Much to the delight of its many fans and the dismay of its many detractors,
Beavis and Butt-Head managed to survive for a fourth MTV season, this one yielding 32 episodes. The games begin with the opener "Wall of Youth," in which the knuckle-dragging Beavis and Butt-head at last meet their intellectual equal when they befriend a sock puppet. Later on, they have trouble urinating in the episode of the same name -- or is this more information than we really need? In other adventures, Beavis and Butt-head face the deadly scourge of rabies and incompetent doctors, encourage a suicidal embezzler to jump off a high building, drive gym teacher Buzzcut to distraction with their body odor, try to mount their own late night TV show just like "that Letter-dude," establish a personal phone-sex exchange, chortle their way through a gory '50s driver's-ed movie, and fail not once but
twice to score with the sexy Lolita and Tanqueray. Undoubtedly many a clean-up-TV fanatic was encouraged by the episode "The Final Judgment of Beavis," in which Butt-head apparently kills Beavis, who then has a heated "No way -- way" exchange with St. Peter at the pearly gates. But no, both boys were still alive and kicking for the rest of the season, which includes a confrontation with a Rush Limbaugh-like radio host (voiced by
Gilbert Gottfried) and an easily offended etiquette expert (voiced by
David Spade). And in a pivotal moment, Beavis undergoes his first transformation into "The Great Cornholio" when he overdoses on sugar. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide