History Trivia / BeavisAndButtHead

* CrossdressingVoices: Mike Judge voices the school nurse.

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

* FranchiseZombie: At least from Judge's perspective. He felt that the series had overstayed its welcome by the fifth season, but MTV wanted to keep the cash cow going. That said, he's the one that's ended up reviving it ''twice'' now.

* FranchiseZombie: At least from Judge's perspective. He felt that the series had overstayed its welcome by the fifth season, but MTV wanted to keep the cash cow going.

* ColbertBump: A few artists have had a boost in popularity after their music videos were featured on the show. [[Creator/RobZombie White Zombie]] in particular saw their 1992 album ''La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1 '' [[https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/rob-zombie-recalls-25th-anniversary-big-break-beavis-butt-head-194723819.html go from being a flop to a best-seller]] after one of the album's songs was featured on the show.

* ColbertBump: A few artists have had a boost in popularity after their music videos were featured on the show.

* BigNameFan:
** According to Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/MarlonBrando absolutely loved the show and would constantly quote it during the filming of ''Film/DonJuanDeMarco''.
** Same goes for Creator/PatrickStewart, as [[https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2005/jan/23/features.magazine57 he said in article]] of ''The Guardian'':
-->''In time ''Beavis and Butt-head'' will become defined as a very, very significant part of American culture. It's brilliant. I've got all the tapes.''
** Creator/TreyParker is on record as saying no other cartoon influenced ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' as much as this one. When he and Matt Stone were starting out in Hollywood, Mike Judge was even nice enough to meet with them and give them advice.

* TheCameo: While Daria herself is absent from the revival, her sister Quinn (or somebody who looks a lot like her) can be seen in the background in a few scenes at the school.

* ApprovalOfGod: Plenty of people have found the duo mocking them during the music videos [[ActuallyPrettyFunny to be an honor.]] Sam Harris loved the commentary on his "Over the Rainbow" video. The cast of ''Series/JerseyShore'' also considered their "appearance" on the show to be great fun.

** In the United States, from the second episode onwards episodes of the revived series were aired OutOfOrder rather than in chronological order. The in 2012, it was quickly taken off for more room for reality shows.

** Tom Anderson was an amalgam of older authority figures with inexplicable Texan accents and permanent {{thousand-yard stare}}s he'd grown up around in Albuquerque, including a none-too-bright customer on he and his brother's paper route.

** Tom Anderson was an amalgam of older authority figures with inexplicable Texan he'd grown up around in Albuquerque, including a none-too-bright customer on he and his brother's paper route.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: You would've been hard-pressed to not find this show on Creator/MTV's daily schedule back during its initial run.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: You would've be hard-pressed to not find this show on Creator/MTV's daily schedule back during it's run.

* ChannelHop: From Creator/MTV for the first 8 seasons to Creator/ComedyCentral for the upcoming 9th and 10th seasons.

* NoDubForYou: Unlike with the original series, the reboot wasn't dubbed in any foreign country when it was broadcasted.

* TheDanza: Creator/CharlieAdler as Mr. Adler.

** Tom Anderson was an amalgam of older authority figures with inexplicable Texan he'd grown up around in Albuquerque, including a none-too-bright customer on he ad his brother's paper route.

* CashCowFranchise: ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' were huge pop culture phenomenons back in the 1990s and even today. Comic books, video games, action figures, shirts, underwear, a [[TheMovie theatrically released]] [[Film/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica film]], a music video with Music/{{Cher}}, two appearances on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (one in the mid-1990s during a "Weekend Update" segment and again on the season 27 episode hosted by Creator/JonStewart on a TV Funhouse "Fun with Real Audio" segment), ''Series/TheTonightShow'' and the goddamn UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, appearances in films such as ''Film/AustinPowers'' and ''Film/{{Airheads}}''. They were everywhere.

** The third-season opener "Comedians" featured Beavis trying to juggle flaming newspapers and burning down a comedy club. Because it aired only a month before the Ohio mobile home fire that the show was blamed for, this episode was swiftly pulled out of rotation and later heavily censored.
** Other episodes were banned (some of which did return from being banned with content cuts made) for instances of Beavis saying "Fire! Fire!" or flicking a lighter ("Stewart's House", "Kidnapped"), animal cruelty ("Frog Baseball", "Washing the Dog"), inhalant and drug abuse ("Home Improvement", "Way Down Mexico Way") or anything that might be [[FunnyAneurysmMoment considered poor taste in the aftermath of Columbine and September 11th]] ("Heroes", "Incognito"). Many of these have aired on Viacom-owned networks overseas unedited.

** According to Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/MarlonBrando absolutely loved the show and would constantly quote it when the two of them were filming ''Film/DonJuanDeMarco''.
** Same goes for Creator/PatrickStewart, as [[https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2005/jan/23/features.magazine57 he said in article]] of The Guardian:

* BreakthroughHit: While he'd had some success in the festival circuit and with the ''Milton'' shorts on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', it was this show that put Mike Judge's name on the map, beginning an extremely prolific career in animation, television and movies.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Judge wrote, performed and recorded the theme song himself.

* FranchiseZombie: At least from Judge's perspective. He felt that the series had overstayed it's welcome by the fifth season, but MTV wanted to keep the cash cow going.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The music video segments slowly devolved from actual riffing and commentary to stream-of-consciousness ramblings due to the sheer volume of videos Judge was forces to watch and ad lib over (at least five per-recording session), causing him to run out of material extremely fast.
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: The episode "The Great Cornholio" was almost entirely improvised, as well all of the music video segments.

* MissingEpisode: Many. Possibly the rarest is the third-season opener "Comedians", since it features Beavis juggling flaming newspapers and burning down a comedy club. It aired a month before the infamous mobile home fire for which the show was blamed.

* TalkingToHimself: Judge voices both title characters and several recurring ones as well, including Tom Anderson (using the voice that would later be more closely associated with [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]]), Mr. Van Driessen, Principal [=McVickor=] and Coach Buzzcut, as well as a handful of one-shot characters. Some scenes with upwards of four characters feature Judge as the ''only'' actor.

** At the beginning of Nina Hagen's "Herman Was His Name", Judge flubs a line as Beavis:

** During the recording for "Generation in Crysis", Judge felt one line wasn't working and decided to riff on a joke he'd come up with after the L.A. earthquake "knocked a screw loose in his brain" about Beavis affecting an alter ego. He then proceeded to ad lib in a voice he used to do to annoy his sister. And thus, The Great Cornholio was born.

** Beavis's "Cornholio" persona was based on something Judge used to do to tease his sister. The voice was a cross between Creator/HarryBelafonte and an angry customer at a movie theater where Judge worked as a teenager and
** Prior to being an animator, Judge was a professional bassist and had toured with blues musician Sam Myers. The voice he'd eventually use for Mr. Van Driessen came from a yuppie journalist whom he'd watched interview Myers and ask him a lot of InnocentlyInsensitive questions.
** Principal [=McVicker=] was a high school band teacher whom Judge was convinced was an alcoholic.

** The third-season opener "Comedians" featured Beavis trying to juggle flaming newspapers and burning down a comedy club. Because it aired only a month before the Ohio mobile home fire that Beavis and Butt-Head were blamed for, this episode was swiftly pulled out of rotation and later heavily censored.
** Other episodes were banned (some of which did return from being banned with content cuts made) for instances of Beavis saying "Fire! Fire!" or flicking a lighter ("Stewart's House", "Kidnapped"), animal cruelty ("Frog Baseball", "Washing the Dog"), inhalant and drug abuse ("Home Improvement", "Way Down Mexico Way") or anything that might be [[FunnyAneurysmMoment considered poor taste in the aftermath of Columbine and September 11th]] ("Heroes", "Incognito"). Many of these episodes have aired on Viacom-owned networks overseas unedited.

* CashCowFranchise: ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' were huge pop culture phenomenons back in the 1990s and even today. Comic books, video games, action figures, shirts, underwear, [[TheMovie a theatrically released movie]], a music video with Cher, two appearances on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (one in the mid-1990s during a Weekend Update segment and again on the season 27 episode hosted by Jon Stewart on a TV Funhouse "Fun With Real Audio" segment), ''Series/TheTonightShow'' and the goddamn UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, appearances in movies such as ''Film/AustinPowers'' and ''Film/{{Airheads}}''. They were everywhere.

* DescendedCreator: Mike Judge not only voices the two main characters ''and'' multiple side characters, but he also wrote and performed the theme song.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Mike Judge wrote, performed and recorded the theme song himself.

** "Buffcoat and Beaver," after a confused politician refers to them as such while railing against them publicly.
** In a behind-the-scenes documentary about ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Mike Judge says he came up with Boomhauer's distinctive voice after hearing a man's voicemail about how much he hated Beavis and Butt-Head, which he referred to as "Porky's Butthole."
* FranchiseZombie: At least from Mike Judge's perspective. He felt that the series had overstayed it's welcome by the fifth season, but MTV wanted to keep the cash cow going.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The music video segments slowly devolved from actual riffing and commentary to stream-of-consciousness ramblings due to the sheer volume of videos Mike Judge was forces to watch and ad lib over (at least five per-recording session), causing him to run out of material extremely fast.

** And a third of the episodes, which Mike Judge has refused to license to DVD.

** So many examples of this trope exist that Mike Judge admits that the master tapes of many of the early episodes probably no longer exist due to the edits.

** Burger World must have shared its name with the Burgerworld of the 2061 simulation from ''VideoGame/AMindForeverVoyaging'' and the restaurant where Music/WeirdAlYankovic's character briefly works in ''Film/{{UHF}}'' (according to Yankovic, Judge is a fan of the movie).

* OldShame: Much like how [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Trey and Matt]] feel about the early seasons of their show, Creator/MikeJudge hates most of the very early episodes of the show due to the very choppy animation and obvious humor compared to later seasons. He also hates some of the episodes that incorporate fantastical elements into them. Because of this, a great deal of the episodes from the show have not been released on DVD.

* RealLifeRelative: The movie was one of only two films (the other being ''Mortal Thoughts'') to star Creator/BruceWillis and Creator/DemiMoore during their marriage.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Canada's MTV quickly replaced the revived series with Jersey Shore reruns, occasionally airing the episodes at ridiculous hours of the night.
* TalkingToHimself: Mike Judge voiced both title characters and several recurring ones as well, including Tom Anderson (using the voice that would later be more closely associated with [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hank Hill]]), Mr. Van Driessen, Principal [=McVickor=] and Coach Buzzcut, as well as a handful of one-shot characters. Some scenes with upwards of four characters feature Judge as the ''only'' actor.

** At the beginning of Nina Hagen's "Herman Was His Name", Mike Judge flubs a line as Beavis:

** During the recording for "Generation In Crysis," Mike Judge felt one line wasn't working and decided to riff on a joke he'd come up with after the L.A. earthquake "knocked a screw loose in his brain" about Beavis affecting an alter ego. He then proceeded to ad lib in a voice he used to do to annoy his sister. And thus, The Great Cornholio was born.
* {{Uncanceled}}: New episodes debuted in October 2011, but disappeared as soon as they premiered.

** 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 1993-1997 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 Grand Theft Auto and Call Of Duty[[/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.

** Originally, Mike Judge didn't really want to voice Beavis, since all he really had for Beavis was the laugh. Beavis wound up being one of his favorite voices to do on the show.
** If ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' had not been a ratings and critical success from episode one, Glenn Eichler has stated that Creator/{{MTV}} would have most likely have forced him to incorporate Beavis and Butt-Head into the show to boost ratings.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Most of the characters, particularly the ones whom Mike Judge voices himself, were based on people from his youth.

** Prior to being an animator, Mike Judge was a professional bassist and had toured with blues musician Sam Myers. The voice he'd eventually use for Mr. Van Driessen came from a yuppie journalist whom he'd watched interview Myers and ask him a lot of InnocentlyInsensitive questions.
** Principal [=McVickor=] was a high school band teacher whom Judge was convinced was an alcoholic.