I don't like MTV. I never did. The very essence of this media monster is exploiting teenagers for enormous profits, making them dumb along the way. However, the story of "Beavis and Butt-Head" jumps a little bit out of the pattern.
Back in the 90s when I was a teenager myself, watching "Beavis and Butt-Head" was kind of a standard ritual for all the kids who wanted to go with the flow. I've seen it quite some, and yet, the show never really got to me. The retarded behavior of two main protagonists, the unskilled drawing, bad jokes and the ever the present idiotic and irritating laughter just weren't enough to impress me. But something started to change, and along with growing up I began to see behind this deliberately sculptured facade of idiocy, thus discovering the real issues which hide behind the curtain. Let's be honest, "Beavis and Butt-Head" is nothing close to a deep literary substance or anything serious, but it delivers a message in a unique and ironic way. If the creators wanted to stress out the absurdity of modern life drenched in cheap entertainment, pornography and consumerism, they sure made a good job. Kids these days grow up with their heads plugged into simple entertaining pastimes, and it's no wonder when 16-year-olds can't perform a simplest task or have no knowledge of the written word. Maybe Beavis and Butt-Head looked like cartoon characters back in the 90's, but they sure look very real today, like true byproducts of a modern environment. That even makes it more ironic, since MTV has became a major promoter of such an environment, where people live only so they could spend, no matter how empty and pointless their lives may become.
After seeing the last season, I actually started to like "Beavis and Butt-Head". Who knew...
Back in the 90s when I was a teenager myself, watching "Beavis and Butt-Head" was kind of a standard ritual for all the kids who wanted to go with the flow. I've seen it quite some, and yet, the show never really got to me. The retarded behavior of two main protagonists, the unskilled drawing, bad jokes and the ever the present idiotic and irritating laughter just weren't enough to impress me. But something started to change, and along with growing up I began to see behind this deliberately sculptured facade of idiocy, thus discovering the real issues which hide behind the curtain. Let's be honest, "Beavis and Butt-Head" is nothing close to a deep literary substance or anything serious, but it delivers a message in a unique and ironic way. If the creators wanted to stress out the absurdity of modern life drenched in cheap entertainment, pornography and consumerism, they sure made a good job. Kids these days grow up with their heads plugged into simple entertaining pastimes, and it's no wonder when 16-year-olds can't perform a simplest task or have no knowledge of the written word. Maybe Beavis and Butt-Head looked like cartoon characters back in the 90's, but they sure look very real today, like true byproducts of a modern environment. That even makes it more ironic, since MTV has became a major promoter of such an environment, where people live only so they could spend, no matter how empty and pointless their lives may become.
After seeing the last season, I actually started to like "Beavis and Butt-Head". Who knew...