[Beavis & Butt-Head: Nuts and Bike]

The Nuts short was a Beavis & Butt-Head cartoon using a bit more South Park level sex humor.

Trey & Matt sat with Judge awhile ago. I didn’t see the discussion, so maybe they were only speaking ironically, but they went over the potential of a crossover. This was the episode to make me feel like such a thing could work... somehow. Just for the modern rendition of both.

Viacom would milk the shit out of it. Always Sunny and Abbott Elementary teaming up proves it wouldn’t be the most unnecessary crossover ever done.



This was noticeably the first Anderson appearance of the season. Tom & Marcy backstory, no less. Marcy definitely wasn’t always a Peggy in her appearance, but settled for Tom exactly as Peggy would. Go figure.



I kinda don’t like this for Stewart, and I’ll explain why.

Back in the 90s, Beavis & Butt-Head was a fad living in the now.

I’ve lectured on the ‘societal cry for help’ schtick the original show lived and died by, but basically... every adult back then just laughed at these losers. They could only leave it to their imagination what trainwrecks they’d be as grownups.

Old Beavis & Old Butt-Head exists purely as the payoff to that thought. Like, that’s the purpose. That’s why they’ve been doing those shorts separate.


The first short with Stewart reuniting reflected that. Kidney was the most cynical one they’ve done to date. Stewart popped in that one only as a mild sliver from a lost time to do something positive, and got fucked over immediately for helping. It was effective for that reason.


This one... not so much.

Setting Stewart up to be the episodic accessory again makes the older duo less lonely and gives a positive edge that’s undeserving.

 

The new cartoons with them as kids don’t use Cody because they need to. Tom’s the only one they’ve really bounced off of for the past few seasons. Van Driessen’s grown disdain for Beavis & Butt-Head when ever we do see him, hence no current episode pairing him.

My point sorta being that if the show has gone this far without all its extended characters, and doesn’t utilize them for the main course, it doesn’t make much sense to include them in the specific segment where they’re supposed to have no outreach.

Also doesn’t really “keep things fresh” if we’ve already seen them burning bridges with that character.

[Futurama: The World is Hot Enough]

 Alright. I guess we gotta talk about Crimes of The Hot.

Remember that notorious gag with the ice cube? Yeah. That’s all most people have to remember the episode. The real satirical meat of that show was less than halfway into the runtime.

You’ll be stumped to find anyone run up and say they remember that episode fondly because Bender’s bonding with a turtle or whatever.

It went about the subject matter okay for its time. It’s really the only show that genuinely tried with the topic, and has a few decent bits even when it’s far miles away from being the best.

 

The resentment I have for the season 4 episode goes as followed:

Any simple critique on how ass this return is... ALWAYS happened to be met with “Futurama Global Warming!” 

It gave you a head-splitting aneurysm that fanboys acted as though anyone was seriously negating that satire fucking existed in Futurama, and not that we were just upset over shitty and non funny satire being made.

Was ALWAYS brought up in bad faith. Most of them didn’t even know what the fuck Napster was, since robot Lucy Liu clones were enough for their binky.


Let alone the fact absolutely none of them give a shit about the actual quality of the S4 episode... they “go over” the subject again in modern times and it’s somehow even more nothing than what they had to go on in 2003. 

So now you have no reason to bring up Crimes of The Hot ever again.