Beavis & Butt-Head Short #1 - Frog Baseball
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- Air Date: 9/22/92
Frog Baseball was one of two pilot episodes of Beavis and Butt-head (the other being Peace, Love and Understanding) which aired as segments on MTV's Liquid Television program.
We get our first glimpse of our friends Beavis (Mike Judge) and Butt-head (also voiced by Judge) watching television. While flipping through channels, first what appears to be an attorney ad, then an ad for a show called "Cop Rock", which airs at 9:00 pm, they start giggling at the "Thigh-Master" promo. After the titles, we find the duo's favorite activity; blowing up locusts with a zippo and a firecracker. After doing some air-guitar, Beavis spots a frog. What happens next is unlucky indeed for said frog, since the two boys decide to play a rather twisted version of America's favorite pastime of "frog baseball." After many misses, and clubbing Beavis in the head, Butt-head demolishes the creature with the bat. But, after more air-guitar, Beavis spots Mrs. Higgins' poodle...
⚪ "Frog Baseball" features lower-quality animation than later episodes.
⚪ Beavis and Butt-head's voices sound notably different when compared to later episodes. Butt-head's voice is a lot deeper, as is Beavis'. Their voices aren't as distinctive and their laughs are somewhat different. The most glaring example of this is when Beavis talks during their baseball game and has a completely different voice compared to the rest of the episode.
⚫ In the original Liquid Television aired version, the end of the short's credits, there it a still from the short showing Butt-head making impact with the bat on the back of Beavis' head and over this image is text that reads "No animals were harmed in the making of this movie...except for Beavis." This portion has been removed from The Mike Judge Collection DVD version.
I'll never forget when my mom surprised me by picking me up from school early and taking me to see the Beavis and Butthead movie. Still to this day I have no idea what got into her. Thanks mom!
Your mom is the coolest person,
Damn crazy 🤣
My mom hated it my aunt didn't care even had the SNES and computer games back in the day wish she didn't sell it on a rummage sale before my cousin or I could buy it cheaper
She secretly wanted to see it herself and used you as an excuse! 😂😂😂
lol ur mom must've been crazy bro! I couldn't even watch this show around my mother back in the day. I had to watch it either by myself or with friends. 😅🤣
It's hard to believe that this short film launched an era of unforgettable stupidity. The nineties were such a fun decade.
The last truly great decade.
I wish I grew up back then 😭 so much better than growing up with “TikTok” 🤮
@@mike_404 the nineties were a fun decade. I survived all nine years of them!
Joshua Brooks 1990-91-92-93-94-95-96-97-98-99 you may find 10 years covered the 90s. 😂
The 90s were great. Getting older sucks, but I’m SO glad I grew up when call waiting and CDs were high tech and social media didn’t exist.
no animals were harmed , except for beavis
Lol
And the poodle
@@luckyanimationideas2448 and the frog
BURNN
@@pancake5830 And the bug
This pissed off a lot of people
It was funny that it did piss people off
How?
Back then it was funny to see people get mad. Now its just onoying
so how you doin
liken the weather?
I love how Mike Judge said he wanted this short to look like it was made by a crazy person. If he had actually planned it as a pilot, he probably would've drawn the characters less weirdly. It's awesome that he kept those bizarre unique designs for the whole series!
he was a pilot ?
@@gaama2203 a pilot episode.
@@gaama2203😂😂
@@gaama2203😂
PETA must've had a field day with this
This killed a Peta member.
As did the RSPCA.
Fuck those posers! The only PETA that matters is the "People Eating Tasty Animals" crowd!
@@mrconfusion87 YEAAAAA
PETA MEMBERS ARE PUSSIES.
I love how they went from this to unintentionally saving a dying bird.
Sucks how the series became less and less edgy.
@@PiroKUSS thats not what the show was about, but have fun i guess.
@@miguelnewmexico8641 Never said it was. They've gone soft. That's the point.
When did they save a bird?
@@miguelnewmexico8641
It was literally about that, it was to depict the reality of loser trashy teen culture in a way that still came off as funny. The whole point was to get as many letters complaining as possible.
“Beavis and Butthead are not role models. They’re not even human. They’re cartoons. Some of the things they do would cause a person to get hurt, arrested, expelled, possibly deported. To put it another way: Don’t try this at home.”
This was the worst thing I ever saw
The early 90's....good times, people...good. times.
Tell that to the people of Waco.
@@OniLordMiki oh shit dude that was a great comeback. Fuck those cops and government officials that did that
@@OniLordMiki I actually grew up in Waco during the 90's. Still had good times. Except for that one stretch.
Riiighy?
@@OniLordMiki Skip, you must be a liberal.
1992 holy crap
MilesTails101 I guarantee it lol those commercials were everywhere. Beavis seems smarter
Right
I want to go back
1993
I was born! Greatest year ever lol
No one captured the teenage male experience of the 90s quite like Mike Judge.
We never played dog baseball but we definitely did our fair share of smacking toads with a bat
No one took a crap on teenage males of the 90s quite like Mike Judge. I thank him for it.
Definitely a white male teenage experience. 🤣
Ah yes, I remember fondly my days of murdering small defenseless animals with my friends. Simpler times 😬
Uhh, we? Nah bro, not everyone does that, actually i never heard anyone do that
Sounds like psychopathic behaviour, not great at all
A historical piece of animation brought to us by the man himself, Mike Judge! 😄😊
I like how their designs in motion are drastically different, yet their standard laughing frames are exactly the same as the final product, albeit with a tan. Beavis sounds like a completely different person, well Butt-Head is just the same exact voice. Though, hearing them with an active voice is startling.
The weirdest thing is, normally, Beavis' voice sounds like a higher-pitched Butthead, but when they did the Iron Man intro, his voice suddenly is closer to the Beavis voice we know.
@@SoupCanMafia He must have been actively working on the voice, it's definitely one he had to develop. I guess Butthead was more of a natural voice for him.
@@mrjohnnyk Butthead sounds more like Mike Judge's natural speaking voice for sure.
Wow
Judge was still perfecting his craft. I still think Beavis and Butthead was the best of his animation IPs.
Their smoke on water solo was amazing
Agreed
Duo*
@@milegyen1111 fair enough
BAd
Yeah it better than the original
Whoa I never realized Beavis was left-handed.. and there it was right in the first episode.
Frog Baseball is the 4th episode. Confirmed by Mike Judge.
@@craigthompson168 then what are the first 3?
@@Milo-fn1bj “Frog Baseball” originally wasn’t an episode, it was a short film, and it was the first release of Beavis and Butthead. It was later used as the first of two pilot episodes premiering on mtv, the second being “Peace, love and understanding”.
@@Bad666Moon great but that doesn’t answer my question
@@Milo-fn1bj no one cares
1:04 That’s a damn fine cameo, I tell you h’what.
Propane
damnit BOBby
Hank and Peggy Hill were strongly based off of characters from Beavis and Butthead, Tom and Marcy Anderson.
She’s alright, She’s alright, She’s alriiiiight, Propane.
"FRRRRRRROOOOOOOOGGGGGG BAAAAAASSE BAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL"
uh heh heh heh heh heh heh, that was cool!
“Oh hey it’s ms higgins poodle. DOOOOG BASSEEE BAALLLLL
This is my first time seeing this, so I have a new quote.
@@johnjeczalik8960 Same buddy, same.
GET EEEM
this show along with Mortal Kombat had so many news stories about them,even though I wasn't born yet and really don't know what it was like
the 90s were definitely a time to be alive.
It was a much simpler time. Although we were more technologically advanced than ever B4.
saw TV's go from b&w to color TV's so big that when it broke u used it to sit the next one on! Then analog became digital & now it's flat screens & smart TV's hanging on walls..
Shelley Miller I think that’s what was best about the 90’s. We had the best of both worlds in a sense. The technology was just starting and it was still simple. The internet was In it’s infancy too and it was like a whole new world that we got to explore together.
Was born in the 90s best time ever
Things were over-the-top without using a bunch of swearing and "edgy" humor. Mainstream horror movies peaked in the 90's as well I think. They were allowed to be more graphic than the 80's as long as it didnt look too realistic (Wishmaster)
I remember watching this on Liquid Television
All wight all wong same
Aeon Flux, Bevis and Butthead, Winter Steel, the good old days.
Liquid television?
So did I.😍I used to like Liquid Television back in the day.🥰
@@mikkey246 Liquid Television was a show on MTV that featured shorts and animations (Like Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network). That’s how the world was introduced to Beavis & Butthead.
The next day a flying saucer landed outside their house. The two looked at each other and said "whoa, that's cool." A pair of giant frog-like aliens stepped out, looked at Beavis and Butthead and said "check it out! HUMAN BASEBALL!"
Id love to see that
They’d use Beavis as the ball and Butthead as the bat
“THIS SUCKS BUTTHEAD THIS SUCKS!!”
“Uhuuhhu this is cool huhuhuuh”
Those eyes of Beavis and those of Inbred Jed at the beginning harkened back to the movie Deliverance. If you remember that scene with the boy picking his Banjo, you'll understand the image Mike Judge was trying to convey for these two geniuses.
The Iron Man bit still makes me grin
@@rileyfosti843 Dawg 1:24
@@VEINinvasionaries just trolling.. shoulda said barbie girl
The interview that Mike Judge gave about this episode is hillarious. I love that guy.
Me also
And thus, two legends were born.
2:23 butthead points at the poodle but says “check it out butthead” lol
Wow never noticed that
no that was beavis, he jujst sounds way different here
but yeah butthead did point
1:58 No animals were harmed in the making of this film...except beavis 🤣🤣
don’t forget about 2:10
God i miss good television. Tv sucks today.
As a thirteen year old when this first aired, I am not sure how or why this spoke so loudly to my generation. I can only affirm that we were latch key kids, and it was a pre-cell phones, pre-internet, pre-Nicktoons era. MTV still aired music videos for the most part. Entertainment was scarce. That our parents hated it was a huge bonus.
Well it wasn't pre nickelodeon but ya I agree
Young millennial here, I'll give my take: It's because B&B represent(ed) the liberal/progressive backlash of the 90s largely from the youth. The late 70s and entire 80s were a period of conservative renaissance in the US, and the 90s were the opposite. B&B represent(ed) a rebellion against the boring stale status quo that had been cemented in the 80s. Teens were tired of it and wanted something new. Less churches more rock music, y'know? While B&B are obviously exaggerated & satirized, they represent(ed) behavior closer to what actual teens would do, as opposed to typical sitcoms/satires with goody two-shoe adolescents. Teens loved B&B for the same reason they loved Bart Simpson. They both represent(ed) the millennial generation (1981-1996) that was quickly rising. You hear adults like Mr Anderson yap on about "the good ol days" when really all you want to do is eat nachos, listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd and play SNES. Youth aren't stupid, they're just tired of hearing about the old days & outdated values. In reality, those old days weren't as good as adults say it was.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKittyironic that the people who were young then are the adults of today and end up parroting that same crap to young people that they hated back then
Because it was far from the corn ball crap from the 80's
@3rdcoastobs467 he said Nicktoon Era not Nickelodeon
That was cool 😎 😎
COOL
I love your tv show
omg i love your show :)
Huh huh huh
Beavis and Butthead I love your show
The voices hadn't been perfected yet! haha
This was a one off, later mtv ask for a season then Mike Judge and crew refined it. The rest is history.
I like to call these episodes the Tracey Ullman sketches just like when Simpsons were a low quality short sketches before it became an official series
@@DOI_ARTS the rest is legend
The short that launched the careers of these goofs. Making Beavis and Butt-Head a household name.
Generation X couldn't be happier!
B&B weren't a household name until the summer/fall of 1993, a few months after the show started. People who watched since day 1 already knew.
@@RichV20 It was spring /summer '93 when i first saw them on MTV cause that was only 1 of the few channels that i did watch.
Watching this nearly 30 years later, I'm surprised they knew any rules to baseball.
1:24 I like the singing ngl
Thank you so much
Yes thx
ROCKNROLL
@Eli Koger ❤️🎸
@Eli Koger thanks 😄
This is how it all got started! 🎉
This is cool
FROOOOOOG BAAAAASSSSSEBAAAAALLLL!!!!!!
Mike submitted this nutty cartoon on whim at a con-
test. He really didn't expect anything or think much of it. People freaked. The only time someone wanted to purchase the toon in thier history, and the rest was...
I miss the days before the insanity of sanitation.
Watch a movie called “hype” about the Seattle grunge explosion. The suits were trying to make it big on the youth disenfranchisement of the time
Beavis and Butthead have richer lives than most teens today, they go outside and do stuff and get into adventures.
Huhuhuhuhuh yeah phones suck
@@ashtonimus6124 Phones bad, hitting random animals with baseball and being a menace good.
@@cybernetic_crocodile8462 huhuhuhuhuh fire crakers go boom dogs go arrrrf
you said moist teens. uh huh huh huh
Ironic.. teens nowadays are sucks using damn phones unlike 80s, 90s and 2000s are many activities, damn hangouts and adventures
Now that I'm 39 in a few months, I find this show funnier than when I was a teenager. I was pretty much my parents age when this show ended in the late 90s
Yep
No animals were harmed in the making of this clip.
Except for Beavis.
Now it's almost unbelievable those cartoons were actually shown on TV. TV did suck back then, but not remotely as much as today.
By far one of the most crack head energy cartoons of the early 90's
This was the very first Beavis and Butt-Head scene I ever watched. My big brother showed it to me when I was in elementary school and I kept telling all my friends at school about it and I thought it was hilarious.
Bout what year did that happen with u?
The truth is I’ve seen kids in those era who pretty much did exactly the same and played the part to the tee
1:23-One of their best talents.
I remember when I saw this for the first time on a show MTV used to have called Liquid Television in 1992. I was blown away watching Frog Baseball and seeing Beavis and Butthead for the first time. There were three moments in my life that I call mushroom cloud moments. In 1991 when I heard Nirvana for the first time, in 1994 while watching Beavis and Butthead hearing Pantera for the first time and two years prior to that in 1992 watching Frog Baseball. That mushroom cloud went off in my brain and it was just and I know this sounds like a cliché life changing, mind altering whatever adjective I could possibly use it was all that and more. Seeing Beavis and Butthead doing what they were doing in this short for the first time was something up to that point in my life I had never seen on any show animated or otherwise. It pushed the envelope unlike anything I had seen. I didn’t know what to think, I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t how to react I was just in the moment and I laughed from beginning to end. If it weren’t for shows like Beavis and Butthead there wouldn’t be shows like South Park or Family Guy they changed everything.
still the best episode ever. if the whole show was exactly this sort of stuff, there is no way the show could have been any better.
I bet PETA lost their minds over this episode 🤣😅😂
I'm sure of that too lol
Sometimes I think Beavis & Butthead were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold without the senseless violence.
Damn good mechanics from Beavis and not a bad swing from Butthead. These guys had some actual talent
Imagine them coming out with this in 2019 lol be cancelled before it starts
Then, what's this year's show?
@@JKHarrison my chia pet and me....created by john dunbar.
Nope. He's right, they are not methodically torturing animals on any of those shows.
@@Horatio.Mantooth chia pets!!!! OMG! I used to have one.
@@JKHarrison 1992
I like how expressive Butthead can get in this pilot.
I'm used to seeing him all chilled, and laughing.
Yet this he sounds just as bro charismatic as Beavis.
The frog baseball yell gets me for some reason lol.
Fourteen year old here, my dad told me about this, and I am forever in debt to him.
The 90's ,hands down best time to be a teenager !
Lmao where did my childhood go? 10 o'clock on MTV no way I was allowed to watch.
This video by Mike Judge belongs in the Smithsonian. It created a new genre in TV. Today Beavis and Butthead wouldn't see the light of day. There will never be an intact Beavis and Butthead collection. I purchased all the episodes that were taken off TV from an auction site. I can't watch them today unless I use an old PC. Some of them were in different in video formats and included with the collection was software to play some of the videos. Several of them were recorded in Europe as they were banned after one showing on MTV. Many artists complained so their music couldn't be included in official Beavis and Butthead DVD's. Also Viacom didn't wanted to pay the artists. TH-cam at one time had almost every episode available but most of them were pulled due to copyrights and intellectual property.
That's honestly really cool. Have you gotten a computer that can play them yet because that's got to be extremely rare and valuable
Truly, the birth of an artistic vision that defined a generation
Happy 30 years to the very first time we saw Beavis and Butt-Head!
Oh how I miss the 90s sometimes. Much different, simpler.... no socials... I still laugh from the time a high school teacher of mine went on what seemed to be an endless diatribe about how Beavis & Butt-Head were the downfall of youth. Well most of us turned out fine and we look back at this with fond memories.
This was actually first aired at the Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted animation festival. I saw it there in 1992. Years later mtv picked them up.
And in the glory days of MTV, an all-American legend was born. 🇺🇸 🎸
Me and my friend used to just sing random guitar riffs too. good times
Their voices were more realistic and teen sounding here....tho Judges Beavis voice when show got picked up was what made it iconic.
My first boyfriend talked exactly like butthead😁it was so annoying.
I remember first seeing this, I was all like "this is some goofy shit right here, I love it."
This is what started it all. The very first one. Notice how different their voices are.
I vividly remember stealing myself down the house in the middle of the night, hoping mom and dad wouldn't bust me watching B&B 😎
BnB has been the most clown-world core phenomenon to this day. The joke was so over the head, most teens end up wanting to be more like those characters and even consider them "rebels" and their idols.
This is art. Bravo, Mike.
At 0:38, Mike Judge makes an appearance in his own cartoon. 😂
Saw that too. LOL!
Lol
It was Mike Judge ?!!! Oh My God !!!
Hi-top 😂💀
It would be crazy if this was nominated for the Oscar
Imagine how Beavis And Butthead would have turned out if Mike Judge retained the sociopathic edge of the pre-Trailer Park Fire Incident version of these two... 🤣🤣🤣
As a kid who grew up in Texas, definitely played frog baseball at least once
I first saw this at the Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation in San Diego.
Black Market III did you like it
Me too! But in Orange County. Costa Mesa.
San Francisco for me. Sick & Twisted for the win
@@gl9248 at that cool old theatre, was it the Newport? With that awesome lil donut shop down the street.
Me too! In La Jolla!
Before MTV got ahold of B & B this was part of the Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation series shown in theaters
No animals were harmed in
the making of this short.
Except two frogs, of course.
1:36 frog baseball
"WASHIN' THE DOG! WASHIN' THE DOG!"
"WASHIN' THE DOG! WASHIN' THE DOG!"
"WASHIN' THE DOG! WASHIN' THE DOG!"
Beavis and butthead and celebrity death match were the only mtv shows I watched
Me too
I just love the way they yell FROG BASEBALL 😂
Boy the vegan teacher would enjoy watching this.
They invented shorts as well as reactions. Well done Mike Judge!
"Whoa looks Butthead, is that a baby?"
"BABY BASEBAAAAAAAAAL!!!!"
Funniest thing I’ve read today
"¡GET HIM!"
God I miss the 90s sometimes. You’ll never be able to put anything like this on tv today.
Does MTV even show 1 music video these days? Seriously, in recent times I've watched that channel, it was all about sleezy relationships and emotional bullshit.
Wow, if I could return to the 1980s, VHS tape in hand recorded on one of the few functioning decks in 2021 of what MTV is now, and show it to a 1980s audience. X-(
@@plateshutoverlock Yeah they basically became TLC for teens, which is funny because TLC used to be the learning channel. Now they only show lame reality shows.
@@plateshutoverlock MTV hasen't played music vids in years or even decades!!!
A legend was born...
"Dude, it's a poodle... set it on delicate"
*washing machine starts up*
WASHIN THE DOG WASHING THE DOOOG
"Frog Baseball" was pretty primitive, even by Beavis and Butt-Head standards! 😆
The pilot that started it all back in 1993 great times indeed my dad used to watch this all the time starting with season 1 before i figured it out in middle school with season 8 great memories indeed with these 2 funnymen
This must be the unaired pilot. The aired version added an "Except for Beavis" in the disclaimer.
Vahan Nisanian nope. I remember seeing it on MTV liquid TV......liquid tv had shorts like eon flux and other cool cartoons.
You must be young it never watched liquid television. (No offense at all 😊). Many don't know about this episode
Yeah Liquid Television had some trippy stuff. I thought Aeon Flux was exceptionally good. I remember Dogboy and whatever that one was where the apartment building could talk.
One the most famous episodes.
This version is the same but the ending credits were changed. Everything else in the sketch is the same. This is the DVD version.
i remember seiing it the first time it aired. i was like "wow, that's awful. i love it!". my mother was horrified.
all my high school friends were hooked. we taunted our teachers with b&b's voices - they were completely clueless what it was all about and that added more hilarity to the fun.
Can we talk about how the beginning of this short really sets the tone for the rest of the show?
That's how they colored on paper.
J.K. Harrison no, I mean Beavis and Butthead laughing at a thigh commercial sets the comedic tone for the rest of the show perfectly.
@@SplendidCoffee0 Oh, yeah, I knew that.
He put “To Be Continued..” almost 30 years later that stood the test of time.
Exactly
We need shows like this today. Everything is so PC. 90s TV was great.
No kidding
Sadly, shows like this wouldn't last in this generation.
Are you kidding? Things were VERY pc in the 90s and people would become offended over dumb stuff.Television gets away with way more now. It just seems like there are more offended people these days, because with social media everyone has a platform. There was nothing special about the 90s.
@@spunge8170 They are coming back with a new movie and tv show next year.. Mike Judge wouldn't agree to bring them back a shell of their former self..
@@michaelangst6078
I heard Daria was also.
First saw this with my cousins back in 1992. It's still awesome.
Just as much fun as when it was new. Never on TV, but always in my soul.
it’s things like this that make me wish i were a teen in the 90s instead of the 2020s
Trust me, the 90s sucked in many ways. Every decade has it's good and bad points, people just like to view everything through nostalgia glasses.
@@aleph7266 why are you everywhere. If you didn't experience the 90s, then stop talking about it.
@@CharismaticGamer he is right tho
@@aleph7266 If think times are better now, you need some real glasses.
@@mrjohnnyk he never said that idiot
What a find! Haven’t seen this since Spike and Mike!
The original Beavis & Butthead episode!
Early 90s! Liquid television. Late night.
This is the most exercise Beavis and Butthead have ever gotten
*Who Missing "Beavis And Butthead,In The Quarantine*
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calm down activists, its just animation. its not REAL
My teenage years were so happy with these two :' )
This is the clip that launched Beavis and Butthead.