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classicswim) wrote2025-09-21 09:14 am
classicswim) wrote2025-09-21 09:14 am
[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.
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.