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Beavis and Butthead took something that already existed, and satirized it. I don't understand where you'd get the idea Mike Judge would be the kind of guy to condone, promote, or sympathize any behavior.

If you really look at MTV at the time, Beavis and Butthead was more a mockery of what the rest of the network had been condoning for 5 years before. I mean, we're speaking of the grunge era slackers which had been subjected to 5 years of praise before as being long haired, cool, good looking rebel outlaws.

Beavis and Butthead sort of sense showed the subculture without the gloss. Portrayed these sort of 'slacker heroes' and their worshipers as younger, dorkier, more out of touch than they thought in their minds. The intelligence of the show was portraying a more realistic grasp of the drones MTV commercialism was producing compared to the image that MTV commercialized.

For most people think the joke of the show is what Beavis and Butthead say. Problem is, it's what they ARE that make the show. I don't know why it goes over people's heads... Most people want to root for a character who is the 'smart guy' who says what's right, and Beavis and Butthead doesn't offer that. Therefore, it goes over heads for some reason.

Furthermore, it ironically was on MTV. Mike Judge I think slipped that one over a lot of heads, and logically, knowing the 90s, nobody got it.

Now as for your Jersey Shore, and Jackass rant. Neither of them have any connection with B&B at all, whatsoever. Furthermore, what the hell, it's a TV show? What does it have to do for the youth? It didn't change them, it just made fun of what they already were.

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TheBig3

I agree with you up until a point. Its clever in that he was mocking a lot of the same network he was on, though I don't know how much MTV wasn't in on the joke. If it made money, they played it.

But the joke might be on Judge, because if anything B&B did the opposite of what he wanted. It might have been an intended inside-joke wink, but they became the rallying cry, the Joan of Arc of a generation of toolboxes. So there is a lot to be said for the terrible spawn in unleashed on us all.

I feel the same way about Nirvana.

You are the WORST with a joke. I mean, I say "at least they would kill themselves" and you take this as a stone-sober statement. You really need to start drinking man. You're way too uptight.

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I think Beavis and Butthead is a good show if you're into that sort of comedy. At times, I feel it does go a bit overboard, but in general, it's a fun show to watch if you just feel like watching something dumb and moronic. Not to say that's a bad thing. It's a good show to pull a lot of jokes from to use in a fun setting.

"So how was your day?"
"I am the great cornholio, I need teepee for my bunghole".

I personally like the show, I haven't really gotten around to see any of the new episodes that have been released, but i've heard they're pretty good.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

I still just wish they would make an Idiocracy show. I imagine that working perfectly in a weekly show format. Plus, it feels potentially less dated.

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Howard the Duck

i think that pretty much hits it on the head

the show came on really late when i was in the UK, and i like to unwind after bingeing in the pubs, and it's a great watch smashed and sometimes semi-stoned

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