Beavis and Butt-head

Video and DVD

All VHS collections of episodes are out of print. They were compiled into two sets of three multi-episode Time-Life DVD releases called "The Best of Beavis and Butthead", which are also no longer available. A set of three DVDs from Time-Life was released in December 2002 and was only available direct from their website or by responding to a recurring television ad on basic cable that challenged viewers to buy their favorite morons on DVD.

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A two-disc DVD set titled The History of Beavis and Butt-head was scheduled to be released in September 2002, but was cancelled at the last moment. Many copies were mistakenly put on store shelves on the scheduled release date, only to be immediately recalled. The set started selling on eBay at very high prices, sometimes over $300 USD. According to creator Mike Judge, the History set was made up of episodes that Judge had previously rejected for home video release (Judge said in an interview, "it was basically all the worst episodes, with some exceptions"), and was prepared without his knowledge or consent. Judge owns approval rights for video releases of the series, and the History DVD set was recalled at his demand.

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On November 8th, 2005, MTV and Paramount Home Video will release the three-disc "The Best of Beavis and Butt-Head Volume One: The Mike Judge Collection". The DVD set will include approximately eleven music video segments from the original shows. All prior VHS and DVD releases have lacked these segments except for the last disc of the second and last Time-Life set, presumably due to the difficulty involved in acquiring music rights for the videos. This last disc, entitled "Hard Cash", appeared to have made room for four music videos since it contained half the episodes (one VHS worth) of most of the other volumes (typically the combination of content formerly occupying two VHS tapes).

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