Review: Beavis and Butt-Head “Werewolves of Highland; Crying”

In this week’s comeback episode of Beavis and Butthead, our favorite metalheads try to become vampires ala “Twilight” because all of the girls in school want to bang out Robert Pattinson and the boys want a piece of the action. Then Butthead catches Beavis crying and starts calling him a pussy.Yep…they’re back!

SPOILERS BELOW

Take your pick for your favorite cliche’. Be it, riding a bike again or a well-fit glove Beavis and Butthead fit just perfect with the current crop of animated shows. Think about it! First time around Beavis and Butthead didn’t have many other cartoons to stand apart from, now with shows like South Park, the AniDom block, and Archer our boys in black and blue had to bring their “A” game to come back into the forefront of the pack…and they did!

But, its not like Mike Judge was sitting on the sideline all these years either. He’s helped put together some cult favorite movies like “Office Space” and “Extract”, and was at the helm of one of the best animated shows on TV “King of the Hill”. But, something tells me Mike Judge has been watching TV with the rest of us the last 5 or so years and has had to deal with the shittiness that is pop culture nowadays.

A little about me before you read through, I am so re-missed from mainstream pop culture, and B&B were nice enough to show me that I haven’t been missing much. For one, I haven’t watched MTV since the “Jackass” days, and had no idea there was TV shows like a fucking show about being ADDICTED TO PORN! Are you serious? Was that really a thing? How does one get a show for being addicted to porn? But, even the things that I’ve seen overtly advertised all over the place for instance shit movies like Twilight and terrible bands like MGMT and LMFAO (what’s with all of the acronyms in pop music?) it was awesome to see I have guys on my side again wearing Metallica and AC/DC shirts that in a way stick up for the guy who still loves to throw horns.

So, you’ve heard my splurge on what I think of the overall B&B experience…lets talk about this week’s episode shall we? First act had the boys checking out Twilight , and having been inspired by the fact that apparently necrophilia is appealing to young girls nowadays, decide that they must find a disease-ridden guy in an alley that they deem a vampire to help them “transform”.

Second act sees the boys eating chili dogs and watching the “Bachelor”(jesus fucking christ, Howard Stern talks about that show all the time) .  Turns out Beavis’ dog has a raw onion in it and it makes him tear up. Butthead sees this as his friend turning into a pussy, which of course is really just a big misunderstanding.

As mentioned, all throughout the show are clips of other shows I hate like “16 and Pregnant” and “Jersey Shore” with both taking their bumps courtesy of Sir Beavis and the Butthead. And they don’t hold back either, Mike Judge rolls up his sleeves and isn’t afraid to throw down…and I wouldn’t have it any other way.