Referenced By / Beavis and Butt-Head

"Hey Buster, he-he-he."
"Uh-huh-huh-huh... you said bust."

Comic Books

• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In Issue #8, Sonic calls Dr. Robotnik and Botman "Beavis N' Bothead".
• Static:
  • The 19th issue features a pair of homophobic cops drawn to look like Beavis and Butthead.
  • In the 36th issue, Virgil tries to keep his mother from finding out he's Static by covering his costume with a bedsheet and imitating Beavis' Cornholio persona, albeit stating that he needs TV for his bunghole rather than T.P.
  Jean Hawkins: Your damned Beavis and Butthead won't save you.

Comic Strips

• Off the Mark:
  • Beavis and Butthead appear in this strip, alongside Calvin, Richie Rich, and Mr. Magoo.
  • Butthead appears in this strip, alongside Goofy, Wimpy, and Daffy Duck.
  • In this strip, Butthead appears as one of the cartoon characters in a guide on how to create your own cartoon character.
• FoxTrot
  • One strip has Paige, as a school reporter, ask a couple of students if they think Beavis and Butt-Head are realistic portrayals of teenagers. Cue the interviewees doing the duo's famous laugh, followed by "...heh-heh, she said 'butt'."
  • When Jason and Peter get the t-shirts Beavis and Butt-Head wear as presents, they start imitating the pair and their signature laugh.

Film -- LiveAction

• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): Butt-head is seen on a campaign billboard running for senator.
• Richie Rich: Lawrence Van Dough calls Mr. and Mrs. Rich "Beavis and Butt-Head."

Live-Action TV

• Full House:
  • In "Stephanie's Wild Ride", D.J. asks Stephanie, "You got in the car with Beavis and Butt-head?"
  • In "Super Bowl Fun Day", the owner of the local sports grill calls Jesse and Joey "Beavis and Butt-Head".
    Jesse: Hey, don't blame Beavis. This is all Butt-head's fault!
    Joey: (nervously laughs like Butt-Head)
  • In "The Last Dance", after the death of Papouli, Danny buys a boat with Papouli's name inscribed on the lifesaver in his honor. Upon seeing it, Kimmy calls him and Joey "Beavis and Boat-Head".
• In Part 1 of "Werewolf Skin" in Goosebumps (1995), Alex insults two annoying new classmates of his by calling them by "Beavis and Butt-Head."
• Step by Step had Larry and Gary, a pair of grinning, giggling teenage boys wearing AC/DC and Metallica shirts, and featuring the pair's distinctive hairdos. They first appeared in Season 3, and were brought back twice in Season 4.
• In the Two and a Half Men episode "A Possum On Chemo" Jake and Eldrige watch the Beavis and Butt-Head reboot while high, finding them "too stupid to live."
• Season 49 of Saturday Night Live has a sketch about an online town hall that's briefly derailed when two audience members (host Ryan Gosling and regular Mikey Day) bear a striking physical resemblance to Beavis and Butt-head respectively. And for some reason they have no idea who Beavis and Butt-head are (the college professor guest is the only one in the room who does!)

Video Games

• Normy's Beach Babe-O-Rama: Scott Stoabs is credited as Scott "Beavis" Stoabs in the game's closing credits sequence.

Web Animation

• Sonic In X Minutes: In "Sonic Free Riders in 5.4 Minutes", Rouge and Shadow are respectively dressed and act like Beavis and Butthead.

Web Original

• The Angry Video Game Nerd has reviewed the licensed games based on the show for the Sega Genesis and SNES.
• In an episode of Console Wars, Greg and Dan see whether the SNES or the Sega Genesis had the better Licensed Game based on the show. Over the course of the review, they become Beavis and Butthead themselves.
• Honest Trailers:
  • At the end of the game trailer for The Last of Us, the narrator reads in his awesome voice: "I'm Cornholio, I need some teepee for my bunghole."
  • In the trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Bebop and Rocksteady are nicknamed "Beavis and Buttshead".
• The Nostalgia Critic:
  • In the review of The Magic Voyage, an audio clip of Beavis' "Boi-oi-oi-oi-ing!" plays during a dream sequence where Columbus apparently pulls a spyglass from his crotch.
  • The Critic has reviewed Beavis And Butthead Do America.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor are based on the titular duo.

Western Animation

• The Angry Beavers: In the episode where Norbert and Dagget stay up all night, they start laughing mindlessly on The Couch as they lose their brain function to exhaustion.
• Arthur:
  • In "Buster and the Daredevils", Toby and Slink enjoy a comic book series called "Peabrain and Nuthead", who are basically Beavis and Butthead as anthropomorphic nuts.
  • In "The Contest", Muffy's idea for a cartoon is a parody of this show with Arthur as Beavis and Buster as Butt-head.
• Captain Planet: Parodied in the episode "Who's Running the Show?" with a cat and dog duo named "Brainless and Mutt-Head" featured on a TV channel run by the villains.
• The Critic:
  • The episodes "Eyes on the Prize" and "L.A. Jay" feature advertisements for Bob and Carol and Beavis and Butt-Head
  • In "A Song for Margo", Jay watches Star Trek: Generation X, in which Captain Picard complains that someone wrote "Beavis and Butt-head rule" on his forehead.
• KaBlam!: In "Cramming Cartoons Since 1627", when June invites her father to the show for Parents' Day, he asks her, "Where's this Butthead guy?". June then tells him, "That's the wrong cartoon.".
• Littlest Pet Shop (1995): When Viv the rabbit becomes a star in "Bunny Beat", two unnamed, B&B-like teenagers appear occasionally to comment on her music.
• Robot Chicken:
  • A sketch from "Vegetable Funfest" has Beavis and Butt-Head joining the Teen Titans.
  • A sketch from "Hemlock, Gin, and Juice" features a Native American saying, "I am Cornholio! I need teepee for my bunghole!"
  • A sketch from "Hey I Found Another Sock" shows Beavis and Butt-Head reuniting as adults.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "D'oh-in' in the Wind", Abe and Jasper, both high on spiked fruit juice, laugh like Beavis and Butt-Head while sitting on a park bench.
  • In "Large Marge", a protestor at an anti-Krusty demonstration holds up a sign reading "CANCEL BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD", with part of it crossed out and replaced with "JACKASS", and that part crossed out and replaced with "KRUSTY."
  • In "A Midsummer's Nice Dream", Homer is surprised that Bart doesn't know who Cheech & Chong are, saying they're the Beavis and Butt-Head of his generation. When Bart asks who they are, Homer laments he failed as a father.
• South Park featured the recurring characters Bill and Fosse in its earlier years, who acted like Beavis and Butt-Head except with a tendency to call things gay.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: In the Spring Break special, a parody of the duo called Beaver and Hoghead get run over by a car. Beaver and Hoghead would later re-appear in the "Night Ghoulery" special, during the "The Devil and Daniel Webfoot" sketch, where they are in line for the Devil's autograph.
• Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys, episode "Lawnmower Ape": Two "holo-boons" are out checking the atmosphere of the planet, whereupon Rhesus-2's laser zaps them. The exchange:
  Holo-Butthead: (scoffs) This place sucks!
  Holo-Beavis: No, Holo-Butt! It really sucks! (moronic laughter from both of them)
• In The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper episode "Day Care Nightmare", Spooky can be heard watching the show, he comments on what a great actor he thinks Beavis is and imitates their laughter.

Real Life

• In 1994, U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings famously complained about the show to Janet Reno, calling the duo "Buffcoat and Beaver". The show responded by introducing a Running Gag where people would get their names wrong. And yes, "Buffcoat and Beaver" was actually used.

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