All episodes Season 2 S02E24 1993-07-08 15 min 1990s MTV

Beavis and Butt-Head

Washing the Dog

TV Flash files “Washing the Dog” as hour 27 of 210 in the TV Flash guide — Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997) on MTV, season 2, episode 24, aired 1993-07-08, 15 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S02E24: listed hour 27 of 210 in the Beavis and Butt-Head guide, hour 24 of 26 in season 2. It aired 1993-07-08 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “Sign Here” (S02E23). Next is “Friday Night” (S02E25).

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Beavis and Butt-Head volunteer to wash Mr. Anderson's dog in hopes that he would leave them money in his will.

Viewer FAQ

Where does Washing the Dog sit in the Beavis and Butt-Head guide?

S02E24 is listed hour 27 of 210 — hour 24 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 24.

When did Beavis and Butt-Head S02E24 air?

Washing the Dog aired 1993-07-08 and is listed at 15 minutes.

Why was it controversial?

National arguments over youth influence and copycat fears — fire controversies, teacher bans, and a network that had built the audience it was roasting.

In the series

Why this series still plays

Two couch gremlins heckling music videos until America filed a complaint. Mike Judge’s id as cultural criticism disguised as huh-huh stupidity — the riffs on hair-metal, suburban boredom, and adult panic still land. MTV’s meanest joke about its own audience, and the starter kit for everything Judge later did with more plot and the same dead eyes.

The first useful thing *Beavis and Butt-Head* does is treat stupidity as a critical instrument. Two metalhead couch gremlins watch videos, fail at life, and comment on everything with devastating density — huh-huh as cultural criticism. Mike Judge's MTV series (original run primarily 1993–1997) turned music-video heckling into a generation's couch soundtrack and a moral-panic headline. Judge voiced Beavis, Butt-Head, Mr. Van Driessen, and Principal McVicker. The riffs on hair-metal, suburban boredom, and adult…

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