Beavis and Butthead are like back, or something

I was on assignment for one of the big surf magazines that used to be a thing and found myself driving around and surfing France with Nathan Fletcher.

I was sent there to write a profile on a newly discovered surfer named Chippa Wilson. Nathan rode for the same company (RIP Analog) so he was there too, and often Andy Irons would pile in the car with us.

I knew all the folklore surrounding Nathan and the Fletcher crew of course, and with Andy there it was even more fucking surreal — easy to get intimidated and go mute around legends of that magnitude, especially sitting there as an inexperienced writer kid from Huntington Beach sent to profile an unheard of Australian named Chippa with gold eyes and freakishly technical airs.

But sitting in the van, and after a few surfs, Nathan (and Andy) deemed my surfing background legit enough to share things with me, understanding I wasn’t another “surf journalist” vampire looking to make a name for myself through headlines written in their blood, so it didn’t take long to find common ground with these legends, and that common ground was Beavis and Butthead.

It wasn’t long before the entire van would be reciting lines, pulling up music vids and scenes and doing our own shithouse impressions of our favorite heavy metal loving couch potatoes.

We’d fire up that new website called YouTube and dig deep into pirated fragments and scenes of Beavis and Butthead, deepening our well of jokes for the rides to the beach.

Today it was announced that Beavis and Butthead are back and new episodes will premiere August 4th, as well as remastered versions of older episodes —which I’m especially stoked about. And as dangerous as nostalgia can be, in this case, I really think it’s OK to be happy about this. This will be good for us all. —Travis