Review: Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head “Ear & Dearly Departed”

Overview

Ear

Butt-Head blows off Beavis’s ear and tries to reattach it.

Dearly Departed

Beavis and Butt-Head think Beavis has died and is now a ghost.

Cutaways

Barbie, Songs of Nature, Presidential Fold

Our Take

We haven’t been getting middle-aged Beavis and Butt-Head for a few weeks now but OG is still hanging in strong. This week we see the return of Cody who is more-or-less a Stewart fill-in that gets a front-row seat for the shenanigans of our titular heroes while the second half of this week’s episode just continues to see the boys make hilarious mockeries of every-day situations.

The cutaways were down to one each for each episode largely due to the fact that David Van Driessen blessed us with his presence that included a song and an off-camera mountain lion attack that I really wish was fully on camera. In fact the one gripe I have about the show is that creator Mike Judge likes to pull back on the violence and crass language when, in fact, he should lean in more.

That said, who am I to judge THE Judge.