14 Beavis And Butthead Facts That Will Astonish You About Their Impact On Society

by N/A, 10 years ago | 2 min read

If you give praise to the Great Cornholio, you should probably read these facts.Â

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1. In addition to agreeing to this outrageous and kind of amazing form of promotion, David Letterman was actually IN 'Beavis and Butt-head do America.

2. One of Beavis's lines had to be cut because it wasn't quite dumb enough.

The line occurred when Beavis got a school pass, and told his classmates that they had "Beavis envy."

3. They WERE always hanging at Butt-head's house.

It isn't written in stone anywhere, but creator Mike Judge says that in his mind, that was the deal.Â

4. The show actually started out on Liquid Television.

Eventually, though, MTV paid Judge for the characters and it became the well-known show it is today.

5. The dialogue in the music videos was almost all improvised by Judge himself.

6. After a five-year-old boy set his home on fire in Ohio, a fire which ended up killing his two-year-old sister, the show removed every reference to fire in the show, permanently.

The boy's mother blamed her son's actions on the influence of the show. Beavis was obsessed with making fires and loved arson.Â

7. There was such a high demand for material that MTV had to stop airing the show for more than six weeks, only two weeks after it premieredâ€”the demand was just too much for Judge and his animation staff to handle.

8. The names of the characters were based on people in Judge's lifeâ€”a college student names Bobby Beavis and a 12-year-old who called himself "Iron Butt," and was called "Butt-head" by a friend.

9. The show was banned from prisons in Oklahoma, and Beavis and Butt-head memorabilia was banned from schools in South Dakota.

10. Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando were big fans.

When they filmed Don Juan DeMarco together they used to do impressions. Depp was always Beavis, and Brando was always Butt-head.Â

11. While arguing that TV broadcasters were allowing way too offensive of content on their channels, South Carolina Senator Ernest F. Hollings referred to the show as "Buffcoat and Beaver."

12. Matt Groening was a fan of the show.

The Simpsons creator said he liked it because it took "the heat off Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization.â€

13. There was a Beavis and Butt-head Thanksgiving special with Kurt Loder. Seriously.

14. Beavis and Butt-head have appeared on the cover of The Rolling Stones a whopping three times.