Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series that originally aired on the cable television channel MTV from 1993 to 1997, and can now be seen in re-runs on MTV2. It was rated TV-14 in the US.

Each show contains short cartoons centering on a pair of post-pubescent teenagers by the names of Beavis and Butt-head who live and go to school in the fictional town of Highland, Texas (the location of Highland was revealed in an October 25, 1994 interview with Mike Judge). These cartoons are broken up by short breaks in which Beavis and Butt-head watch music videos and poke fun at them.

The Beavis and Butt-head characters were created by Mike Judge. Judge has said that he imagined Beavis and Butt-head as slacker students at the real-life Highland High School on Coal Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he lived. Specifically, he first created Butt-head as his idea of the archetypal slacker high school student, incorporating the look, name, and voice of a friend who invited anyone to kick him in the rear-end, calling himself "Iron-butt."