"Tech Support" is the fourth episode of season 8 and 204th episode overall of the American animated television series '' Beavis and Butt-Head''. It aired alongside " Daughter's Hand" on November 3, 2011 on MTV.

Plot

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and Butt-Head walk to an abandoned

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to find out that it has been replaced with a computer

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office, where Butt-Head asks one of the office workers what has happened to the abandoned drive-in. Thinking that they're new employees, the technical support worker named Hamid (a

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ern man with a thick accent) gets Beavis and Butt-Head to sit down and work at the two vacant workstations inside his cubicle. However, the duo tries to browse the internet for pornography while mishandling the technical support calls they get, to which Hamid complains to his manager about their antics. While talking to Hamid, the manager nonetheless thinks the duo is doing their job correctly and encourages him to act like them. As a result, Hamid starts to imitate Beavis and Butt-Head, with the duo starting out being impressed with his imitation. Eventually, the duo stops finding him funny and while Hamid is talking to a customer who is having problems with a computer at a power plant, Butt-Head tells Hamid to tell him to "butt plug his computer". Hamid misunderstands him and instead tells him to unplug the computer, while Butt-Head meanwhile finally obtains a porn site called "Lonely Nasty Housewives". As the girl in the website is about to strip, the power goes out. The duo, however, thinks the computer is broken and unplugs it in order to get it fixed. As they walk out, two men in a truck (Ross and Harlan) spot them and think that they are looting due to the power outage, then drive through the window of the building and begin looting. Butt-Head calls the place cool again.

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Production

Mike Judge mentioned that he did not want to force "all the modern stuff on them" and thus, while the episode is about technology, it does not feature

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Reception

The episode was seen by 2,071,000 viewers in its initial airing.

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calls the plot of the episode a "great setup" and commented how Hamid trying to imitate the duo was "pretty funny". It also says the best gag is where Beavis is talking with a young woman who is a single mom. ''

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'' graded the episode a B+, commenting that "it's frankly pretty incredible that MTV lets Judge get away with this stuff" and notes that upcoming episodes should be "even more consistently uproarious". CraveOnline comments that the episode has an "even crazier premise" than "Daughter's Hand".

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* {{Beavis and Butt-Head Beavis and Butt-Head episodes 2011 American television episodes Television episodes about the Internet Television episodes about Internet culture