History WesternAnimation / BeavisAndButthead

-->'''Beavis:''' Well... he does have boobs.

* AdultsAreUseless: The titular characters are left unattended at home, and the adults are either irresponsible, ignorant, or helpless when it comes to managing them.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Beavis and Butt-Head are extremely misogynistic, homophobic and racist.

* PrecisionFStrike: The show in general doesn't have the characters say anything that would necessitate a SoundEffectBleep, but in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATFzZilzOyU 2005 MTV Video Music Awards]], Beavis lets loose a ClusterBleepBomb as he kicks a chair when he realises that he and Butt-Head are not in the voting for the Viewer's Choice Awards.

* SadistTeacher: Buzzcut, although he is still very protective of his students, even the ones who cause him the most misery such as Beavis and Butt-Head because according to him, [[HypocriticalHumor only ''he'' administers the ass-kicking to his students]].

** The Music/{{ACDC}} and Music/{{Metallica}} shirts they always wear (in the original broadcast run, anyway... on home media they are replaced by other names - "Skull" and "Death Rock", respectively).

* AdultsAreUseless: The titular characters are left unattended at home, and the adults are either irresponsible, ignorant, or helpless when it comes to dealing with them.

* AdultsAreUseless: The titular characters are left unattended at home, and the majority of the adults they come across are either irresponsible or ignorant about how to deal with them.

Eventually, Judge's persistence (and the end of ''Silicon Valley'') paid off. On July 1, 2020, the boys were again UnCanceled; [[Creator/ParamountGlobal [=ViacomCBS=]]] announced that the series would get two new seasons in which the dull-witted duo would face "a whole new Gen Z world", with plans for additional [[SpinOff Spin-Off]]s and specials. The re-launch was originally intended to premiere on Creator/ComedyCentral, but it ultimately debuted on Creator/ParamountPlus along with older remastered episodes, with the duo making a few appearances in the MegaCrossover ad campaign for that service's initial relaunch alongside various other characters and personalities.

* StatusQuoIsGod: No matter what the characters go through, they will always be back to 100% by the next show.

* [[EpicFail/BeavisAndButtHead EpicFail]]

A [[TheNineties mid-90s]] animated cartoon on Creator/{{MTV}} by Creator/MikeJudge, who would go on to make ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', ''Film/OfficeSpace'', ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodeFamily'' and ''Series/SiliconValley''. Its stated purpose was to [[StealthParody skewer the then-public stereotype]] of their viewing audience as [[ThisLoserIsYou lazy, unintelligent teenage slackers who did nothing but watch videos all day and were easily amused by bodily functions and dirty jokes.]]

'''Statler:''' Hey, that’s what WE do!\\
'''Waldorf:''' At least, we have a life!\\

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In the 90s series, there was a chubby brunette student with glasses named Dean Zunker who would sometimes make casual, friendly conversation with the pair. In the 2022 revival, there's a chubby black student who's as-of-yet unnamed but fills in that similar niche where he occasionally stops to talk to Beavis and Butt-head casually, with the only difference being that the unnamed new student is far more condescending to them and clearly looks down on the two.

** Beavis in the case of an ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' pastiche, in which Beavis evidently turns out to be reasonably normal without Butt-Head's presence. (He finds Butt-Head's description of the real-world Beavis hilarious though.)
--->'''Beavis:''' What's a bunghole?\\
'''Butt-Head:''' [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment You're a bunghole, bunghole]]!
** There's even one episode where they ''forget how to pee''. It's called "[[SpoilerTitle Trouble Urinating]]".
** In a wood shop class, Beavis cut his finger off with a table saw. It wasn't by accident when he and Butt-Head decided to slice up random things from around the classroom with the saw, it was because ''he just felt like touching the saw''. And when it reattached, he picks his nose with it ''and it falls off again''.
** In "Pipe of Doom", Butt-head [[HelpImStuck gets stuck]] after crawling inside a construction pipe. After taking the entire episode to get him unstuck (eventually having to resort to a rescue crew), Beavis ''goes and gets himself stuck in the same pipe''.
** In one of the revival episodes, Beavis tries to [[CheekCopy photocopy his butt]], only to break the screen and get stuck. [[spoiler:After eventually being freed, Butt-Head suggests he photocopy his butt so they can see the damage done. Beavis immediately does and it gets stuck again.]]
** If they weren't MadeOfIron, they ''would'' be dead.

-->'''Beavis''': "She's not a whore, she's a slut; she doesn't charge for it."

* VerbalTic: Schoolteacher Mr. Van Driessen puts "mmkay" at the end of a lot of his sentences.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never do find out what happened to Mr. Van Driessen in TheMovie after he's arrested.
** He must have resolved the situation somehow, as he appears in later episodes.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: The title characters of Beavis and Butt-Head. The latter often hits, insults, neglects and is downright abusive towards the former. Whenever Beavis is getting beaten up or is in a life-threatening predicament, Butt-Head never cares about what's going on with him in the slightest with his amoral nature, making it very ambiguous as to why those two are friends in the first place aside from having some shared interests in music, food, and women. One episode even shows that if Butt-Head wasn't in his life, Beavis would have been a still dimwitted, but much friendlier person.

* WorldOfJerkass: With some exceptions (such as Stewart, Mr. Van Driessen, Tom Anderson, and Cassandra), every single character is either unpleasant, insane, or both. Beavis and Butt-Head themselves often cause mayhem with their outlandish behavior and don't give a damn as long as they're engaged in anything interesting.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The 1993 album ''The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience'' has them on the cover with Beavis wearing a "DEATH ROCK" shirt and Butt-Head wearing an "MTV" shirt, instead of their usual Music/{{ACDC}} and Music/{{Metallica}} shirts. Neither band appears on the album. Butt-Head wears a "SKULL" shirt in a picture in the liner notes.

* {{Yandere}}: Glennis from the "Weird Girl" episode. She develops a crush on Beavis, but when he doesn't appear to return her feelings (because he's too stupid to even realize she has them in the first place), but expresses his exuberant love for fire, she burns down the Honors' trailer seemingly in an attempt to get his attention.

* WorldOfJerkass: With some exceptions (such as Stewart, Mr. Van Driessen, Tom Anderson, and Cassandra), every single character is either unpleasant, insane, or both. The primary example is the titular protagonists who cause mayhem with their outlandish behavior and don't give a damn as long as they're engaged in anything interesting.

* WorldOfJerkass: With some exceptions (such as Stewart, Mr. Van Driessen, Tom Anderson, and Cassandra), every single character is either unpleasant, insane, or both. The titular characters are the primary example; they wreak havoc with their outrageous behavior and couldn't care less about it as long as they have something that catches their interest.

* WoundedGazelleWarCry: Again, played for laughs, but in "Whiplash". Butt-Head tries to get run over by a bus in order to sue the bus driver for a ton of money. Of course, it fails, and in fact, it ends up getting both him AND Beavis injured.

* AdultsAreUseless: The titular characters remain unsupervised at home, with most of the authority figures they come across being either irresponsible or ignorant when it comes to dealing with them.

* AdultsAreUseless: The titular characters remain unsupervised at home, with most of the authority figures they come across either being irresponsible in dealing with their antics or misinterpreting their attempts to "score" as them following a specific movement.

* AdultsAreUseless: The titular duo remain unsupervised at home, with the authority figures they come across being ignorant buffoons who [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter entrust them]] with completing a specific task for them, [[EpicFail with predictable results]].

*** This also arguably applies to the revival episode, "Doomsday", where the duo believe the world has ended. Beavis notes one of the perks is that no one will tell him, "Oh, no, don't burn that!"

** Inverted in "A Very Special Episode." When Butt-Head fills out the veterinary form, he mistakes the word "symptoms" as "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]" to which he says that they're pretty cool.

* ConformingOOCMoment: At the end of an episode called "No Laughing", the students all laugh when the teacher announces that they'll be learning about private parts and [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]] during sex ed week, including Daria, who's notorious for being a solemn DeadpanSnarker who hates that kind of humour.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The horrible fate of Mr. Anderson's tool shed. And his trailer.
** Much of the show's humor revolves around this, including a Funny Moment in TheMovie when [[ButtMonkey Tom Anderson]] quite literally catches Beavis (in Cornholio mode) with his pants down in his camper.
** Also, the Jackyl song "Mental Masturbation" on the 1993 compilation album ''The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience.''
** In "Sign Here", when Van Driessen asks the class to go door-to-door to get signatures for a petition to keep Furriers out of town, Beavis and Butt-Head return with a petition signed by Hugh G. Rection (spelled Hugh G. Rection), Ben Dover (spelled with a backwards e in Dover), Betty Humpter (also backwards e in Humpter), and Rosie Palm and her ''five'' sisters.
-->'''Van Driessen:''' "Beavis and Butt-Head! Couldn't you boys get each sister to sign individually?"
** The duo apparently even teach Japanese foreign exchange student Hiro how to masturbate in "Foreign Exchange."

** In TheMovie, there is a lever labeled "Master Station Control". The boys mistake "Master Station" for [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]], leading them to [[DoubleEntendre pull the lever]].

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In the episode "Drones", not only does the military bluntly admit they accept dropouts and delinquents, but they were too incompetent to notice the duo sneaking into a restricted area and piloting a drone.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In "Drones", not only does the military accept 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.