Right after a good animated movie to essentially relaunch the business after a decade-long lack since their last year revival, the new series closely follows the particular template of the initial, featuring a pair of shorts within each show and interstitial riffing on videos. It’s just that the subjects have evolved, giving the clueless 15-year-old friends a chance to lampoon ASMR and college-reaction videos (they think the celebrating mom and daughter are usually wrestling) or to discuss their mixed emotions about BTS.
Given exactly how proudly unaware Beavis and Butt-Head originally were, including their fruitless obsession with “scoring, ” they could seem like an unusual duo to revive in the current moment. In an interview with Indiewire , Determine suggested the concept had been actually “eternal, ” noting that teenage boys “really don’t have changed that much within hundreds of years. There are some issues that don’t have anything to perform with what time period most likely in. ”
That actually is largely true, with only the shifting background scenes for their shenanigans — like visiting a getaway room, easily the best of the four stories in the episodes previewed — reflecting that will we’ve moved into a new century. Judge furthermore drops in one extremely amusing cameo once again of his cartoon filmography.
What still makes “Beavis and Butt-Head” work, though, is the disarming idiocy from it all, like the two hiding in a cardboard boxes box in order to infiltrate the school after hours, and Butt-Head proudly saying, “We’re beating the system” even after the program has gone haywire. There is even an episode devoted to Beavis’ infatuation with fire, which usually, given the show’s history — and run-ins with problems about kids imitating the behavior — was probably included just to torment Paramount’s legal team.
Animated characters are always timeless, but this isn’t exactly the Peanuts gang since candidates for revivals go. Through the years, though, Judge has exhibited that he certainly knows how to work the machine, and that when it comes to “Beavis and Butt-Head, ” the funny side of stupidity is usually, indeed, eternal.
“Mike Judge’s Beavis plus Butt-Head” premieres Aug. 4 on Paramount+.