Beavis vs. Butthead

Beavis, duh

pretty sure some form of this argument applies somehow

BEAVIS: yeah, heh heh… hey butt-head, how come like, some stuff sucks, but then like, some stuff is pretty cool? heh heh…

BUTT-HEAD: uh… huh huh… well, huh huh… if nothing sucked, and like, everything was cool all the time, then it’s like, how would you know it was cool? huh huh…

BEAVIS: heh heh, i would know. heh heh… you just said, everything would be cool. heh heh…

BUTT-HEAD: i mean like, if i wasn’t here. huh huh…

BEAVIS: oh yeah, yeah. heh heh… that would be cool. heh heh..

BUTT-HEAD: no, butt-munch. i mean like, let’s say someone came up and just hit you upside the head.

BEAVIS: yeah. heh heh…

BUTT-HEAD: well, huh huh… that would be cool. huh huh…

BEAVIS: no it wouldn’t, that would suck!

BUTT-HEAD: yeah. uh! <smack>

BEAVIS: ahhh! cut it out, butt-hole.

BUTT-HEAD: uh! <smack>

BEAVIS: ahh! heh heh…

BUTT-HEAD: huh huh… now that was cool! huh huh…

BEAVIS: no it wasn’t, that sucked! heh heh…

BUTT-HEAD: huh huh.. yeah, but like, huh huh… ya know after it’s over, huh huh… doesn’t it like, feel pretty cool? huh huh…

BEAVIS: heh heh… oh yeah, yeah, heh heh, yeah, heh heh…

BUTT-HEAD: see, it’t like, you need stuff that sucks to have stuff that’s cool. huh huh…

BEAVIS: oh yeah, yeah, heh heh, yeah, heh. do that again.

i remember reading some pauline kael-like critique commenting that butthead was the more "cerebral" of the two.

I've always felt that to be the case. I think it's the timbre of his voice.

Very authoritative, I agree.

Definitely.

well he's the dominant one innit

it's p standard for double acts, the idiot who's always calling the other idiot an idiot

sometimes they're more of an idiot sometimes slightly less

in this case I'd say the idiocy is about equal but beavis is more of a savant

butthead is also more the ladies' man iirc

I'm still kicking myself for not fully recognizing this show's genius back in the day.

Beavis definitely has savant tendencies. He's keyed into a different plane of existence while still sort of functioning in this one.

Any chance I get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjzh0Nx-5k4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aHA4-5N5AzA

always more fully identified with beavis's manic tendencies

Beavis told Pavement to "try! Come on! ... Try!"

Voted Beavis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zm1ee8CgSE

so much wisdom

not voting itp

beavis brings way more lols, butthead is mostly only funny when he attempts to talk to adults, imo

I'm still kicking myself for not fully recognizing this show's genius back in the day.

― for more fun visit www.combos.com (Old Lunch), Monday, November 24, 2014 1:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was it too subtle for you or something?

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Beavis, duh

― Punny Names (latebloomer), Sunday, November 23, 2014 8:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Which one wrote the frog haiku?

plop!

ButtHead=Brian
Beavis=Stewie

so ButtHead

that was cool huh huh
when we killed that frog
it won't croak again

-- Butthead

Hmm, middle line seems too short.

Butthead was the smarter one, yeah, or at least he was always correcting Beavis when he said something really stupid. (Though his corrections obviously weren't always correct either.) I think their dynamic was very much like an older brother/younger brother thing, with Beavis trying to impress Butthead, and Butthead just being like, shut the fuck up.

oh I forget a huh huh at the end of the middle line

Butthead was the smarter one

― Tuomas, Tuesday, November 25, 2014 5:25 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Still Tuomas, I see.

Like "smart" even enters into the equation here? Did it escape your attention that his name is "Butthead" and that characterization goes beyond his haircut?

These are two suburban early-adolescent American maladjusted morons, whose maladjusted moronism is in large part but not entirely a product of their suburban American early adolescence. Butthead is the slightly better-adjusted one who, yes, generally ends up explaining the universe to Beavis. This would credit him with greater intelligence of at least the emotional kind if he were not lacking in a great deal of self-awareness or other forms of a clue as well; he is the "alpha" of two who are nothing of the sort. Beavis, meanwhile, is a complete idiot, but, yes, with some "savant"-like qualities. Of the two little weirdoes, Beavis is the much bigger one, taking active pleasure in weirdness of a sort that Butthead is a little too normal to essay. He is the fool to Butthead's straight man. He is the Great Cornholio. There is no other.

I've never watched "Stewie" - that's someone else, right? - but Beavis is Bobby(+Boomhauer and possibly Dale), while Butthead is Hank(+Bill and Cotton).

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/70lb

Smart one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKM2xSJ5hP0

Hey, baby. I noticed you have braces. I have braces too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YsiTUxe4MI

^^ If this doesn't seal the deal on Beavis winning this poll I don't know what will

He is the fool to Butthead's straight man.

the straight man always makes me laugh harder than the manic laff-getter, this has been the case with me since childhood. thanks for elucidating why I've always been a Butthead partisan!

Butthead one of least straight straight men imaginable

If the straight man is Oliver Hardy that is, not if he's Bud Abbott (xp)

Cornholio, therefore Beavis.

Beavis all the way

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Whoa, huh huh
Yeah, yeah, yeah

buttmunches