You're selling more posters than "Jurassic Park." You're getting all-time high ratings on MTV. What does your success say about the current culture of American teenagers?

Butt-Head: Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Beavis: He said "suck." Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. Uh... could you repeat the question?

What I'm getting at is, there's a whole new group of kids in junior high now, and your success -

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. He said it again.

Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Let me put it another way. Just this morning I watched a psychologist on TV talk about the horrible effect that heavy metal has on kids. Do you ever consider the influence you're having on today's youth?

Butt-Head: Uh... uh... well, I like to burn stuff, but that doesn't mean -

Beavis: I like it when stuff blows up and knocks people over. Huh-huh.

Butt-Head: [Smacks Beavis on the head] Shut up, Beavis. I was saying something. Huh-huh. Uh... what was I saying?

Your influence on today's youth.

Butt-Head: What's today?

Tuesday. Butt-Head: Oh, yeah. What was I saying?

Your effect on young people. You said you like to burn stuff.

Butt-Head: Whoa! You must have one of those pornographic memories! Huh-huh. Uh... I like to burn stuff, but that doesn't mean you have to. Huh-huh, huh-huh. It would be cool if you did, though.

Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh. Fire! Fire! Fire!

So what's the coolest thing you've ever burned?

Butt-Head: Uh... Beavis's eyebrows. Huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah, that was pretty cool. Huh-huh. It smelled cool, too.

Why was that so cool?

Butt-Head: It was like, unexpectant? We were torching a June bug with a can of Lysol and a lighter, and it ended up burning Beavis's face. Huh-huh, huh-huh. It was like a bonus.

Beavis: Huh-huh. I burned my bonus.

Well, let me ask you this: Do you guys find anything funny that isn't scatological?

Butt-Head: Uh... sure. Lots of stuff. Like, uh, butts are funny.

Anything besides butts? Beavis: Fart are funny. Because they come out of your butt. Huh-huh.

Butt-Head: Did you know that any time anyone is born, they come out next to a butt? Huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah. Even the president of the United States.

So what's your point?

Butt-Head: Well, uh... that's pretty cool. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

What do you think of the disclaimer MTV sometimes runs before your show?

Butt-Head: It's cool.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Butt-Head: Uh... no. Huh-huh.

Those words MTV runs before the show warning people about you.

Beavis: Words suck.

Butt-Head: Yeah. If I wanted to read, I'd go to school.

Beavis: So, like, what do they say?

They say you're crude, self-destructive and anti-social, but for some reason you make them laugh.

Butt-Head: Cool! Huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah. MTV's cool.

Even though the censors in their standards department won't let you say certain words?

Butt-Head: Yeah. MTV's cool - for a bunch of wussies. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Beavis: We can say "ass wipe."

Butt-Head: Not very often.

Beavis: We can say "asshole."

Butt-Head: No, we can't, Beavis.

Beavis: Are you calling me a lair?

Butt-Head: No, I'm calling you a waste of bum wipe.

Beavis: We can say "butthole." Butthole! Butthole! Butthole!

Butt-Head: Shut up! MTV will fire you!

Beavis: Fire! Fire! Fire!

Butt-Head: Settle down, Beavis!

You seem to watch a lot of TV. Do you think television depicts an accurate view of the world.

Butt-Head: Uh... like, are you really with the Rolling Stones?

I'm with "Rolling Stone," the magazine.

Butt-Head: So, uh, do you get lots of chicks?

Beavis: Hey, Butt-Head, when chicks find out we know someone with the Stones, we'll get some helmet. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

I'm with the magazine "Rolling Stone." I'm a writer, not a musician.

Beavis: Wuss.

Butt-Head: So you don't get any chicks?

Not like Mick Jagger.

Beavis: Mick Jagger's not a chick.

Butt-Head: He didn't say he was a chick, Beavis. He said he doesn't get chicks.

Beavis: He said he doesn't get chicks like Mick Jagger.

Butt-Head: That's right. Not like Mick Jagger.

Beavis: But Mick Jagger's not a chick.

Butt-Head: Don't make me kick your ass again, Beavis.

Beavis: You know who looks like a chick? Huh-huh. Vince Neil.

Butt-Head: Yeah. Huh-huh. And Dave Mustaine.

Beavis: Yeah. That's why he wears glasses. So he doesn't look too much like a girl. Huh-huh, huh-huh. What do glasses have to do with masculinity?

Butt-Head: You know what you should do to, like, get chicks? Since you're a wuss? Huh-huh, huh-huh. What?

Butt-Head: You should get some binoculars and stand outside this apartment building we know and look in the windows. Huh-huh. How would that help me get chicks?

Butt-Head: Sometimes you can see 'em naked. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh. Or you could go to Bible camp and hug chicks when they find Jesus.

Butt-Head: That would be cool. Huh-huh. "Give us this day our morning wood." Huh-huh, huh-huh.

What kind of music do you like?

Butt-Head: Uh... uh... all different kinds.

Beavis: Yeah. Like loud music.

Butt-Head: Yeah. And much that rocks! Huh-huh.

Beavis: Music that kicks ass! Huh-huh. And fire music! Fire! Fire!

What's fire music?

Beavis: Oh, sorry, I was thinking about videos.

Butt-Head: I lso like music that's about stuff. Huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah. Like that rap song about that guy who likes big butts.

Butt-Head: Yeah. That one speaks to me. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

The rumor is, you guys have the same father.

Butt-Head: Uh... we're not sure. It's possible. Huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh. He used to come around a lot.

Are the two of you friends with anyone besides each other?

Beavis: We're not friends.

Butt-Head: Beavis has a special friend. Huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh.

Butt-Head: Sometimes he shakes hands with Little Beavis.

Beavis: Yeah. [Pathetic attempt at Pakistani accent] "Hello, Meester Monkey." Huh-huh.

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. That was cool.

Well, you two sound pretty friendly.

Butt-Head: We just do lots of stuff together. Huh-huh.

Beavis: Just cool stuff.

Butt-Head: Yeah. I like stuff that's cool.

Well, there must be a lot of cool stuff to do, because as far as I can tell, you two spend every moment of your life together.

Butt-Head: That's 'cause Beavis follows me around.

Beavis: You follow me around.

Butt-Head: Only when I'm gonna kick your ass.

Beavis: When you're gonna lick my ass?

Butt-Head: Shut up, booger wipe!

Beavis: Peckerwood!

Hey, break it up! Butt-Head, I have a question for you. I noticed that you often say, "I like stuf that's cool." But isn't that circular logic. I mean, what is the definition of "cool," other than an adjective denoting something the speaker likes?

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. Uh, did you, like, go to college?

You don't have to go to college to know the definition od "redundant." What's I'm saying is that essentially what you're saying is "I like stuff that I like."

Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh. Me, too.

Butt-Head: Also, I don't like stuff that sucks, either.

But nobody likes stuff that sucks!

Butt-Head: Then why does so much stuff suck?

Beavis: Yeah. College boy! Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Butt-Head: Huh-huh, huh-huh. Uh, I have a question you you.

Go ahead.

Butt-Head: Pull my finger.

That's not a question.

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. Uh... would you please pull my finger?

Oh, all right.

[Butt-Head farts loudly.]

Butt-Head: Huh-huh, huh-huh. That's cool.

Beavis: I taught him that joke. Huh-huh.

Butt-Head: I taught you that joke, bunghole!

Beavis: But I taught you the part about where you fart.

Butt-Head: Oh, right, you did. Huh-huh, huh-huh. That's my favorite part.

I just have a couple more things I'd like to cover.

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. He said "things."

Beavis: He said "couple." Huh-huh, huh-huh.

When I was your age, the big event that formed the values of my entire generation was the Vietnam War.

Butt-Head: Yeah. Huh-huh. Rambo was cool!

So I was wondering if there was a similar experience, some unifying event, that has affected your life.

Butt-Head: Uh... well, once we bough this bullwhip at Stuckey's? And we went around looking for stuff to whip. But like we couldn't find anything. No frogs or lizards or nothing.

Beavis: We tried a bag of charcoal, but it wasn't alive.

Butt-Head: Then we found this big old grasshopper in the middle of the road. It was really big. It was like a freak grasshopper. Huh-huh. We whipped it and whipper it.

Beavis: Yeah, yeah. And then I kicked it. Huh-huh.

Butt-Head: We slapped it around like a red-headed stepchild. Huh-huh, huh-huh. And then it looked like it was dead 'cause it hadn't moved in like an hour? And then all of a sudden these little white worms started crawling out of its butt, one by one. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Beavis: Yeah. They looked like long-grain rice. It's like they wer trapped inside this grasshopper, and we came along and set 'em free.

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. Uh... they crawled out of it but!

You're comparing the Vietnam Wat to worms crawling out of a grasshopper's butt? How could that affect your life?

Butt-Head: Well, uh... if that hadn't happened, we would have had to, like, do something else.

Well, I suppose it's pointless to ask this, but -

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. You said "butt."

What advice do you have for America's youth?

Beavis: Uh... sometimes at the arcade? If you rub your feet on the ground and touch the coin slot, it makes a spark and you get a free game. Huh-huh.

Butt-Head: Huh-huh. Uh... I got one. Like if you go to school and, like, study and stuff? And grow up and get a job at a compant and, like, get promoted? You have to go there and do stuff that sucks for the rest of your life.

Beavis: Yeah. You'll be trapped, just like those worms in the grasshopper's butt. Huh-huh, huh-huh. And then people will whip you, and you'll come crawling out and -

Butt-Head: Shup up, Beavis! Huh-huh. But what I was saying is, if you act like us and just do stuff that's cool? Like sit around and watch TV and burn stuff?

Beavis: And choke your chicken. Huh-huh-huh.

Butt-Head: Yeah. Huh-huh. And choke your chicken. Then Rolling Stone magazine will come and kiss your butt!

Huh-huh. You said "come."

Beavis: Yeah. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Beavis and Butt-Head: Huh-huh, huh-huh. Huh-huh, huh-huh. Huh-huh, huh-huh. Huh-huh, huh-huh.

Butt-Head: That was cool!