Review: Mike Judge’s Beavis And Butt-Head “Pardon Our Dust/Pranks”

Overview

Middle-aged Beavis and Butt-Head attend a city council meeting to get their apartment demolished. Beavis and Butt-Head struggle to prank a neighborhood home.

Cutaways

Tiesto & Karol G, Nicki Minaj

Our Take

For my money if we’re going to go through all of the trouble of having “Smart” Beavis and Butt-Head explain to us why we have a middle-aged Beavis and Butt-Head, that BOTH shorts would feature the older take on the dynamic duo as opposed to dueling takes on the characters.

In any event, both episodes featured premises that catch on pretty quickly, but I’m thinking “Pardon Our Dust” kind of spent too much time at the council meeting and not enough time joking about the fact that the guys just demolished their apartment. Perhaps fooling a social injustice organization to launch a GoFundMe would’ve been a funny way to see how the boys get back in their iconic living quarters.

“Pranks” ended up being the funnier of the two, a classic trope that I’m surprised Tom Anderson wasn’t more involved in as the boys usually love fucking around with him and Tom is just as idiotic to continue to dig his own grave, but this new couple wasn’t too bad. Hilarious bits include the guys not having the arm strength to throw eggs, trying to sell back slightly used toilet paper, and going nuts on sugar.

The cutaways were mainly just music videos this go-round which feeds into my theory that less is poured on the actual artists and instead we get more silly shenanigans featuring the boys. Fun stuff, but not indicative of the much-more vindictive efforts of the yesteryear series.

Still though, solid episodes, especially leaning more towards “Pranks” as a fully developed effort.