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This week, we're visiting one of the earliest What A Cartoon! subjects—and one of our favorites—the great MTV cartoon, Beavis and Butt-Head. But instead of jumping back to their heyday in the go-go '90s, we're heading back to the less-distant year of 2011, when MTV's crude cartoon got a fresh reboot and all seemed right with the world. This short-lived revival might have come and gone in three short months, but it amazingly matched (and often surpassed) the energy and crude creativity of the original run. Load up on cheap convenience store nachos and get ready for yet another podcast that doesn't suck!

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dave s

I had the Beavis and Butt-Head Experience CD with the Cher song. Made me cringe then, makes me cringe now. The Megadeth track is really good though.

Frank Grimes

You definitely should check out Silicon Valley, especially since you guys did work in the industry. I worked at a bay area start up for a few years as well, and a good majority of the show resonated for good laughs (and a few pains).

Joe Hodgson

This show has become so endearing to me as an adult, which is not something I would have expected while watching it as a 9 year old when it came on after Speed Racer (or was it before?) on week day evenings. A show so dumb that it's actually really clever, and the 2011 comeback was so satisfying in ways nostalgia can't even account for. It was almost like a validation for the series to see it not miss a beat as I've heard so many times over the years when discussing the topic of Beavis and Butt-Head that it was just stupid, but anyone who thinks it was just stupid never really gave it the time of day. The only thing that sucks about the show, and it's probably brought up every time anyone discusses the show today, is that MTV did not have the foresight to secure the rights to the music videos used in each episode so that we could easily have fully intact segments available today. Listening to this podcast today really gave me an urge to crack open a Pepsi Big Slam and devour a big bag of Doritos with some Beavis and Butt-Head. Oh to be young again.

Cody C.

In 2011 I was 24, living on the couch of a Heavy Metal band’s practice space / medical marijuana grow facility while working my entry level job at Future. Needless to say this revival was household appointment television. I have a long history with this show, mimicking the voices and watching with my parents at an all too inappropriate age, but what struck me about this revival was the quality. I’m not sure if there is a better way to phrase this, but has there been anything else that’s been better than the original’s quality while still maintaining the standards and nostalgia of the source material? I can only think of Shovel Knight. Anyway, that was cool. Much love to you guys, congrats Bob, and after a month of recovery I beat the virus - so it is not all doom and gloom guys.

Rhomega

I never watched Beavis and Butthead during the '90s. In fact, I've never watched a minute of MTV, but one day I rented the movie off iTunes, and I've loved them since, and I've even started watching Daria.. Thanks for taking a WAC at the newer episodes.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

This has to be up there with Twin Peaks on the list of best show revivals/returns ever (or part of the few that actually worked at all, even). I haven't seen the full return season (or all of the original run) but this felt like such a natural continuation despite a decade passing, sort of adapting to the times but not in any kind of stupid or distracting way (i.e. Lisa having a gif of Homer backing into the bushes) that changes the core of the show too much.