#i'm not calling it 'mIkE jUdGe'S bEaViS aNd BuTtHeAd' that's stupid

[homefryboy]

I like how much effort is put into drawing him in pain : )

bonuses

[pinkopalina]

hi!!!! sending you a message to say hello!!!! hope youre doin ok!! i dont know if asks are a good way of talkin to people but if you want to just talk about something i am curious to know what the heck beavis and butthead even is hahahaaa

hello!!! thank you so much 🩷💖🩷 I'm doing fine trying to derail my one track mind! (lyrics)

okay sure! So Beavis and Butthead originally started as a single short from Mike judge called "frog baseball" that was played on MTV's "liquid television", which was an animation showcase at the time

(another cartoon that I love that started out there was aeon flux! the live action movie is awful, the later seasons aren't quite like the original shorts, but the og shorts are MAGICALLLLL)

because of that shorts popularity, MTV ended up ordering a series out of it and Mike judge didn't really know what he was doing at the time. he had just graduated with a degree in physics but he found the field very boring and once he saw some animation cells he decided to get a camera and get into it himself.

so this opportunity was one of his very first steps into big time animation. he had made an animated short right before called office space which ended up becoming the big movie office space too!

Beavis and Butthead at its core is really just about like I think the most low brow basic but still funny jokes that like we all make as people? like. that's what she said, but without that's what she said. giggling at funny words and laughing at toilet humor and seeing the stupidity and things but not vilifying them? there's stuff that we all do and stuff that we all laugh at and Beavis and butthead is a really fun way at showing it. they were like the blueprint for a lot of formats and a lot of things we find funny and a lot of successful low brow jokes

something special to this season alone is the development of the characters and additional information about how they would feel about things happening? in the original it was very you get what you see and you see what you get and the boys would just behave certain ways and you could speculate a lot on their behavior. but now we're being given a lot of fun little tidbits from other characters and other sources, like if Beavis died, then Butthead would be so sad that he would die of grief a few days later. whereas before they've been quick to say that they're not really friends and that they don't really care about each other, even though you know it's not true and you know deep down that they do care about each other and that they need each other, It's kind of interesting that we're getting confirmations of extra information. Even though you didn't really need it for that interpretation to be valid to begin with.

It's fun to have something so stupid, but also have an extra layer of meaning on it because like even if they're stupid or degenerate or whatever (The truth is they are that way because they were abandoned but that's not the focus of the show) they're still people and they still go through life and they still have to live it and it's fun to get to watch them see how they would do it because they end up having these really awful shitty lives that they somehow managed to find a lot of joy and peace and contentment with and I guess that aspect of it is what really hits home for me even if I think that's an unintended but pleasant side effect