Word: beavises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Total morons Beavis and Butt-head and their annoying laugh already have an album, a hit television show on MTV and successful comic books. But even student fans of the cartoon duo say they think their new trading cards--like their mind-numbing "huh-huh" laughs--suck.
"I own their CD," says Brian R. Blais '97. "I think Beavis and Butthead are a good diversion, but beyond that they're kind of senseless, and that's why they're funny."
Beavis and Butt-head are the animated, sex-starved adolescents created by cartoonist Mike Judge. The cards were created by MTV networks and Fleer Entertainment, a leading trading card company, as part of a growing amount of lucrative Beavis and Butthead merchandise, according to a statement released by Fleer earlier...
"The success of Beavis and Butthead on-air as well as off, with a best-selling book, an album release and other hot merchandise, has made these characters a true media phenomenon," Lisa Silfen, director of consumer products at MTV, says in the statement.
Yoon first failed to see the sophisticated argument taking place behind this parody; it was a kind of "meta-editorial," if you will. He also failed to recognize that my parody was an embodiment of the laughter of the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, a laughter which observes few limits (as Bakhtin scholars...