@t_heislen @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

“Beavis And Butthead” was a revelation and a must-see for me. Dead serious. Was a big fan of the early ‘90s “Spike And Mike’s Sick And Twisted Festival Of Animation” which featured so many classic and then-new cartoons…including Mike Judge’s “Milton” which predated “Office Space.” So when MTV ran with “Beavis” I lost my nerdy mind and was NOT disappointed. 🤓👍😏

@InUnfunky @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I wasn't a fan of MTV and the role they took on as arbiters of success that was based as much on how cool a video you could make as it was on how cool the music was. If you didn't have the look, you didn't get the hit. That, to me, made a real mess of an already difficult business.

So I didn't see much of Beavis' antics.

#ElderlyCurmudgeon

@tgraph52 @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I hear ya TB and get/understand your POV...but also (as a Gen Xer, obvs) have a diff take.

Aside -- had you watched "Beavis And Butthead" you would've noticed the very heavy satirical angle Judge took with not only his parody of Texas culture and wasted youth, but also the main characters' relentless criticisms of music videos. It was half of each episode, literally the two idiots bashing -- or liking -- music videos. ON MTV.

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@tgraph52 @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @Mfieck

Judge got away with quite a bit -- not dissimilar to what hap'd with "Idiocracy" and Fox, tho that's another story -- and the duo's antics and juvenilia camouflaged the biting wit behind the silliness.

Personally -- had I NOT seen "Beavis and Butthead" I might've never gotten into Zappa, believe it or no...as the video for "You Are What You Is " was "critiqued" during one episode. 🤓

But yes, with MTV all too often the superficial sold.

@InUnfunky @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @Mfieck

I knew what Beavis was about I guess, and its satirical/social targeting but just didn't see much of it.

Maybe my dislike for MTV has to do with which songs I crossed off Walz' list. There was a lot of music I didn't pay attention to beginning in the middle 80s when i stopped playing in a band. There was a span of time from the late 80s to early 00s when I didn't listen to very much music at all for reasons.

#ElderlyCurmudgeon

@InUnfunky
Chiming in: Judge got the characters of Beavis and Butthead from a single person. A professor at UCSD. No lie, this guy was both, if you can imagine that.