Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principles of freedom and liberty, two morons named Beavis and Butt-head have come to rescue us from collective repression. As MTV's disclaimer carefully warns before every episode of this animated masterpiece, Beavis and Butt-head are "crude," "self-destructive" and "antisocial." But what makes the cartoon intriguing is the appreciation among its devoted viewers--myself included. The disclaimer appropriately explains: "For some reason the wiener-heads make us laugh...
That's why "Beavis and Butthead," the MTV cartoon hit, breaks the mold. It's a straightforward appeal to a completely different audience. Twentysomethings, with a few immature exceptions, just...
...that boys seem to react more positively to Beavis and Butthead than girls. According to a reporter who covered the Little League World Series last month, "at least 70 percent" of the 56 American 12-year-old males who played in the series called "Beavis and Butthead" their favorite cartoon...
...performers, especially Walken, Oldman and Saul Rubinek as the producer, do everything in big-mo. In its acting as well as its writing and direction, this is a live-action cartoon, a fantasy (and a sidewise critique) of machismo. It's a crimson fresco of smart people playing evil ones. The whole enterprise is noisy as hell, but you know it's there...
...used to be that whenever Ted Turner announced he was launching or buying some new enterprise, the expert consensus was reflexively dubious -- Turner was profligate, driven by vanity, maybe reckless. But now that every one of his cable-TV channels -- TBS, CNN, TNT, the Cartoon Network -- has turned out to have been brilliant, the pack instinct among journalists and Wall Street touts has pretty much reversed itself. Now Ted Turner is infallible. When it was announced last week that his company would buy Castle Rock Entertainment, an A-list movie-production company, and New Line Cinema, a scrappy little quasi...