History YMMV / BeavisandButthead

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Now has [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/BeavisAndButtHead its own page]].

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oLFKAwMGWo 2005 MTV Video Music Awards]], in which the boys pop up from time to time, urging viewers to put them back on the air by voting for them in the MTV Viewer's Choice Award (not realizing they're not a voting option). Their first revival show would show up within six years.
** [[http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/2257/CornholioMovie.jpg This poster]] released several years ago (as part of ''Huh Huh for Hollywood'') was more or less realized with "Holy Cornholio", the fourth revival episode.
** The scene where the duo [[NauseaFuel fry a mouse]] in ''Burger World'' is this in light of the scandal at KFC with a piece that resembled a fried rat.
** While watching the video for "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Slash's Snakepit, Beavis and Butt-Head see Eric Dover (of Music/{{Jellyfish}}) and immediately ponder "what happened to Axl," thinking it's a Music/GunsNRoses video. As it would turn out, the situation with the real Guns N' Roses would become [[IAmTheBand quite the]] [[RevolvingDoorBand opposite]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IB8nZtUQH4 Beavis was twerking]] long before Creator/MileyCyrus made it cool.
** "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy BUTT SCRATCHER!]]"
** Two nerds in "Patsies" debating what would be better: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Making Data human or giving Geordi sight]]. Geordi would gain sight via cybernetics in the [=TNG=] movies.
** Apparently, Beavis and Butt-Head joined the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SF5Yiz3qTQ Me Too movement]] before it even existed.
** In "No Laughing", Buzzcut, who's teaching sex ed that week at Beavis and Butt-Head's school, gets in Beavis and Butt-Head's faces and screams the names of various reproductive parts and topics related to sex. In the second episode of Judge's [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill next show]], Peggy is hired to teach sex ed and struggles to so much as mumble those words in private, let alone scream them.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erIQhwr2bOY their critique]] for Music/{{Korn}}'s "Blind," Beavis has an incredibly unhinged moment where he makes himself dizzy and starts giving this ''incredibly'' articulate (for him, anyway) review of Korn's music, unfavorably comparing it to other bands from the time like Music/SuicidalTendencies and Music/WhiteZombie. It's strange to think that Korn were ''ever'' seen as derivative, since history has firmly solidified them as one of, if not the, pioneers of NuMetal, for better or for worse.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The last montage of the final (at the time) episode clip show had a compliation of the two wreaking havoc set to "[[Theatre/PeerGynt In the Hall of the Mountain King]]" with Beavis and Butt-Head's vocal air-guitar riff dubbed over it.

** The White Zombie [[ArtShift video]] in TheMovie, triggered by a Peyote-induced MushroomSamba.
*** [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Beavis even expresses awe in how it's like a music video]].

* GrowingTheBeard: In early episodes, the duo didn't go through the range of jokes as later seasons, and most of the time they were just playing pranks or causing all around mischief. When the show started to get popular (and when MTV got scared that kids may be imitating the duo's destructive behavior), their personalities changed into the way most people recognize them now by. Of course, this made everything a hell of a lot funnier.
** Which is funny, because their earlier music video reviews were very little except jabs or praise for the band/artist. Their later reviews had a more intellectual insight, implying that the characters are savants.

** Beavis and Butt-Head themselves. They are both insensitive and disrespectful to everyone, yet are nevertheless amusing.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Due to the duo's famous music video commentary, the show has been considered one for ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' (in those segments only, the show itself is completely different).
** Subverted and subverted big time with spin-off ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' and Judge's follow-up project ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', both of which ran screaming away from ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' tonewise.

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets:
** Like its sister show, ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', people in the military are rarely depicted in a positive light. Buzzcut is a violent, abusive sociopath. Tom Anderson is a loser. A {{revival}} episode had a military officer bluntly say they accept dropouts and delinquents and were too incompetent to notice the titular characters sneaking into a restricted area and piloting a drone.
** Police officers in this show tend to either be very incompetent or very trigger happy with no in-between.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Principal [=McVicker=]. The viewers are supposed to feel sorry for him because of all the stress Beavis & Butt-head's antics cause him. However, his sympathy goes out the window when it's been implied that he's perfectly aware Buzzcut abuses his students and turns a blind eye, uses underhanded tactics in order to get rid of the duo, and has shown to be just as childish as they are like in ''Wet Behind The Rears.''

* TheWoobie:
** Beavis during his "We're never gonna score" speech in TheMovie -- even though it's PlayedForLaughs.
*** You may remember a speech similar to that from "Teen Talk".
*** Not to mention, the music video segment of "Drones", in which he describes his experience of getting molested by a school counselor... [[TearJerker Poor Beavis...]]
** Stewart. Genuinely thinking Beavis and Butt-Head are his friends, he keeps trusting and forgiving them and worrying about their safety no matter how many times they screw him over. Not to mention his overprotective parents trying to pin the blame on him to save his own skin more than once.

* HollywoodPudgy: Daria was [[http://www.dariawiki.org/wiki/images/6/63/Daria_WaterSafety2.jpg shorter and slightly chubbier in this series]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Stewart in the revival is voiced by Creator/ThomasMiddleditch.

** The reboot itself fell into this. With the duo mocking pop culture hits of the early 2010's like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''Series/JerseyShore''.

* IdiosyncraticShipNaming: Some fans who support Beavis/Butt-Head simply refer to it as "Buttshipping" rather than just going for [[PortmanteauCoupleName "Buttvis".]]
* IdiotPlot: Pretty much every episode has the two main characters doing something incredibly stupid or causing mischief. It's PlayedForLaughs, though.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: While the inevitable switch from the duo riffing on music videos to riffing on reality shows was by no means hated, most would agree that watching two losers take the piss out of famous musicians was more fun than watching two losers take the piss out of ''even bigger losers''.
** Likewise, in the second revival, they take on even bigger losers like YouTubers and [=TikTokers=].

** Likewise, in the second revival, they take on [[UpToEleven even bigger losers]] like YouTubers and [=TikTokers=].

* UncannyValley: The faces look weird and realistic. This may have been intentional, though.

** The biggest EnsembleDarkhorse of the show is Beavis's alter-ego, The Great Cornholio. He only appeared in a few episodes and TheMovie, but he is one of the most notable characters in the entire show.

** Coach Buzzcut has become one in recent years, because of the sex-ed week scene from "No Laughing", which has become a meme.

* HilariousInHindsight: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oLFKAwMGWo 2005 MTV Video Music Awards]], in which the boys pop up from time to time, urging viewers to put them back on the air by voting for them in the MTV Viewer's Choice Award (not realizing they're not a voting option).

** The show's depiction of slacker culture and metalhead teenagers plants it firmly in the mid-90's. While the reboot tried hard to modernize the duo, even retconning a few of their initial traits for this purpose[[note]]In the 1993-97 series, video games are depicted as a "nerd" hobby Stewart is into. While, in the reboot, both Beavis and Butt-Head are fans of games like ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''[[/note]], it still couldn't escape the show's blatant "grunge era" roots. Though, to be fair, the reboot was very clearly made for people who were fans the series in its heyday, rather than potential newcomers.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: A handful of fans, including some high-profile entertainers like Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, have argued that the show is actually in ''favor'' of MoralGuardian beliefs, saying that duo's sociopathic antics aren't merely KafkaComedy but a semi-genuine commentary of how poorly the youth of America turns out in a society that won't give them a proper education.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: A handful of fans, including some high-profile entertainers like Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone, have argued that the show is is actually in ''favor'' of MoralGuardian beliefs, saying that duo's sociopathic antics aren't merely KafkaComedy but a semi-genuine commentary of how poorly the youth of America turns out in a society that won't give them a proper education.

** Likewise, in the second revival, they take on [[UpToEleven even bigger losers]] like YouTubers and TikTokers.

** In the second revival, they will be watching [=YouTube=] and [=TikTok=] videos too. Yes, ''[=TikTok=]''. Beavis even shows a liking for Music/{{BTS}}.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: While the inevitable switch from the duo riffing on music videos to riffing on reality shows was by no means hated, most would agree that two losers take the piss out of famous musicians was more fun than watching two losers take the piss out of ''even bigger losers''.
** In the second revival, they will be watching [=YouTubes=] and [=TikToks=] too. Yes, ''[=TikTok=]''. Beavis even shows a liking for BTS.

** In the second revival, they will be watching [=YouTubes=] and [=TikToks=] too. Yes, ''[=TikTok=]''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Due to the video mocking, the show has been considered one for ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

** Also, this may be like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
** Also ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' since, before Cartman, the duo's voices and laughing were what teenagers loved imitating.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: SugarWiki/{{No|ProblemWithLicensedGames}}tably {{averted|Trope}} with ''Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity'', a really excellent [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] adventure.

** In the second revival, they will be watching YouTubes and TikToks too. Yes, ''TikTok''.