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Coach Buzzcut trained with the Shaolin monks while stationed in China in his Marine days

This is how Buzzcut gained the ability to withstand kicks to the crotch with little more than a red face and a "Yeeeee-es!" Not actually being a full-fledged Shaolin monk in the long-term, he never got quite as good as the ones who can take a kick to the balls with no change of expression, but he practiced with them long enough to get pretty damned close.

Highland is Hell. All the characters are already dead when the series starts

There are no likable or positive characters in Highland. Characters in Beavis and Butt-Head never age. In addition, several characters have clearly died in episodes, only to return immediately afterwards. Highland is Hell, and everyone is condemned to spend eternity with each other there, as in "Hell is other people". People can "die"(feel the physical pain), but will ultimately be unaffected.

Beavis and Butt-Head do not exist in the Daria's universe spin-off

A very plausible theory, as it is very curious that, throughout in the spin-off show Daria, Daria never mentioned the duo. Interestingly, Quinn never appeared on Beavis and Butt-Head either. But what really makes it even more plausible theory is that Daria actually had some plot progression and the show even ended with Daria and her friends splitting up and going off to college. Meanwhile, Beavis and Butt-Head have been in the same grade with the same teacher and classmates for well over 15 years at this point.

• They do flirt with a red haired middle schooler in "Held Back" who tells Butt-Head "Leave me alone, you loser!" I always liked to imagine that maybe this was Quinn.

Revival Beavis & Butt-Head are the children of 90's Beavis and Butt-Head

Beavis and Butt-Head, immediately after "Beavis and Butt-Head are dead", get jobs as roadies with GWAR. Oderus Urugus, frontman, assumed that they were just acting in character as ultimate slaves and loved them because they, like he, never breaks character (see his Twitter). As roadies, they use their power to finally score with Lolita and Tanqueray. They are too dumb to use protection, or even know what they've done, so the mothers raise the kids alone, who are also named Beavis and Butt-Head. Abandoned, they find their way back to the old house that wouldn't be locked, and everything would be as it was when Beavis and Butt-Head left to go on the road. As they are teenagers, the duo's clothes fit just fine, explaining the similar outfits.

• The one problem with this is that in Drones they know who Daria is.
  • Stewart and his parents are in the revival as well, thus the Stewart we see isn't an offspring.
    • It's best left to consider that time does not equal age. That way the boys (even Stewart) are Not Allowed to Grow Up.

Cornholio is a supernatural entity that possesses Beavis and is tasked with protecting humanity from plagues.

In his first appearance, he gives prophecies of "a great plague". Later, in The Movie, his actions derail the arms dealer's bioweapon related plot.

• And Cornholio is some kind of Eldritch Abomination as well, since he can paradoxically be from a people who are "without bungholes," and yet constantly refer to same. Or, the entity itself has no bunghole, but Beavis does. Thus, he needs TP for his bunghole, yet where he comes from, they have no bunghole. I can't believe I just typed that without humorous intent.
  • Are you sure Cornholio's not just referring to imperforate anus being a common birth defect around Lake Titicaca, and either he was fixed or he never had it?
• In the episode "Holy Cornholio," a cult believes that Cornholio is their messiah, and Butt-Head is a prophet. In the episode "Werewolves of Highland," Beavis and Butt-Head's actions lead to a disease-ridden serial biter (and implied rapist) going to jail. Unintentionally, their actions might have saved the lives of many people and prevented a mass outbreak of disease.

Beavis's last name is Tenma.

Not only does he look similar to Astroboy's father, they're both quite mentally unstable.

• Jossed as of Beavis And Butthead Do The Universe, in which it's revealed that "Beavis" IS his last name.

Tom Anderson is somehow related to Cotton Hill.

He sounds like Hank, looks like an older version of him, but fought in a foreign war from the mid 20th century. It's possible he's a half brother of Cotton's or possibly a cousin. He could be an Uncle on Hank's mother's side as well.

Either Beavis or Butt-Head's last name is Sherman

When Principal McVicker is reprimanding Beavis and Butt-Head in the episode "No Laughing," he clearly says, "Mr. Sherman, your history teacher was unable to teach your class about the Gay Nineties because of you two." It is unclear which of the two boys he was talking to.

• I think they were just laughing at his class every time he said "Gay Nineties".
  • McVicker probably meant that Mr. Sherman is the name of the history teacher.
  • Are you sure it wasn't more like "Mr. Sherman, your history teacher, was unable to...", Unless something happened offscreen, he would have no reason to single one or the other out.
• Sherman [1] you say?

Beavis and Butt-Head is King of the Hill in the future.

Tom Anderson looks and sounds like an older Hank Hill, his wife looks an older Peggy, and when the boys go on Teen Talk, a man there looks like an adult Bobby Hill.

• This troper once thought the same thing.
  • This theory doesn't explain why the Hill family changed their names. Also, Hank is a lot smarter than Tom Anderson, and he'd never tolerate the duo's antics.
    • Tom Anderson mentions being a Japanese prisoner of war in the episode with the Asian exchange student, much like Hank Hill's father. He is clearly a generation older than Hank.
    • Another Tom ANdErsOn in some movie is unrelated, right?
  • Hank would NEVER say "whackin' off".

Mike Judge salvages characters from Beavis & Butt-Head to create future shows.

Tom Anderson was used to make King of the Hill, and Van Driessen was used for The Goode Family. And eventually, there will be Mike Judge's take on the school system with a Principal McVicker Expy.

• We might see the reverse of this in the Beavis and Butt-Head revival. Characters from those other series materializing in Beavis and Butt-Head.
  • Crossover, maybe?
    • I'm excited to see what a show starring a Coach Buzzcut Expy will be like.
• If copyright law allows it, Mike Judge could make a show about Ms. Li.

The Revival will feature one episode dealing with the 15 years Beavis And Butthead have been off the air.

Assuming this isn't a complete reboot of the series, the first episode of the revival will attempt to acknowledge the missing years. Most likely the duo will lampshade Negative Continuity.

Beavis: Um... Hey Butt-Head, shouldn't we be old and stuff.

SLAP

Butt-Head: Shut up bunghole.

Butt-Head is possibly why Yui Hirasawa from K-On! is somewhat goofy.

Butt-Head:Hey, baby. Want to, like, get it on?

Yui:*giggles* You said "Get it on"!

The Revival will make jokes about HD TV / analog trun off and how you can't steal cable like how it was done in the past.

Yes Beavis And Butt-Head had cable do you think they where paying for it? In one episode they even said they where locked out of ordering PPV.

The first episode of the revival will be about Daria moving, leading to her spin-off

Or at least get mentioned.

• Butt-Head mentioned to Beavis that she moved away in the episode "Drones" during a music video.

Beavis and Butt-Head are half-brothers.

In The Movie, according to the drifter who looks like Butt-Head, he scored with "two chicks" and the one who looks like Beavis didn't score. The drifters themselves might be brothers which would explain the Uncanny Family Resemblance.

• Jossed. Word of God says he was just ripping on the other drifter because - also Word of God - he (Beavis-like drifter) had one and a half testicles.

Beavis and Butt-Head are cousins.

Our heroes actually look a lot alike and share a number of physical mannerisms, most notably their laughter. This troper personally thinks that the claims by the drifter who looks like Butt-Head that the drifter who looked like Beavis didn't score can probably be put down to the same kind of banter their sons share. Like the previous theory notes, their fathers are brothers. Although only Mike Judge would be able to say for sure, it wouldn't surprise this troper if the duo's mothers were also sisters, since it's implied that Butt-Head's mother is a slut just like Beavis's. Certainly it would explain why Beavis or Butt-Head's mother doesn't seem to mind the other kid always hanging out at her house, since he's her nephew.

• Some of the tie-in books implied they had the same father, making them half-brothers (Jossed by the movie). The same books showed a family tree for the two resembling particularly thick kudzu.
  • That wasn't so much a family tree as an exceptionally inbred family web. Explains a lot, doesn't it?
  • Word of God is that the other drifter is, in fact, Beavis's father. The other drifter was just ripping on him for only having one and a half testicle.

"Peace, Love, and Understanding" is the final episode chronologically.

Because Mr. Van Driessen dies by getting run over by a monster truck. That's not Negative Continuity, he really did die. Shortly after, Beavis and Butt-Head, along with the rest of the stadium, suffocated to death in Sterculius's feces. That's an ironic death if I ever did see one...

Beavis will get to say "fire" after the reboot.

Surely enough time has passed to let him say it again.

• They might bring back a lot of things that were prevalent in the early episodes, like Billy Bob and Butt-Head's obsession with butts.
  • Mike Judge has confirmed he will be able to say it again.

One of the name mispronunciations in the reboot will be "Bieber and Buffcoat" or something to that effect

You know it will happen.

• Beavis will not like that one bit.

The reboot will lampshade MTV's Network Decay

At some point, when watching music videos, Beavis will say something to the effect of "Hey, a music video! Do they even have these on this channel any more?". In-universe, he'd just be referring to the channel they're watching, but...

Beavis and Butt-Head have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

This is why they're mentally slow and have over large heads and deformed facial features. Their mothers weren't just sluts, they were drunken sluts.

• In the early seasons, a lot of characters had varied designs. But Beavis and Butt-Head kept theirs while the entire series was redesigned to be more "realistic".

Principle McVicker is related to Mr. DeMartino

They're both so over-stressed, that it wouldn't surprise this Troper.

Beavis and Butt-Head are Obfuscating Stupidity

They've shown some signs of moderate intelligence, which shows that they're not completely stupid.

• Butt-Head, at least.
  • And both are shown to be fairly competent snarkers while watching TV.
  • They also appear slightly smarter in the early season.
  • In the revival the jokes they make are slightly smarter and Beavis is more of the Deadpan Snarker than he was in the original

Beavis and Butt-Head are Time Lords.

• Their couch is their Tardis, and Coach Buzzcut is the Master.

Beavis and Butt-Head are the owners of Ren and Stimpy

• Hey, MTV and Nickelodeon are from the same company. It makes sense- who else would be their guardian?

Mr. Manners/Candy will return with another new name and job.

And he'll be beaten up by McVicker (if the latter turned out to have survived the Series Fauxnale, that is).

• And Mr. Manners/Candy ends up jobless and homeless. He's standing at a breadline, along with Gus Baker and Joe Adler.
  • Mike Judge has confirmed McVicker survived his heart attack.

Beavis and Butt-Head would laugh at the word "rape."

• The duo are extremely misogynistic and they laugh at anything related to sex, so why wouldn't they laugh at rape? I can just imagine Ms. Dickie lecturing on how to avoid sexual assault and Beavis and Butt-Head drowning her out in laughter.
  • The episode might be about them screaming "RAPE!".
  • So, rape is something that can only happen to women?
  • They're both dumb enough and misogynistic enough to think that.

Beavis's real father is John Redcorn

• Joseph Gribble has several of the same tendencies as Beavis, including an obsession with fire (several times in the series he's talked about blowing stuff up or burning stuff). Its not out of the question for John to have made love to several women, including Beavis's mother.
  • Word of God is that the skinny, Beavis-like drifter in the desert really is his father. The other one was just ripping on him for having only one and a half testicles.

Coach Bradley Buzzcut is Native American

• Buzzcut has a significantly darker complexion than the rest of the characters. His surname might well be a Native American one as well.
  • Plus, in the real world, Native Americans serve in the U.S. military at a higher proportion than any other ethnic group.
  • Perhaps Navajo?

One day, Beavis and Butt-Head will be watching MTV...

An obscure, indie rock band will be covered. One of them will remark "Mystik Spiral? They should think about changing their name."

Beavis and Butt-Head are demons.

They could be demons because they're both are sadistic at times. They both like seeing things get tortured or killed with no fear. They like fire. They never feel bad when they do something wrong. They never die or get injured. We never see the people who care for them and in "Frog Baseball" if you look at their faces when they shout "Frog Baseball!" They look more demonic then usual. And in the episode where they visit prison they befriended well with the prisoners unlike a lot of people who usually get scared out of their minds so maybe they're demons.

There'd be an episode where they (try to) hire Joe Adler.

Butt-Head is Ricky

Chaotic Stupid with brown pompadour? Sounds like him to me.

Stewart becomes a 14-year old father following the events of "Holy Cornholio."

"The Great Conception" leaves Stewart with a child by one of the cult members.

Earl killed himself.

Earl is not seen at all during the 2011 season, and Beavis and Butt-Head mention that an unnamed male classmate killed himself. Earl is known to own a gun, so it is possible he killed himself with it.

B&B aren't human.

In "A Very Special Episode," Butt-head tells the veterinarian's receptionist that Beavis isn't human. Mike Judge even says that B&B aren't human during the old viewer discretion warning.

Beavis is stronger than Butt-Head.

In "Babes R Us", Beavis is able to body slam Butthead. While both are likely the same weight, it's still a pretty impressive feat of strength.

Beavis and Butt-Head weren't always so stupid

Otherwise, how did they make it to the 9th grade? It's dark to think about, but perhaps something happened to them that severely affected their brains.

• "Social Promotion", and/or teachers passing them anyway because they don't want to have them in their class for another year.

The Maxi-Mart Owner is an alien (and the same species as Exeter).

In the B&B-verse, George W. Bush never became President and after Bill Clinton, the country jumped straight to Barack Obama much earlier than in 2008.

It might be the only way we can account for the huge time discrepancy between the original series where Clinton was President and the 2011 season where Obama was President and notably the duo, Stewart, and all their teachers have barely aged. Plus, some movies like Twilight were released a lot earlier than in 2008. And during the revival, while the No Child Left Behind Act, which was signed into law by George W. Bush in real life, got mentioned by McVicker, we can just assume for simplicity's sake that it was passed under the show's Obama as well.

• Jossed as of the 2022 revival where the 2011 revival is de-canonized. Beavis and Butt-head leave the country as of 1998, enter into a black hole, and come back in 2022. So in all that lost time, they didn't even have to live through the Bush or Obama years (or the Trump term for that matter).

Beavis and Butt-Head aren’t sexist.

They are so stupid that they might not realise how sexist they really come across. There’s also their complete lack of social skills.

Beavis and Butt-Head are more related than we think.

Their fathers are non-identical twins who share identical DNA, explaining the DNA match to two possible individuals in the movie.

Beavis and Butt-Head are descended from royalty.

Beavis sports the famous Hapsburg jaw, while Butt-Head's overbite may suggest a lineage to King Tut. Cornholio may be a result of the insanity bred into Beavis's bloodline after centuries of royal incest.

Beavis and Butt-Head used to be on good terms.

Do America shows us that Beavis and Butt-Head have known each other since they were infants and continue to hang out together as teenagers. Surely, out of all that time, they must’ve got along at some point.

Stewart is younger than Beavis and Butt-Head

It makes sense to me, the voice actor for Stewart was about 12 when he first started, he's shorter than the duo. He is shown to be in high school with Beavis and Butt-Head, and they're freshmen, but Cyber-Butt shown that Stewart is good with computers, he very well could have skipped a grade or two. That being said, he's obviously still incredibly naive, and probably hangs around the duo because they're his neighbors, and the closest he'd consider as friends (as sadly he'd have trouble fitting in with his classmates due to him being younger and sheltered). It should also be noted he isn't always in the same classes as Beavis and Butt-Head.

The supporting cast in the second revival

With the new revival doing away with the Comic-Book Time like the 2011 revival, here are my theories on what happened to the characters over the years:

• Principal McVicker: If he's not dead, then he probably retired.
• Mr. Van Driesen: He was promoted to principal of Highland High after McVicker's retirement. With his new position, he's a lot less lenient towards the duo.
• Mr. Buzzcut: Van Driesen finds about his history of abuse and fires him.
• Mr. Anderson: He would very likely be dead since as a WWII veteran, he'd be in his late 90s at youngest in the present day. His son or grandson, an Expy of Bobby Hill, now owns his house.
• Todd: During the time skip, he was sent to prison. After he was released, he turned his life around and Took a Level in Kindness. Beavis and Butt-Head would be devastated to find out their idol "turned into a wuss."
• Stewart: After Beavis and Butt-Head's disappearance, his self-esteem improved and became more assertive. He now works as a teacher at Highland High, taking over as the gym teacher after Buzzcut was fired.
  • Jossed, so far. Mr. Van Driesen is still their teacher, Mr. Anderson is still alive, and both are about the same age they've always been.

The brand new series will take place in 2022

It'd be obvious for it to take place within our time and generation, right? The movie kind of seems to show them in 2022

• Confirmed, through and through.

The door is open for Daria to return full time or at least as a minor supporting character again in the new 2022 series

She could possibly return as an author of her own book series and will be shocked to see the duo haven't aged a day. And since B&B are now in 2022, it's been at least 20 plus years since B&B's 90s era concluded and Daria's own series has ended. And since Daria ended her run with Daria: Is It College Yet? and hasn't really gotten anything resembling a revival outside of some articles penned by Glenn Eichler under Daria's persona, she can legitimately show up again because it's safe to say by 2022, Daria's Lawndale years are ancient history to her and the writers won't have to be too worried about the revival contradicting her series anymore.

• Only semi-confirmed for now. Daria does make her return but only as an alternate universe version of herself known as Smart Daria from Smart Beavis and Butt-head's world. It still remains to be seen if Daria Prime will return.

Beavis and Butt-Head are being monitored by the feds

While the government agents that chased them throughout Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe realized they were not aliens, they did find out that the boys survived getting sucked into a black hole and time traveled from 1998 to 2022. Furthermore, they encountered versions of the duo from an alternative universe who are super intelligent (to an extent) with untold knowledge of the space-time continuum. These facts all point to Beavis and Butt-Head being key components to a lot of scientific data not available anywhere else in the world, which would make keeping them alive the best way to glean more research out of them. They weren't just given their old house to buy their silence; the Pentagon is outright observing Beavis and Butt-Head For Science!

Mr. Buzzcut is the principal of Highland High School now

Mike Judge has confirmed Buzzcut will return in season 10, and we have yet to see Principal McVicker in the 2022 revival. During the time skip, McVicker retired and chose Buzzcut to be his successor.

We'll see more of the multiverse

It would be interesting to see what the rest of the Beavis and Butt-Head multiverse is like. Some possibilities include:

• A universe where Beavis and Butt-Head are somewhat dumb, but nice individuals.
• A universe where the X-5 unit was detonated and all that's left of America is a barren wasteland.
• A universe where the main duo are dead and we see how the other characters are getting along.
• A universe where the main duo either started a band or became members of a band they love. Maybe Gwar or Metallica.
• Maybe we'll see what Smart Beavis and Butt-Head's lives are like.
• A universe set in a past time, like medieval times, ancient Greece or the time of cavemen.
  • Or going back even further, the time of the dinosaurs. The episode featuring this universe could even be like a Road Runner cartoon where raptor versions of the duo try to catch prehistoric versions of other characters but fail everytime because of their stupidity.
• A universe where it's still the '90s.
• A universe Beavis and Butt-Head moved to Lawndale instead of Daria.
• A universe where Todd is a Nice Guy, but Stewart is a tough gang leader.
• A universe where Beavis and Butt-Head are normal people called Bobby and Brodrick.
• A universe where everyone likes the duo, but Stewart and Van Driessen hate them.
• Confirmed with some episodes focusing on old versions of the characters from a universe where they never time travelled.

The David Van Driessen we see in the 2022 revival isn't the one we knew in the original series

He's a Van Driessen from another universe who's somehow ended up in this universe. More specifically, he came from a universe where Beavis and Butt-Head never existed or at least he never met them. That's why he looks so well preserved for his age, and more importantly, doesn't seem stunned to see Beavis and Butt-Head are alive and well after having presumably died over 20 years ago, or that they don't appear to have aged at all in that time. As for what happened to the Van Driessen we do know about; he either died, moved away, or retired.

The Andersons somehow also travelled through time

Both Tom and Marcy look exactly the same as they did in the '90s, even though by all rights, they should be close to if not outright in their 100s. It might be because they aged that well...or it might be because they somehow got zapped into the future too. Due to their dementia, neither are fully aware of it and are still operating under the assumption that they are still living in the '90s.

Todd died sometime during the 24 year time skip from 1998 to 2022 and that's why he's subject to Chuck Cunningham Syndrome

He's a violent criminal and probably suffered both Off Screen Karma and Karma Houdini Warranty in all this time, either being killed by a rival gangster or in a violent confrontation with the cops where Todd thought he could get away with either fighting or running from the police. It makes sense for a rough, violent person like Todd to live by the sword and die by the sword after all.

Tom Anderson having to put up with Beavis and Butt-head making his life difficult is his divine Laser-Guided Karma for his wartime incompetence that got people under him killed

As episodes like "Korean Farmhouse" showed, Anderson isn't quite the innocent old man that we saw in the 90s iteration of the show. His intentions may have never been malicious but his wartime Skewed Priorities border if not outright cross into the realm of criminal negligence, with civilians and soldiers dying while he's concentrating on fixing a pipe. And since divine deities have been shown in the series in the form of angels, Jesus Christ, and God, Beavis and Butt-head being in Anderson's life was ultimately decided to be lifelong punishment for Tom Anderson for his irresponsibility.

A reboot episode will reference back to where it all began.

Perhaps the boys could try to play baseball with a frog once again only to get immediately hounded by animals rights activists this time around, or their middle-aged selves could go for another round for old times sake... only for the game to go hilariously wrong when their weakened bodies strain or the frog just can't be thrown far enough anymore.

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