Monday 19 December 2011

TV Review: Beavis and Butt-head: "Doomsday" / "Dumb Design"


Season 8 - Episode 11/12
MTV (US)

Doomsday sees a gas leak require the whole of Highland to be evacuated. Unfortunately, the boys seem to think they are watching a horror film when the news report comes on TV and when they eventually venture outside, they believe that they're the only people left alive! The boys naturally cause havoc in the town, looting, and wrecking Stewart's house. They eventually realise the world hasn't ended when a biker (who they initially believe to be a zombie) finds them in his house and beats them up. Gloriously daft as always!

Dumb Design sees the boys joining a religious group so they don't have to learn about evolution. Their logic, not exactly what the group had in mind, sees them come to the conclusion that if something is complicated and difficult, they shouldn't have to learn it. This sees them suspended from school, become pariahs, and eventually just decide to walk out of class whenever they feel like it. 

Now, I don't usually review the segments where the boys "review" music videos or MTV shows, but I'm making an exception here. The duo host "Beavis and Butt-head's Cinema Classics", where they sit in a studio, rather than their couch, and tell us all to watch The Human Centipede, as they absolutely loved it. Really funny segment.

Beavis and Butt-head is stupid, crass and at times childish. But it's bloody funny.

Doomsday: ****
Dumb Design: *** 1/2

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