Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. Judge's short film Frog Baseball, starring the characters Beavis and Butt-head was featured on Liquid Television, a show featuring short animated and live action material that could be considered the precursor to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Cable television channel MTV signed Judge to create the series, and it aired from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997.

The show centers on teenagers Beavis and Butt-head, who live in the fictional town of Highland, Texas. They attend high school, where their teachers are often at a loss as to how deal with them. They occasionally work part-time at Burger World, and some times other side-jobs when people mistake their odd behavior as outgoing and assertive. Comedy is derived from their utter lack of conventional values such as work ethic. They both are extremely obnoxious and rude to almost every other character in the show and even to each other. They don't seem to realize this, however and simply function on an instinctual level. They survive their often hazardous misadventures without serious consequences, though others around them don't fare as well. A highlight of each episode is the pointed social commentary Beavis and Butt-head render while watching and making fun of various music videos aired on MTV during the time of the show's broadcast.