You guys are a little too anal-retentive to honestly get the show!! You're analyzing it like you're Siskel & Ebert or some bullshit!! It was a slackers cartoon & not some serious tv show!! It WAS NOT a melodrama or some epic piece of programming - IT WAS A CARTOON!! The story was non-linear & should be left as such!! You guys are acting like a couple of DORKS!! The premise of the ENTIRE show was circulated around the music videos!! The whole idea was that it was a show revolving around two slackers who did nothing life but get into trouble, try to score with chicks & watch music videos!! Sort of a stereotype of the normal 90's teen!! To put it simply, BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AS LOVED AS THEY ARE TODAY WITHOUT THE VIDEOS & COMMENTARY!!

i'm the opposite of you: i thought most of the shows were filler (a few were funny), and the videos were the funny part.

Yeah, I agree that the songs usually seemed like lame filler, but there were a couple that I really liked:

I don't remember which song it was, maybe The One I Love by REM? But it was after MTV had stupidly made them stop saying "fire," and when the word was sung in the song, Beavis just goes, "Woah! Heh! Heh! Woah!" I loved the subversiveness of that moment.

And who can forget Beavis' Ross Perot imitation during Whip It? "The answer is simple. When a problem comes along, you must whip it!"