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Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead is the 41st and final episode in Season 7 of Beavis and Butt-Head. It is the 200th episode overall and the final episode of the show's original run until the show was revived in 2011.

Summary[]

A clip show recycling bits from past episodes as "memories of Beavis and Butt-Head", using the hoax of their alleged deaths as a thin new through-line to connect the old clips.

Plot[]

At roll call at school, for the third week in a row, Beavis and Butt-Head are absent, and Mr. Van Driessen starts to worry. He talks to Principal McVicker, who does not care and tells him to deal with it himself, but Van Driessen insists they get the secretary, Ms. Tress, to call the duo's parents.

Beavis and Butt-head are in their couch flipping through the TV channels, hoping for something good. Butt-head is irritated because the phone will not stop ringing and sends Beavis to answer. Beavis just snaps "Yeah, they're dead" into the receiver and hangs up but the school secretary takes it as fact, telling McVicker and Van Driessen on the intercom. McVicker is ectstatic but Van Driessen is devastated.

Back at the duo's home, they complain about the constant re-runs but keep watching rather than return to school. In class, Van Driessen plans to announce the grave news when McVicker announces it on the school PA, calling for an immediate faculty meeting. To the apathetic and uncaring class before him, Van Driessen reminisces of the times that he and the duo have come to bond - and all ended in disaster, from a camping trip that ended in a bear attack, defending Beavis against Mr. Manners in a fight, to him flying off of a cliff through the bus window because of standing during an extremely sharp turn.

Van Driessen invotes the students to share some of their memories and picks Daria. Though she feels moderately bad, Daria sugests that they did not have very bright futures ahead of them, recalling her awful experiences with the duo. Van Driessen thanks her for her frankness and expresses his hope that they found what they were looking for in their lives.

Meanwhile, Beavis and Butt-head continue to flip through the channels, and much to their disappointment, it is still more re-runs.

Back at school, the teachers pop bottles of champagne and host a huge party in the teacher's lounge. When Van Driessen suggests some empathy is called for from the teachers, Buzzcut blows up and tells him that it took every ounce of his self-control not to kill them, hoping that their deaths were slow and painful. McVicker breaks up their argument. While Van Driessen desires a scholarship and grassroots program to help future students like Beavis and Butt-head, McVicker misinterprets the idea as "exploiting their deaths for money" and starts a fundraiser for his and the teacher's gains. He then gets the TV station to arrive, in order to garner attention and interest for his plan to be set in motion.

At home, the two see their school on the news, where nobody even mentions the duo's names, leading them to think someone else has died. As Butt-head lies that a girl was into him upon making his move, and they mock Stewart for being a wuss on live TV, they soon grow disappointed that no dead body is shown on TV for them to see. Wanting to see dead bodies themselves, they head out to the school.

As the TV station gathers live around the school for the deaths of Beavis and Butt-head, McVicker smokes a cigar in excitement. As Van Driessen collects change for a grassroots campaign, McVicker is pissed at him, but Van Driessen tells him that the change will bloom into payoffs tomorrow for students in need, and McVicker expresses his delight in how money will come to him, noticing that they haven't had this much attention since the time when President Clinton visited Highland High.

As a reporter asks McVicker about his feelings to the now deceased "Brevis" and "Head Butt", McVicker attempts to mask his true feelings of the boys in hopes to garner sympathy with an improv speech. McVicker paraphrases Van Driessen's claims about fundraising in the duo's names, and says he would gladly exchange all the money to see the two again. Beavis and Butt-head make it through the crowd and Butt-head asks McVicker for the money. As the two tug over the jar, McDicker's expresses that they were supposed to be dead, and that he'll kill them himself. After a montage sequence of all the duo's actions (suggested to be an hallucination), McVicker has a heart attack and drops to the floor. To Beavis' delight, there is now, a dead body, and Butt-head has the money.

The two, mocking McVicker for his spasms upon getting "a heart attack", and that Buzzcut "made out" with him (Buzzcut gave him mouth-to-mouth CPR), walk back home. Beavis suggests they go back to school to see if anything interesting happens in the future, but Butt-head insists that, with the small amount of money they got in the jar, they are now rich, so they never have to go to school again. The series ends with the two walking toward the sunset.

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Trivia[]

  • This was originally the series finale of Beavis and Butt-Head, until "Werewolves of Highland" premiered in 2011.
  • It is the last episode to air in the 1990s and in the 20th century. However, it wouldn't be the last piece of Beavis and Butt-Head content released in the 20th century, as the video game Beavis and Butt-Head Do U would be released on March 7, 1999, two years after this episode premiered.
  • Before the premiere of this episode, MTV aired a 2 hour long mini marathon of episodes which included "Animation Sucks", "Hard Sell", "Leave It to Beavis", "Butt Flambe", "Our Founding Losers", "Graduation Day", "The Future of Beavis and Butt-Head", and "Speech Therapy".[2]
  • This was the last episode to use traditional ink and paint cel animation, as the 2011 revival would use digital ink and paint (except for video segments, which recycled animation from the original series), and the 2022 revival would use Adobe Animate.
  • The original plot was that Beavis and Butt-Head really were going to die, but this was eventually scrapped and changed to have them tell the school they're dead.
  • This episode takes place prior to the first episode of the spin-off series, Daria, which had actually premiered a few months before this episode aired, as Daria appears to still be a student at Highland High School and still lives in Highland before she and her family moved to Lawndale.
    • There's a likelihood that this episode is non-canon, considering it was not in rotation with the rest of the episodes. What also supports this is that Daria's penultimate appearance was in "Sprout" which aired in 1996, a year before her TV show began airing. Daria was also shown at the duo's 1998 trial in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, which seems to imply that the trial took place before she moved away.
    • This was the last canon appearance of Daria Morgendorffer until Do the Universe. An alternate version of her appears in the season 10 episode "Abduction" and has yet to appear in season 11.
  • The winner of the Beavis and Butt-Head Do America contest from December 1996, Christine LaGuardia, was featured in this episode as Amy Asskowitz, the dark-haired girl that Butt-Head claims to have scored with. It's also thought that she voiced the bumpers for this episode but it is currently unknown.
  • Released on the "Brushes With Death" PAL VHS tape.
  • Van Driessen's flashbacks feature scenes from "Canoe", "Tired," "Manners Suck", and "Bus Trip". Daria's are from "Babes 'R' Us", "Butt is it Art?", and "U.S. History". Two of Buzzcut's come from "No Laughing" and "Buff 'N' Stuff". The rest of the flashbacks were made up.
  • The flashback montage during McVicker's heart attack shows various clips from previous episodes. The source clips are in the following order: "Safe Driving", "Substitute", "No Laughing", "Tired", "Work is Death", "Home Improvement", "Generation in Crisis" (the boys making strange noises with shirts over the head), "Lawn & Garden" (headbanging with a chainsaw), "Steamroller", "Nose Bleed" (Beavis punched in the nose), "Whiplash" (Butt-Head parked in front of the bus), "Incognito", "Killing Time", "Babes 'R' Us", "Lawn & Garden" (insect court), "The Great Cornholio", "Pumping Iron", "Pierced" (Butt-head's drill), "Comedians", "Wet Behind the Rears", "Figure Drawing", "Cow Tipping", "Whiplash," (Beavis being propelled to the front of the bus), "Generation in Crisis" (documentary headbang), "P.T.A." (McVicker shoving a crowd), "Heroes", "Nothing Happening", "Lawn & Garden" (Butt-head using the chainsaw), "P.T.A." (McVicker punching a parent), "Evolution Sucks", any music video that showed Butt-Head slapping Beavis in the face multiple times, "Temporary Insanity", "Animation Sucks", "Ball Breakers", "Lightning Strikes", "Head Lice", "The Final Judgement of Beavis", "Nose Bleed" (Beavis coughing up blood), "Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest", and "Pierced" (the boys screaming in horror). Some of these clips are the only chance of seeing missing episodes on home video.
    • Oddly enough, many of these clips in no way involved McVicker, nor did he witness them happening. And some of them (such as the plane crashing into the school in "Nothing Happening") weren't even caused by the duo.
  • "In the Hall of Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg plays during McVicker's heart attack montage, remixed with the duo's air guitar and Beavis singing Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law".
    • Although McVicker suffered a fatal heart attack at the end of this episode, he is shown alive and well in the 2011 revival. And even with the 2011 revival now being non-canon due to Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, he was still shown at the duo's 1998 trial, which obviously took place after this episode since the duo would be sent forward to the year 2022 via black hole.
      • It is currently unknown if McVicker is still alive at the time of the 2022 revival, since he is yet to make an appearance besides a Smart alien version of him appearing in "Abduction".
  • This episode features a special end credits sequence set to "I'll Be Seeing You" by Liberace.
    • On the Mike Judge Collection, these credits have been redone: The font is different, and the image of Beavis and Butt-Head with their shirts over their heads from "Screamers" has been swapped out for an image of the boys doing the same from "Generation in Crisis".

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Sources[]

  1. ↑ http://epguides.com/BeavisandButthead/
  2. ↑ https://mtvarchives.fandom.com/wiki/November_28,_1997

Episode List
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Shorts: Frog Baseball · Peace, Love and Understanding

Season 1: Door-to-Door · Give Blood · Balloon

Season 2: Scientific Stuff · Good Credit · Burger World · Baby Makes Uh, Three · Beware of the Butt · At the Sideshow · Customers Suck · Sick · Home Improvement · Way Down Mexico Way · At the Movies · No Laughing · The Butt-Head Experience · Lawn & Garden · Stewart's House · For Better or Verse · Bedpans & Broomsticks · Babes R Us · Yogurt's Cool · Heroes · Sign Here · Washing the Dog · Be All You Can Be · Friday Night

Season 3: Comedians · Carwash · Couch-Fishing · Incognito · Kidnapped · Naked Colony · Tornado · Cleaning House · Scratch 'N' Win · Scared Straight · Eating Contest · Sporting Goods · Sperm Bank · Buff 'N' Stuff · Citizen Butt-Head · Politically Correct · Ball Breakers · Meet God · True Crime · The Trial · The Crush · Plate Frisbee · Canoe · Young, Gifted, & Crude · Foreign Exchange · A Very Special Christmas with Beavis and Butt-Head · Closing Time · Most Wanted

Season 4: Wall of Youth · Cow Tipping · Trouble Urinating · Rabies Scare · They're Coming to Take Me Away, Huh Huh · Jump! · Pumping Iron · Let's Clean it Up · 1-900-BEAVIS · Water Safety · Blackout! · Late Night with Butt-Head · The Final Judgement of Beavis · Pool Toys · Madame Blavatsky · Beavis and Butt-Head's Island · Figure Drawing · Date Bait · Butt is it Art? · Right On · Manners Suck · The Pipe of Doom · Safe Driving · Mr Anderson's Balls · Patients Patients · Teen Talk · Crisis Line · Vs. the Vending Machine · Generation in Crisis · Radio Sweethearts · The Great Cornholio · Liar! Liar!

Season 5: Held Back · Killing Time · Beard Boys · Choke · Safe House · Hard Sell · Walkathon · Temporary Insanity · Dude, a Reward · Walking Erect · Career Day · Plastic Surgin' · Take a Number · Beaverly Buttbillies · Tainted Meat · Stewart Moves Away · Top O' The Mountain · Party · Wet Behind the Rears · Bad Dog · Lightning Strikes · Dream On · Candy Sale · Animation Sucks · What's the Deal · The History of Women · To the Rescue · I Dream of Beavis · Pregnant Pause · Here Comes the Bride's Butt · Screamers · Beavis, Can You Spare a Dime? · Skin Trade · Oil Change · Buttniks · Bang the Drum Slowly Dumbass · Another Friday Night · Tired · Close Encounters · Womyn · Premature Evacuation · Whiplash · Spare Me · Patsies · Murder Site · Spanish Fly · Sexual Harassment · Bus Trip · Green Thumbs · Steamroller

Season 6: Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest · The Mystery of Morning Wood · US History · Feel a Cop · Date Watchers · Blood Pressure · Huh-Huh-Humbug · It's a Miserable Life · Babysitting · Vidiots · Stewart is Missing · Gang of Two · Sprout · Prank Call · No Service · Yard Sale · P.T.A. · Substitute · Shopping List · Buy Beer

Season 7: Butt, Butt, Hike · Vaya Con Cornholio · Evolution Sucks · Ding-Dong-Ditch · Just for Girls · A Very Special Episode · Dumbasses Anonymous · Underwear · Head Lice · Cyber-Butt · Nose Bleed · Citizens Arrest · Pierced · A Great Day · On Strike · Follow Me · Nothing Happening · Take a Lap · Shortcuts · Bride of Butt-Head · Special Delivery · Woodshop · T.V. Violence · Canned · Garage Band · Impotence · The Miracle That is Beavis · Shopping Cart · Inventors · Die Fly, Die! · Drinking Butt-ies · Work is Death · Breakdown · Graduation Day · The Future of Beavis and Butt-Head · Speech Therapy · Leave It to Beavis · Butt Flambe · Our Founding Losers · Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving · Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead

Season 8: Werewolves of Highland · Crying · Daughter's Hand · Tech Support · Holy Cornholio · Drones · Supersize Me · Bathroom Break · The Rat · Spill · Doomsday · Dumb Design · Copy Machine · Holding · Used Car · Bounty Hunters · Time Machine · Massage · School Test · Snitchers · Whorehouse · Going Down

Season 9: Escape Room · The Special One · Boxed In · Beekeepers · Roof · River · The New Enemy · The Doppelgänger · Nice Butt-Head · Home Aide · Virtual Stupidity · Locked Out · Kidney · The Good Deed · Two Stupid Men · Freaky Friday · Weird Girl · Time Travelers · Spiritual Journey · Refuse Service · Downward Dumbass · The Most Dangerous Game · Bone Hunters

Season 10: Meditation Sucks · Polling Place · Old Man Beavis · Hunting Trip · Pardon Our Dust · Pranks · Hellhole · Take a Bow · Tobacco Farmers · Married · Sad Boys · Are You There God? It's Me, Beavis · The Day Butt-Head Went Too Far · Spring Break · The Warrior · Vasectomies · Stolen Valor · Breeding Frenzy · Hoarders · Needle Dicks · The Ciabatta Zone · Warehouse · Abduction · Sleepover

Season 11: Braces · Heart Attack · Plumber's Helpers · A.I. · Scent of a Dumbass · New Couch · Nuts · Bike · Life Savers · Tattoo · Too Big To Fail · Metal Detector · Depositors · Nacho Shake · Ear · Dearly Departed · The Mission · Beavis H. · Work from Home · Bed and Breakfast · Million Dollar Reward · Get Well Soon · Oldholio · The Discoverers

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