One of my favorite episodes is “Pregnant Pause,” in which Beavis confuses constipation with being pregnant thanks to grossly misinterpreting a TV program and a couple of off-hand comments. Two-plus decades later, you still laugh, but the same things are funny for different reasons, like trying to figure out how these two idiots manage to survive. Growing up with the show, as I did in the early 90’s, you laughed because it was juvenile humor and that’s where you were in life. There’s not a lot of complex humor that goes into fast food mishaps and remembering not to copy one’s butt. Not that they ever learn from it, but this is a show where viewers can enjoy themselves without feeling bad, and without having to think too much. We’re meant to laugh at them, and a good 80 percent of the stupid things they do only manage to hurt them of the other 20 percent, probably half of that involves them getting some kind of comeuppance. The crux of Beavis and Butt-Head is that almost entirely, the joke is on them. In fact, the more time that passes, it seems even more ridiculous. They have a simple, outrageous humor that never gets old because it’s never stopped being absurd. Yet without the music videos, it’s made it easier to see how funny the crazy stories are. It’s the latter that made Beavis and Butt-Head famous, but thanks to rights issues, the music videos have largely faded away except for a few that MTV was able to include on the show’s DVD release and others that have been randomly uploaded to YouTube.

In between their misadventures, they’d offer hilarious commentary on all kinds of music videos, from R.E.M. If you still haven’t seen it, the gist is that teenage miscreants Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced by series creator Mike Judge, who’d go on to give us two other comedy classics in Office Space and King of the Hill) wander around the fictional city of Highland never really accomplishing much. And almost three decades later, especially in light of current world events, these two idiots are still hilarious – perhaps funnier than they’ve ever been.

March makes 27 years since Beavis and Butt-Head originally premiered on MTV.

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