![]() Maybe Beavis doesn't remember or understand his dream, but maybe he does, and finds solace in a psychotic sort of optimism. Sounds like a wretched legacy for an individual who aspires to little aside from getting laid.īut when our pointy-nosed hero awakes, he tells Butt-Head, "I just had this cool dream about the future, and y'know what? The future's, ah, it's pretty cool. He Never Scored." Unless he gets his shit together, Beavis will die a virgin, and that's the only thing the living will remember him for. There, the shriller half of the titular duo sees a headstone that reads, "Here Lies Beavis. But Beavis and Butt-Head can absolutely say that, making them much better able to speak of the True Meaning of Christmas.ĭuring the dream sequence in Huh-Huh-Humbug, the Ghost of Christmas Future (in the form of the decisively not-mute Coach Buzzcut) transports Beavis to a soggy graveyard. Denizens of the Magic Kingdom and their holiday cheer-ful ilk won't ever address the truism that Christmas kinda sucks. Of course MTV's attempted Beavis and Butt-Head revival didn't stick in 2011, because MTV's latter-day target demographic of 12-year-old girls don't enjoy watching two ugly dudes talk about farts.īut not until Huh-Huh-Humbug and It's a Miserable Life, the two primary chapters of this 1995 satire (which you can watch below on Vimeo), had A Christmas Carol or It's a Wonderful Life been retold on an animated cable TV show with such disregard for sentimentality. It isn't even the best cartoon to feature Daria Morgendorffer as a regular character. ![]() It's not the most successful cartoon Mike Judge ever created. While it ruffled some prudish feathers in its day, the show never resorted to shock-value shit on the scale of Family Guy. It didn't stay relevant by going hyper-topical like South Park. It was too crass and ironic to become a pop-culture institution anywhere near the magnitude of The Simpsons. Like almost everything from the '90s, Beavis and Butt-Head didn't age well. Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas ranks up there with A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but not everyone understands this.
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