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Just take a look at the October 11 issue of Newsweek: Beavis and Butt-head have made the cover. After this, we can probably look forward to seeing them as Time's Men of the Year, or nude on the front of Vanity Fair...
...pseudo-dys-functional family. The nominal plot revolves around three friends in Palm Springs, California, who spend most of their time swapping wacked-out parables that are supposed to contain within them, somewhere, the meaning of modern life (or lack thereof). The message? You guessed it, Butt-head: it sucks. Everything sucks. "Our Parents Had More," one chapter wails; for good measure, Coupland throws in an appendix of figures illustrating that, in fact, they...
...views this as a horrible tragedy; the article speaks of "the waste of their $100,000 educations and the frittering away on once promising intellectual gifts." Here's how it describes one Harvard alum's abandonment of his graduate studies in mathematics at Berkeley to write for Beavis and Butt-head: "You could read the entire story of American decline in that one career move...
...doomed? Well, there can be no question that the Beavis and Butt-head phenomenon is ubiquitous. Laugh that moronic laugh in any group and people will instantly know what you are doing--and will most likely join in. In 1992, when the "Wayne's World" movie hit its peak of popularity, it was hard to get through a conversation without using the word "not." Like Wayne and Garth, Beavis and Butt-head have become a point of cultural reference...
...least we all watch too much TV. Television is our language, transcending all geographical and intellectual boundaries. If we can't always communicate perfectly, at least we can all laugh like morons together. For ages, great leaders of all kinds have failed to bring us together; Beavis and Butt-head have some how succeeded. That's cool...