At its best, their commentary sounds like found criticism of idiot savants, rather than the more sophisticated (and therefore slightly out-of-character) “Mystery Science Theater 3000”-style riffing that sometimes pops up when Beavis and Butt-Head watch non-music clips. Their other viewing parties require a little more elasticity of the duo’s mockery. So far all of the new video segments, in the parlance of the boys themselves, score. Still, as prompts for series creator Mike Judge - who still voices both Beavis and Butt-Head - it’s hard to beat the free-associative quality of good, old-fashioned music videos. This means checking in on some TikToks, a college-acceptance reaction video and other digital detritus.Īs with the old music-based segments, these quick bits double as a glimpse at what the kids (or at least the staffers of an animated sitcom) might stumble upon these days, a way of rooting the forever-arrested teenage boys in a particular time. While the original series had them absorbing various music videos from throughout MTV’s then-storied history, this one imitates the one-season 2011 revival, mixing in some traditional videos with today’s streaming equivalent of channel-surfing. More or less sticking with the original format means that the first two episodes of the 2022 “Beavis” include four shorts and around half a dozen interstitial bits where the boys sit on the couch and watch TV-or rather, content. It’s difficult to say for sure, at least on the basis of two network-length not-quite-half-hours of television. Or are they just so timelessly American that surprisingly little adaptation is necessary? Are we in the same collective stasis as two incessantly snickering morons in the same old Metallica and AC/DC t-shirts? Beavis and Butt-Head have a tendency to mold their environment in their image.
In the first two episodes of this new season, it doesn’t look much different from their time. When we last left Beavis and Butt-Head, the animated teenage miscreants from Highland, Texas who dominated MTV for much of the ’90s, they were plunked down in 2022, thanks to the wormhole that powered the sci-fi plotting of June’s Paramount+ movie “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe.” “Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head,” a nominal follow-up to that movie and de facto ninth season of the TV show that inspired it, makes no specific mention of this - though based on some small technological details (and the streaming content they consume), the boys have indeed remained in our time.
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