Beavis and Butt-Head
Werewolves of Highland/Crying
TV Flash files “Werewolves of Highland/Crying” as the first listed hour of season 9 — Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997) on MTV, season 9, episode 1, aired 2011-10-27, 15 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E01: listed hour 199 of 210 in the Beavis and Butt-Head guide, first listed hour of season 9. It aired 2011-10-27 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead” (S08E21). Next is “Daughter's Hand/Tech Support” (S09E02).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Werewolves of Highland/Crying sit in the Beavis and Butt-Head guide?
S09E01 is listed hour 199 of 210 — first listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 1.
When did Beavis and Butt-Head S09E01 air?
Werewolves of Highland/Crying aired 2011-10-27 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…
Filed against
- Mike Judge as Beavis / Butt-Head / David Van Driessen / Principal McVicker
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