Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Beavis and Butthead

Just the mention of this show gets my wife shaking her head. She insists it is not funny, it is just stupid, it reminds her of her youth ( and her first husband.) I get it. This is not a show to tell the Neilsen folks you are watching when they call with a Survey.

However one thing should be made clear. In it's own way the show is funny. The humor is biting, it is sarcastic and it does make me laugh.

It is hard to use big words to describe what the show is. Laughing at videos and making points in a sarcastic way Beavis and Butthead say many things that we think. They do have a point to make about pop culture. Mix that in with their warped ideas of what is cool and how they can " score" and you get a fairly significant look at our pop culture.

More importantly this is one of the few shows that I always laugh at. A generation ago people laughed at The Three Stooges. Their was nothing edifying about them either.

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