Beavis and butthead episode 2
peace, love and understanding

peace, love and understanding was funded by spike and mike of spike and mikes sick and twisted film festival in 1992.

It first hit mtv's airwaves on liquid television on november 17th 1992

It then aired during the run of the beavis and butt-head series on march 10th 1993

Much like Frog Baseball, it originally didnt feature music video segments, but music videos were added in the series version.

Now, lets see what happens with Beavis and butthead in Peace, love and understanding.

The first thing we see is the beavis and butthead title screen.
Then the screen of the title of the episode which simply reads peace, love and understanding

from that it fades to beavis and buttheads tv showing a small man in a tropical paradice with two women in bikinis on each side.
The man on TV talks about attending his "wealth training seminar" to learn how to make a lot of money.
It then shows beavis and butthead sitting on the couch, butthead laughing as beavis is sniffing modeling glue. Butthead snatches the glue from beavis and starts sniffing it himself.

Butt head then pulls his eyelids tight to imitate the man on TV and does a voice and says "me happy boy"

After the imitation he says that was cool.

The TV then shows a commercial for a monster truck heavy metal  tracktor pull thrash a thon
Beavis and butthead have their eyes wide open, very enthused as they watch the commercial. the announcer in the commercial say "huge monster trucks tearing ass all night long, ticket price pays for the whole seat but you'll only need the edge"

Butthead says its cool and were there dude. Beavis says yeah

Cut to a shot of the out side of the stadium with a sign displaying "All star monster truck thrashathon" as it slowly zooms in

Beavis and butthead are sitting in the stands with a bunch of hillbillies behind them.

between laughs Butthead says to beavis, "what if we put a stick of dynamite in somebodys butt and then you lit it, that would be cool"

It cuts to a monster truck in front of a blue car. The announcer says "get your cameras ready for this one folks cuz the scrotalizer is about to take on a brand new 1992 hyundai excel, yes hyundai. A close up shot of the car shows a stuffed animal of the cartoon character garfield suctioned cupped to the back passenger seat window.

The monster truck then smacks its front wheel onto the hyundai, crushing it.
Beavis and butthead are both headbanging in the stands along with the hillbillies around them cheering. 

It then cuts to beavis and butthead in frame with a woman they're sitting next to. butt head puts his hand on her arm and says "hey baby, wanna sniff some glue" and then laughs.

the shot goes back to the monster truck ring with a man standing in the center with a microphone and acoustic guitar. The announcer then introduces the man as the musical guest david vandreissen, vandreissen would later wind up being beavis and buttheads hippie teacher in their high school.

Vandreissen asks for everyones attention, reminds them that today is earth day and asks for everyone to mellow out and hold hands as he plays a song.

While vandreissen is talking it cuts to beavis and butthead booing. The other people in the crowd are flipping the middle finger and yelling you suck. Over the yelling vandreissen starts playing and singing. As he sings "plant a tree save the trees". a monster truck named the piledriver then drives towards van dreissen with its front wheels in the air, sucks van dreissen into the tires and shooting his blood and guts out from the back.

Beavis and butthead in the crowd then yell "yes!"
as the crowd cheers on.

The announcer states that the pile driver is going out of control and heads towards a line of portapotties and crushes two of them. As the pile driver is crushing the porta potties a brownish greenish cloud along with a fart noise comes from the demolished porta potties and behind the pile driver. The cloud becomes larger and develops an angry face.

Heavenly music plays and beavis and butthead are wide eyed.
Butthead says "Its Sterculius, the Roman god of feces"

Sterculius says "I am sterculius, god of feces, you have desecrated my temple, you offend me, prepare to feel the brunt of my wrath.

Sterculius then rises up out of the stadium into the sky.

then the last scene is shot of the entire stadium as two loads of feces are dropped into the stadium from above along with fart noises.

the them music plays with a card saaying "to be discontinued..."

The credit cards come up:
Spike Decker of Spike and Mike is credited for the idea of the short

Characters created by mike judge, along with the animation, music and voices

A handful of others did animation cel painting, audio work and editing.

A thanks goes out to Bob patterson and DNA productions


Music videos in the series version:

Joey Lawrence – "Nothin' My Love Can't Fix"
Butthead says "its the dude from blossom, what a puss" they change the channel

Biz Markie – "Spring Again"
The music video has the lyrics on the screen, Butt head says "that would be cool if you could like read" they change the channel

Jane's Addiction – "Been Caught Stealing"
The boys like the video and head bang to it.
Butt-head calls one the ladies in the video beavis' mom beavis calls butthead a choad smoker.

Mötley Crüe – "Kickstart My Heart"
The boys headbang and think this video is cool.
Butthead says "these guys jam" 
Then later says "these guys are wussies"

Bob Geldof – "The Great Song of Indifference"
Butthead says "check it out a hippie"
Beavis says "hippies suck"
They're digusted at first then they jam to it for a little bit then change it

Sir Mix-a-Lot – "Baby Got Back"
The boys laugh for the short time they watch then change it

LL Cool J – "Big Ole Butt"
They laugh again then change it

Wreckx-n-Effect – "Rump Shaker"
Butthead says "I like rap songs about butts" the boys enjoy watching the women in bikinis then change it

Guns N' Roses – "Paradise City"
Butthead says "axl is cool"
The boys imitate the guitar riff
They headbang to the song and like it

Don Johnson – "Heartbeat"
Butt-head says "this is stupid" then changes it

Behind the scenes:

Just like the first beavis and butthead episode, Frog Baseball, this second episode was also done by Mike Judge on his own in his house.

The character David Van dreissen was Mike Judges favorite character besides beavis to do the voice for.

Van dreissens voice came from when Mike was playing bass for Sam Myers and a reporter from the Santa barbara blues society started interviewing Sam. This reporter had a voice that Mike wound up imitating as David Van Dreissen. He asked questions like "How it must have been wonderful to come from the south to travel to europe and experience their culture"

Later on in the Beavis and butt-head series, Van Driessen is Beavis and butt heads hippie teacher. He has long hair, wears glasses, and is seen for the most part wearing a shirt with a peace symbol on it. who is one of the few people who is patient and treats the two with kindness. He  rarely gets mad at them.

Mike Judge had a hard time trying to draw a car from his own imagination, so he wound up looking through car ads in the newspaper and traced the hun die right from a photo off the newspaper.

Peace love and understanding is the 2nd of the two pilot episodes of beavis and butthead. It was re-ran as the third episode in the series on March 10th 1993 after the series premiere on March 8th.

fun facts:

This episode marks the first appearance of David Van dreissen and even though he's killed in the episode, he comes back as a mainstay character in the series. 
This has led to some people claiming that this episode, peace love and understanding is the absolute official ending of beavis and butthead, at least with van dreissen in the series.

Certain parts were cut out of the MTV versions of the episode to meet standards, the parts cut were:

The scene of the close up showing the label on the tube of glue butthead sniffing was cut, 

Butt-Head doing the "me happy boy" voice impersonation 

A phone number flashing during the monster truck commercial was cut

When butthead puts his hand on the womans arm in the crowd and says hey baby wanna sniff some glue, the "wanna sniff some glue" line is cut.

When the announcer announces hyundai excel, Hyundai is cut for trademark purposes and the car is announced only as Excel

When Van dreissen is playing his song and the crowd is flipping him off, the middle fingers are erased so they look like their shaking their fists instead.

The uncensored version of the episode was released on Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, Volume 1 on VHS

Mike Judge hated this episode as he felt like it was stupid and low quality