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"FacebookPinterest\n\nWhatever America makes of MTV bringing back Beavis and Butt-head after fourteen years, it's a safe bet that nobody will be outraged. And too bad, since hearing their antics denounced by everybody from name-mangling U.S. senators to Morality in Media trolls was half the fun the first time around. But that only proves how the world has changed since creator and lead voicer Mike Judge unleashed his snagglepuss teenage cretins just six weeks after Bill Clinton's inaugural. Little did we suspect that pyromaniac Beavis and self-putrefied Butt-head were the templates for...us. \n\nDon't buy that? Look around you. From The Office to Horrible Bosses, our time's trademark black humor features demoralized, feckless, just plain abject Americans whose only outlet is scoffing at all the crapola they're fed. Unlike their grumpy counterparts on old-time sitcoms, these slackers turned drones aren't even thwarted in their aspirations: They've figured out that being total mediocrities is plenty bad enough without kidding themselves about it. All this is Beavis and Butt-head gone nationwide, you could say.\n\nOn top of that, Judge anticipated the trickle-down version of popland's Age of Meta. Snarking it up on MTV at the expense of the music videos they watched, our dork heroes provided the model for every YouTube mash-up turned overnight sensation since. As for their bad manners, one look at Capitol Hill tells you that Congressman Beavis is no mere fantasy\u2014and neither is CEO Butt-head. Who's got the standing anymore to call them irresponsible?\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nIn the reboot, since MTV doesn't air many videos nowadays, they're razzing the likes of Jersey Shore instead. Otherwise, though, they haven't changed a bit\u2014or aged a day, which might have been interesting. Still, it's fun to see them reemerge\u2014T-shirts, coifs, and rodent eyes unaltered\u2014as our time's nitwit answers to Dorian Gray. Or Rip Van Winkle, since Jersey Shore makes your average '90s headbanger video look like civilization as we once knew it.\n\nThat's why BB's know-nothing snottiness doesn't need to be updated to be as welcome in 2011 as it was in 1993. After all, as Judge likes to point out, Beavis and Butt-head weren't all that attuned to the '90s in the first place. Crapola springs eternal, and part of what makes their creator one of our time's great satirists is that he's never been a hipster. Don't forget, this is the guy who went on to do Office Space\u2014the movie that makes Dilbert look sentimental, but also shows more real feeling for white-collar ciphers\u2014and King of the Hill, which was gunning for Great Sitcom of the Bush Era even before Dubya's election. And not because it was anti-Bush, either.\n\nDiscounting his misbegotten political satire Idiocracy\u2014the one where his disgust got out of hand\u2014Judge has always been able to balance his scorn for stupidity against giving losers their due by letting them crack wise about the suckiness of it all. (If Beavis were a total clod, would his unconscious really have been able to spawn the Great Cornholio?) Judge says he's bringing Beavis and Butt-head back just because it's his favorite of anything he's ever done, and maybe so. But maybe he also wants to remind us that these secretly sharp morons predicted the post-everything world we live in\u2014and taught us a few tricks about coping with it, too."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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