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Home Improvement is the ninth episode in Season 2 of Beavis and Butt-Head. It is the overall 14th episode.

Plot

Beavis and Butt-Head are hired to paint the trim of Mr. Anderson's house, but huffing a can of Johns Blair-brand paint thinner causes them to take a more creative - and destructive - approach. They only end up painting graffiti and various other doodles all over the home, Anderson's cat, and setting some shrubs on fire. Then to add insult to injury, they steal his riding lawnmower and take it on a joyride through Highland, causing even more mayhem after they mistake the local botanical gardens for Stewart's living room in their intoxicated state, then causing a severe traffic jam stopped in the middle of the intersection.

Anderson promptly calls the police on them over it, but cannot remember the duo's actual names or descriptions, due to his poor eyesight and partial senility. He tells the officers that respond to his call: "One of them calls himself Butthole. The other one's name is Joe, I think. I believe they were oriental."

Characters

Featured Music Videos

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Two Tribes"
Biz Markie - "Just A Friend"
White Zombie - "Black Sunshine"
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - "What I Am"

Gallery

Censorship

When this episode originally aired, a disclaimer appeared during the paint thinner scene: "Breathing paint thinner will damage your brain. Look what it's done to Beavis and Butt-head." This disclaimer is absent in the Mike Judge Collection DVD.

The scene in which Beavis and Butt-head huff the paint fumes and paint the cat's butt were cut from the "There Goes The Neighborhood" VHS release as well as the Time Life DVD re-release.

In the Mike Judge Collection DVD, the opening on the sofa and the ending with the broken-down lawnmower were cut, but the paint thinner and cat scene were added back.

The line "Let's burn something!" was censored after the Morain, Ohio incident. Most original airings have showed the line.

MTV did keep this episode in rotation but was rarely ever seen

Trivia

This episode and "Stewart's House" are what originally got "Beavis and Butt-Head" into watchdog trouble; the Ohio incident clips on the news showed bits of this cartoon.

Sources

Episode List
Shorts · Season 1 · Season 2 · Season 3 · Season 4 · Season 5 · Season 6 · Season 7 · Season 8 · Season 9 · Season 10

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 · Friday Night · Be All You Can Be

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 · 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 · Vidiots · 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 · 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 · Abduction · Sleepover

Season 11: TBA

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-| number     = 15
+| number     = 14
-| image      = Image:Home Improvement.png
+| image      = HomeImprovementHQ.png
 | previous   = [[Sick]]
 | next       = [[Way Down Mexico Way]]
 | airdate    = May 24, 1993
+}}'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the ninth episode in [[Season 2]] of [[Beavis and Butt-Head]]. It is the overall 14th episode.
-}}
-'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the ninth episode in [[Season 2]] of [[Beavis and Butt-Head]]. It is the overall 15th episode.
 ==Plot==
-Beavis and Butt-Head are hired to paint the trim of Mr. Anderson's house, but severely sniffing paint thinner causes them to take a more creative - and destructive - approach. They only end up doodling all over the home, painting his cat, and stealing his riding mower.
+Beavis and Butt-Head are hired to paint the trim of [[Tom Anderson|Mr. Anderson's]] house, but huffing a can of Johns Blair-brand paint thinner causes them to take a more creative - and destructive - approach. They only end up painting graffiti and various other doodles all over the home, Anderson's cat, and setting some shrubs on fire. Then to add insult to injury, they steal his riding lawnmower and take it on a joyride through Highland, causing even more mayhem after they mistake the local botanical gardens for [[Stewart's house (location)|Stewart's living room]] in their intoxicated state, then causing a severe traffic jam stopped in the middle of the intersection.
+Anderson promptly calls the police on them over it, but cannot remember the duo's actual names or descriptions, due to his poor eyesight and partial senility. He tells the officers that respond to his call: "One of them calls himself Butthole. The other one's name is Joe, I think. I believe they were oriental."
 ==Characters==
 *[[Beavis]]
-*[[Butthead|Butt-Head]]
+*[[Butt-head]]
-*[[Mr. Anderson]]
+*[[Tom Anderson]]
+*[[Stewart]] (mentioned)
+==Featured Music Videos==
+*Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Two Tribes"
+*Biz Markie - "Just A Friend"
+*White Zombie - "Black Sunshine"
+*Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - "What I Am"
 ==Gallery==
 <gallery>
-Home Improvement 1.png
+Home Improvement 1.png|Mr. Anderson
-Home Improvement 2.png
+Home Improvement 2.png|Johns Blair Enamel paint & Johns Blair Paint Thinner
-Home Improvement 3.png
+Home Improvement 3.png|Butt-Head after sniffing Johns Blair paint thinner.
-Home Improvement 4.png
+Home Improvement 4.png|Beavis after sniffing Johns Blair paint thinner.
-Home Improvement 5.png
+Home Improvement 5.png|Beavis painting a 3 on the windows.
-Home Improvement 6.png
+Home Improvement 6.png|Beavis painting Mr. Anderson's cat's butt blue.
-Home Improvement 7.png
+Home Improvement 7.png|Butt-Head painting "X-Force Rules" on the wall of Mr. Anderson house.
-Home Improvement 8.png
+Home Improvement 8.png|
+Home Improvement 9.png| Beavis and Butthead Stealing Mr. Anderson's Lawnmower
-Home Improvement 9.png
-Home Improvement 10.png
+ Home Improvement 10.png
 Home Improvement 11.png
 </gallery>
 ==Censorship==
+*When this episode originally aired, a disclaimer appeared during the paint thinner scene: "Breathing paint thinner will damage your brain. Look what it's done to Beavis and Butt-head." This disclaimer is absent in the Mike Judge Collection DVD.
--The scene in which Beavis and Butt-Head snuff the paint fumes and paint the cat's butt are censored on the TV version, as well as the Time-Life DVD set.
+*The scene in which Beavis and Butt-head huff the paint fumes and paint the cat's butt were cut from the "There Goes The Neighborhood" VHS release as well as the Time Life DVD re-release.
--In the Mike Judge Collection DVD, the opening on the sofa and the ending with the broken-down lawnmower were edited.
+*In the Mike Judge Collection DVD, the opening on the sofa and the ending with the broken-down lawnmower were cut, but the paint thinner and cat scene were added back.
--The line "Let's Burn Something!" was only censored after the Ohio incident. Most original airings showed the line.
+*The line "Let's burn something!" was censored after the Morain, Ohio incident. Most original airings have showed the line.
-==Trivia==
+*MTV did keep this episode in rotation but was rarely ever seen
-{{Nav-Episodes}}This episode and "Stewart's House" are what originally got "Beavis and Butt-Head" into watchdog trouble; the Ohio incident clips on the news showed bits of this cartoon.
+==Trivia==
-The line "Let's Burn Something!" was the first direct reference to fire/burning that was banned from the series.
+*This episode and "Stewart's House" are what originally got "Beavis and Butt-Head" into watchdog trouble; the Ohio incident clips on the news showed bits of this cartoon.
-The paint-huffing and cat-painting scenes were cut from the TV version, though the cat scene was shown in the "Most Dangerous Episodes" marathon, and the paint-sniffing was reinstated in the MTV2 syndication in 2009.
-Butt-Head's line "Hey, Beavis! We're pretty cool, huh?" was shortened to "We're pretty cool, Beavis!".
-Beavis's grunt "Check it out, Butt-Head! Paint thinner!" was chopped down to "Check it out, Butt-Head!" in the Mike Judge Collection DVD.
+==Sources==
-The insult "Pecker-wood" was edited to "dillweed" in the MTV2 run.
+<references/>
+{{Episodes Navbox}}
 [[Category:Episodes]]