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...while such synergistic ideas sound good at the outset, they could prove difficult to engineer. For instance, Viacom plans to award rights to a film based on MTV characters Beavis and Butt-head to Paramount instead of Warner Bros., as originally planned. But impresario David Geffen spent a good part of last week fighting Viacom's Sumner Redstone to keep the film at Warner...
...universities become perhaps the most repressive regimes in America, Beavis and Butt-head represent the only possible escape within the present paradigm. Their lesson is instructive. As Charles Young of Rolling Stone correctly explains, "Because they are stupid, they are free." Sure, Butt-head's insights might be tautological: "I like stuff that's cool and I don't like stuff that sucks." But in all his stupidity, he is free. The mind has effectively been abandoned, as Beavis and Butt-head indicate proudly: "Words suck...If I wanted to read, I'd go to school." In the pursuit...
...their complete disregard for proper protocol, Beavis and Butt-head insult everything sacred in the modern democratic regime. In this context, Kurt Andersen of Time provides genuine insight by terming "Beavis and Butt-head" as perhaps "the bravest show ever run on national television." And MTV's creative director, Judy McGrath, aptly identifies the genesis of this courage: the members of the MTV generation are "sick to death of being politically correct...
From the collective mindset of the modern intelligentsia, Beavis and Butt-head are perceived as leaders of a rival morality. Yet, in an exclusive Rolling Stone interview, Butt-head rejects the very idea of collective morality--instead, he remains true to his own bawdy brand of heroic individualism. "I like to burn stuff," Butt-head explains, "but that doesn't mean you have to. Huh-huh. Huh-huh. It would be cool if you did, though." As Beavis and Butt-head represent the voice of a new generation, their appeal is self-evident. They pass judgement on all they witness...
...worshippers of both the PC-brand of collective democratic morality and the traditional, conservative Judeo-Christian variety, Beavis and Butt-head are tantamount to the Antichrist. Of course, that's pretty cool...