- “This sucks.”
- ―One of Butt-Head's most common lines
Butt-Head is one of the main protagonists of Beavis and Butt-head. He is Beavis' best friend and close companion. He is voiced by series creator Mike Judge. [1]
Judge got the name Butt-Head from his university days, when he knew a couple of other students who had the nicknames 'Iron Butt' and 'Butt-Head'.[2]
Appearance[]
Butt-Head stands 5'5". His top gums are often exposed and he speaks nasally with a deep voice and a slight lisp, repeatedly punctuating his speech with his trademark laugh (Uh huh, huh huh). He is usually shown wearing a gray shirt with a yellow AC/DC logo and red shorts. However, he is seen wearing a Metallica shirt in Crisis Line. In merchandising appearances, his shirt displays the word 'Skull', to avoid licensing issues. He is also known to fashion his hair with his own snot as if it were hair gel as seen in extremely rare footage. Butt-Head, along with Beavis, is one of the skinniest characters in the series.
Personality[]
Of both title characters, Butt-Head appears to be the leader of the two. He is calmer, older, more laid-back, and marginally more intelligent than Beavis, but is oblivious to subtleties, semi-literate, and still significantly less intelligent than the other characters in the show. He seems to almost never lose his cool no matter how dire situations get, including when not being able to "score" while Beavis gets extremely pissed about it.
He almost always says "uhh" to indicate his low intelligence and lack of understanding. He even considers himself better than everyone else to the point of being extremely condescending to others, except for Todd whom he and Beavis worship. Regardless, as the 'leader', he is usually 100% confident in everything he says and does – no matter how ridiculous or frivolous it is. Butt-Head seems to be the lazier of the duo. According to Mike Judge, despite getting many other people into trouble, the duo are innocent, as they don't want to cause any serious trouble. He never seems to react to things unless they catch his attention, in which case he describes them as 'cool'. Beavis, on the other hand, always has some kind of reaction, although his actions predictably end with bad results.
There are points on the show where he seems to in no way care about his own personal safety. An example of this would be in "Murder Site", when he ignores Beavis' demands to stop calling him buttknocker and Beavis then tries to kill Butt-Head, but even as he is trying to kill him, Butt-Head continues calling him buttknocker through the assault, even remarking, "That was cool" after Beavis was arrested. Butt-Head likes bands such as AC/DC, Butthole Surfers, Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, KISS, Pantera, Slayer, Soundgarden, and Megadeth.
Despite his selfish and abrasive nature, Butt-Head shows an extremely rare moment of being genuinely nice to Beavis in Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. After the two get into an argument and separate, they feel sad for the lack of the other's presence. When the two reunite, Butt-Head changes his goal from "I'm gonna score." to "We're gonna score." - actually showing a flicker of affection toward Beavis' interests.
In the episode Nice Butt-Head, Butt-Head undergoes a complete personality transformation due to the mood-stabilizing medication he's been prescribed. Because the pills are grape-flavored, Butt-Head overdoses on them, caring only for the taste of the pills, and not the effects. Butt-Head has taken so many pills that he becomes extremely caring, soft-spoken and even takes an interest in learning. This starts to make Beavis uncomfortable, so much so that Beavis attacks Butt-Head and makes the latter vomit out all of the pills he took, reverting Butt-Head to his apathetic, aggressive self.
Trivia[]
U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings misidentified Butt-head with the name "Buffcoat" during the 1993 Senate hearings into violence on television, saying "We've got this – what is it – Buffcoat and Beaver or Beaver and something else... I haven't seen it, I don't watch it, but whatever it is, it was at 7 o'clock – Buffcoat – and they put it on now at 10:30, I think."[3][4]
References[]
- ↑ "Butt-head, We Hardly Knew Ye", Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1997.
- ↑ "Mike Judge Interviewed by John Kricfalusi" (July 1995).
- ↑ (14 December 2017) To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina's War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights. LSU Press, page 304. ISBN 9780807168387.
- ↑ "On Senate TV: 'Buffcoat and Beaver?'", Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1993.
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