Beavis and Butt-Head - Project Buffcoat (Dot Crawl Removal)

The project removes censorship and improves restoration quality of the newly remastered, streaming Beavis and Butt-Head releases.

This release includes 51 episodes and several additional variants. 33 were in the last release, but now have many additional fixes and commercial bumpers added (see changelog: https://pastebin.com/sD2cBFTx )

Format: MKV | 9000 kb/s x264 (1440x1080p/23.976) | 640 kb/s ac3

[New]
S01E02 Give Blood (Sinead O’Connor Version)
S02E06 At the Sideshow (Aerosmith Version)
S02E06 At the Sideshow (Golden Earring Version)
S02E08 Sick
S02E18 For Better or Verse
S02E19 Bedpans and Broomsticks
S02E20 Yogurt’s Cool
S02E25 Friday Night
S06E01 Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest
S06E16 Yard Sale
S06E18 Substitute
S06E19 Shopping List
S07E00 Butt, Butt, Hike & Vaya Con Cornholio (Butt Bowl, Uncensored)
S07E02 Vaya Con Cornholio (Season Version)
S07E05 Just for Girls
S07E06 A Very Special Episode
S07E07 Dumbasses Anonymous
S07E11 Nose Bleed
S07E32 Work is Death

[Updated]
S03E13 Sporting Goods (Uncensored)
S03E13 Sporting Goods (Updated/Censored)
S04E02 Cow Tipping
S04E12 Late Night with Butt-Head
S04E27 Crisis Line
S05E04 Choke
S05E11 Career Day
S05E13 Take a Number
S05E16 Stewart Moves Away
S05E41 Premature Evacuation
S05E48 Bus Trip
S05E49 Green Thumbs
S07E01 Butt, Butt, Hike
S07E04 Ding Dong Ditch
S07E09 Head Lice
S07E10 Cyberbutt
S07E12 Citizens Arrest
S07E13 Pierced
S07E14 A Great Day
S07E16 Follow Me
S07E17 Nothing Happening
S07E18 Take a Lap
S07E19 Shortcuts
S07E20 Bride of Butt-Head
S07E21 Special Delivery
S07E22 Woodshop
S07E23 TV Violence
S07E24 Canned
S07E25 Garage Band
S07E28 Shopping Cart
S07E30 Die Fly, Die
S07E31 Drinking Butties
S07E37 Leave it to Beavis
S07E38 Butt Flambe

Original post:
These are edits of the first batch of 33 Beavis and Butt-Head episodes that have been ‘remastered’ and released in 2022. This reduces a severe analog artifact in them and fixes other small problems. Episodes contain the intro, music videos, and credits. Please see the included readme for additional information about the various issues and fixes.

See here for screenshot comparisons of the streaming versions and this release with dot crawl removal. It isn’t perfect, but it’s better than the constant dots buzzing around:

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.

The dot crawl removal is a big improvement. Thanks!

SpacemanDoug said:

It seems they stopped adding episodes on Paramount+

Yes, but more are currently airing on Comedy Central UK, including:
Eating Contest
1-900 Beavis
Water Safety
Figure Drawing
Butt is it Art?
Manners Suck
Radio Sweethearts
Killing Time
Safe House
Beavis and Butt-Head’s Island

SpacemanDoug said:

towne32 said:

SpacemanDoug said:

It seems they stopped adding episodes on Paramount+

Yes, but more are currently airing on Comedy Central UK, including:
Eating Contest
1-900 Beavis
Water Safety
Figure Drawing
Butt is it Art?
Manners Suck
Radio Sweethearts
Killing Time
Safe House
Beavis and Butt-Head’s Island

I wonder why they stopped though

Possibly copyright issues

PsyKovic said:

SpacemanDoug said:

towne32 said:

SpacemanDoug said:

It seems they stopped adding episodes on Paramount+

Yes, but more are currently airing on Comedy Central UK, including:
Eating Contest
1-900 Beavis
Water Safety
Figure Drawing
Butt is it Art?
Manners Suck
Radio Sweethearts
Killing Time
Safe House
Beavis and Butt-Head’s Island

I wonder why they stopped though

Possibly copyright issues

Nothing to suggest this, as there are other episodes with duplicated music videos they haven’t aired on P+.

They’re likely to add more in the build up to season 10, but they’re a long way off from a full set.

This is cool! But, like, are you gonna fix the episodes from April too? Heh heh

This is cool! But, like, are you gonna fix the episodes from April too? Heh heh

Sorry, double post

SutterCane said:

This is cool! But, like, are you gonna fix the episodes from April too? Heh heh

Sorry, double post

There’ll be another wave at some point, maybe when this ‘season’ of episodes finishes. There are still more episodes they’re adding (some this month).

Update:

Updated all of the previous episodes, which now include the commercial bumper segment and many other upgrades and bug fixes. And there is a batch of new episodes as well, including some from seasons 1 and 2.

(see changelog: https://pastebin.com/sD2cBFTx )

Format: MKV | 9000 kb/s x264 (1440x1080p/23.976) | 640 kb/s ac3

[New]
S01E02 Give Blood (Sinead O’Connor Version)
S02E06 At the Sideshow (Aerosmith Version)
S02E06 At the Sideshow (Golden Earring Version)
S02E08 Sick
S02E18 For Better or Verse
S02E19 Bedpans and Broomsticks
S02E20 Yogurt’s Cool
S02E25 Friday Night
S06E01 Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest
S06E16 Yard Sale
S06E18 Substitute
S06E19 Shopping List
S07E00 Butt, Butt, Hike & Vaya Con Cornholio (Butt Bowl, Uncensored)
S07E02 Vaya Con Cornholio (Season Version)
S07E05 Just for Girls
S07E06 A Very Special Episode
S07E07 Dumbasses Anonymous
S07E11 Nose Bleed
S07E32 Work is Death

[Updated]
S03E13 Sporting Goods (Uncensored)
S03E13 Sporting Goods (Updated/Censored)
S04E02 Cow Tipping
S04E12 Late Night with Butt-Head
S04E27 Crisis Line
S05E04 Choke
S05E11 Career Day
S05E13 Take a Number
S05E16 Stewart Moves Away
S05E41 Premature Evacuation
S05E48 Bus Trip
S05E49 Green Thumbs
S07E01 Butt, Butt, Hike
S07E04 Ding Dong Ditch
S07E09 Head Lice
S07E10 Cyberbutt
S07E12 Citizens Arrest
S07E13 Pierced
S07E14 A Great Day
S07E16 Follow Me
S07E17 Nothing Happening
S07E18 Take a Lap
S07E19 Shortcuts
S07E20 Bride of Butt-Head
S07E21 Special Delivery
S07E22 Woodshop
S07E23 TV Violence
S07E24 Canned
S07E25 Garage Band
S07E28 Shopping Cart
S07E30 Die Fly, Die
S07E31 Drinking Butties
S07E37 Leave it to Beavis
S07E38 Butt Flambe

SpacemanDoug said:

One thing I will say is while it’s a shame the episodes aren’t completely uncensored (not Paramount+'s fault), they’re at least a lot better than the bastardized DVD episodes

MTV in general bastardized their catalog considering the state of the original Jackass series on Paramount+

Yeah, we are still discovering changes made to the Mike Judge Collection DVDs even in recent months. Part of it is revisionism, and part of it is going back to lower gen masters for that set (like Citizen Butt-Head, for example came out less censored). But their new releases just grab a random tape for an episode, clearly. Beware of the Butt is fully uncensored, and that tape was pulled from rotation after like two days in 1993.

Just to be clear, though, this project is fully uncensored.

SpacemanDoug said:

towne32 said:

SpacemanDoug said:

One thing I will say is while it’s a shame the episodes aren’t completely uncensored (not Paramount+'s fault), they’re at least a lot better than the bastardized DVD episodes

MTV in general bastardized their catalog considering the state of the original Jackass series on Paramount+

Yeah, we are still discovering changes made to the Mike Judge Collection DVDs even in recent months. Part of it is revisionism, and part of it is going back to lower gen masters for that set (like Citizen Butt-Head, for example came out less censored). But their new releases just grab a random tape for an episode, clearly. Beware of the Butt is fully uncensored, and that tape was pulled from rotation after like two days in 1993.

Just to be clear, though, this project is fully uncensored.

I believe some of the censorships are permanent since apparently some episodes had their actual masters altered

It’s hard to say other than speculation. In some cases, probably. In other cases, like Citizen Butt-Head, clearly the master was not altered.

Doesn’t matter for the new streaming masters though, because those are all from broadcast tapes and not the upstream masters. Which is why we can have things like the Beware of the Butt “F UCKER” scene even though it only aired around twice in May 1993, and always censored after that. Or the voiceover on Give Blood’s credits, which was changed, etc.