Ever wonder how Beavis and Butt-head celebrate the holidays? Yeah, me neither, but what do you say we find out anyway? So for Part I of our yuletide laugh fest, we have "Huh Huh Humbug", starring Beavis. It begins Christmas Eve at Burger World where our heroes are working the graveyard shift. Butt-head is fast asleep and Beavis is cooking a dead rat. The manager comes to berate him and tells him screwing around will never get him anywhere. Beavis falls asleep and dreams that he is the manager of Burger World and McVicker is his lowly employee. McVicker asks if he can go home early to be with his family, and Butt-head asks the same, however Beavis reminds him that he has no family and decides to go home himself, forcing Butt-head and McVicker to stay and work all night. So our Mr. Scrooge goes home and settles in to watch that timeless Christmas classic, Ebeneezer Screw, with veteran actor Tiny Johnson. The festivities are interrupted when Butt-head, now a ghost, comes out of the TV. He's not sure why he's there or why he's some dead guy with cool chains, but he warns Beavis that he will see some ghosts or something. So Butt-head leaves and Beavis gets back to the porno, when suddenly the Ghost of Christmas Past (Anderson) comes in and shows Beavis Christmases past, involving he and Butt-head doing nothing but sitting on the couch. He tells him he's wasted his life, however it doesn't seem to phase Beavis in the least. Next, Mr. Van Driessen, playing the Ghost of Christmas Present arrives and shows Beavis via television the McVicker family. The patriarch managed to sneak out on his break and bring home a meager Christmas dinner of a cheeseburger and fries. Van Driessen explains that the family is poor and starving and urges Beavis to give McVicker a raise, but all he's fixated on is the fact that McVicker stole food and should be fired. Van Driessen leaves and in comes Mr. Buzzcut as The Ghost of Christmas Future, who shows Beavis his head stone that blatantly tells the world he never scored. As Beavis contemplates in mending his ways, he's awakened from his dream by Butt-head, who says it's his turn to sleep. Beavis tells him of his startling vision of the future and that it's pretty cool.
Part II "It's a Miserable Life", starring Butt-head. As you could probably tell, this is a take on It's a Wonderful Life, with Butt-head in the Jimmy Stewart role. Now, you remember how at the beginning of that movie all of George Bailey's friends were praying for him, wishing him well? Here, all of the residents of Highland are praying that the Almighty will kill Beavis and Butt-head. They blame those two for all of their problems. In response to this, the arc-angels send an inexperienced angel to do away with them. Meanwhile, Beavis and Butt-head are spending Christmas Eve looking for chicks, but there are none to be found. They go to a bridge and think it would be cool to jump, when suddenly Charlie appears. They don't believe he's their guardian angel, so to prove to them that he is and that the world would be better off without them, Charlie randomly selects Butt-head and shows him what the world would be like if he were never born. It turns out that without Butt-head, Highland is a happy place. But what became of Beavis? He's working in a soup kitchen with a very assertive Stewart. Even though Butt-head was apparently never born, he's still able to interact with the people for some reason. He tries taking Beavis with him, but the soup kitchen patrons beat him up and throw him out. After that, Butt-head goes back to the bridge and asks to have been born and stuff, so things are returned to normal, Charlie fails at his task, and the boys go home, having not learned a thing, except that although the world sucks, it would suck a lot more without them.
This was the first Beavis and Butt-head episode I remember watching. It seems to capture the spirit of the season, even if said spirit is lost in our protagonists. In between the episodes are some Christmas music videos, and a new segment called Letters to Santa Butt-head. In a mock-up sleigh with Beavis as his reindeer, Santa Butt-head reads letters that were supposedly sent in by real viewers, but read aloud by actors. The letters feature young people bitching about the holidays, bitching about their families, some chicks ask for Beavis, and some guys with funny names. In the end though, a chick asks for Beavis AND Butt-head, so hopefully their Christmas was merry. So fans of the show, this is definitely worth checking out. It really beats the 1994 Christmas special that only featured them watching music videos.
Part II "It's a Miserable Life", starring Butt-head. As you could probably tell, this is a take on It's a Wonderful Life, with Butt-head in the Jimmy Stewart role. Now, you remember how at the beginning of that movie all of George Bailey's friends were praying for him, wishing him well? Here, all of the residents of Highland are praying that the Almighty will kill Beavis and Butt-head. They blame those two for all of their problems. In response to this, the arc-angels send an inexperienced angel to do away with them. Meanwhile, Beavis and Butt-head are spending Christmas Eve looking for chicks, but there are none to be found. They go to a bridge and think it would be cool to jump, when suddenly Charlie appears. They don't believe he's their guardian angel, so to prove to them that he is and that the world would be better off without them, Charlie randomly selects Butt-head and shows him what the world would be like if he were never born. It turns out that without Butt-head, Highland is a happy place. But what became of Beavis? He's working in a soup kitchen with a very assertive Stewart. Even though Butt-head was apparently never born, he's still able to interact with the people for some reason. He tries taking Beavis with him, but the soup kitchen patrons beat him up and throw him out. After that, Butt-head goes back to the bridge and asks to have been born and stuff, so things are returned to normal, Charlie fails at his task, and the boys go home, having not learned a thing, except that although the world sucks, it would suck a lot more without them.
This was the first Beavis and Butt-head episode I remember watching. It seems to capture the spirit of the season, even if said spirit is lost in our protagonists. In between the episodes are some Christmas music videos, and a new segment called Letters to Santa Butt-head. In a mock-up sleigh with Beavis as his reindeer, Santa Butt-head reads letters that were supposedly sent in by real viewers, but read aloud by actors. The letters feature young people bitching about the holidays, bitching about their families, some chicks ask for Beavis, and some guys with funny names. In the end though, a chick asks for Beavis AND Butt-head, so hopefully their Christmas was merry. So fans of the show, this is definitely worth checking out. It really beats the 1994 Christmas special that only featured them watching music videos.
