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Beavis and Butt-Head

Whorehouse/Going Down

TV Flash files “Whorehouse/Going Down” as a desk essential hour — Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997) on MTV, season 9, episode 12, aired 2011-12-29, 15 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S09E12: listed hour 210 of 210 in the Beavis and Butt-Head guide, last listed hour of season 9. It aired 2011-12-29 (15 min). The listed hour before it is “School Test/Snitchers” (S09E11). No later hour is listed in this guide.

Essential hour

Essential hour: “Whorehouse/Going Down”. Whorehouse/Going Down: 2011 revival filing in this catalog — the couch never really got up.

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Viewer FAQ

Where does Whorehouse/Going Down sit in the Beavis and Butt-Head guide?

S09E12 is listed hour 210 of 210 — last listed hour of season 9, season 9 episode 12.

When did Beavis and Butt-Head S09E12 air?

Whorehouse/Going Down aired 2011-12-29 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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