Word: beavisization
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Ironic distance is no longer an excuse for anything anymore, Have you noticed how many ads these days ask you to laugh with them at the images they present? Or all the shows which make the most of their banal material by offering hosts who find the stuff as stupid...
Redstone was holed up in hush-hush meetings with H. Wayne Huizenga, the chairman of Blockbuster Entertainment, and his team of top advisers. Fueled by pizza and Chinese food, the bleary-eyed negotiators hid out in the hotel suite for two days, often sleeping in chairs, as they hammered out...
On MTV the notion of interactive rock is in vogue if not yet in practice. The latest Beavis and Butt-head video, I Got You Babe, has the two cartoon metalheads cackling wildly as they put on virtual-reality headsets, plunge into cyberspace and select a "chick" from a computer...
This blasphemy, however, is no longer blasphemy. What the Butler Saw pales in comparison to, say, the most recent episode of "Beavis and Butthead" or Madonna's latest performance. As pure farce, it succeeds; as pertinent critical satire, it has been outdated.
On the Please-O-Meter, WW2 scores high, though one wonders whether kids will remember Wayne and Garth from two fads back, before Ren and Stimpy and Beavis and Butt-head. The other new comedies need never worry about fashion; B2 and SA2 are timelessly terrible. Perhaps, next time, the...