--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: The Beavis and Butt-Head Show image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec48462fefc7616d/69869f01169ab0343b27aad4/t100_tv_beavis-and-butt-head-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 14, 2014 # _The Beavis and Butt-Head Show_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett To those who would call this MTV cartoon the boob tube at its most puerile, I have but one rejoinder: You said “boob.” This show’s fart-knocking, frog-smashing anarchy might have put it on the list alone, but _B&B_ was so much more. It was a surreal comedy (“I am the great Cornholio!”). It was one of TV’s great inside critiques, peeling back the MTV fantasy of unattainable cool and personifying the sugar-buzzed idiot-children who paid the channel’s bills. Like creator Mike Judge’s later _King of the Hill, Office Space_ and _Idiocracy_, it was an unsparing, minutely observed and surprisingly good-hearted picture of consumer America. And to the list of great philosophical dialectics—good/evil, yin/yang—it added another: “That’s cool” / “That sucks.” _B&B_ was on the right side of that one. [Get This TV Series](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000B5XOWU/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100893/the-beavis-and-butt-head-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100893/the-beavis-and-butt-head-show/"},"headline":"The Beavis and Butt-Head Show","datePublished":"2014-08-14T19:07:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:02:09.317Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100893/the-beavis-and-butt-head-show/","keywords":["Comedy","MTV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec48462fefc7616d/69869f01169ab0343b27aad4/t100_tv_beavis-and-butt-head-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec48462fefc7616d/69869f01169ab0343b27aad4/t100_tv_beavis-and-butt-head-show1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100893/the-beavis-and-butt-head-show/","name":"The Beavis and Butt-Head Show"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Beavis and Butt-Head Show","description":"It was one of TV's great inside critiques, peeling back the MTV fantasy of unattainable cool and personifying the sugar-buzzed idiot-children who paid the channel's bills.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/MgDhg8vS/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T15:25:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/MgDhg8vS.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100893/the-beavis-and-butt-head-show/","duration":"PT33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3100893/the-beavis-and-butt-head-show/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```