Characters have gotten smarter, or at least more manic in order to keep pace. The pace of jokes has attempted to keep pace with the flow of information. In the decades since Beavis And Butt-Head and Beavis And Butt-Head Do America, studios and culture broadly have assumed that the solution to comedy was more - more plot, more characters, more cameos, more dialogue.
If that was a way to capitalize on the cartoon while its popularity was peaking, Mike Judge’s latest effort is a reminder of how comedy can be.
In a weird way, Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universefeels even more timely than their last movie. It’s been… (*leans back in easy chair, quietly yearns for the release of death*) 25 YEARS since their last film effort, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, in 1996.Īnd yet, almost from the first frames, Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe feels not only like logical product, but something that should exist. So how the hell did a Beavis and Butt-head movie released straight to streaming in 2022 wind up feeling so refreshing?īeavis and Butt-head (has “Butt-Head” always had a hyphen? I feel like I’m being Mandela Effected here) began airing on MTV when I was nearing the age of its protagonists. At least grant me the illusion of being a free-range piggy. I’m not immune to the pull of nostalgia myself, but there are also entire genres of shows that I’ve specifically avoided for the simple reason that I don’t think I could look myself in the mirror the next morning if I ever found myself getting excited about something called a “Baby Yoda.” Something about that feels a little too calculated. Nothing is harder to recreate than a joke, not to mention that these days, practically every project feels like the spiritual equivalent of a corporate executive banging a ladle against the sides of the slop trough somewhere, expecting that the sound alone will be enough to get us running and squealing.
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