SeedSing's Advent Calendar of Awesome Holiday Television Programs: Day 14 - "Beavis and Butt-head Do Christmas Part 2: It's a Miserable Life"

The pre-Christmas Day season of Advent is upon us. Here at SeedSing we love the chocolaty goodness of getting a piece of candy once a day until we get to open our presents. As our gift to you we will present a new awesome holiday television program for every day of Advent. This is the greatest tv of the season. Enjoy.

Day 14: "Beavis and Butt-head Do Christmas Part 2: It's a Miserable Life"

Original air date - December 19th, 1995

Opened Doors: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen

ed note: The first part of the special titled Huh-Huh Humbug is still great. It is a modern take on A Christmas Carol but this time a porno film features heavily. We have, and will have, written plenty on Scrooge-like shows. Today we will only focus on the back half of a must watch holiday program.

There is someone in our lives we could just do without. Maybe it is a co-worker, a boss, that terrible person in front of you at the grocery store, there is always someone who makes the world a worse place. It is not the way of a good person to wish death on this bad person, but we often times just wish they were never in our life to begin with. Without the terrible person, the world would be a much better place.

The 1995 Holiday episode of the MTV classic Beavis and Butt-head ended with the idiotic titular duo's take on the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life. The episode even begins with our heroes making fun of how dumb the source movie actually is. These guys know dumb, they spent the last few years deconstructing the still youngish genre of music videos. Their opinion is gold.

Like all great holiday television homages, this particular Beavis and Butt-head adventure mimics It's A Wonderful Life wonderfully. There's the guardian angel, the world without our hero, Butt-head this time around, and the happy ending, so to say. 

In this version, the world is a much better place if Butt-head was never born. Burger World has customers, Anderson has a yard Hank Hill would be envious of, McVicker has some rockin hair, and Stewart is wearing a Poison shirt, and has some self-esteem. To make the world even more nightmarish to Butt-head, Beavis is Stewart's lackey, and his former best friend is rockin a Winger t-shirt. Things get to a breaking point when Butt-head calls Beavis a bung-hole, and Beavis has no idea what that means. This is not a world Butt-head wants to know.

The guardian angel Charlie (or Charlie Angel as Butt-head calls him) tries to convince Butt-head that the world would be better without him in it. When Beavis reappears and calls his friend a bung-hole, Butt-head is convinced that Charlie Angel does not know what he is talking about. The guardian angel proceeds to fall off of a bridge into icy waters, and the boys stupidly giggle home to watch more tv. All is as it should be.

That person we hate means something to someone. We should be in a more charitable spirit during the holiday season, and we should not wish ill on others. Would you like it if your best friend was wearing a Winger t-shirt in your absence? Did not think so.

RD

RD Kulik is the Head Editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. Beavis and Butt-head, along with 120 minutes, were the only places he could catch alternative music videos. He appreciates that.

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