1001 Animations: Washing the Dog

Show: Beavis and Butt-Head
Episode: 29
Year: 1993

Writer(s): David Felton, Jim Turner

Yeah, remember my review of "Musta Been a Beautiful Baby" and how I said nobody'd be stupid enough to actually ride in a tumble dryer. I forgot about Beavis and Butt-Head (sarcasm). I love the show, I feel it's a good thing for when you need to rest your brain, plus their critique of music videos is actually really funny, in a way they're idiot savants, almost. This episode is one of their more infamous along the lines of "Way Down Mexico Way" and "Ball Busters". For a long tme this episode was banned from the airwaves and only available on VHS, and that's because kids, surprise surprise actually DID try riding in washers and dryers. The funny thing is, this episode and Musta Been a Beautiful Baby came out in the same year, 4 months or so of each other, I highly doubt there's a coincidence.

The actual episode is honestly pretty funny, in an attempt to get into Tom Anderson's will, Beavis and Butt-Head try to wash his dog by going to the laundromat. I said in my reveiw of Reedickyoulus that I don't tolerate animal abuse to non-anthropomorphized animals, I don't if its uber realistic and painful looking like whenever Family Guy or A Pal For Gary does it and shows the animals in clear agony and pain. Here, it's actually really funny seeing a poodle get spun into a washer and dryer. That's because the odds of someone honestly doing this to an animal are extremely slim in real life. People really do assault their pets like Michael Vick, or have had their other pets try to murder one another, but I doubt anybody would really be this stupid, and that's the point of the show, to keep people from doing stupid shit like these two. That and to make fun of what MTV considered their viewing audience. The disclaimers at the beginning of the episodes sum it up best: 

1. "Beavis and Butt-Head are not real. They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by this Texas guy whom we hardly even know. Beavis and Butt-Head are dumb, crude, thoughtless, ugly, sexist self-destructive fools. But for some reason, the little weinerheads make us laugh."

2. "Beavis and Butt-Head are not role models. They aren't even human. They're cartoons. Some of the things they do would cause a real person to get hurt, expelled, arrested and possibly deported. To put it another way: Don't Try This At Home."

Beavis and Butt-Head are owned by MTV and Viacom.

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