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Beavis and Butt-Head fall victim to their high school
principal's plot to send them back, back to lower grades in the witty
"Held Back"; terrorize the roads in "Safe Driving"; learn the
pleasures and pitfalls of taking an art class in the hilarious "Figure
Drawing"; deal with their (huh-huh) grief over a departing pal in the
wicked "Stewart Moves Away"; grapple with a sticky mess in
"Nosebleed"; turn a crisis hotline into something worse in "Dumbasses
Anonymous"; and get separated when Beavis's chattering alter ego,
Cornholio, has a run-in with immigration authorities in the great
"Vaya con Cornholio." Indispensable for anyone concerned about the
morals of modern youth (huh-huh). --Tom Keogh
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Die-hard Beavis and Butt-head fans will probably enjoy
this incidental "best of" compilation, which contains seven segments
pulled from MTV, aggregated into a 50-minute presentation. But creator
Mike Judge's two nerdy, sexually piqued high school delinquents pale
in the shadow of that other animated wonder, South Park. In
fact, Beavis and Butt-head seem a little passé in light of the success
of rival network Comedy Central and its wunderkind, junior high
school-based series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of
BASEketball fame. Consequently, the segments rely on the same
tired jokes again and again ("heh-heh, heh-heh, he said 'come'") and
by the time Beavis chows down on too much sugar and his alter-ego,
Cornholio, appears in episode six, we're struggling with the woeful
repetition and limitations of the boys' routine. The best is saved for
first on the disc because the segment entitled "No Laughing" is at
least somewhat original in spirit. It may be that we haven't yet been
dumbed down by the one-trick pony parade. As for the rest, well,
things progress from okay to bad and even Cornholio, searching for
"T.P. for my bunghole" can't bring things up to speed. This is
definitely a disc for true Beavis and Butt-head believers only. Oddly
enough, the DVD contains some color shifts and even occasionally
drifts out of focus. --Paula Nechak
Amazon.com video review:
This addition to the Beavis and Butt-head
canon offers high and low points; to paraphrase a famous writer, it's
both the best of times and the worst of times for our dynamic
duo. Things kick off with a raucous start in the minor classic
"Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest," in which B&B take advantage of
Halloween and forego the sanctuary of their couch for some
trick-or-treating. Beavis in particular reaps the copious prepackaged
fruits of the harvest, turning him into his sugar-fueled alter ego
Bungholio, complete with jittery rants and incoherent babbling. If
you're a fan of Bungholio's high jinks, then you should be in hog
heaven; things take a deliciously dark turn when Butt-head meets up
with a creepy, zombielike farmer. Alas, the rest of the
Butt-o-ween tape features more standard B&B escapades, none of
which are related to Halloween. Highlights include the
Pleasantville-style parody "Leave It to Beavis" (in black and
white, natch), the sublimely stupid "Ding-Dong Ditch" (B&B ring
doorbells and run, with varying degrees of success), and the
almost-existential "Killing Time," in which the boys must occupy
themselves for two hours until the next cool TV show comes
on. However, you might want to fast-forward through "The Pipe of Doom"
(Butt-head caught in a construction-site pipe), "Late Night with
Butt-Head" (the boys do David Letterman), and "Candy Sale," despite a
cameo voice appearance by David Spade in the latter. Still,
"Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest" makes up for any letdown you might
experience. --Mark Englehart
Amazon.com video review:
Die-hard Beavis and Butt-head fans will probably enjoy this
incidental "best of" compilation, which contains seven segments pulled from
MTV, aggregated into a 50-minute presentation. But creator Mike Judge's
two nerdy, sexually piqued high school delinquents pale in the shadow
of
that other animated wonder, South Park. In fact, Beavis and
Butt-head seem a
little passé in light of the success of rival network Comedy Central and
its
wunderkind, junior high school-based series created by Trey Parker and
Matt Stone of BASEketball fame. Consequently, the segments rely on
the same tired jokes again
and again ("heh-heh, heh-heh, he said 'come'") and by the time Beavis chows
down on too much sugar and his alter-ego, Cornholio, appears in episode
six,
we're struggling with the woeful repetition and limitations of the boys'
routine. The best is saved for first because the segment
entitled "No Laughing" is at
least somewhat original in spirit. It may be that we haven't yet been
dumbed
down by the one-trick pony parade. As for the rest, well, things progress
from
okay to bad and even Cornholio, searching for "TP for my bung-hole" can't
bring things up to speed. This is definitely for true Beavis and
Butt-head believers only. --Paula Nechak
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They're ugly, stupid, rude, crudely drawn, and absolutely
mind-numbing--which has always been the source of Beavis and Butt-head's appeal.
Hard
Cash collects eight cartoons in which the killer Bs are out for cash
(though, unfortunately, none of the Burger World episodes are included).
If
this were any other cartoon, the plot summary of any of the episodes here
would be: Beavis and Butt-head get jobs, hilarity ensues as they try to fit
in. The, er, genius of B&B is that hilarity never actually ensues--in
fact,
not much of anything ensues. There's a bunch of butt jokes, a lot of
semipubescent giggling, and the rampant mundaneness of everyday existence in
a dead-end life, which is why the series was one of the best send-ups of
television this side of Chris Elliott's Get a Life. Collected here,
they tend not to work as well, though; without the--dare we even think
it?--ambition that held Beavis and Butt-Head Do America together, a
themed collection of episodes lacks any real cohesiveness. It is always
nice to see MC 900 Ft Jesus' video for "If I Only Had a Brain" make an
appearance, however, and B&B's transfixion by the song's infinitely catchy
hook is one of their finest moments. --Randy Silver
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Beavis and Butt-Head are (gasp) separated on Christmas Eve and
each experiences a variation on classic holiday tales. While Beavis
experiences a (sadly temporary) change of heart after visits from the
spirits of Christmas past, present, and future, Butt-Head is visited
by Charlie the Angel, who shows him how much better life would be
without him ... if only he would just jump from that
bridge. Somewhere, Dickens and Capra are turning in their graves, but
this is a show that a B&B diehard could definitely watch once a
year. --Tom Keogh
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The infamous Beavis and Butt-Head become the subject of an
intense documentary filmmaker in the particularly funny "Generation in
Crisis"; meet up with Bill Clinton in the so-so "Citizen Butt-Head";
accuse a babe-a-licious classmate of giving them a hard time in the
classic "Sexual Harassment"; kidnap their sweet and beleaguered
neighbor in the clever "Stewart Is Missing"; fail to fall victim to a
prostitution sting organized by police in the excellent "Feel a Cop";
and buy fake suds and convince themselves they're drunk in "Buy Beer."
Between these adventures, the duo continues its running commentary on
music videos, some of which--they'd be the first to tell
you--suck. This is yet another worthy addition to your collection of
B&B decadence. --Tom Keogh
