50 Fun Facts About Beavis and Butt-Head

Beavis and Butt-Head live in the fictional town of Highland, in which US state?

Texas was a background artist's doing: he lettered it on the cars' licence plates without asking. The creator had imagined a small town in New Mexico.

What turns Beavis into Cornholio, his ranting alter ego with a shirt pulled over his head?

Sugar and caffeine also set him off in the first film, where the alter ego wanders through the White House and triggers a military alert.

In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, what are the duo trying to get back on their trip across the country?

Their stolen TV turns up outside the motel where the trip began, dumped there by the thieves. The boys carry it home into the sunset.

After a 1993 tragedy was blamed on Beavis and Butt-Head, which word was Beavis barred from saying?

Fire was scrubbed even from earlier episodes, whose master tapes were permanently altered. The network lifted the ban for the 2011 revival.

Which animator created Beavis and Butt-Head and performs the voices of both title characters himself?

Mike Judge based Beavis's snigger on a boy in his high-school calculus class who kept laughing at their teacher.

At which fast-food restaurant do Beavis and Butt-Head work as fry cook and cashier?

Burger World puts Beavis at the grill and Butt-Head on the register. In one Christmas special Beavis dreams he is its Scrooge-like manager.

Which sardonic classmate of Beavis and Butt-Head left Highland for a spin-off series of her own in 1997?

Daria moved to the suburb of Lawndale for five seasons of her own. The original show's creator was not involved beyond giving his permission.

Which US president meets the duo and honours them at the end of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

Bill Clinton was facing an election as the film was made, so a spare scene was drawn in case he lost to Bob Dole.

Which film star played a live-action Beavis in a 2024 Saturday Night Live sketch that went viral?

Ryan Gosling played Beavis opposite cast member Mikey Day as Butt-Head, and the two wore the costumes again at the premiere of The Fall Guy.

From their couch, Beavis and Butt-Head interrupt most episodes to watch and heckle which kind of clips?

Music videos let the pair sound a little smarter than usual, and their creator improvised those comments on the spot.

Which cable channel launched Beavis and Butt-Head in 1993 and saw it become its top-rated show?

MTV flew the creator to New York in 1992 to order a series, and its seven-figure budget floored a man who had made his films alone for $800.

Which hard rock band's name is on the T-shirt Butt-Head wears in nearly every episode?

AC/DC also lies behind the theme tune: the creator has said its guitar riff is the band's song Gone Shootin' played backwards.

Which metal band's logo does Beavis, the blond half of Beavis and Butt-Head, usually wear on his T-shirt?

Metallica vanishes from the merchandise, where his shirt carries a made-up slogan instead to avoid licensing issues.

Which Hollywood pair voice crooks Muddy and Dallas Grimes in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore play the Grimeses, who each offer the boys cash to deal with the other. Moore also starred in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame that year.

Which pop star joined Beavis and Butt-Head for a 1993 duet that reached the UK top 40?

Cher sang I Got You Babe with the pair for The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience, a tie-in album that went double platinum in the United States.

Which snack was served in record-breaking quantity to promote the 2022 revival of Beavis and Butt-Head?

Nachos were piled up on a Los Angeles street for the stunt, and the Guinness plaque names the show itself as the record holder.

Which animated sitcom did the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head start developing in 1995?

King of the Hill reached screens in 1997, and its lead Hank has been compared to the duo's disapproving neighbour, Tom Anderson.

In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, a crook who takes the duo for hitmen sends them to which city?

Las Vegas is where his wife Dallas is staying; she catches the boys at their hotel and sends them on to meet her in Washington.

Which film is parodied when a guardian angel shows Butt-Head his town without him one Christmas?

It's a Wonderful Life is turned on its head: the town proves far happier without Butt-Head, and Beavis volunteers at a homeless shelter.

Which phone voice assistant do the duo mistake for an astronaut in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe?

Siri offers to set up a smart home, which the boys take as proof that astronaut Serena is waiting for them back in Highland.

Which later animated hit's creators named Beavis and Butt-Head an influence and likened it to the blues?

South Park's creators cite the series as an influence. Even the National Review defended the older cartoon as cleverly subversive social criticism.

Which 1999 cult comedy did the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head build from his Milton cartoons?

Office Space, which he wrote and directed, followed the cartoons' run on Saturday Night Live; the studio first wanted a film about Milton alone.

Which streaming service brought back Beavis and Butt-Head in 2022, starting with the film Do the Universe?

Paramount+ took the revival after it had first been announced for Comedy Central, and the cable channel finally got the series in 2025.

Which late-night host, credited as Earl Hofert, voices a roadie in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

David Letterman took the alias for his cameo as one of two drifters who are, unknown to the boys, their fathers. He also appears as himself in the series.

Which landmark do the duo accidentally sabotage during a bus tour in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

Hoover Dam is where the manhunt starts: the blunder convinces a federal agent that the boys are criminal masterminds.

In Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, what carries the duo from 1998 to the year 2022?

A black hole swallows them after an astronaut flings them from the shuttle they have wrecked, and they emerge in Galveston 24 years later.

Which homemade 1992 cartoon, shown on an animation showcase, first introduced Beavis and Butt-Head?

Frog Baseball showed a nastier pair: their creator said he would have kept his distance from those two, but warmed to them over the years.

The creator of Beavis and Butt-Head graduated in which science before teaching himself to animate?

Physics led to work he struggled to connect with, so he began making films alone, shooting them on a cheap Bolex 16mm camera.

Which guitar-playing hippie teacher urges Beavis and Butt-Head to get in touch with their feelings?

Mr. Van Driessen later lent his voice to another series: the creator reused it for Gerald Goode in his 2009 cartoon The Goode Family.

Which local criminal do Beavis and Butt-Head idolise, although he beats them and uses them for money?

Todd leads a gang of small-time crooks and makes his contempt for the pair plain, yet the boys keep seeking him out however he treats them.

Which band's logo is on the T-shirt of Stewart, the nerdy hanger-on in Beavis and Butt-Head?

Winger was mocked through that shirt for years, and guitarist Reb Beach has claimed the portrayal effectively ended the band's career.

The duo's long-lost fathers in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America are former roadies for which rock band?

Mötley Crüe's two ex-roadies cross paths with the boys in the desert, and neither pair realises they are fathers and sons.

Which rock musician's artwork shaped the desert hallucination sequence in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

Rob Zombie's art set the look of the sequence, which begins when a parched Beavis bites into a peyote cactus. His band is on the soundtrack too.

Which film star reportedly imitated Beavis on a 1995 movie set while Marlon Brando did Butt-Head?

Johnny Depp did the voice while making Don Juan DeMarco, and he once expressed interest in playing Beavis in a live-action film.

Which comic strip did the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head name as an unlikely influence on his drawing?

Peanuts lent the show its sketchy line and its parent-free setting: nobody ever says whose house the boys are living in.

At which 1997 ceremony did Beavis and Butt-Head present the prize for sound effects editing?

The Oscars put the cartoon pair on screen in March 1997, three months after their first film had opened at number one in North America.

In the 1997 finale of Beavis and Butt-Head, what false news does Beavis give the school secretary?

They have died, Beavis claims over the phone, and Principal McVicker is so pleased that his nervous shaking stops.

Where on Beavis does Dallas Grimes hide a biological weapon in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

In his shorts it stays until neighbour Tom Anderson throws the ripped pair out of his trailer in front of waiting agents.

Which animation showcase first aired the Beavis and Butt-Head short films and also launched Æon Flux?

Liquid Television ran from 1991 to 1995, and its parent network ordered a full series after showing two of the homemade cartoons.

Which pop star's work convinced executive Van Toffler to bring back Beavis and Butt-Head in 2011?

Lady Gaga stood for a whole new crop of artists, he felt, and viewers sorely missed the duo's point of view on them.

The creator of Beavis and Butt-Head, raised in Albuquerque, was born in which South American country?

Ecuador was home only until he was three; his father worked there for a nonprofit that promoted agricultural development.

Before Beavis and Butt-Head took off, its creator spent two years on the road in which musical role?

Blues bassist was his job in Anson Funderburgh's band, and he took graduate maths classes on the side while playing.

Which two Saturday Night Live regulars were first in mind for a live-action Beavis and Butt-Head film?

Adam Sandler and David Spade were the early picks when the first film was planned as live action; the creator pushed for animation and won.

Which actress voices Martha, the old woman who garbles the duo's names in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

Cloris Leachman's Martha joins a long line of adults who mangle the boys' names, a running joke throughout the series.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America set a December opening-weekend record that which film broke a year later?

Scream 2 took the record in December 1997. The cartoon had opened at number one with $20.1 million, on a budget of about $12 million.

Which soul veteran wrote and performed Two Cool Guys, the theme song of Beavis and Butt-Head Do America?

Isaac Hayes built it as a send-up of his own Theme from Shaft, working the cartoon's guitar theme in as a rhythm line.

Which point-and-click adventure game starring Beavis and Butt-Head came out for Windows in 1995?

Virtual Stupidity later reached the PlayStation in Japan only, with the duo's voices dubbed by a Japanese comedy double act.

Which actress voiced the sardonic classmate in Beavis and Butt-Head and kept the part in a spin-off?

Tracy Grandstaff also voiced mothers, teachers and other minor characters in the original run, and went on to write for several other shows.

Which South Carolina senator mangled the duo's names while attacking Beavis and Butt-Head?

Fritz Hollings's slip was written into the show, where adults from the neighbour to a chat-show host keep getting the boys' names wrong.

A concert intro for which rock band led the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head to revive the duo?

Portugal. The Man got a custom intro starring the pair, and the creator found doing the voices again so much fun that he opened talks about a new series.