History WesternAnimation / BeavisAndButthead

[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]: So these two punks make silly comments about everything they watch, huh?
->Statler: Hey, that’s what WE do.
->Waldorf: At least, we have a life!
->Both: Doh-hoh-hoh!

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* AnachronismStew: A generational variation thereof. The show was clearly set in the 90s and UsefulNotes/BillClinton was the President back then, having met Beavis and Butt-head as high school students on two separate occasions. In the revival series, there's a clear picture on the wall of UsefulNotes/BarackObama as President in an episode and the boys are ''still in high school''. The two of them also watch ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and, going by real world time, there's no way they'd still be in high school by the time they watch that movie if they were high school students in the 90s. While it's conceivable that the two are so stupid that they never graduated from high school in all of this time and stretched out their stint at Highland High well into the 2000s, the fact that Stewart is still of young high school age, in addition to the fact that none of the faculty at Highland have aged at all, still adds up to one wonky timeline, at least in comparison to real world chronology. It seems that in B&B's world, ComicBookTime and NotAllowedToGrowUp are in full effect.

** In the first revival episode, "Werewolves of Highland", ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' is visible but obscured on the theater marquee where the duo see ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]''.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In "Drones", the military not only accepts dropouts and delinquents (according to one officer), but they were too incompetent to notice the duo sneaking into a restricted area and piloting a drone.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In "Drones", a military officer bluntly admits his team accepts dropouts and delinquents, and the duo got easy access to the drone control center due to the crew's incompetence.

->''"[[CloudCuckoolander Beavis]] and [[CasanovaWannabe Butt-Head]] are not real. They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by [[Creator/MikeJudge this Texas guy]] whom we hardly even know. Beavis and Butt-Head are [[TooDumbToLive dumb]], [[HehHehYouSaidX crude]], [[LackOfEmpathy thoughtless]], [[{{Gonk}} ugly]], [[AllMenArePerverts sexist]], [[AmusingInjuries self-destructive]] fools. But for some reason, [[RuleOfFunny the little wienerheads make us laugh]]."''

->''"Beavis and Butt-Head are not role models. They're not even human. They're cartoons. Some of the things they do would cause a person to get hurt, expelled, arrested, possibly deported. To put it another way: DontTryThisAtHome."''

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** One might think Sterculius, the Roman god of feces, was something Judge made up. Not so. There really was a Sterculius, or at least the Romans thought so. He's more often called the god of fertilizer or god of fertilization in English, but "god of feces" is not at all inaccurate.
** Some viewers might consider the yogurt shop in "Yogurt's Cool" not being a 'participating location' to be a bit of an Ass Pull to spur the title characters to vandalize the shop, but it's actually not at all unusual in RealLife for certain states' franchisees of stores like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Queen#Texas_Country_Foods Dairy Queen]][[note]] in Texas[[/note]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven#United_States 7-Eleven]][[note]] in Oklahoma[[/note]] to have their own exclusive menus, promotions, etc. separate from the rest of the country.

* NameAndName
* NamesTheSame: The revival episode "Drones" briefly features a woman named Cassandra, who is getting married. She even slightly resembles the boys' old classmate.

* AmbiguousDisorder: There are occasionally hints that Beavis might have genuine mental problems in additional to being really stupid. For example, in "Most Wanted", he says that he hears voices and has pyromania (which was toned down when the show came [[{{Pun}} under fire]] for influencing dangerous activity, but returned when the show was revived in 2011).
** At one point while taking a lie-detector test the one thing that came up as 'True' was his statement that 'I killed a bunch of people one time'.[[note]]This leads to authorities claiming that Beavis committed a mass murder that took place before ''he was even conceived''.[[/note]]

--> Do you know what I consider people like you, people who show such blatant disrespect for the morals and values which this nation was founded upon!? The '''enemy'''! That's what I consider you!

* MistakenForBrooding: In "Crying", [[OnionTears Beavis's eyes water because of an onion in his chili dog]]. Butt-Head believes he is actually crying, so [[MenDontCry he proceeds to mock him for it]]. Even when they become elderly, Butt-Head is still heckling him over it.

* OnionTears: In "Crying", a post-[[{{Uncancelled}} uncancellation]] episode, Beavis tears up after biting into an onion; while his reaction is along the lines of what would naturally happen, Butt-Head proceeds to ''never'' let him forget this... [[spoiler:even ''80 years later'' when they are old and decrepit in a nursing home]].

* RealMenWearPink: Utterly averted in "Crying" where Butt-head constantly [[MenDontCry mocks Beavis for crying]] while watching ''Series/TheBachelor'' (the result of finding an onion in his chili dog while watching the show).

* HiddenDepths: Surprisingly enough, the 2022 episode “Bone Hunters” suggests there is some potential in them. In their comical misunderstanding of paleontology, the eponymous pair gather up a bunch of meat bones from the garbage and build a dinosaur sculpture twice their size out of it, a display which genuinely attracts the interest of hipsters willing to pay to see it… which lasts as long as one would expect once they start fighting over the tiny pile of money they’d earned. Knowing Beavis and Butthead, even they probably don’t realize what they pulled off there.

On June 2, 2022, a new movie was announced for Paramount+ called ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoTheUniverse'', putting the idiotic duo through a strange sci-fi adventure for the ages and serve as the launch of the new series.

The most common targets of the boys' antics were their elderly neighbor Tom Anderson (who was basically an older, more senile prototype of [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]]), their geeky school classmate Stewart Stevenson, and most of the faculty of their high school. The character who took the worst abuse was Principal [=McVicker=], who was driven to drink, medication, and in the finale, a seemingly fatal heart attack. The dimwitted duo were, in turn, {{foil}}ed by the [[TheSnarkKnight sarcastic]] WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} Morgendorffer, who occasionally tricked them into publicly embarrassing themselves, and local hot-rodder/gangleader Todd Ianuzzi, whom they admired (similar to how Stewart views them) but who invariably ended up maiming them.

* OutOfFocus: In the 2022 series, only Van Driessen and Tom (and Marcy) Anderson out of all the original supporting characters have been making appearances. However, [[spoiler:a grown Stewart shows up in a alternate timeline.]] (Daria Morgendorffer had become affiliated with an entierly different universe of characters by this point; her non-availblity is tied to a Jodie movie that is in development at Comedy Central.)

* OutOfFocus: In the 2022 series, only Van Driessen and Tom (and Marcy) Anderson out of all the original supporting characters have been making appearances. However, [[spoiler:a grown Stewart shows up in a alternate timeline.]]

* OutOfFocus: In the 2022 series, only Vandressien and Tom Anderson out of all the supporting characters have been making appearances. However, [[spoiler:a grown Stewart shows up in a alternate timeline.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Beavis and Butt-Head are both this to Todd, regardless of how much of a violent {{Jerkass}} he is to them.

On June 2, 2022, a new movie was announced for Paramount+ called ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoTheUniverse'', putting the idiotic duo through a strange sci-fi adventure for the ages.

* FreakyFridayFlip: Parodied in the episode "Freaky Friday." Beavis and Butt-Head get beat up in a convenience store and when they come to on opposite sides of a glass freezer door, they assume the sight of each other in it are their reflections and assume they've switched bodies. They then spend the rest of the episode wearing the other guy's clothes and trying to act how they think the other behaves. When they get into a fight, rather than beat each other up, they instead inflict violence on ''themselves'' since that would involve wrecking the other's body.