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==Premise== {{See also|List of Beavis and Butt-Head characters}} [[Beavis]] and Butt-Head are unintelligent teenage boys who live in the fictional town of Highland, Texas.<ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine |last=Gardner |first=Chris |date=June 16, 2022 |title=Mike Judge Details Pre-Lockdown Lunch That Led to Deal for ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe'' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mike-judge-details-pre-lockdown-lunch-that-led-to-deal-for-beavis-and-butt-head-do-the-universe-1235166519/ |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=June 25, 2022}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' described them as "thunderously stupid and excruciatingly ugly".<ref name=":4">{{Cite magazine |last=Young |first=Charles M.|date=August 19, 1993 |title=Beavis and Butt-Head: The Voice of a Generation |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/beavis-and-butt-head-the-voice-of-a-generation-106356/ |access-date=June 25, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> They spend time watching television, drinking unhealthy beverages, eating,<ref name=":5">{{cite news |last=Zurawik |first=David |date=November 28, 1997 |title=Made their mark Television: Those uncouth youth mouth a certain '90s-era truth. |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-11-28-1997332008-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=November 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015031018/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-11-28/features/1997332008_1_beavis-and-butt-head-popular-culture-nadir |archive-date=October 15, 2013}}</ref> and embarking on "mundane, sordid" adventures, which often involve vandalism, abuse, violence, or animal cruelty.<ref name=":4" /> According to ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'', Beavis and Butt-Head are "at their most incorrect when it comes to sexuality and matters of gender. The nicest thing you can say about them in this regard is that they are budding [[misogynists]]."<ref name=":5" /> When Beavis consumes too much caffeine or sugar, he becomes Cornholio, a [[hyperactive]] alter ego.<ref name=":6">{{cite news|url=https://bostonphoenix.com/archive/tv/97/11/BEAVIS_AND_BUTTHEAD.html|title=Butting out|first=Dan|last=Tobin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228022024/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/tv/97/11/BEAVIS_AND_BUTTHEAD.html|date=November 26 β December 4, 1997|access-date=August 12, 2022|archive-date=February 28, 2008|newspaper=[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|The Phoenix]]}}</ref> Over the course of the series, Beavis and Butt-Head developed more distinct personalities; Beavis was more hyperactive and significantly less intelligent than his best-friend Butt-Head, who was often more relaxed and tended to be the "brains", what little there were, of the duo's shenanigans.<ref name=":6" /> Most episodes integrate sequences where Beavis and Butt-Head watch music videos and offer commentary.<ref name=":4" /> They prefer videos with "explosions, loud guitars, screaming and death", and favor rock bands such as the [[Butthole Surfers]], [[Corrosion of Conformity]], and [[Metallica]].<ref name=":4" /> Judge said he saw Beavis and Butt-Head as "pretty positive characters, generally speaking ... They usually think everything's pretty cool. Or, in one way or another, everything sucks."<ref name=":3" /> He said his perception of the characters changed over the years: "When I first started out with the first show, which was ''Frog Baseball'', they were just two guys that I would definitely want to keep my distance from ... But, by the end of the series, I would think that two guys like that would at least be fun to sit and watch TV with."<ref name=":5" /> Judge composed the series' [[theme song]], which is descended from [[AC/DC]]'s "[[Gone Shootin']]". Judge later claimed that the central [[guitar riff]] of the theme is that song played backwards.<ref name=DVD>{{cite video |people=Judge, Mike|date=2004 |title=Commentary for Beavis and Butt-Head Do America |medium=DVD |publisher= Paramount}}</ref>
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