Scrooge literally rolls out of bed a different person, whereas most people struggle to lose 10 pounds or quit smoking.
Take away the supernatural elements, and Dickens wrote the most ambitious, implausibly successful New Year's Eve resolution in all of fiction or real life. In the original conclusion of A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge 180s himself into a swell guy after decades as an avarice-driven human slug. Presented with a vision of his own abject doom and failure, Beavis fixates on the silver linings and soldiers on. Maybe Beavis doesn't remember or understand his dream, but maybe he does, and finds solace in a psychotic sort of optimism. Sounds like a wretched legacy for an individual who aspires to little aside from getting laid.īut when our pointy-nosed hero awakes, he tells Butt-Head, "I just had this cool dream about the future, and y'know what? The future's, ah, it's pretty cool. He Never Scored." Unless he gets his shit together, Beavis will die a virgin, and that's the only thing the living will remember him for. There, the shriller half of the titular duo sees a headstone that reads, "Here Lies Beavis. But Beavis and Butt-Head can absolutely say that, making them much better able to speak of the True Meaning of Christmas.ĭuring the dream sequence in Huh-Huh-Humbug, the Ghost of Christmas Future (in the form of the decisively not-mute Coach Buzzcut) transports Beavis to a soggy graveyard.
Denizens of the Magic Kingdom and their holiday cheer-ful ilk won't ever address the truism that Christmas kinda sucks. Of course MTV's attempted Beavis and Butt-Head revival didn't stick in 2011, because MTV's latter-day target demographic of 12-year-old girls don't enjoy watching two ugly dudes talk about farts.īut not until Huh-Huh-Humbug and It's a Miserable Life, the two primary chapters of this 1995 satire (which you can watch below on Vimeo), had A Christmas Carol or It's a Wonderful Life been retold on an animated cable TV show with such disregard for sentimentality. It isn't even the best cartoon to feature Daria Morgendorffer as a regular character. It's not the most successful cartoon Mike Judge ever created. While it ruffled some prudish feathers in its day, the show never resorted to shock-value shit on the scale of Family Guy. It didn't stay relevant by going hyper-topical like South Park. It was too crass and ironic to become a pop-culture institution anywhere near the magnitude of The Simpsons. Like almost everything from the '90s, Beavis and Butt-Head didn't age well.
Premium Service Subscription $5.Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas ranks up there with A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but not everyone understands this.
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