Peace, Love and Understanding is the second pilot episode of Beavis and Butt-head

Beavis and Butt-Head

Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. The series originated from Frog Baseball, a 1992 short film by Judge. After seeing the short, MTV signed Judge to develop the concept. Beavis and Butt-head originally aired from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997...

, after "Frog Baseball

Frog Baseball (Beavis and Butt-head)

Frog Baseball is the first appearance of Beavis and Butt-head, characters created by Mike Judge in 1992 for Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation and aired on MTV's Liquid Television...

". Like creator Mike Judge

Mike Judge

Michael Craig Judge is an American animator, film director, writer and voice actor, best known as the creator and star of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-head , King of the Hill , and The Goode Family .He also wrote, directed and in some instances produced the films Beavis and...

's other early short cartoons, it was funded by Spike and Mike and shown on MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

's Liquid Television

Liquid Television

Liquid Television is an Emmy Award–winning 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV. The first season of Liquid Television also aired on BBC Two in co-production with MTV. Ultimately, MTV commissioned three seasons of the show, which was produced by Colossal Pictures...

 in the early 1990s. Mike Judge stated in an interview tha he heavily disliked this particular episode, along with the season 1 episode "Give blood" which were both conceived on the same day.

Plot

After sniffing glue, Beavis

Beavis

Beavis is a fictional character on the MTV series Beavis and Butt-head. He is voiced by the show’s creator, Mike Judge.Beavis has an underbite and a fixated stare on his face which rarely looks straight at the television viewer, but rather to the side...

 and Butt-head

Butt-head

Butt-head is a fictional character from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-head. He was voiced by the show's creator, Mike Judge.Mike Judge got the name Butt-head from his university days, when he knew a couple of kids who had the nicknames 'Iron Butt' and 'Butt-head'...

 see a commercial on TV for the "All Star Monster Truck Thrashathon". They go to the monster truck

Monster truck

A monster truck is a pickup truck, typically styled after pickup trucks' bodies, modified or purposely built with extremely large wheels and suspension...

 rally, where their teacher, David Van Driessen sings and gets run over by a monster truck. The monster truck then goes out of control and hits a row of port-a-potties, releasing and angering Sterculius, the Roman

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 god of feces

Feces

Feces, faeces, or fæces is a waste product from an animal's digestive tract expelled through the anus or cloaca during defecation.-Etymology:...

. Sterculius goes up into the sky and the arena gets covered in poop.

Censorship

The beginning of the episode where Beavis and Butt-head sniff glue and make racist remarks about the Tom Vu-esque informercial spokesman was later edited out by MTV, along with a shot of an audience member giving Mr. Van Driessen the finger.