I went in to the first new episode of Beavis and Butt-Head with a nagging feeling that something would be off. But surely there was going to be something that would ruin it. With Hollywood constantly finding new, grotesque ways to reboot franchises, maybe I am just conditioned now to be repulsed. But as soon as that fuzzy guitar lick hit, I knew we were in business. That said, it was weird to enjoy this on a nostalgic level, but also as something that feels part of today. Of course, this leads them to pay a disease-ridden homeless man a stick of gum for him to bite the hell out of them.
Its stated purpose is to skewer the then-public stereotype of their viewing audience as lazy and unintelligent teenage slackers who did nothing but watch videos all day and were easily amused by bodily functions and dirty jokes. The titular characters were a pair of not-too-bright which in this case is quite possibly an overstatement of their intelligence heavy metal music fans who virtually did nothing but watch real-life music videos on their TV and make snide Mystery Science Theater -esque comments about things in the videos that annoyed or amused them. These music video commentaries were pretty much inserted for padding into the very short episodes, where the boys would wander around their hometown of Highland, Texas, generally annoying those they met and committing acts of petty vandalism. The most common targets of the boys' antics were their elderly neighbor Tom Anderson who was basically an older, more senile prototype of Hank Hill , their geeky school classmate Stewart Stevenson, and most of the faculty of their high school. The character who took the worst abuse was Principal McVicker, who was driven to drink, medication, and in the finale, an apparently fatal heart attack.
Beavis and Butt-Head walk to an abandoned drive-in only to find out that it has been replaced with a computer technical support office. Butt-Head asks one of the office workers what happened to the abandoned drive-in. Thinking that they're new employees, the technical support worker named Hamid a Middle Eastern man with a thick accent gets Beavis and Butt-Head to sit down and work at the two vacant workstations in his cubicle. Inside the cubicle, the duo tries to browse the internet for porn while mishandling the technical support calls they get.
Its stated purpose is to skewer the then-public stereotype of their viewing audience as lazy and unintelligent teenage slackers who did nothing but watch videos all day and were easily amused by bodily functions and dirty jokes. The titular characters were a pair of not-too-bright heavy metal music fans who literally did do practically nothing but watch real-life music videos on their TV and make snide Mystery Science Theater -esque comments about things in the videos that annoyed or amused them. Inserted for filler between video screenings, the boys would wander around their hometown of Highland, Texas, generally annoying those they met and committing acts of petty vandalism.