Citizen Butt-Head

Citizen Butt-Head is the 15th episode in Season 3 of Beavis and Butt-Head. It is the 44th episode overall.

Plot[]

Principal McVicker and the other teachers at Highland High School fail to keep Beavis and Butt-Head away from the school when US President Bill Clinton comes to visit, who takes a real shine to the duo. After McVicker is tackled by the Secret "Cervix", who are under the impression that he's after the President, Clinton awards Beavis and "Bum-Head" the Student of the Year award, much to Daria's dismay.

Characters[]

Beavis
Butt-Head
Principal McVicker
Tabitha Soren
President Bill Clinton
Secret Service agents
Honor students
- Daria Morgendorffer
Highland High Teachers
- Mrs. Dickey
- Mr. Buzzcut (non-speaking)
- Mr. Stevenson
- Spanish Teacher
- Ms. Tress
- Lunch Lady
- Unnamed Female Teacher
- Unnamed Male Teacher

Gallery[]

Transcript[]

[We open to Beavis and Butt-Head watching TV. An advertisement about the President is currently on.]

TV Announcer: Today, President Clinton will be visiting our very own Highland High School! We'll be holding an event called "Youth: The Next Generation".

Butt-Head: Huh huh, that guy's really fat.

Beavis: Heh, yeah.

Announcer: The president will answer spontaneous questions from students picked at random.

Beavis: Heh heh, he said picked. Heh heh.

[We cut to Highland High's teachers lounge. Principal McVicker has gathered the staff for a meeting regarding the event.]

Principal McVicker:' Are the hand-picked honor students rehearsing their questions?

Dr. Charleston: Yes, sir!

McVicker: Is security in place?

Mrs. Dickey: Check.

McVicker: Now, what about B-Beavis and Butt-head?!

[The staff looks confused and unsure as they keep shifting eye focus and contemplating.]

Mr. Stevenson: Maybe they won't come to school today.

[In reaction, McVicker just slams his paper into the desk.]

McVicker: You idiot! It's Taco Day in the cafeteria! They'll be here! Now look, the future of Highland High is at stake, not to mention my personal career. [starts sweating profusely] B-Beavis and Butt-Head must not be allowed within THREE MILES of the President!!

Unnamed Female Teacher: Maybe we could just kill them!

Unnamed Male Teacher: That would be cool.

[The staff except McVicker laugh about it ala Beavis and Butt-Head, mainly Butt-Head. McVicker tries to think of a workaround without the result being in jail.]

McVicker: Uhh, tempting, but I've got a better idea.

[McVicker smirks over his idea as we fade to black. Soon, Beavis and Butt-Head are back in the principal's office for a different reason.]

McVicker: Boys, take the day off!

[He pulls up a phony looking pass to the boys to give them.]

McVicker: T-This pass will allow you to stay off-campus. Way off-campus, for the next 24 hours. You can go anywhere, do anything!

[Butt-Head takes the pass.]

Butt-Head: But today's Taco Day! Huh huh huh.

[McVicker also pulls out a stack of money, which is given to Beavis.]

McVicker: Here's fifty bucks. Go down to the House of Tacos and stuff yourselves.

Beavis: Heh heh, you said stuff. Heh

McVicker: I'LL SAY IT AGAIN IF YA DON'T GET OUTTA HERE!

[The boys sprint out of the doorway, leaving McVicker less stressed. The boys are outside, holding the pass.]

Butt-Head: Woah! We can go anywhere and do anything!

Beavis: Yeah, heh heh.

[Two thought bubbles appear over their heads, but nothing is in them, accompanied with electricity crackling. The bubbles soon pop.]

Beavis: It's cool to like, try and think of stuff.

Butt-Head: Yeah, huh huh. This pass is cool.

Beavis: This proves that we're cooler than other people.

Butt-Head: Yeah, huh huh. People would be jealous if they knew we had it. Let's go show everyone!

Censorship[]

A shot of Beavis lighting a cigarette during the Tag Team video was edited out in later airings.
The TV broadcast has an extra scene with McVicker. After he hears about the boys being back on campus, he calls for Ms. Tress to bring him a new pair of pants and he starts freaking out. It's possible that it was filler and isn't present on home video versions.
Beavis' "FIRE! FIRE!" quip was deleted before the first run, obviously missing from Butt-Head's "...and set it on fire!" and then jumping to "Yeah!" after an obvious deleted frame. The edit is even more obvious on airings where Butt-Head is abruptly cut off after stating about "invading a country". The former edit is more common than the latter.
The scene with Beavis shouting "BACK OFF, YOU FAT PIG!" is cut from broadcasts as well as the Paramount+ release of this episode, and is replaced with a shot of Butt-Head looking confused as Beavis picks his nose again. This would make his frowning expression non-sensical. The reason the edit was done has not been explained yet, although the unedited scene is present on home video.

Music Videos[]

Tag Team - "Whoomp! (There It Is)"
Daisy Chainsaw - "Love Your Money"
Tool - "Sober"
Rollins Band - "Low Self Opinion"
Suzanne Vega - "Blood Makes Noise"
Georgia Satellites - "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"

Goofs[]

When Clinton says "Did you boys have a question?", the Secret Service member on the left side of the screen has brown hair but when Butt-Head discusses flying over a country, he becomes blonde.

Trivia[]

This episode premiered in MTV's First Annual Butt Bowl.
This episode sometimes aired as two parts with both parts airing alongside different episodes (e.g: Politically Correct/First half of Citizen Butt-Head, then second half of Citizen Butt-Head/Buff 'n' Stuff). When aired this way, the second half was titled "Citizen Butt-Head (Part 2)."
When President Clinton gave Beavis and Butt-Head the "Students of the Year" award, the band started playing the United States Anthem while Butt-Head said "This band sucks," even though they were rocking out to the band's music earlier.
Buzzcut can be seen laughing like the duo with the other teachers, while every other episode would have him laugh heartily.
Van Driessen is absent from the staff meeting at the beginning of the episode. It is likely that McVicker disallowed him from showing up because he knew he would try to defend the duo and protest against the idea of getting rid of them, or he was deliberately omitted because it would seem out-of-character for him to giggle at the prospect of killing the duo.
McVicker has a distinctive guttural scream of terror not heard in any other episode, once when he is charging out of his office, and again when he gets tackled by the Secret Service.
The duo would later meet Clinton again in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. However, in the movie, Clinton doesn't seem to recognize them.