History WesternAnimation / BeavisAndButthead

* CanadaEh: Stewart's mother sounds like she's from up North.
* CannotTellAJoke: Butt-Head.

* ObviouslyFakeSignature: : One episode has the guys wanting to get their ears pierced, only to be told that they need parental permission first. What they come back with are two barely legible pieces of scrap paper in their own writing, with Butt-Head's stating "Just do it, huh-huh" and Beavis' stating "Yeah, yeah".

->''"[[{{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 [[AntiRoleModel 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."''

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: A reverse version of this trope is used in “No Laughing”. The beginning of the episode has the titular duo getting kicked out of their classes by laughing at everything. In their Spanish class, the reason Beavis and Butthead got kicked out wasn’t because they were laughing, it’s because they couldn’t come up with a sentence in Spanish.

* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: This is how the duo can sometimes defeat people who are antagonistic towards them, such as in the "PTA" episode where all they have to do is be present and annoying enough while physically doing nothing to the point [=McVicker=] loses it and gets into a fight one of the parents, while getting Buzzcut in legal trouble simply by casually mentioning how he was abusive to them. They also do the same with Mr. Manners/Candy by just standing there while the salesman physically threatens them. Then they get to happily sit back and watch while Van Driessen or Buzzcut makes the save for them and start fighting/pummeling the motivational speaker.

* TheWoobie: In-Universe, Butt-Head actually approaches this when he buys a Russian mail-order bride, who is repulsed by him, abuses him and has loud sex with Todd in his car outside their window. Beavis obliviously keeps asking why Butt-Head's wife is doing it with Todd, until he angrily cries "Dammit, Beavis, she's not really my wife!" He is cheered up quickly when Beavis concludes that since she's doing it with Todd, and she's Butt-Head's wife, that he and Todd are related.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Beavis and Butt-Head are teenagers, who appear to live on their own, which begs the question on how could no one considered checking on their home life. One even would ask where are their mothers?

* MadeOfIron: Whether it's [[CurbStompBattle being maimed by the bouncer at a mud-wrestling club]], [[EarAche piercing their own ears with a power drill and getting serious infections]], [[BloodyHilarious suffering a major nosebleed]], [[FacialHorror getting their faces slashed with dirty razors when they try to shave]], [[GroinAttack getting hit in the crotch with a bowling ball]], [[UseYourHead crashing head-first into the wall of their house]], or [[DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud getting sucked up into a tornado]] and crash-landing on the ground before [[SquashedFlat being flattened by a phone booth]], Beavis and Butt-Head suffered injuries that should have hospitalized or even killed them many times over. In one episode, the duo attempt to kill themselves with swords... that squash when they press against their bodies.
** Van Driessen is a similar case: He got [[BearsAreBadNews mauled by a bear]], fell down a cliff and was once run over by Beavis in a large car tire... and he's still alive.
*** Apparently, Buzzcut can survive being run into by a steamroller and being in the center of ''a car crash''.

** Van Driessen is a similar case: He got [[BearsAreBadNews mauled by a bear]], fell down a cliff (''twice'') and was once run over by Beavis in a large car tire... and he's still alive.

** [=McVicker=] has this with Beavis and Butt-Head themselves, the mere mention of the duo makes him edge closer to a nervous breakdown.
** Do NOT touch Billy Bob's scooter. It won't be pretty.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: The eponymous duo are selfish, amoral, and perverted, but their antics are rather tame compared to the people they are against, such as Buzzcut, Todd, the psychotic farmer from "Cow Tipping" and the HalloweenSpecial, or the Grimes couple from ''[[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica Do America]]''.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: The duo are selfish, amoral, and perverted, but their antics are rather tame compared to the people they are against, such as Buzzcut, Todd, the psychotic farmer from "Cow Tipping" and the HalloweenSpecial, or the Grimes couple from ''WesternAnimation/DoAmerica''.

* ButtMonkey: Stewart, and by extension, his parents. This show is arguably the trope namer as well, since it's among the many insults the boys traded with each other (although ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is what gave it its definition).

* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', [[{{Expy}} arguably]] ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' (given how Tom Anderson could [[HilariousInHindsight now easily be mistaken as an elderly version of Hank Hill (with Tom Anderson's wife as a ringer for an aged Peggy Hill)]] and ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodeFamily'' (the father sounds like Van Driessen and his son looks like a mix between Stewart and Bobby Hill).

*** This also arguably applies to the 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!"

** Arguably, Beavis and Butt-Head themselves could be considered this InUniverse.

** A weird one. An episode has a monster truck run over a row of port-a-potties. We're then introduced to Straculious, the "Roman god of feces" who proceeds to drop a load of crap on the stadium. Cut to 2005 where Beavis and Butt-Head are hosting the MTV Music Awards. One clip has Butt-Head dressed up as Poseidon, and Beavis clearly dressed up as a sea horse. Despite this, Butt-Head tells him that he's supposed to be Straculious, the "Roman god of feces and manure".

-->'''Beavis:''' (about Butt-Head's mail-order wife) Do you think she'll know how to ''do'' it?
-->'''Butt-Head:''' She better.
-->'''Beavis:''' ''Cool!''

-->'''Judge:''' [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/mike-judge,64071/ I was trying so hard to not have catchphrases. How could “This sucks” be a catchphrase?]]

** During the ''Ghosts 'n' Stuff'" video in "Drones":
-->'''Beavis:''' I know Daria killed herself, I remember that.
-->'''Butt-Head:''' Uh, [[NoLongerWithUs she didn't kill herself]], [[{{Spinoff}} she just]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} moved away]].
-->'''Beavis:''' Oh, really? Wow! That's kinda surprising.

* CurseCutShort: In ''[[TheMovie Do America]]'':
-->'''Pilot:''' Get the hell out of the cockpit!\\

** In "U.S. History", when Van Driessen tells them they will get an F if they don't present their reports.
-->'''Beavis:''' Yeah, heh heh, "F" is cool...F-f-f-f-f-f-f-f--\\

*** It should be noted that due to the controversy, Beavis was most likely on the verge of saying "fire", not the [[{{Precision F strike}} other F word]].

-->'''Butt-Head''': Whoa, that's the most naked I've ever seen a chick on TV.
-->'''Beavis''': Yeah, except for that damn body spray commercial they show every five seconds.
-->'''Butt-Head''': Those black boxes suck.

-->'''Butt-Head''': How come they put those black things on all the girls' thingies?
-->'''Beavis''': Yeah. That sucks! How come they don't show boobs?
-->'''Butt-Head''': Yeah.

** Occurs twice in the opening of "Speech Therapy".
-->'''Beavis:''' Yeah, school sucks.
-->'''[=McVicker=]:''' You watch your mouth! You lil' pain in the ass...
-->''(moments later)''
-->'''Beavis:''' [[ClusterFBomb Yeah! Dammit! Dammit! Goddamn! Son of a bitch!]]
-->'''[=McVicker=]:''' You little bastards! Watch your language!

-->'''Van Driessen:''' Don't you dare lay a finger on my students! Beavis, did he hit you?\\

-->'''Gus Baker:''' Hey, do you use that kind of language at home? ''[Later, after Beavis mooned the audience]'' GET THESE LITTLE BASTARDS OUT OF HERE!\\

-->'''[=McVicker=]:''' What am I going to do with you two? I've tried everything from group counseling to death threats...

-->'''Psychiatrist:''' Mr. [=McVicker=], what are we going to do with you? We've tried everything from group counseling to physical isolation...

* LampshadeHanging:
--> '''Beavis''': So, um, are you gonna change the channel, Butt-Head?
--> '''Butt-Head''': Why bother? All we seem to get on this TV are bad videos.

-->'''Van Driessen:''' Has Beavis been having any problems I should know about?
-->'''Butt-Head:''' He ate like 27 candy bars, and then drank a six-pack of root beer.
-->'''Van Driessen:''' That's odd, I just read about a study that said that sugar isn't supposed to cause hyperactivity.

-->'''Beavis[=/=]Cornholio:''' I NEED MORE [=CRAPPUCINO=] FOR MY BUNGHOLE!

-->'''Beavis:''' You know, I'd really like to go to England. You want to know why, Butt-Head?
-->'''Butt-Head:''' Uh, okay.
-->'''Beavis:''' Because, I think that, like, since you know how everybody's a wussy over there, you know I could just go around and kick everybody's ass. And then I could probably get some chicks.

-->'''Lady:''' ''Oh, hello, there. Are you two heading for Las Vegas?''
-->'''Beavis:''' ''Yeah. Heh heh. We're gonna score! Heh heh. ''
-->'''Lady:''' ''Oh, well, I hope to score big there, myself. I'm mostly gonna be doing the slots. ''
-->'''Beavis:''' ''Yeah, yeah! Heh heh. I'm hoping to do some sluts, too. Do they have a lot of sluts in Las Vegas? ''
-->'''Lady:''' ''Oh, there are so many slots, you won't know where to begin. ''
-->'''Beavis:''' ''Whoa! Heh heh heh.''

-->(in the video) '''SALT''': "Ooh, girls, look at him. He is the cutest brother in here."
-->'''BUTT-HEAD''': "He's the only brother in there."

-->'''Butt-Head:''' Dammit, the porn's all blurry!

-->'''Beavis''': "Yeah, but I didn't ask for blood in it. [[HypocriticalHumor That was beyond the limits of good taste]]."

* TheLastofTheseIsNotLiketheOthers: A reverse version of this trope is used in “No Laughing”. The beginning of the episode has the titular duo getting kicked out of their classes by laughing at everything. In their Spanish class, the reason Beavis and Butthead got kicked out wasn’t because they were laughing, it’s because they couldn’t come up with a sentence in Spanish.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Ross and Harlan, the thieves who claim themselves as movers in "Stewart Moves Away" and steal the boys' TV in the movie.
** Arguably, Beavis and Butt-Head could be considered this InUniverse.

-->'''Butt-Head:''' Uh, Taylor, Bob... no... uh... M-Matthews, Al...
-->'''Beavis:''' No. Come on, Butt-head.
-->'''Butt-Head:''' Uh... Sac... Sachz. Harry... ''(starts laughing)'' "Hairy sack."
-->'''Beavis ''(also laughing)'':''' Yeah. Hairy sack.
-->'''Butt-Head ''(still laughing)'':''' This is gonna be ''cool.''

--> "Shut up, buttknocker!" *whack*
--> "Ow! [[BerserkButton Don't call me that]], bunghole!" *kick*

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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In "Do America", Beavis (in his Cornholio persona) sees Mr. Anderson's camper, pulls out a picture of the woman he was sent to "do" and then goes into the camper. Later, Mr. Anderson is curious to find out why his camper is rocking, and investigates. HilarityEnsues.
* CentipedesDilemma: In "Trouble Urinating", the boys become unable to urinate after thinking too hard about how they actually do it.
* ChaoticStupid: All they care about is food, girls, heavy metal and whatever captures their interest at the moment, most notably, [[{{Pyromaniac}} any sort of carnage]], to which effect they were too amused by the wreckage of an airplane crash to help the victims. They're too lazy and stupid to care about anything else, like work or their education. Sometimes their actions may cause harm to someone unintentionally. This is very clear in the film, as there is a terrorist threat to D.C. involving a biological weapon, all they understand about it is that they can "score with a chick".

* SignatureLaugh: The duo's continuous chortling, which is a CatchPhrase in and of itself.

* AllMenArePerverts: Arguably [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], believe it or not. The terrible twosome are shown to be the only ones persistently preoccupied with their pursuit of coitus; any man not named Beavis or Butt-Head seems as annoyed by their perversion as all the women are.

* OffModel: The early seasons used copious amounts of off-model shots, making the show border even more on DerangedAnimation than it did anyway.

* AnachronismStew: This came heavily into play for the 2011 revival. The show's first run 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 ''Film/{{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, with ComicBookTime and NotAllowedToGrowUp being in full effect.

* 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 ''Film/{{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.

It horrified the MoralGuardians from the get-go, and a few of its more controversial aspects had to be dropped-- notably Beavis's pyromania, after they reportedly inspired a viewing child to set a fire in his house that killed his sister[[note]] According to the child's mother, it was his babysitter who apparently let him watch the series, and prior to the fire incident, he would go around the house laughing like the main characters. In any event, the incident, which was simply an unfortunate accident, scarred the boy possibly for life[[/note]]. In one case in real life which apparently was inspired by the show's antics, a boy killed his brother by giving him a ride in a commercial dryer, the way one of the characters did to the other, which made the show rein in some of its more outrageous acts of stupidity. Also spurring objections were the boys' constant use of fireworks to blow things up, along with their tendency to amuse themselves with physical violence and animal cruelty, most notably the infamous pilot episode "Frog Baseball".

** In ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe'', it's revealed that there is literally no reality in the universe where the boys score. [[spoiler: "Smart Beavis" finally breaks the cycle in the end and the accomplishment is so noteworthy due to the trope that he gets a medal for it]].

* SodaCanShakeup: In "Canned", Beavis and Butt-head tried to cause this with an unopened can of root beer. [[spoiler: It never did explode.]]

* PutOnTheBus: As of the 2022 revival series, Principal McVicker, Todd, Stewart, and Coach Buzzcut have yet to appear hinting they have been taken out (with even Buzzcut being replaced with another P.E. teacher who is much nicer than Buzzcut hinting he may have been fired). So far, Mr. Van Driessen and Tom Anderson are the only reoccurring characters to appear in the 2022 revival series.

* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: The end of "Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest" takes a dark turn. Most of the episode seems regular, with the boys getting up to their usual antics, just on Halloween. Then a ''very'' unsettling farmer who constantly giggles sinisterly in a soft-spoken voice gets ahold of them, seemingly zombifies Butt-Head, and together they slice Beavis to pieces with chainsaws. The whole sequence is genuinely very creepy and not played for laughs at all.

* SurpriseCreepy: The end of "Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest." Most of the episode seems pretty regular, with the boys getting up to their usual antics, just on Halloween. Then a ''very'' unsettling farmer who constantly giggles sinisterly in a soft-spoken voice, gets a hold of them, seemingly zombifies Butt-Head and together they slive Beavis to pieces with chainsaws. The whole sequence genuinely very creepy and not played for laughs at all.