Beavis and Butt-Head: Season 02 Plot Summary and Details

Though technically the second season of Beavis and Butt-Head (following a four-week test run), the 23 episodes seen on MTV beginning May 17, 1993, were originally advertised as first-season endeavors. They also originally included live-action music videos featuring top artists past and present, which have unfortunately been edited from the home-video version of the series. The first of the 23 half-hours this season is "Customers Suck," with the grotesque, giggling Beavis and Butt-head making a shambles of their duties at Burger World. In later adventures, the boys go skeet-shooting and end up downing a jumbo jet; hapless Mr. Anderson makes his first appearance in the episode "Home Improvement" (a scene in which the boys get high on paint remover had since been removed as a result of viewer complaints); Beavis and Butt-head become "American Gladiators" in hopes of seeing mud-wrestling bikini babes; and the boys' intellectual acquaintance Daria Morgendorffer (who'd later get a cartoon series of her own) has her first showcase in the episode "Scientific Stuff." Also, Beavis and Butt-head get temp jobs as sideshow freaks, almost sign up for the army, fill enema bags full of soda pop while volunteering at a local hospital, hitchhike to Mexico to pick up fireworks and unwittingly wind up as drug runners, and spend no fewer than two full episodes laying waste to their neighborhood drive-in movie. It was during this season that several pressure groups ganged up on Beavis and Butt-head, demanding its cancelation after a youngster, allegedly inspired by one of the episodes, set fire to his home. MTV wasn't about to abandon one of its highest-rated shows -- but the network did meet the critics halfway by moving the show to a later time slot.