Crude animation kept costs down while also pairing well with the series' grungy '90s tone. (I'm not sure that any older episodes featured a drill, but maybe they did.)įor anyone who missed Beavis & Butt-Head in the '90s, the MTV series wasn't just a massive pop-culture sensation but also a cleverly low-cost operation. A primer: The original series, the 2011 rebootĪnd, of course, Beavis' longtime best friend, a drill. But one thing stands out as an interesting generational marker: a change to the series' old TV-watching scenes and how their execution reflects a new era of app-fueled media consumption. This means a few things for the series, and some of those aren't relevant to Ars Technica (though I'll summarize my general thumbs-up opinion later). Yet crucially, the series has been taken over by a new generation of writers and directors who grew up on creator Mike Judge's original version. If you still fondly recall the '90s pastiche of the world's two stupidest teens' giggling, moronic hijinks, with "TV" interruptions between scenes, Beavis & Butt-Head's newest episodes, debuting Thursday, August 4, exclusively on Paramount+, will do it for you. The easiest review of this week's new Beavis & Butt-Head TV series revival could probably be written as:
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