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Hit Or Miss: Beavis And Butt-Head?
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Author:  Seinfeld26 [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Hit Or Miss: Beavis And Butt-Head?
No metal forum would be complete without at least one thread pertaining to Mike Judge's Beavis And Butt-Head series. So, what are your overall thoughts on it?

I'm not gonna lie: I am a B&B fan. Admittedly, I was a bit of a latecomer to the series (I started watching it in late-1997, about a month before the series finale). But it quickly became one of my favorite animated comedies and has remained that way ever since. It's probably the only show I can think of that manages to be both incredibly stupid and incredibly funny at the same time. One might even say it's "intelligently stupid." It's also one of the few series that actually got progressively better as it continued, so it never had a "jump the shark" moment. And, of course, there were the fail-proof music video segments. Although, those DID become tamer as the series progressed. For example, by about 1995, Beavis and Butt-Head no longer changed the channel on music videos (rumor has it this was in response to numerous complaints from record companies about declining sales for their "star bands" after B&B changed the channel on one of their videos).

However, I disagree with those who think there should be a B&B "revival." The reason why is because the show's grunge-culture parody is firmly locked in the 90's. Today, the jokes and overall tone of the show would probably go over the head of a teenager weaned on Call Of Duty rather than MTV.

Nonetheless, if you were there when the series was at its prime, it was a blast.
Author:  warfleloup [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:55 pm ]
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Miss. It sucks.
Author:  Tompa [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:08 pm ]
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I liked it when I was a kid and I haven't really seen it since so I couldn't tell you. If new episodes started to run I would probably not be watching it, though I'd at least give it a chance.
Author:  Orion [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:16 pm ]
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Never really watched it. From the few bits and pieces I've seen, miss.
Author:  GeneralDiomedes [ Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:10 pm ]
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Wallow in the glorious stupidity. I loved it.
Author:  Cara [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:30 am ]
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My parents didn't let me watch it, rofl... Or the power rangers, but I was sneaky and watched that one :)
Author:  Legacy Of The Night [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:37 am ]
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Parents not letting you watch Bevis and Butthead I can understand, but the Power Rangers? wtf?
Author:  DevotedWalnut [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:10 am ]
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Awesome show!

I can feel my brain cells, dying just talking about it.
Author:  Ness [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:42 pm ]
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Huge hit! I would still watch it if it was on.
Author:  The Evil Dead [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:08 pm ]
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Awesome show. I do have a couple seasons on DVD but they sort of lose their magic without the music video scenes. I really prefer when the repeats run on one of the MTV channels, and they still will run them for awhile every now and then.
Author:  The_Voice [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:30 pm ]
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It was a good show in its time, i watched an episode a couple of months and didnt enjoy it a all, maybe it was just a bad episode.
Author:  DevotedWalnut [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:32 pm ]
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The_Voice wrote:
It was a good show in its time, i watched an episode a couple of months and didnt enjoy it a all, maybe it was just a bad episode.


it probably was just a bed episode.

People who don't like this show just say so because they don't know how to shut their brains off and enjoy some pure stupidity.
Author:  stevelovesmoonspell [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:21 pm ]
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DevotedWalnut wrote:
Awesome show!

I can feel my brain cells, dying just talking about it.


They die every other post you make.
Other than this I love the series, especially when they called Crowbar "fat people music" aha. Good show
Author:  North From Here [ Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:45 pm ]
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stevelovesmoonspell wrote:
DevotedWalnut wrote:
Awesome show!

I can feel my brain cells, dying just talking about it.


They die every other post you make.
:lol:
Author:  Azrael [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:37 am ]
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didn't love it but was definitely entertaining. they also had Doria and Downtown, pretty cool shows imo.
Author:  Adveser [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:12 pm ]
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The_Voice wrote:
It was a good show in its time, i watched an episode a couple of months and didnt enjoy it a all, maybe it was just a bad episode.


This is exactly the case. I don't think the earlier episodes, with the terrible animation or anything leading up to that fire a child started while watching the show was ever really re-aired. If you weren't there since the beginning, one might get the perception that the last few seasons, which were very tame, was what the show was about. They went from couch fishin' to getting jobs as the mall security, or shoving firecrackers up a cats ass to stealing a lawnmower. They clearly weren't doing horrible things anymore, but merely stupid things.
Author:  Thrashtildeth [ Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:52 am ]
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Love it to to death. Seen them all a million times.

The movie is the most perfect addendum to the series as well.
Author:  Seinfeld26 [ Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:59 am ]
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Let's not forget how this show almost single-handedly killed Winger:

Wikipedia wrote:
Winger was the subject of constant ridicule in MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head during the mid 1990s. The neighbor boy Stewart, who was always trying to be accepted by Beavis and Butt-head, was usually depicted wearing a Winger T-shirt, as opposed to the heavier Metallica and AC/DC shirts worn by the title characters. Beavis and Butt-head thought of them as "wussies". According to the documentary Taint of Greatness: Part 2 on the Mike Judge Collection Volume 2 DVD, this was due to Winger telling MTV he would not let the show make fun of him. This has been cited as a reason for the band losing popularity. Mike Judge would continue to slyly mock Winger in his next animated series King of the Hill, as the character of John Redcorn was a former roadie for the band until embarking on a Native American vision quest, where he discovered that "wrangling groupies for Winger was not my proper life path."

Kip denounced the rumor of telling MTV not to making fun of him in an interview on That Metal Show with Eddie Trunk in 2010.

About this same time, Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica could be seen throwing a dart on a poster of Kip Winger in the video for "Nothing Else Matters". When asked about this, Kip Winger once stated: "Our band was known to musicians, and a lot of musicians showed up to see me play - watching trying to figure out how I'm playing - we were like the 'hair band' [version of] Dream Theater -- That is why it's the great irony that we ended up on that geeky guy's shirt on Beavis & Butthead, because Metallica couldn't play what we play, they couldn't do it, they literally - technically couldn't do it. And I'll fucking challenge those chumps to that any day of the week, but we could play their music with our hands tied behind our back. And so, I was a little t'd off about that, but in the end, none of that shit matters..."
Author:  Thrashtildeth [ Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:34 am ]
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Seinfeld26 wrote:
Let's not forget how this show almost single-handedly killed Winger:

Wikipedia wrote:
Winger was the subject of constant ridicule in MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head during the mid 1990s. The neighbor boy Stewart, who was always trying to be accepted by Beavis and Butt-head, was usually depicted wearing a Winger T-shirt, as opposed to the heavier Metallica and AC/DC shirts worn by the title characters. Beavis and Butt-head thought of them as "wussies". According to the documentary Taint of Greatness: Part 2 on the Mike Judge Collection Volume 2 DVD, this was due to Winger telling MTV he would not let the show make fun of him. This has been cited as a reason for the band losing popularity. Mike Judge would continue to slyly mock Winger in his next animated series King of the Hill, as the character of John Redcorn was a former roadie for the band until embarking on a Native American vision quest, where he discovered that "wrangling groupies for Winger was not my proper life path."

Kip denounced the rumor of telling MTV not to making fun of him in an interview on That Metal Show with Eddie Trunk in 2010.

About this same time, Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica could be seen throwing a dart on a poster of Kip Winger in the video for "Nothing Else Matters". When asked about this, Kip Winger once stated: "Our band was known to musicians, and a lot of musicians showed up to see me play - watching trying to figure out how I'm playing - we were like the 'hair band' [version of] Dream Theater -- That is why it's the great irony that we ended up on that geeky guy's shirt on Beavis & Butthead, because Metallica couldn't play what we play, they couldn't do it, they literally - technically couldn't do it. And I'll fucking challenge those chumps to that any day of the week, but we could play their music with our hands tied behind our back. And so, I was a little t'd off about that, but in the end, none of that shit matters..."


Never fuck with the Judge.
Author:  Goat [ Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:17 am ]
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I don't think I've ever seen an episode. :ph34r:
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