Product Description

A national treasure in an age of idiocy… When Beavis and Butt-Head first appeared on MTV more than a decade ago, critics dismissed them as brainless couch potatoes who did nothing but watch TV and make lewd jokes about bodily functions. Today we know they were ahead of their time. Beavis and Butt-Head's unique idiocy profoundly changed television, movies, pop culture and the world. This historic box set, personally edited by creator Mike Judge, includes their finest episodes, specials, promos and guest appearances that so enriched a grateful and stupid nation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10828 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 214 minutes

Amazon.com
Beavis is the one in the Metallica T-shirt. Butt-Head is the one in the AC/DC T-shirt. Hobbies include nose picking, head banging, and breaking stuff. Needless to say, they are very, very stupid. When not attending Highland High, (hardly) working at Burger World, or watching the boob (huh-huh) tube, they're harassing Mr. Anderson, who's often hiring them for some job or another. Emmy-winning creator Mike Judge (Office Space), who voices the characters, hand-picked the 40 shorts in this collection, including 23 director's cut editions.

Throughout the shorts, which were created for MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head do their worst. Stunts they pull on the dim-bulb Anderson, a prototype for King of the Hill's Hank Hill, include: Riding off with his mower ("Home Improvement"), chopping down his tree ("Lawn and Garden"), throwing his poodle in the washer ("Washing the Dog"), and destroying his golf clubs ("Pool Toys"). Fate has a funny way of catching up with the cretins, however, as when Beavis gets bit by a rabid dog ("Rabies Scare") and goes to hell ("The Final Judgement of Beavis") or when Butt-Head chokes on a piece of chicken ("Choke") and gets his mouth wired shut ("Patients, Patients").

Other characters include buddy Stewart, bully Todd, pinhead Principal McVicker, teachers Buzzcut and Van Driessen, and the Great Cornholio (Beavis's demonic alter-ego). Guest voices include David Spade ("Manners Suck"), David Letterman ("Late Night With Butt-Head"), and Gilbert Gottfried ("Right On"). As astute fans are sure to notice, this set omits the word "complete" from the title as Judge chose not to include those shorts he considers "really, really awful and embarrassing" (mostly those in which B&B set things on fire). Plus, there's more to come from seasons five through seven and the mini-documentary Taint of Greatness makes for a nice addition. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Episode Listing
Disc One 1. No Laughing *
2. Home Improvement *
3. Lawn and Garden *
4. Washing the Dog
5. The Crush * (Unreleased)
6. Plate Frisbee * (Unreleased)
7. Most Wanted (Unreleased)
8. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Huh Huh
9. Patients, Patients (Unreleased)
10. Blackout! *
11. Rabies Scare * (Unreleased)
12. 1-900-BEAVIS *
13. Madame Blavatsky * (Unreleased)
14. Late Night with Butt-Head *
15. Pool Toys *
16. The Final Judgement of Beavis
17. Right On * (Unreleased)
18. Date Bait * (Unreleased)
19. Butt Is It Art? * (Unreleased)
20. Figure Drawing *
Disc Two 21. Mr. Anderson's Balls
22. Teen Talk * (Unreleased)
23. Manners Suck *
24. The Pipe of Doom
25. Safe Driving
26. Liar! Liar!
27. Generation in Crisis
28. Beavis and Butt-Head Vs. the Vending Machine
29. Radio Sweethearts (Unreleased)
30. The Great Cornholio
31. Held Back *
32. Choke *
33. Killing Time
34. Safe House * (Unreleased)
35. Dude, A Reward (Unreleased)
36. Walkathon (Unreleased)
37. Temporary Insanity
38. Tainted Meat *
39. Dream On *
40. Beaverly Buttbillies *
* - Director's Cut Episodes
Disc 1 Easter Egg: from "Manners Suck"
Disc 2 Easter Egg: from "Tainted Meat"
Disc Three
-Music Videos
1 -Matthew Sweet: Superdeformed
2 -Pantera: This Love
3 -Moist: Push
4 -Deus: Suds & Soda
5 -Grim Reaper: Fear No Evil
6 -Monster Magnet: Negasonic Teenage Warhead
7 -Korn: Blind
8 -Catherine Wheel: Waydown
9 -Beastie Boys: Pass the Mic
10 -Wilco: Box Full of Letters
11 -Hum: Stars
-Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head, Part 1 (27 mins)
-Special Appearances
Video Music Awards
-1994 VMA's (2 parts)
-1994 VMA's with David Letterman
-1996 VMA's
-Thanksgiving Special with Kurt Loder (9 Segments)
-Promos
-Clinton Promo
-Waco Promo
-Dumb Fun In The Sun Promo
-Montages
Terms of Endearment
Greatest Hits
-AMP' Page
AMP'd Promo
-The Animation Show Page
The Animation Show Trailer
-Previews:
Also Forced on Disc 1:
AMP'd Promo
South Park: Season 6
Drawn Together: Season 1
The Animation Show
Also Forced on Disc 2:
L.A. Rush Video Game
Aeon Flux: The Complete Animated Collection
Jackass: The Box Set

Customer Reviews

A disgrace....
I would like to thank all the reviewers here who have informed me that this set is censored and altered in an unforgiveable fashion. Mike Judge and MTV should be ashamed of themselves. Who do they think they're protecting? They should show courage and release them uncut.

This series was hilarious when it came out, and surprisingly, it hasn't dated at all. Usually stuff in the 1990's is littered with pop culture references that are completely lost in later decades (The Ben Stiller Show, The Critic, even The Simpsons), and it diminishes the impact of the show. This stuff still makes me laugh. As for Judge and MTV refusing (or concealing) the original episodes, they're stupider than Beavis and Butthead for doing that. Get your head out of your hole MTV/Judge and act like adults....

Great Collection
Having purchased and watched all of the discs in all three volumes I can safely say these low ratings are a result of the misconception that massive editing occurred. Minor editing took place on a few episodes, but throughout the three collections over 90% of the animation was released. Mike Judge left out certain episodes because they were uncut or substandard. He didn't want the poorest of footage to detract from the overall quality of the video. I'm aggravated how many people first state their love and admiration for (Mike Judge's) Beavis and Butthead, and follow it by criticizing his editing skills. I trust his judgment, if he wanted to leave something out, who am I to tell him different. If the seasons were released one at a time, like every other show, you would never acquire 90% of the material for the price of three box sets. Judge did a favor, now give this show some credit. A true classic.

-Trey

It's Stupid, Of Course.
I always liked Beavis and Butthead when their program was on MTV. I guess a lot of people did. I understand the ratings would triple when that particular program was showing. Well, it was unique, irreverent, quite different and could be very funny it times. The B & B humor always tended to be gender specific. If a mixed group watched, the men would mostly be chuckling with the women mostly thinking it was really stupid. Well, it was really stupid, and it was also very funny. It gets a lot of the same reaction as a mixed group watching "The Three Stooges." Here again, the guys tend to be chuckling with the women wondering who would ever watch this junk. I guess you just have to "get it" in order to appreciate the humor, and all of the males either are or have been teen-age boys. Mike Judge is a genius at understanding and depicting this exceedingly difficult stage in life. He also has a wry and juvenile sense of humor.

Thus it was as I was strolling through my local warehouse club and noticed "Beavis and Butthead: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 1" in the DVD section. I thought about it for a while and bought. It was a worthwhile collection to view and brought back a lot of forgotten chuckles. Those guys are really stupid, without question, but I can look back on my own misspent youth and see many of the same numbskull characteristics. It's funny, but maybe a little painful at the same time. Maybe that's why it gets such wide viewing. It's somewhat bittersweet. I notice that the user reviews express widely mixed reactions and I suspect a lot of the gender-specific humor may come into play here. People, in general, either seem to love B & B videos or hate them.

I'm not fully satisfied with this particular DVD collection. The B & B music/video reviews were always a favorite part of the program and they're mostly missing here. Not all of my favorite episodes are included and some of the episodes which are included are not particularly good. Oh well, there's always Volumes 2 and 3 to satisfy those who have to have everything. Would I purchase these other volumes? Well, I enjoyed the first but buying the second or third is not too likely.

Gary Peterson