sopsych

"Smarter," eh? I watched the two new episodes last night, and that brings up another gripe. The updated Butthead seems too smart, especially when commenting on TV. He was always smarter than Beavis, but....

someonecompletelyrandom

Allen Gregory = a steaming pot of diarrhea.

Howard the Duck

never got into Daria, if you want my $0.02

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someonecompletelyrandom

I'm glad Beavis and Butthead are back, personally. I actually find the fact that their characters are more or less irrelevant now as an appeal of the new show. It'll let Mike Judge really explore how society and cultural attitudes have shifted since the 90s.

Oh God. The Adult Party Cartoon show was just awful. It had practically no redeeming qualities, especially since Billy West wasn't even involved anymore.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Not really. Simply enough, you seem to think Beavis and Butthead is somehow at fault of people you know being idiots. Maybe they're just idiots. Not the show's fault, or a fault of the show.

In the same sense, it's the theory of prohibition. enabling, that is. It's clear that alcohol is often used as an excuse to escape from decisions which are socially unsavory. In the same sense, you're accusing Beavis and Butthead of being a similar enabler.

Suppose I just skeptical on the point of naming something an enabler, in a world where people should be responsible for their own actions. Further skeptical why it effects the quality of the product.

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Howard the Duck

i've slept with a lot of women I shouldn't have, whilst drunk

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Ah, but have you slept with any you shouldn't have over Beavis and Butthead?

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Howard the Duck

i've only tried hitting on one using B&B as a conversational piece, didn't get me anywhere

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Not a very good enabler. Should have struck up a conversation based on 'The Toxic Avenger'.

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TheBig3

Not exactly, in my original post I said...

Now admittedly, I didn't get that thorough in my second post, but I don't think anyone believes I changed my whole opinion from one page to another. Shows don’t make people stupid or obnoxious, but they can be, and I’m maintaining that this one was, a force multiplier, giving these misguided teens (and in my case, pre-teens) a direction to focus their lack of curiosity toward. B&B was something they could relate to, which sounds like a positive, but once it unified a generation it didn’t do anything else.
It was a show about slackers that appealed to slackers. It was to this end a self-fulfilling prophecy. Like Philosophy majors, they just become an echo through time that does little else. And for the life of me I can’t tell why Jackass or Jersey Shore doesn’t hit the same notes with subsequent generations. But even those shows DO something for people. Kids idolizing the Jersey Shore at least workout and do laundry. And ideally the Jackass fan base ends up killing themselves off, so Johnny Knoxville is at least our generations Darwin…or Nietzsche maybe. I don’t know, but I’d love to hear how B&B isn’t given enough credit, and more importantly how its smarter than I or anyone else gives it credit for.

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