maura"The whole point of Beavis and Butt-Head's video crit, aside from the hilarity, is that they were the much-derided stereotypical passive MTV viewers absorbing whatever the channel threw at them. In the '90s you were as likely to happen on a Blues Explosion video as you were to see "End of the Road" a zillion times in 24 hours. In 2011, Beavis and Butt-Head sucking up endless hours of reality TV is realistic in a way that zinging the Arcade Fire probably isn't."
Assigning Jess Harvell a piece on Beavis and Butt-Head: Another thing to check off the “to do in life” list.
A great piece, and this bit about the subject of B&B’s “viewing,” for lack of a better word, makes total sense. I guess this puts the link between Beavis and Butt-Head and something like The Soup a lot closer than I ever considered.
