In 2022, remastered, full episodes of the original Beavis and Butt-Head series were finally released to coincide
with the new movie and TV series. These episodes contain the music video segments, many of which had only been
available in low quality or with TV network-watermarks, even in the amazing King Turd collection. Some episodes
from this set never had official DVD releases (Cyberbutt), lacked any home video releases (Cow Tipping), or had
only censored releases (Woodshop).

A full remaster from film negatives, if they still exist, would have been costly and would still need the music
video segments which, as best we can tell, were edited on video. The remasters come from specific broadcast tapes.
This is clear because the end credits include the staff of the ‘paired’ episode from the transferred tape, and
sometimes fragments of a specific commercial bumper.

These tapes, particularly those of season 7, are covered with dot crawl – an artifact of composite NTSC signal.
The severity varies from episode to episode, and was always present, but it is far more obvious than ever in these
fairly clean, upscaled transfers. While this release attempts to fix the majority of dot crawl, some episodes were
excessively bad (Cyberbutt) and still have some less noticeable crawl, especially in high-motion sequences
(see Die Fly Die).

Issues and Changes:

Episodes originally aired with two (or three) cartoons per half hour and shared credit sequence. This project
follows the streaming format of appending the full intro and credits to each cartoon.

The new Sporting Goods transfer used the ‘reanimated’ intro, with a second grasshopper instead of a lighter. The
original version did not air many times. Included is an alternate version using an upscaled off-air tape of the
original first scene, which will have to do until higher quality sources may be used.

Sporting Goods has exceptionally high quality video. We’ve used its intro sequence to replace the lower quality ones
on every other episode. For season 7, this required retiming the individual laughs, and adding Mike Judge’s name.

Most of the streaming remasters added the longer S7 “Mike Judge” intro to the start of S3-5 episodes. This cut into
the start of the title card sequence. In most cases, the existing frames could be looped without losing anything
unique. For “Late Night with Butt-Head”, the first few frames were taken from the DVD and color matched.

This release is generally meant to match the broadcast episodes. In some cases, like “Pierced”, “Choke”, and “Late
Night with Butt-Head”, the DVD had certain shots that are extended by a few frames or seconds.

Removed residual audio belonging to commercial break bumpers from: Sporting Goods, Cow Tipping, Take a Number,
Stewart Moves Away.

The remasters have some baked in deinterlacing errors. The main cartoon is mostly fine, but some music videos have
frame blending. On-screen text, like the end credits, can have a field inversion issue in some cases.

The Del Amitri video in “Follow Me” normally has a very bright, blown out look, and has been excessively darkened in
the streaming remaster – even the animated parts, for some reason. This release reverts that.

“Special Delivery” uses the U2 video rather than the Rolling Stones. This is not a modern replacement, and both
versions aired in the original run. As all season 7 videos are repeats anyway, this shouldn’t be a big deal.