Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe Coloring Pages
Free Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe coloring pages featuring solo portraits of Beavis, solo portraits of Butt-Head, duo scenes, and the crossover image of Rick and Morty meeting the pair – free printable PDF and online coloring for fans of all generations.
Beavis and Butt-Head premiered on MTV on March 8, 1993. The show ran for seven seasons and became one of the defining cultural artifacts of the decade – not because of its sophistication, but because of its deliberate and entirely committed lack of it. Two teenage boys are sitting on a couch, watching music videos and laughing at things. That was the premise. It ran for 200 episodes. Mike Judge, who created the show, wrote and voiced both characters himself while working as an engineer in Texas – a biographical detail that adds either context or irony depending on how you look at it.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe was released on Paramount+ on June 23, 2022 – 26 years after the first film, Do America (1996) – and updated the characters for a world of iPhones, surveillance capitalism, and a Deep State conspiracy that Beavis and Butt-Head navigate with their characteristic complete indifference to understanding anything around them.
These 16 free pages at ColoringPagesOnly.com are for the fans – people who grew up with the show, saw the film, and want to spend an afternoon with these two. All free, PDF or PNG. Come in.
The Film, the Characters, and What’s in the Collection
What the Film Is Actually About
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe opens in 1998, where Beavis and Butt-Head – facing juvenile detention – are instead sentenced to attend a NASA space camp in Houston as a punishment intended to be educational. It achieves this goal in the way all educational interventions aimed at Beavis and Butt-Head achieve their goals: not at all.
At space camp, they meet Serena Ryan, a NASA astronaut who teaches them to operate the robotic arm of the Space Shuttle. Beavis and Butt-Head interpret the operation of a robotic arm in the way they interpret everything: as a metaphor for their singular goal. Serena, recognizing them as a liability, arranges for them to be launched into space on the actual shuttle. They dock with the International Space Station, accidentally fall through a black hole, and emerge in 2022 – 24 years forward – with no understanding of what has happened or why everything looks different.
In 2022, they are still the same age. They still want to score. The Deep State, for reasons related to a classified mission involving the black hole, is now trying to find them. Serena Ryan, now the Governor of Texas, has her own complicated feelings about their reappearance. The film navigates all of this with exactly as much intellectual engagement as you would expect from Beavis and Butt-Head.
The film received a 77% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics noting that it updated the characters for 2022 without losing what made them funny – specifically, the gap between how comprehensively the world has changed and how completely Beavis and Butt-Head have not changed at all.
The Beavis Pages
Beavis, Beavis Face, Beavis from Beavis and Butt Head, Beavis in Beavis and Butthead, and Free Printable Beavis and Butt Head capture the shorter of the two characters in his canonical form: blonde hair in a style that defies description, pale skin, buck teeth, and the grey t-shirt. In the original MTV run, the shirt displayed the Metallica logo – licensed merchandise from the band who, in one of the original show’s most famous arcs, appeared to meet the characters in a recurring segment. Licensing complications in later seasons and the 2022 film replaced the Metallica logo with “Skull” – a fictional metal band insignia -, but the grey t-shirt remains. Beavis’s voice – high-pitched, slightly nasal, prone to escalating laughter – is one of television animation’s most distinctive, and was performed entirely by Mike Judge across every episode, film, and revival.
Beavis’s alter ego, Cornholio – a character Beavis becomes when he consumes too much sugar or caffeine, pulls his shirt over his head, and delivers a series of nonsensical proclamations about Bunghole – does not appear in this collection, but the Beavis Face page captures the expression that typically precedes the transformation.
The Butt-Head Pages
Butt-Head, Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head, Butt-Head in Beavis and Butt-Head, and multiple duo configurations capture the taller, marginally less impulsive of the two. Butt-Head has dark brown hair, large teeth with silver orthodontic braces, and wears a black t-shirt – originally displaying the AC/DC logo, also replaced for licensing reasons with “SKULL” in later iterations. His voice – a slow, deep drawl with the distinctive laughing pattern “uhh huhh huhh huhh” – is the other half of Mike Judge’s dual performance, and the contrast between Beavis’s high-pitched reactivity and Butt-Head’s slower, more dismissive delivery is the fundamental comic engine of everything the show produces.
Butt-Head is the nominal leader of the pair, in the sense that his plan – whatever it is – is marginally more coherent than Beavis’s. This is not a high bar.
The Duo Pages
Butthead, Beavis, Butt Head, Beavis, Butt Head with Beavis, Butt Head and Beavis, Beavis, Butt Head, Beavis with Butt Head, and Beavis and Butt Head – the paired pages are where the visual dynamic of the show is clearest. Side by side, the height difference, the contrasting hair colors, and the different t-shirt shades (grey and black) create a visual contrast that is immediately recognizable to anyone who grew up with the show. The duo pages also capture the fundamental relationship between the two: they have been sitting next to each other since 1993, watching television, and have apparently never once considered doing anything differently.
Rick and Morty Meet Beavis and Butt-Head
The Rick and Morty meet Beavis and Butt-head page is the collection’s most significant and most culturally layered image.
Rick and Morty premiered on Adult Swim on December 2, 2013, created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. The show’s central structure – an oblivious, simple-minded teenager dragged through dimensions by his nihilistic genius grandfather – owes an acknowledged creative debt to Beavis and Butt-Head, particularly in the dynamic between a character who understands everything and a character who understands nothing sitting next to each other and reacting to events.
In Do the Universe, the meeting between the four characters occurs when the film’s multiverse logic creates an intersection between the two universes – a recognition of the creative lineage between the shows and a genuinely funny collision of two different kinds of adult animation comedy. Rick and Morty’s color palettes (Rick: white coat, white hair; Morty: yellow t-shirt, blue jeans) against Beavis and Butt-Head’s palette (grey and black t-shirts, blue jeans) make this the most technically interesting coloring page in the collection, because it requires accurately rendering four distinct character designs simultaneously.
Who These Pages Are For
Let’s be clear where the meta description is wrong: these pages are not “perfect for all ages.” Beavis and Butt-Head is and has always been adult animation. The show’s humor is crude, satirical, and aimed at audiences old enough to understand what it’s satirizing. The film carries a TV-MA rating.
The audience for these coloring pages is adults and older teenagers who grew up watching Beavis and Butt-Head on MTV in the 1990s, who saw or heard about Do the Universe, and who want to engage creatively with characters that have been part of their cultural landscape for over three decades. This is not a classroom activity collection. It is a nostalgia and fan art collection for people who remember the original show and find something genuinely satisfying about sitting down and coloring two of animation’s most committed idiots.
That audience is large. The original show consistently drew 8–12 million viewers per episode in its peak years. Do America (1996) grossed over $63 million at the US box office on a $12 million budget. The Universe was Paramount+’s most-watched animated premiere at the time of its release. This is not a niche property.
How to Color These Pages Well
Embrace the flat aesthetic – shading is wrong here. Mike Judge’s visual style for Beavis and Butt-Head is deliberately crude and flat. The humor and the character partly depend on the simplicity of the drawing style – the faces are not anatomically accurate, the proportions are exaggerated, and the lines are intentionally imprecise. When coloring these pages, flat, uniform color application with no shading or gradient work is more faithful to the show’s aesthetic than any attempt at sophisticated rendering. A flat yellow for Beavis’s hair. A flat dark brown for Butt-Head’s. No highlights, no shadows. The pages look more right with less technique applied.
Beavis’s specific colors. Blonde hair – warm, medium yellow, not a pale yellow, and not a golden amber. Pale, slightly pinkish skin. The Skull/Metallica shirt: medium grey, the specific grey that reads as “a grey t-shirt a teenager wore every day and never washed.” Blue jeans – a mid-range denim blue, not dark navy. White sneakers that have not been white for some time.
Butt-Head’s specific colors. Dark brown hair – not black, not as dark as it looks on screen; a warm dark brown. Slightly more olive skin tone than Beavis. The Skull/AC/DC shirt: solid black. The same blue jeans. His braces: small silver rectangles on the upper and lower teeth. The braces are a defining visual detail and should be rendered in metallic grey or silver rather than simply left white.
For the Rick and Morty page, four palettes need to coexist. Rick Sanchez: white lab coat, white hair (with a slight blue-grey tinge), pale green skin. Morty Smith: yellow t-shirt, blue jeans, brown hair, warm peach skin. Beavis and Butt-Head in their canonical colors as above. The key to this page is keeping the four characters visually distinct – the blue jeans on both Morty and Butt-Head create a risk of the characters bleeding together, so making sure Rick’s white coat and Beavis’s grey shirt are clearly differentiated from everything else helps the composition read correctly.
Butt-Head’s teeth deserve specific attention. The defining visual of Butt-Head’s face is his enormous, braced teeth – they occupy a disproportionate amount of the lower face and are drawn with a specific, exaggerated shape that is central to his character design. Color the teeth a warm off-white (not pure white – these are Butt-Head’s teeth) and add small silver braces brackets along both upper and lower rows. The braces made Butt-Head’s face look strange in 1993, and they look strange now. That’s the point.
The “bad drawing” is the whole aesthetic – honor it. These characters are not drawn to be beautiful or technically impressive. They are drawn to look exactly like what they are: two teenagers who would, if rendered by a slightly clumsy artist, look approximately like this. Coloring them with the same energy – confident, not overly careful, committed to the specific ugliness that makes them recognizable – produces a more authentic result than careful, precise technique.
5 Creative Craft Ideas
Framed Fan Art Print
Print your preferred page on the heaviest cardstock your printer handles. Color it with markers rather than colored pencils – the flat, bold color application of markers is more consistent with the show’s aesthetic than the softer blended look of pencils. Use the exact canonical colors: Beavis’s grey shirt, Butt-Head’s black shirt, both in blue jeans.
Mount the finished page in a simple frame. Black frames best – it reads as a deliberate art object rather than an accidental one. The size that works best for this is A4 or US Letter at full scale, framed in a standard 8×10 or A4 frame available at any home goods store.
The finished framed piece is genuinely good wall art for a home office, a media room, or anywhere that benefits from a piece that signals cultural reference without taking itself too seriously. Adults who grew up with the show will recognize it immediately. Adults who didn’t will find it confusing, which is also fine.
Laptop and Notebook Sticker Set
Print all 16 pages at approximately 30% of their full size – the reduction makes individual characters fit comfortably as laptop stickers. Color each one carefully at this small scale using fine-tip markers (colored pencils tend to lose crispness at reduced size). Cut each character out along its outline.
Apply clear contact paper over each colored page before cutting – sticky side down, pressed from center outward to eliminate air bubbles. The contact paper both protects the coloring and provides a transparent laminate edge that gives each sticker a finished quality. Add double-sided tape or sticker paper to the back.
A complete set – solo Beavis, solo Butt-Head, various duo pages, and the Rick and Morty crossover – applied to a laptop lid or the cover of a journal creates a fan collection that is more personal than any commercially produced merchandise. The Rick and Morty crossover sticker, in particular, tends to generate conversation from people who recognize both shows.
Retro MTV-Style Poster
This craft extends well beyond simple coloring. Print two or three of the duo pages at full size. Color all of them in the canonical show colors. Cut the central figures out from each page. On a large sheet of black poster board (A2 or larger), arrange the figures and mount them with photo-safe adhesive.
Around the characters, hand-letter or stencil text in a style that references 1990s MTV graphic design: bold, slightly imprecise, high-contrast. The MTV logo palette – black, white, and the specific MTV off-white – works as a backdrop. Add a “1993–2022” date reference if the crossover between the original show and film is the theme. Add “DO THE UNIVERSE” in large block letters across the top.
The finished poster is a legitimate piece of 1990s-adjacent graphic design that works as a statement piece in a home or apartment where adult animation and 1990s cultural nostalgia are welcome. It takes about two hours to complete and costs almost nothing to produce.
T-Shirt Transfer
Select the most graphic-friendly page in the collection – the solo Butt-Head portrait or the standard duo page work best for t-shirt scale. Color it boldly with markers. Print or scan and re-print on iron-on heat transfer paper.
Follow standard transfer instructions: cotton shirt, pre-washed without fabric softener, iron at cotton/linen setting, no steam, press firmly for 60–90 seconds, cool completely before peeling. The result should be allowed to cure for 24 hours before washing; wash inside out in cold water.
The solo Butt-Head portrait on a black t-shirt is the most visually striking outcome – the character’s dark t-shirt reads as a continuation of the shirt’s actual surface, with the face and jeans emerging from the black field. The duo page on a grey shirt references the original show’s grey-heavy palette in a way that fans will recognize as intentional.
Coloring-Session Double Feature Night
This is less a craft than an event, but it is possibly the most appropriate use of this collection. Print a selection of pages – enough for each person present. Set up the coloring materials. Put on Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) or Do the Universe (2022). Color during the film.
The experience of watching Beavis and Butt-Head while simultaneously coloring pages of Beavis and Butt-Head creates a layered, slightly recursive viewing experience that is more enjoyable than either activity alone. The flat, slow, deliberately stupid pacing of the films – which is where much of the humor lives – creates comfortable natural pauses for coloring without requiring full attention. The coloring keeps hands occupied and lets the comedy work without the distraction of checking a phone.
For a group of adults who grew up with the show, this is a better evening than it sounds. The 2005 Art Therapy Journal study on structured coloring reducing anxiety applies here, though the researchers probably did not envision this specific application. The benefit transfers regardless.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe about? Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022) is an animated sci-fi comedy film directed and written by Mike Judge, released on Paramount+ on June 23, 2022. The plot follows Beavis and Butt-Head, who, in 1998, attend a NASA space camp as an alternative to juvenile detention, accidentally fall through a black hole while aboard the International Space Station, and emerge in 2022. The film follows them navigating the present day – smartphones, surveillance culture, the concept of gender identity, and a Deep State conspiracy – with characteristic incomprehension.
Who created Beavis and Butt-Head? Mike Judge, who created the characters in 1992 as part of a short film called Frog Baseball, which aired on MTV’s Liquid Television and was picked up for a full series in 1993. Judge voices both Beavis and Butt-Head, as well as several other characters across the series. He also created King of the Hill (1997), Office Space (1999), Idiocracy (2006), and Silicon Valley (2014–2019). The original Beavis and Butt-Head series aired on MTV from 1993 to 1997, with a revival in 2011 and a further revival on Paramount+ in 2022, running concurrently with the film.
Are these coloring pages appropriate for children? No. Beavis and Butt-Head is an adult animation. The show, the films, and the characters are aimed at teenagers and adults. The content of the original series and the 2022 film carries a TV-MA rating. These coloring pages are fan art for adults and older teenagers who are already familiar with and fans of the property. Parents should be aware that the source material is not appropriate for young children, regardless of the coloring page format.
Why do Rick and Morty appear in this collection? Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe includes a scene in which Rick and Morty – the characters from Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon’s Adult Swim animated series – cross over into the Beavis and Butt-Head universe. The crossover acknowledges the creative relationship between the two shows: Rick and Morty, which premiered in 2013, draws on a similar dynamic between a character who understands nothing and one who understands everything, and its creators have acknowledged Beavis and Butt-Head as an influence on the tone and structure of their series.
What are the canonical colors for Beavis and Butt-Head? Beavis: medium yellow hair, pale pinkish skin, grey t-shirt (originally Metallica logo, later “Skull” for licensing reasons), blue jeans, white sneakers. Butt-Head: dark warm brown hair, slightly olive skin, black t-shirt (originally AC/DC logo, later “SKULL” for licensing reasons), silver orthodontic braces on his teeth, blue jeans, white sneakers. Both characters wear essentially identical jeans and shoes – the differentiation is primarily in hair, skin tone, and shirt color.
How is the 2022 film different from the 1996 film Do the Right Thing? Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) involved a road trip across the United States after someone steals their television, set in an era contemporaneous with the show’s original run. Do the Universe (2022) uses time travel as its premise – specifically the gap between 1998 and 2022 – to examine how Beavis and Butt-Head interact with a world that has changed completely around them while they have not changed at all. This generational gap is the central comic idea of the newer film and gives it a different kind of satirical target than the first film’s road trip format.
Is the 2022 film worth watching for fans of the original show? The film was received positively by critics and fans of the original series, with particular praise for how it updates the characters without softening them or explaining their appeal in a way that dilutes it. The time travel conceit allows the film to comment on 25 years of social change through the specific lens of two characters who have absorbed none of it. For anyone who watched the original show, the film delivers what it promises: Beavis and Butt-Head, unchanged, encountering a world that is unrecognizable to them and that finds them equally baffling.
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Beavis and Butt-Head have been sitting on that couch since 1993. They do not know that 32 years have passed. They do not know what streaming is, what a podcast is, or why the world they returned to in 2022 looks so strange to them. They just know what they want, which is the same thing they have always wanted, and they pursue it with a dedication that, if applied to anything other than what they’re applying it to, would be genuinely admirable.
Pick up your markers. Use flat colors. Honor the aesthetic.
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