Beavis and Butt-Head
1993
Original language: English
- animation
- comedy
The story
Two dimwitted teenagers discuss TV, heavy-metal music, nachos, and trying to "score with chicks." When the duo aren't sitting on the couch, they try to pick up girls at the local convenience store, slack off at school, or wreak havoc while working at a burger joint.
What it’s like
Flat, crude 2D animation with a deliberately rough hand: thick uneven outlines, minimal shading, and a palette of muted greens, greys and sickly fluorescent yellows that feels like a suburban Texas rec room in the early nineties. Most of the show is two slack-jawed teenagers slumped on a couch in front of a glowing TV, framed in static medium shots, with the occasional cut to a music video being riffed on or a small-town strip mall under flat daylight. The soundscape is heavy-metal guitar riffs, laughter tracks, and the dull hum of a television left on. The vibe is lazy, sneering and cheerfully dumb, with a rhythm of short sketches that mostly end on a crude punchline rather than building toward anything. Its humour is politically incorrect and irreverent throughout, with frequent insults, sexual innuendo, slapstick cruelty, and mild-to-moderate violence (crashes, burns, mishaps, the occasional fire), though little of it is graphic. This suits a late-night comedown, a nostalgic laugh with friends, or background noise while doing something else. It is for viewers who enjoy anti-sophisticated, cynical satire of 1990s American pop culture and don't mind their comedy being mean, juvenile and loud.
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