(H/T HotAir Headlines)
‘Beavis and Butt-head” — the show that celebrated the slacker way of life and helped make MTV into a network that did more than just play music videos — is coming back.
The move to resurrect the hugely popular 1990s animated anti-heroes has been rumored for several days. But yesterday, sources at MTV confirmed that a new batch of “Beavis and Butt-head” episodes are in the works.
The new series would keep Beavis and Butt-head in their perpetual high-school state, but it would be updated so that the pals — who obsessively watch music videos on a battered TV set — could lob their snarky comments at more current targets like Lady Gaga.
- Pressure from Parent Groups who claimed the show was making their kids want to burn houses down. Which in itself is quite stupid; because if you stupid kid burns down your house, because he watches something on TV —he has bigger issues than just Beavis and Butthead.
- Because by the time MTV pulled the series; it had become incredibly lame. I mean, there is just so much of that sort of stupidity that you can come up with. I mean, “This Sucks” only has so much mileage.
I also have an opinion as to why Beavis and Butthead might not work in this day and age on MTV. Back in the Mid-1990’s, MTV was still playing rock music. Beavis and Butthead were a fictional and much over the top depiction of your typical suburbanite white kid, who listened to metal music. Kids liked the show, because they saw a themselves in the show; albeit in a humorous manner. Today, MTV mostly plays Rap, Hip Hop, and R&B Music; Beavis and Butthead are going to be sorely out of place on the modern day MTV. I mean, it might work somehow; but I just do not see that show having a huge audience, especially in prime time hours.
So, while the show was cool, back in the day. Context as to why the show was very popular is also very important.
Having said all that, this is just too funny….: Click here for the video
Cool.
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