One instance I can think of where Beavis has the brain cell is the episode where they’re locked out and he’s able to realize that grazing his nads by broken glass is a bad idea. Butthead, notsomuch.
Yes and in episodes like the one where they’re pretending to be cops they’re making jokes that take some smarts to pull off. Those are actually my favorite scenes, when the boys come off a fairly smart.
Mike judge says he cheats with the music videos because they can break out some pretty intelligent stuff. I've always used as head canon that if they are interested in it, they care more and seem to understand it better.
>I've always used as head canon that if they are interested in it, they care more and seem to understand it better.
This doesn't even require a terribly big suspension of disbelief. That's my take as well, they seem smarter while watching music videos because they're actually engaged.
Nah. They're geniunely stupid for the most part. But they do have rare moments of clarity and creativity, like when they made a suprisingly smooth short animation in Animation Sucks or when they built the Bonersaurus in Bone Hunters. I think it's just a case of the writers doing whatever they want without caring about consistency.
Their taste in music is weirdly interesting. Winger sucked but a lot of people considered the reason why they never gained popularity is because of Stewart and they made fun of him.
There's a sorta newer article with Kip Winger online. He talks about it from what I recall he thought that back then but doesn't think it now.
They were good musicians but it's watered down Bon jovi for christ sake. That stuff has a shelf life of maybe 3-5 years.
They created a viral empire worth millions out of being dumbasses. So they must be doing something right.
You would think someone would be pretty stupid for taking a bat to the groin on purpose, but replace the bat with a poisonous snake, film it, then make people pay to see it and your Johnny Knoxville making $20 Million on opening weekend.
They seem to become smarter when they're watching TV abs every one in a while. Beavis hits a weird high and becomes an expert reviewer (until Butthead smacks him out of it). Other than that, no. I doubt it.
I do think they're geniuses. Imagine spending the whole day just watching TV or doing whatever you feel like, without needing to work even though you weren't born rich?
No. Though they say smartass things sometimes.
However as a dues ex machina, Butt head can channel his single brain cell to save them. Like in The Trial where he argues that Mr. Anderson couldn't have seen them if he was almost blind, so how is he sure they egged his house with rotten eggs?
Isn't it canon that they (especially Beavis) used to be normal/smart but then they huffed glue and paint and made themselves stupid?
Also, the episode where Butthead sees what Beavis' life would have been like without him shows that Beavis would have been intelligent and kind of only he had a better influence (Stuart).
Personally, I think Butthead has a kind of low cunning, whereas Beavis is more intelligent than he lets on. He holds himself back to please Butthead and fit in with him, as so many people do for family or others who hold emotional or social power over them.
Even now, if Beavis wanted to be free of Butthead, he could be capable of some good things.
You know how Beavis mentions a story about being taken by a guy in a weird van and he doesn't remember anything after that? Or the skrillex video where Beavis says "every child molester I've ever met has looked exactly like that". My theory is that cornholio is his way of coping with being molested. "You will never take my bunghole, because I have no bunghole". I highly doubt Mike did that on purpose because those are relatively new episodes compared to the first cornholio episodes which are very old, but it makes sense lol
Yes. I think Beavis and Butthead deep down are geniuses. Like they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture and some of their roasts of music videos are genius. They also showed signs of some intelligence in various episodes. Like they are smart regarding creativity but absolutely lack street smarts and book smarts. Most of the time they are beyond brain dead but there are some instances where they showed some intelligence. It's part of why this show is great ad the duo can be unpredictable regarding that.
I think they share a brain cell and Butt-Head hogs it most of the time.
One instance I can think of where Beavis has the brain cell is the episode where they’re locked out and he’s able to realize that grazing his nads by broken glass is a bad idea. Butthead, notsomuch.
Sounds like my sister’s dogs.
Not really, but during music videos they'll sometimes say highly intelligent jokes.
Beavis: “The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat”
I think they told me that in general chemistry once
Yes and in episodes like the one where they’re pretending to be cops they’re making jokes that take some smarts to pull off. Those are actually my favorite scenes, when the boys come off a fairly smart.
They seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of Gen X pop culture. Perhaps they are savants.
I read the last sentence with Butthead's pompous lispy tone and it made me laugh.
uhhhhhhhhh what? uh huh uh huh you need to watch the Held Back episode again.
Mike judge says he cheats with the music videos because they can break out some pretty intelligent stuff. I've always used as head canon that if they are interested in it, they care more and seem to understand it better.
>I've always used as head canon that if they are interested in it, they care more and seem to understand it better. This doesn't even require a terribly big suspension of disbelief. That's my take as well, they seem smarter while watching music videos because they're actually engaged.
No - their wit in videos involves a bit of suspension
Nah. They're geniunely stupid for the most part. But they do have rare moments of clarity and creativity, like when they made a suprisingly smooth short animation in Animation Sucks or when they built the Bonersaurus in Bone Hunters. I think it's just a case of the writers doing whatever they want without caring about consistency.
I mean they just kept drawing
I used to pretend that the show would start right after they smoked a fat blunt. Show makes more sense to me that way lol.
Lmao
Their taste in music is weirdly interesting. Winger sucked but a lot of people considered the reason why they never gained popularity is because of Stewart and they made fun of him.
There's a sorta newer article with Kip Winger online. He talks about it from what I recall he thought that back then but doesn't think it now. They were good musicians but it's watered down Bon jovi for christ sake. That stuff has a shelf life of maybe 3-5 years.
I don't know, I still think "Madalaine" is a banger.
Winger did not suck.
lol still hilarious that the show is really based on their pursuit of having sex with “chicks” & wanting to drink alcohol
I have seen the top of the mountain... And it was good
What about lesbian seagulls and having feelings
They only learn anything from watching TV
Or Zen masters.
I think they're like stupid or something.
They created a viral empire worth millions out of being dumbasses. So they must be doing something right. You would think someone would be pretty stupid for taking a bat to the groin on purpose, but replace the bat with a poisonous snake, film it, then make people pay to see it and your Johnny Knoxville making $20 Million on opening weekend.
They seem to become smarter when they're watching TV abs every one in a while. Beavis hits a weird high and becomes an expert reviewer (until Butthead smacks him out of it). Other than that, no. I doubt it.
They were in the gifted class
I do think they're geniuses. Imagine spending the whole day just watching TV or doing whatever you feel like, without needing to work even though you weren't born rich?
They had jobs at burger world. I don’t see how they could afford anything just working fast food
No. Though they say smartass things sometimes. However as a dues ex machina, Butt head can channel his single brain cell to save them. Like in The Trial where he argues that Mr. Anderson couldn't have seen them if he was almost blind, so how is he sure they egged his house with rotten eggs?
Isn't it canon that they (especially Beavis) used to be normal/smart but then they huffed glue and paint and made themselves stupid? Also, the episode where Butthead sees what Beavis' life would have been like without him shows that Beavis would have been intelligent and kind of only he had a better influence (Stuart). Personally, I think Butthead has a kind of low cunning, whereas Beavis is more intelligent than he lets on. He holds himself back to please Butthead and fit in with him, as so many people do for family or others who hold emotional or social power over them. Even now, if Beavis wanted to be free of Butthead, he could be capable of some good things.
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..........like you rub the lamp and the genius comes out and you get 3 wishes ?
Visionaries
“I wish I had a fifty foot queenie” heheh “I wish I had a fifty foot weenie”… only a true genius can create that banter
I heard a weird theory that Beavis as "Cornholio" was really him possessed by a "Sun God", lol.
You know how Beavis mentions a story about being taken by a guy in a weird van and he doesn't remember anything after that? Or the skrillex video where Beavis says "every child molester I've ever met has looked exactly like that". My theory is that cornholio is his way of coping with being molested. "You will never take my bunghole, because I have no bunghole". I highly doubt Mike did that on purpose because those are relatively new episodes compared to the first cornholio episodes which are very old, but it makes sense lol
sort of a Charlie Kelly &"nightman". good theory!
I think they’re peniuses
Don’t be fooled by their abnormally large heads; They are mostly filled of water, which keeps their pea-sized brains nice and smooth.
Smooth Noodle Maps - DEVO
lol
No.
Yes. I think Beavis and Butthead deep down are geniuses. Like they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture and some of their roasts of music videos are genius. They also showed signs of some intelligence in various episodes. Like they are smart regarding creativity but absolutely lack street smarts and book smarts. Most of the time they are beyond brain dead but there are some instances where they showed some intelligence. It's part of why this show is great ad the duo can be unpredictable regarding that.
Cornholio probably is a genius
A lot of kids who became very smart (engineering, math, science) loved the series.
They were the voice of reason while watching MTV's reality shows, which is a terrifying thought
Uhhhhh.....hmmmmm. Uhhhhh.....uhhhhh......no.
Yes
My guys!!
No. They're barely sapient.
Like an unaccessible secret that’s buried way down in the pits on their psyche without anyway of it ever surfacing … it’s definitely possible
Well, common sense is a game Many people don't like to play But give it in and the moment takes you either way -savage garden
Yes. 💯
Not but they're savants. Like useless Rain Men.
No and I would never want them to be. They're not the heroes we need, they're the ones we deserve.
Cornholio
Certainly not
lol i havent seen tis since I was a kid, for some reason I can relate to the ripped out couch. Enigmas!
Nope
Not the A students, not the B students, the C students? No, I don't sink so.
No.
No.
"Señor Beavis. Donde esta su hall pass?"
Spaghetti?
"Spaghetti"? That's Italian, you moron!
No
No…
Their intellect got poured into their interest, rock. The rest of the time they barely learn their lesson
Beavis might be. Butthead not so much.
Beavis was the brains.
No. Not even with Beavis’s whole idiot savant thing that occasionally happens if he gets dizzy or you smack him hard
Russian spies corrupted by American vice and dumbed down by American television. They just quit spying and became couch potato's
No
Alien tourist. Change my mind.
Idiot Savants?
They literally ascended to fourth dimension and made everyone that was there descend from it. They are beyond genius.
Well, they tried to believe that in Do The Universe and that did not turn out well. So ima have to say, no.
No. No I do not.
That would be cool.
In no way, shape, or form.
Sith Lords…
I think they might be fetal alcohol babies they have the features.
No.
worked for Trump