Lightning Strikes is the 21st episode in Season 5 of Beavis and Butt-head. It is the 110th episode overall.
Plot[]
The duo is watching a documentary showing Benjamin Franklin's experiment with the key on a kite to prove his theory of lightning. There is a storm outside, so they decide to repeat the experiment. However, the kite immediately gets stuck in a tree. When they try to retrieve it, lightning hits them and the tree falls on them.
At the hospital, a doctor says that Butt-Head is okay but Beavis has very little brain activity, unaware that that is Beavis' nominal state. Betsy Wiener from an initiative named "Decency in Media" arrives to talk to Butt-Head in an attempt to tie their misfortune to scandalous media content such as Howard Stern. Checking the TV listing, Ms. Wiener finds the Ben Franklin documentary but refuses to believe it is linked to the accident since it is serious and educational. The only other thing Butt-head remembers watching is music videos.
The next day, Beavis and Butt-Head are gorging themselves on ice cream in the hospital and abusing all amenities they can when Betsy Wiener comes on the TV and exploits their mishap to spread bigotted propaganda against music videos.
Characters[]
Music Videos[]
- Blur - "Parklife"
- Biohazard - "Tales from the Hard Side"
- Pizzicato Five - "Twiggy, Twiggy"
Production Music[]
- Arlington Fanfare - Graham De Wilde
- American Journey - Graham Preskett
- Procession of the Knights - Barrie Hingley
Goofs[]
- When the boys are watching TV, the program is titled "Great American Minds Part VI: Benjamin Franklin". But later, when they are in the hospital, and Betsy Wiener asks for the TV guide, the guide shows it as Part V.
- When Betsy Wiener is interviewing Butt-Head, the bedsheets briefly change from green with two white stripes to white with one green stripe.
Trivia[]
- Beavis and Butt-Head were struck by lightning a second time in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America for upsetting God.
- When Betsy Weiner opens the TV Guide, every channel listed is MTV. The shows listed (some are cut off but can still be inferred) are, "Most Wanted Jams", "Video Music Awards", "MTV Sports", "Week in Rock", "Rude Awakening", "Headbanger's Ball", "Dead at 21", "Speed Racer", and "House of Style".
Sources[]
Episode List
Shorts · Season 1 · Season 2 · Season 3 · Season 4 · Season 5 · Season 6 · Season 7 · Season 8 · Season 9 · Season 10 · Season 11
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 · 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 · Abduction · Sleepover
Season 11: Untitled 270th Episode · Untitled 271st Episode · TBA