In what Beavis and Butthead episode/video snarkery segment, in which Beavis is either making fun of or unable to understand something, does he go "Words.... words.... uh... words...."?
April 22, 2010 2:58 PM Subscribe
In what Beavis and Butthead episode/video snarkery segment, in which Beavis is either making fun of or unable to understand something, does he go "Words.... words.... uh... words...."?
I can't remember either, but I'll add that I'm pretty sure he also said, "uhh...numbers....words...", etc.
posted by nosila at 3:17 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by nosila at 3:17 PM on April 22, 2010
Yeah I know for sure this exists.
I almost feel like they were going over some kind of contract or agreement they had been offered, in one of the "action" sequences.
I realized what a shame it was that so few of the video segments (easily the best part of B&B) are available,
Amen, brotha! I'm sure it is a music-rights thing. Somewhere I have a VHS tape of episodes taped right off MTV that I need to digitize before it's too late.
posted by drjimmy11 at 3:26 PM on April 22, 2010
I almost feel like they were going over some kind of contract or agreement they had been offered, in one of the "action" sequences.
I realized what a shame it was that so few of the video segments (easily the best part of B&B) are available,
Amen, brotha! I'm sure it is a music-rights thing. Somewhere I have a VHS tape of episodes taped right off MTV that I need to digitize before it's too late.
posted by drjimmy11 at 3:26 PM on April 22, 2010
There were a couple. I remember once when they were in a power plant (maybe in the movie?) and Butthead couldn't bother reading warnings before pressing a button.
posted by monkeymadness at 3:34 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by monkeymadness at 3:34 PM on April 22, 2010
Response by poster: Oktober - hmmm it's not Sober or Prison Sex....
Selton - nope not in the Candy ep...
I don't thINK it's from the movie.. at least, a search of the script has no hit on "word" or "words", for full or partial word segments..
still lookin! Thanks for the tips so far.
posted by bitterkitten at 4:04 PM on April 22, 2010
Selton - nope not in the Candy ep...
I don't thINK it's from the movie.. at least, a search of the script has no hit on "word" or "words", for full or partial word segments..
still lookin! Thanks for the tips so far.
posted by bitterkitten at 4:04 PM on April 22, 2010
Might be the once where Beavis is choking and Butthead goes to Burger World to get a sign detailing the Heimlich maneuver.
posted by Jawn at 4:34 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by Jawn at 4:34 PM on April 22, 2010
Disregard that, watching the beginning of that episode it's Butthead who is choking, and it's definitely Butthead who's got the 'words, words" line.
posted by Jawn at 4:35 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by Jawn at 4:35 PM on April 22, 2010
Yes, it's Butthead. I don't remember the rest of the episode, but I remember the gag. They're handed a piece of paper, a contract or something, possibly even a newspaper, something with a lot of text, and Butthead looks at it intently, saying, "Words... words..." and he's not making fun of it, he's just too lazy to read it. Or not able to.
I make that joke myself to this day, in Butthead's voice, as an offline tl;dr. Nobody ever gets it.
posted by Devoidoid at 4:37 PM on April 22, 2010
I make that joke myself to this day, in Butthead's voice, as an offline tl;dr. Nobody ever gets it.
posted by Devoidoid at 4:37 PM on April 22, 2010
Response by poster: Devoidoid - this is why I sooooo want to find a clip of it. ; )
Jawn - watched the Choke episode - good guess, but nada.
posted by bitterkitten at 4:44 PM on April 22, 2010
Jawn - watched the Choke episode - good guess, but nada.
posted by bitterkitten at 4:44 PM on April 22, 2010
I thought it was one of the one's when they were working at Burger World, and Butt-Head is searching for the correct button to place the order on the cash register.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:34 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:34 PM on April 22, 2010
In "Beard Boys," Butthead reads the label on a tube of glue as "uh... words... uh... words... huh huh huh, it says 'use on wood.'" BUT! That's not during a music video.
posted by jcfletcher at 9:10 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by jcfletcher at 9:10 PM on April 22, 2010
The rest of the class had piled on the bus and left school for a field trip.
Beavis and Butthead were tardy for some reason or another, and arrived to an empty classroom. On the chalk-board, in giant letters, it said FIELDTRIP and some other details. Butthead points to the words, as though sounding them out, and says "Uh . . . words. . ."
I think . . .
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posted by General Tonic at 9:35 PM on April 22, 2010
Beavis and Butthead were tardy for some reason or another, and arrived to an empty classroom. On the chalk-board, in giant letters, it said FIELDTRIP and some other details. Butthead points to the words, as though sounding them out, and says "Uh . . . words. . ."
I think . . .
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posted by General Tonic at 9:35 PM on April 22, 2010
Devoidoid, we use it exactly the same way, only we say "words.... uh... words... thingies...."
Now, I don't know if we actually heard an original version with "words" + "thingies", or just mentally made that up... but if we did hear it accurately, lo a decade ago, maybe the added "thingies" search will help?
posted by pineapple at 10:03 PM on April 22, 2010
Now, I don't know if we actually heard an original version with "words" + "thingies", or just mentally made that up... but if we did hear it accurately, lo a decade ago, maybe the added "thingies" search will help?
posted by pineapple at 10:03 PM on April 22, 2010
"Thingies" is their word for breasts, I think. I remember a lot of thingies jokes around the same time.
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 10:07 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 10:07 PM on April 22, 2010
Best answer: The "Beard Boys" bit is from 1:57 to 2:05 here, is that it?
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 10:08 PM on April 22, 2010
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 10:08 PM on April 22, 2010
Some part of me feels like they were watching either the video for "Right Now" or "Everybody Hurts," though I haven't checked out that timing.
Sidebar: I too have used this phrase, in the voice, for most of my adult life. I feel like the "Bee-girl" at the end of the "No Rain" video!
posted by buzzkillington at 10:28 PM on April 22, 2010
Sidebar: I too have used this phrase, in the voice, for most of my adult life. I feel like the "Bee-girl" at the end of the "No Rain" video!
posted by buzzkillington at 10:28 PM on April 22, 2010
I'm (possibly mis-)remembering something like that from their take on The Pursuit of Happiness's "Cigarette Dangles," which IIRC had a bunch of text on screen.
Also, if you want to see the episodes in their original format, I believe there's a large number of unofficial fan edits (available on your favorite internet grey-area distribution channels) complete with "B&B watching videos" segments.
posted by anthom at 6:34 AM on April 23, 2010
Also, if you want to see the episodes in their original format, I believe there's a large number of unofficial fan edits (available on your favorite internet grey-area distribution channels) complete with "B&B watching videos" segments.
posted by anthom at 6:34 AM on April 23, 2010
Response by poster: The Beard Boys bit sounds just like it, although I always remembered him doing it for a little longer than that. Thanks!
posted by bitterkitten at 7:22 AM on April 23, 2010
posted by bitterkitten at 7:22 AM on April 23, 2010
Didn't Shakespare use this joke in "Hamlet"? It would be ... heh heh... cool... if Beavis and Butthead made an allusion to that.
posted by Schmucko at 9:51 AM on April 23, 2010
posted by Schmucko at 9:51 AM on April 23, 2010
Didn't Shakespare use this joke in "Hamlet"?
Sort of. Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2:
Polonius: [...] What do you read my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
posted by mhum at 10:18 AM on April 23, 2010
Sort of. Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2:
Polonius: [...] What do you read my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
posted by mhum at 10:18 AM on April 23, 2010
Damn, now when I read Hamlet I will always hear it in Butthead's voice.
posted by Jawn at 12:20 PM on April 23, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Jawn at 12:20 PM on April 23, 2010 [1 favorite]
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Looking for this, I realized what a shame it was that so few of the video segments (easily the best part of B&B) are available, there's maybe a dozen on each of the two DVD sets, and it's a fairly random selection.
posted by Oktober at 3:14 PM on April 22, 2010