually Beavis and Butthead were quite harsh in their criticisms of both genres, for example they absolutely took a flamethrower to King Diamond and his band Mercyful Fate (I'm not a fan of either myself), both of which appeared on the show.
Beavis and Butthead are one of my favorite cartoon shows. The whole controversy about the kids imitated the cartoon violence is the parents’ fault. Also John K from Ren and Stimpy did some animation work uncredited for the early episodes of B&B since he briefly worked for MTV animation, and that was before the allegations!
Media will always be the scapegoat that gets blamed when kids do things that are the result of parental neglect or negligence. The "think of the children" crowd always seem to forget that it's the very fact that your parents say you aren't supposed to watch a show/listen to an album/see a certain movie that makes them all the more enticing to kids.
I want to see the old original uncensored B&B episodes with all the "fire fire fire" and antics intact. It was disgusting that MTV memoryholed it because other people were irresponsibibly watching it. Should James Cameron be sued if a kid shot a bunch of people because he saw Ternlminator 2 which was R rated and marketed to children with toys and the whole works?
I tried watching the reboot last year year before and I could help but notice that Butthead was such a Butthead to Beavis. Like dude it was making Beavis to all this industrial violent stuff and I felt bad for Beavis.
9:21 strange to see commercial from 2x2 channel. Many years it was like MTV but without music. Crazy and opened for new. The voice behind Beavis and Butt-head here is actor Sergey Chonishvili, who is famos for his voice over works.
I don't know why people don't seem to get that there was never a universe where they were going to spend a bajillionty dollars to put all those segments with the music videos into home video releases. Those would actually need to be paid for and licensed
I was 16 working in a movie theater when Beavis and Butthead Do America came out. I spent my breaks laughing watching it over and over! I also had a friend in class that would keep going the Beavis voice lol
The fact that Beavis and Butt-head has adapted to the modern day ever since the early 90s shows that even if they are idiots, they are smarter than they look.
As a teenager the sequences of them talking over videos largely frustrated me because they cut them short. But now I find them hilarious. The ones where they watch Pantera videos and just keep calling Phil Anselmo Pantera crack me up.
@@funkyweapon1981 My favourite is This Love, where they act like they're Pantera's dad and keep giving out to him. Damnit Pantera, you will respect your new mother!
Back in 1994 & 1995, I was a manager at a video rental store. One of my customers worked for MTV & we got to talking & he told me that they were planning on making a Beavis & Butt-head movie, but they couldn't come up with any ideas. Off the top of my head I said, "They should do a road trip. They find out that prostitution is legal in Las Vegas & they take a trip across the country to get laid." In the movie, they take a road trip across America to Las Vegas to get laid. Now, I'm not saying they stole my idea, but they stole my idea.
I think the shorter content in this situation, where there's been a roller coaster's worth of circus events going on, is very good. However, I do personally prefer the longer-form videos.
When I was in university I just got the box set on dvd. During class I’d play it on mute in a small window on my MacBook. My teacher was curious why I was giggling most of the time. Even on mute it made me uncontrollably giggle. My teacher asked to borrow the set once I finished them
BTW, this is easily the most enjoyably comprehensive breakdown of B&B I've ever seen in one video, including all of the facts that came to light after those "controversies." It's such a dumb show, but when I was 17-19 years old in '94 thru '97, sitting in my buddy's basement at 2am and pulling bong rips, Liquid Television and Beavis & Butthead made all the sense in the world to us.
I was watching B&B at home with my brother and my mom came to see what we were laughing about and she walked in right when one of them says "Jesus is cool" while watching some long haired grunge band video (probably Soundgarden), so for the longest time my mom thought Beavis & Butthead was this really wholesome cartoon that promoted Christian values to the youths which just made the show a gazillion times better for us
Beavis and Butt-head even made their way to the UK's Fourth TV channel, the imaginatively-titled "Channel 4". Admittedly, late at night, long after impressionable kiddies had gone to sleep. However, as I was a young adult at the time, I knew how to set the Video recorder, and recorded some of their antics. Not that I remember much of it, the real gold was in the 4Later era, when Manga Entertainment showed some of their licenced anime on TV. Notably, several dubbed episodes of Fist of the North Star, but without the original "Ai wo Torimodose" opening song, or indeed any of the original musics, replaced as it was by a selection of tracks by several artists contracted to the Warp Records label.
Classic divide: my older brother liked B&B, I liked Daria. Core memory of him renting Do America on a trip to Palm Springs. The only part I remember is them meeting their dads.
Oh man, I had countless vhs tapes my buddy recorded for me, had the movie soundtrack and the Experience album. And B&B was the 1st movie I drove myself to at 16...
I remember seeing the first one at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation and I had no idea at the time that it would become such a great, long-lived show.
Beavis and Butthead was awesome, and it gets better with age, like a fine wine. I've seen some of the newer episodes, and some of them are great! Especially the Smart Beavis and Smart Butthead bits. Mike Judge is a genius creator. From Office Space to Idiocracy, everything he creates is gold, and I may be going on a limb here, but Mike Judge is practically a modern-day prophet, or at the very least, he's a master of seeing trends, and following that line to it's inevitable conclusion. Much of his work is very predictive of where things are headed, even if he doesn't intend them to be and just has the goal of making biting, on-the-nose satire.
5:45 this is pretty much why I grew to love the music video portions, especially when I discovered MST3K (btw, MST3K episode when?) Initially the video critiques were just simplistic “this sucks/rules” but the more they did them, the writing became much smarter with the riffs feeling on par with the best of MST3K. Seriously, the longer this show developed the funnier/smarter it got (the episode Feel A Cop where their stupidity & slang prevents them from falling into a police sting operation makes me laugh so much). Truly a show that continues to deliver great humor to this day.
My parents blamed Beavis and Butthead... Turns out they were raging alcoholics and needed a scapegoat for why I was demanding attention... I'm good. I'm 40, I have a good relationship with my parents now. We all drink in semi-moderation now. They know... Great video. I bought your T-Shirt.
Did not expect Beavis and Butt-head on this channel. One of my favorite cartoons. My favorite characters are Daria and Mr. Van Driessen. I'm wondering if we could get videos on Simpsons and the early Nicktoons next.
I would usually lay down around 8:00 p.m. My mom would come get me up as soon as my dad knocked out so we can watch Beavis and Butthead. Somehow he would always knock out before Beavis and Butthead aired LOL. It was a way for us to get away from abusive alcoholic and laugh our ass off. Also this is a great channel just subscribed.
I saw Frog Baseball at Spike n' Mike's Festival of Animation in the early 90s. The Sick and Twisted midnight showcase for adult content. The festival was a yearly tradition even if we had to get a parent or older sibling to tag along with us to get in.
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“The Most Awful People doing the Most Awful Things…”
Logan Paul’s ears are burning…
They were all exposed to the summer of love 2020. Who knows what damage was done to children from having to see their cities being burnt to the ground.
Mike Judge always two steps ahead. Idocracy best documentary of all time.
Was like the south park movie being a parody of its own reception
Not a very good movie though. Office Space was excellent.
No joke, Mike Judge is one of the most insightful guys in Hollywood today
Oh wow how edgy calling Idocracy a documentary.
@@MovieEnvy Oh wow how edgy to use the word 'edgy'.
The effects that Beavis and Butt-head and Ren and Stimpy had on animation are still happening to this day. Complete game changers.
If he hasn't done an ep on here of Ren and Stimpy it's needed badly
Game changer 4:22 ? Just more dumbing down.
I don't like it. It's not good for kids. Parents are angry. They don't let their kids watch SpongeBob.
Tiny Toons was better. So was Beetlejuice 1989 and Garfield And Friends.
@@Cre8Lounge Yes!
Huh huh huh..I'm old.
Same here. Same for the artists whose work we enjoyed with some passing to the Great Beyond.
ah huh huh huh Yeah
Hmmm hmm yeah me too hmm hmm
Frrroooooggggggg basebaaallllll!!!
In the 90s I worked at a video store near the real Highland High in Albuquerque, where Mike Judge went to high school. The hippie teacher that inspired Mr. Van Driessen used to come in all the time, looked and sounded exactly like the character on the cartoon, never understood why we asked him weird questions, laughed strangely (huh huh, huhhuhuh) and started spontaneously singing "Lesbian Seagull". He was a nice guy who didn't deserve the guff we gave him. And you could do a whole episode about the real origins of the song Lesbian Seagull, which was a real song and not written for the movie.
Years later that same 5-year-old kid, as an adult stated he had no idea what Beavis and Butthead was and apparently his mom made the whole thing up just to find someone to blame other than herself. So yeah there's that.
Yeah, even back then when the story came out, I was like “That was YOUR FAULT for allowing a 5 year old to get hold of a lighter and have it long enough to figure out how to light it. You should have had the lighter kept out of reach of any 5 year olds, or better yet, not smoked in a house with kids.” Turns out they didn’t even have cable. I love when I get proven right by time.
In other words the mother was a neglectful pig wanting to blame someone and not herself, not even surprising...
Not surprised
some parents blame everyone but themselves for their bad behavior
This is why I’m glad my mom finally retired so that both of us can finally spend more time together. Some parents barely have enough time and energy to nurture their children because of how much they’ve wasted out in the workforce in order to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table, otherwise they’d have to face the serious consequence of the entire family getting evicted from the home.
It was just as obvious back then, too.
Yeah.. that's why they're creating legislation these days to restrict the behavior of children. It'd be nice if people would raise their own damn kids
@@rwdplz1 At least I now know what led to that stigma of animation as a children's medium with origins tracing back to the 50s when TV sets became more prominent in numerous American households and the Interstate Highway System was literally paving its way into the scene, especially since kids have to keep waiting until they're finally old enough to drive. This can obviously be the same for escaping the torture of any of those so-called "daycare nightmares" when they also have to keep waiting until they're finally old enough to fend for themselves besides just dealing with both their parents having to work.
Not just parents also Congress. That's why with pretty much every new media form that becomes remotely popular, there's legislation to force it to basically sanitize itself for the pearl clutching "won't someone please think about the children" types.
You gotta give it to Mike Judge. He created an animated classic, ran it for seven years until burn out hit him and instead of continuing the series till it became a worn out husk like so many others, he let it rest. When hit by new inspiration he revived the series with fresh ideas.
he also got the opportunity to make actual wholesome content that had a positive cultural impact. so its not like he ever really got hit by burn out. he was allowed to continue his artistic endeavors through diversifying his products. if he had been a modern artist, he would have already had all his ideas stolen by someone in europe.
7:13 The mother blamed someone else for her bad parenting. typical
I remember back in the 90's when parents believed that as long as it was animated it was intended for children. Enter Ninja Scroll and Wicked City. LoL 😂😂😂. I had them both on VHS!
Yup. Our babysitter got fired after my parents found out she was talking on the phone to her friend all night and never checked up on us. She put in a cartoon from the video store for us tho. That movie was called 'Fritz the Cat'.
Nice! Next MTV`s Celebrity Deathmatch?
hell yeah!
“Rage Against the Machine! Meet… The Machine!”
"OK. Now I need a good clean fight. Now let's get it on!"
I'll allow it!
I have no idea why I found that funny, but I did.
This is gonna be cool...
Huhhuh huh huhhuh
Yeah Yeah Yeah
YES!
Heheheh...
We're there, dude! Heh-heh-heh.
I can't get enough of the video editing jokes, like the one at 10:44.
Everytime you do it, I giggle.
Nightmare on Elm Street door scene, Star Wars Sarlaac pit scene, please mashing them up with everything.
It's perfect.
Oh man, I used to watch Beavis and Butt-Head back when I was too young to watch Beavis and Butt-Head!
I remember my middle school banning Beavis & Butt-Head apparel.
If you wore a B&B shirt to school you either had to turn it inside-out, or wear a gym shirt. If you wore it again, they would confiscate it, make you wear a gym shirt, and send you home with a referral.
They had the same policy for Marilyn Manson shirts.
Uh-Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh! School sucks!
Considering stuff that kids can access now. B&B and Bartman is Sunday school.
That BnB shirt that was a black and white collage with them in the middle I had in high school. I wore it almost every day😅
@@funkyweapon1981 ah huh huh Yeah
I totally remember my school doing this as well and also wwf shirts of austin, rock and dx suck it lol.
Butthead actually IS a sociopath. When watching the video for "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo, Beavis asks what the word "Sociopath" means.
Butthead tells him "That school psychiatrist said I was one of those. But it didn't matter, because I don't care about her at all, or anyone else really. I don't care about others, uh-huh-huh-huh.".
Don't forget when they did the lie detector and Beavis said he killed a bunch of people before holding his breath
eurocentric culture is just incentivized sociopathy / psychopathy lol. where in our culture are we told to place the needs of others before our wants? every well off person i've ever seen was told from birth that no one else mattered at all. they should always put more priority and importance on personal desires/goals over the general well being of any lifeform outside of their own flesh tombs. you get punished for unselfish desires / actions in our culture and its always been that way. hell, there was many decades where you could face imprisonment / lynching / being rejected from societal participation for just expressing humanitarian concerns for the well being of anyone who wasnt born well off or loyal to european monarchists over the rest of the worlds people. you'd be called a "communist" if you thought banana republics and installing psychotic blood thirsty dictators to destabilize and plunder any given country outside of europe was a bad thing in any measurable way. if you didnt believe in rich european loyalists having free reign to torture life on earth to their rotten little hearts content, you were cast out of american society.
Olivia Rodrigo...heh, heh heh
@jasonmaclean719 "Hey isn't that the wrong letter on his chest? Maybe because like he's a liar, he put the wrong letter there."
I remember watching Beavis and Butthead ever since the Frog Baseball short on Liquid Television (which needs a Secret Galaxy spotlight). The show was hilarious with great cast of characters. Daria and Mr. Anderson were my favorites. The 2011 reboot was OK, but the recent series was much better.
Would love to see you do a video about Married with Children...
This show passed me by in the UK, partly because of no access to MTV in my house at the time.
The story of the mother blaming the show reminds me of South Park's early years, where parents and teachers were blaming that for their kids swearing. The excuse from parents of "but it's a cartoon" was weak as it completely ignores the fact it was on late night, so clearly wasn't intended for kids.
Honestly, Beavis and Butt-head's stupidity pales in comparison to some of the things I've seen in this election!!
For me, the genius of Beavis & Butt-Head is that they are incredibly stupid, but the humor itself often isn't stupid. There are some pretty creative jokes mixed in with the slapstick violence and fart jokes, especially when the jokes revolve around B&BH fundamentally misunderstanding something. Also, Mike Judge is willing to let the characters be the right level of stupid for the situation, so sometimes they are the dumbest people on the face of the earth, and other times they make surprisingly clever jokes when watching a music video. I've also been pleasantly surprised by the latest Paramount Plus/Comedy Central run of the show. The new cleaner, modern animation style is a downgrade from the sloppy hand-drawn charm of the original run in my opinion, but the jokes are as good as ever in a lot of cases, and having them watch stuff like RUclips videos in addition to music videos is the perfect approach for the present day.
0:23 he said Beavis like… Beavis.
Hahahahaha
It's stupid to blame Beavis and Butthead for the bowling ball because there was a MaCaley Culkin and Elijah Wood movie called The Good Son where they did exactly that...
Supposedly, the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America exists only because Mike Judge wanted out of his TV contract early. MTV initially wouldn't let him out of the contract, but after some negotiations, MTV agreed to shorten the series by one season in exchange for a full-length movie.
Judge grew up in Albuquerque? I grew up in Albuquerque. For years whenever someone asked what my father was like I would answer "Hank Hill." It all makes sense now. yep.
14:40 “30 years ago… the US government moved the censor… Today any kid with a phone can watch an unbroken stream of the most awful people doing the most awful things.” Careful, you might hurt Mr Beast’s feelings.
"Chicken soup for the butt," just the phrase, still makes me laugh.
It's so stupid it's hilarious!
I was a little too old for any animated characters to convince me to start fires, but I sure did love their music video commentary. And hey, Mike Judge gave me Office Space, which I adore. You guys did a great job framing this one, well done Secret Galaxy!
In the film David Letterman played Butt-Heads father.
Letterman loved B n B. Remember when they did the skit at the Movie Awards eating the burritos?
the reason it was funny is because they were the example of what NOT to be. That was then. Today, too many Tik Tok personas are bad examples. Different time, and Beavis and Butthead were the exception. Today, they are the rule.
When people on tik tok are worse than B&B then that's a problem
Parents blame a tv show for the actions of their children, translation: The lawyer they hired to try and protect them from being negligent parents makes up excuse about a TV show. Seriously, 5 year old sets fire to trailer and kills baby sister? Was mom sleeping off a drunken stupor or something?
@@Mike__B exactly. Who’s fault was it that there was a lighter in the house in the first place, much less that the 5 year old had it in their hands long enough to play with it and figure out how to light it? It sure as hell wasn’t Beavis and Butthead.
My parents did not have cable during the early run of Beavis and Butthead, but my grandparents did. I was a pre-teen when the show started and my grandparents were in their 50's when it aired, my grandfather didn't care what I watched as long as I wasn't bothering him, but oh boy my grandma threw a bitch fit when I was watching it.
I watched 1 of 3 things when I was over at their house, WWF Raw\WCW Nitro, Beavis and Butthead, or WGN (later on in the 90's that was replaced with ZDTV\TechTV). I had a very bad childhood, my father was a meth addict and my mother was an enabler, if Beavis and Butthead were supposed to influence kids I never got the message, with how my home life was I should have been playing with fire and doing the other stupid shit that they were doing on the show.
I hate the argument of "The TV made me do it", it's a lazy cop out to skirt taking responsibility for your actions. No Marilyn Manson didn't cause the assholes in Colombine to shoot up their school, it was their own pathetic choice to do so. If Cartoons influence kids then why didn't you see kids in the 70's and early 80's dropping anvils on each other?
One of the funnest things I've ever seen was when Beavis & Butt-Head were watching videos a Yoko-Ono video popped up. They screamed as it cut back and forth between them screaming and the video for a minute.
My parents wouldn't let me watch The Simpsons, so I'd go up to my room and watch Beavis & Butthead.
Butthead: "your parents suck! huh huh huh..."
Ah huh huh huh cool
D'oh
Then I'd say that you seriously lucked out, because you watched the _vastly_ superior show. I don't think _The Simpsons,_ has ever actually been very funny, and apart from the novelty of a cartoon character saying "damn" when the show started (I was 13) I'd say it has always been very _pedestrian_ and I am honestly baffled why so many people act like it's so amazing. (Seriously, I'm not trying to be contrarian; I am _absolutely baffled_ by it.) But _Beavis & Butt-Head_ was always fantastic,
@@AaronLitz You clearly have a darker sense of humor than most. The first 10 years of The Simpsons are masterclasses in writing clever comedy.
When i was 14-16 my entire group of friends loved Beavis & Butthead. We all thought it was the funniest thing ever. We all went and watched DO AMERICA the night it premiered and we ended up stealing 6 B&B posters from the theater. What we didn;t do was play baseball with frogs, set fires in our living rooms, or hurt people, we knew it was just a cartoon and not a way of life. I watch it now and i can;t believe i ever liked it as much as i did, but i did.
Oh, it’s U.S. Senator Fritz Holling’s favorite, "Buffcoat and Beaver" 🤣
it's so weird, that in the past 30 years since Buffcoat and Beaver entered our airwaves, the Democrats have been the ones who say we should have freedom to watch what we want and the Republicans are against anything that isn't Leave it to Beavis. It just blows my mind how narrow minded the Democrats were back then.
The History and Unavailability Of The Drew Carey Show
Lewis!!!
Its literally been discussed that it has to do with licensing issues
I watched a little bit of it, and all of Daria. When it came out I was in a boarding school and there was a boarder there from Texas who told me about the production, how familiar it was and how local the work of Mike Judge had been in that State. Decades later I would do an internship at MTV on Celebrity Deathmatch while Daria was being worked on next door (technically in the same office, of course), so the show has made a connection with me one way or another. And I do recall seeing it on Liquid Television, which I tried to watch any moment I could catch it. Great Stuff, as always!
Maybe Daria is a good next episode
Diarrhea cha cha cha
I can't be the only one counting down out loud and screaming Rubik's cube at my phone @2:21 😂
The one random Beavis and Butthead mome t that live in my head rent free is when they go to Mexico and try to get tacos, and the cart owner says "Uno" and the boys have that shocked look on thier faces. Dont know why, but thier reaction cracks me up every time
never been this early to a Secret Galaxy vid
The Beavis & Butt-head Do America soundtrack is really good.
Idiocracy is gospel
Tales from the Road is amazeballs
I miss a shout out to the awesome duet with Cher. I've got you babe!
Memory unlocked! That RHCP video / track from the album was a huge hit too.
@@jasondotg Not to mention being associated with Rob Zombie's film directorial debut, as well as Nirvana's last released song while Kurt was alive.
The best critique I remember about “Do America” came a couple years after its release from Trey Parker and Matt Stone when “South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut” was coming out. In an interview for their movie they said that they were excited about Beavis & Butthead’s movie but in the end were disappointed in how safe it was played. It was just a long episode of the show without any videos and didn’t take advantage of it being a movie where they could get away with so much more than on TV.
Something they both remembered and took into account when they got their chance to jump their characters and that world to the screen, as we all know.
7:40
The kid later admitted that they didn't have cable so he couldn't even watch beavis and butthead
I am completely surprised you didn't just use Jason throwing girl out window/boba fett bit even though you were talking about Scream 2. You've done that before! Love it every time.
I use this quote all the time: "The more things change, the more they suck."--Butt-Head
I thank B&B for my first kiss: She said," if you keep laughing like that, I'm going to have to shut you up." She sure did!
As I have aged and especially since becoming a parent, I've realized i watched an entirely unhealthy amount of television in my youth. Much of it unsupervised as I had a television in my bedroom. What i find interesting about the era of Bevis and Butthead, and the controversy of it and similar shows, was that I was strictly not allowed to watch them.
Pretty much anything that was on Fox aside from the kids club was especially out of line in my mother's household. More fascinating still is that my mother was in no other way a parti ularly srict or generally restrictive parent, but it was made abundantly clear that those were "adult shows". Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure this restriction extended as far as South Park as well all the way up through high school.
Idk, it is just so weird to me (understandable but still weird) that so many parents struggled to keep their kids away from OBVIOUSLY, not kid-friendly programming. To this day, people find it preposterous that i have no interest in the Simpsons, Married With Children, Ren and Stimpy, etc. simply due to a lack of nostalgia as a result of a lack of exposure because I was not allowed to watch them.
Ren & Stimpy, along with The Simpsons both suck, so you didn’t miss anything there.
"If it wasn't Hard Rock or Heavy Metal, it sucked." Actually Beavis and Butthead were quite harsh in their criticisms of both genres, for example they absolutely took a flamethrower to King Diamond and his band Mercyful Fate (I'm not a fan of either myself), both of which appeared on the show.
My favorite was the Morbid Angel video. Beavis does a great Barney Fife impression.
Beavis and Butthead are one of my favorite cartoon shows. The whole controversy about the kids imitated the cartoon violence is the parents’ fault. Also John K from Ren and Stimpy did some animation work uncredited for the early episodes of B&B since he briefly worked for MTV animation, and that was before the allegations!
Media will always be the scapegoat that gets blamed when kids do things that are the result of parental neglect or negligence. The "think of the children" crowd always seem to forget that it's the very fact that your parents say you aren't supposed to watch a show/listen to an album/see a certain movie that makes them all the more enticing to kids.
I want to see the old original uncensored B&B episodes with all the "fire fire fire" and antics intact. It was disgusting that MTV memoryholed it because other people were irresponsibibly watching it. Should James Cameron be sued if a kid shot a bunch of people because he saw Ternlminator 2 which was R rated and marketed to children with toys and the whole works?
Thank you for including the magic of Don Foose, MTV Viewer.
Now awaiting Secret Galaxy's eventual take on The Trailer Park Boys, someday.
Favorite episode? Working the night shift at BurgerWorld and tossing food at the ceiling fan. I wanted to do that SO badly when I worked fast food😅😅😅
Beavis and butthead are still very funny today. 🤣👍
I tried watching the reboot last year year before and I could help but notice that Butthead was such a Butthead to Beavis. Like dude it was making Beavis to all this industrial violent stuff and I felt bad for Beavis.
Plant man knows, the plants will grow!
PLANT MAN
I've still got that on a VHS tape somewhere. Going to have to try and dig that up sometime.
Still get this stuck in my head all these years
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9:21 strange to see commercial from 2x2 channel. Many years it was like MTV but without music. Crazy and opened for new. The voice behind Beavis and Butt-head here is actor Sergey Chonishvili, who is famos for his voice over works.
10:47 I knew it was coming, but you got me with the reversed shot. You're fired.
I have a torrent with all the music videos reinserted.
Bad ass. 🤘🤘🤘
I don't know why people don't seem to get that there was never a universe where they were going to spend a bajillionty dollars to put all those segments with the music videos into home video releases. Those would actually need to be paid for and licensed
The king turd collection rules!
I was 16 working in a movie theater when Beavis and Butthead Do America came out. I spent my breaks laughing watching it over and over! I also had a friend in class that would keep going the Beavis voice lol
It is always the fault of the parents.
The fact that Beavis and Butt-head has adapted to the modern day ever since the early 90s shows that even if they are idiots, they are smarter than they look.
When Beavis and Butthead look like rocket scientists compared to Jersey Shore that's scary
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As a teenager the sequences of them talking over videos largely frustrated me because they cut them short. But now I find them hilarious. The ones where they watch Pantera videos and just keep calling Phil Anselmo Pantera crack me up.
I liked the Pantera video where they just keep turning the volume up, and have to yell at each other to make fun of it!
@@funkyweapon1981 My favourite is This Love, where they act like they're Pantera's dad and keep giving out to him.
Damnit Pantera, you will respect your new mother!
@@lorcannagle Dammit, Pantera! This beer is warm!
that Boba Fett clip never gets old.
Back in 1994 & 1995, I was a manager at a video rental store. One of my customers worked for MTV & we got to talking & he told me that they were planning on making a Beavis & Butt-head movie, but they couldn't come up with any ideas. Off the top of my head I said, "They should do a road trip. They find out that prostitution is legal in Las Vegas & they take a trip across the country to get laid." In the movie, they take a road trip across America to Las Vegas to get laid. Now, I'm not saying they stole my idea, but they stole my idea.
I think the shorter content in this situation, where there's been a roller coaster's worth of circus events going on, is very good. However, I do personally prefer the longer-form videos.
When I was in university I just got the box set on dvd. During class I’d play it on mute in a small window on my MacBook. My teacher was curious why I was giggling most of the time. Even on mute it made me uncontrollably giggle. My teacher asked to borrow the set once I finished them
Legitimately my favorite thing to ever exist. Bunghole.
BTW, this is easily the most enjoyably comprehensive breakdown of B&B I've ever seen in one video, including all of the facts that came to light after those "controversies."
It's such a dumb show, but when I was 17-19 years old in '94 thru '97, sitting in my buddy's basement at 2am and pulling bong rips, Liquid Television and Beavis & Butthead made all the sense in the world to us.
I was watching B&B at home with my brother and my mom came to see what we were laughing about and she walked in right when one of them says "Jesus is cool" while watching some long haired grunge band video (probably Soundgarden), so for the longest time my mom thought Beavis & Butthead was this really wholesome cartoon that promoted Christian values to the youths which just made the show a gazillion times better for us
Violent games: blamed by parents for shootings
Beavis and Butthead: blamed by PETA for promoting and increase of animal abuse.
This show is where I discovered sooooo many bands!!
Bands I still listen to today.
Beavis and Butt-head even made their way to the UK's Fourth TV channel, the imaginatively-titled "Channel 4". Admittedly, late at night, long after impressionable kiddies had gone to sleep. However, as I was a young adult at the time, I knew how to set the Video recorder, and recorded some of their antics. Not that I remember much of it, the real gold was in the 4Later era, when Manga Entertainment showed some of their licenced anime on TV. Notably, several dubbed episodes of Fist of the North Star, but without the original "Ai wo Torimodose" opening song, or indeed any of the original musics, replaced as it was by a selection of tracks by several artists contracted to the Warp Records label.
Any parent blaming a TV show for what their children do are simply confessing to being a terrible parent.
Amen to that
Classic divide: my older brother liked B&B, I liked Daria. Core memory of him renting Do America on a trip to Palm Springs. The only part I remember is them meeting their dads.
Oh man, I had countless vhs tapes my buddy recorded for me, had the movie soundtrack and the Experience album. And B&B was the 1st movie I drove myself to at 16...
I first saw them on Liquid Television. I remember being so geeked when I saw the commercial saying they were getting their own show
Nice, an old WKYC-TV 3 news clip! I miss the 90s in Cleveland.
Great video! Please do one on King of the Hill!
I remember seeing the first one at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation and I had no idea at the time that it would become such a great, long-lived show.
Beavis and Butthead was awesome, and it gets better with age, like a fine wine. I've seen some of the newer episodes, and some of them are great! Especially the Smart Beavis and Smart Butthead bits. Mike Judge is a genius creator. From Office Space to Idiocracy, everything he creates is gold, and I may be going on a limb here, but Mike Judge is practically a modern-day prophet, or at the very least, he's a master of seeing trends, and following that line to it's inevitable conclusion. Much of his work is very predictive of where things are headed, even if he doesn't intend them to be and just has the goal of making biting, on-the-nose satire.
5:45 this is pretty much why I grew to love the music video portions, especially when I discovered MST3K (btw, MST3K episode when?)
Initially the video critiques were just simplistic “this sucks/rules” but the more they did them, the writing became much smarter with the riffs feeling on par with the best of MST3K. Seriously, the longer this show developed the funnier/smarter it got (the episode Feel A Cop where their stupidity & slang prevents them from falling into a police sting operation makes me laugh so much). Truly a show that continues to deliver great humor to this day.
Great video Dan! Loved B&B in high school!
Beavis & Butt-Head gave us Daria and the creator later also made King of The Hill, so they are legends in my book
🤣🤣🤣 The Scream to Boba Fett might be my favourite use of the bit since the Jason one!🥸
Thx for the Upload. Was very interesting. :)
Ryan Gosling will love this episode.
".. Are fthreatening me?" ✋️🤨✋️
"Anything you can put in your Cornholio" was RIGHT THERE!! @11:40
My parents blamed Beavis and Butthead... Turns out they were raging alcoholics and needed a scapegoat for why I was demanding attention... I'm good. I'm 40, I have a good relationship with my parents now. We all drink in semi-moderation now. They know... Great video. I bought your T-Shirt.
Did not expect Beavis and Butt-head on this channel. One of my favorite cartoons. My favorite characters are Daria and Mr. Van Driessen. I'm wondering if we could get videos on Simpsons and the early Nicktoons next.
This channel NEVER disappoints. My inner child is giddy.
I would usually lay down around 8:00 p.m. My mom would come get me up as soon as my dad knocked out so we can watch Beavis and Butthead. Somehow he would always knock out before Beavis and Butthead aired LOL. It was a way for us to get away from abusive alcoholic and laugh our ass off. Also this is a great channel just subscribed.
I saw Frog Baseball at Spike n' Mike's Festival of Animation in the early 90s. The Sick and Twisted midnight showcase for adult content. The festival was a yearly tradition even if we had to get a parent or older sibling to tag along with us to get in.
I remember my first time watching any B&B content asking "Are they going to laugh like this the entire time?" I had no idea what I was in for
Return to form for you guys. You covered a lot of bases here. Glad to see it.