It's good to have them back -- nothing has changed and it's still very enjoyable.

"That guy is stupider than us. huhhuhuh"

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Yeah, i don't see that show workin now. Too bad, I used to love it as a child.

Is it just me or does anyone else have some mysterious video being played whenever you go to the link? There's this video reporting on the news somewhere on the page but I can't find it so now I'm forced to hear it without being able to do anything about it. -_- And no, it's not the ad videos on the sides of the page, those are automatically on mute or paused.

No. However the studios and marketers think we have. So they give us reality TV shows, attention whore tv, and copycat dramas and sitcoms. Then they can't understand why a zombie show on a cable network draws the fanbase it does.

That show aint right

We stopped mocking the stupid a decade ago. Now we celebrate it. If you are smarter than Joe Sixpack, you aren't a true American.

That website is possessed! I hear a disembodied voice with no obvious source or controls.

How about this instead: The show was funniest when Mike Judge was at his peak creative age, in his late 20's and early 30's, and now that he's 48 he's lost a satirical step or two? That makes more sense to me.

...why come you don't have a tattoo?

"Fark you! I'm eating!"

Mentat: Beavis and Butthead was not a mirror on Gen X, it was a mirror on the Baby Boomers. The show is a parody of how they saw our generation. The great irony of the show is that while they were terrified that Beavis was going to turn us all into pyromaniacs, Gen X was busy deploying the internet in ways that were going to completely upend the way the world worked.

And that's why it was pointless to bring B&B back. It was a show for its time. Yes, people can laugh at the jokes in the new show, but with the Boomers exiting stage right and Gen X taking over, the fark you vibe that made the show work just isn't there anymore.

I agree with your first paragraph, but disagree with your second.

The show still works today, albeit in a different way. The author of TFA makes a good point. What we consume as a society today is so pants-on-head retarded that Beavis and Butthead are mocking it.

Same Lens, different target. B&B has shifted from being, as you say, a parody of what old people thought of us as teenagers to what we think of "kids today" through the lens of teenage-usses

hey america.
fired!
fired!
fired!

Why must the whole world be judged by what's on television? After all most of it is made for teenage girls now more then any one else. So why must everyone take the fall?

i think mike judge has figured out that the best way to point out that most of the american population has horrible taste in entertainment, and is in some cases equally as stupid as beavis and butthead, is by having stupid people make fun of stupid people. the great "circle of life", if you will. you wouldn't tune in and watch stephen hawking and carl sagan watch jersey shore and lampoon it for all of it's downfalls. the whoosh sound made by the jokes going over peoples' heads would be deafening.

The thing that bummed me out about the relaunch is that it picks up as if nothing has changed in the last 15 years except that MTV doesn't play music videos anymore. I was at least hoping for some post highschool bums with pubescent beard patches and maybe a tattoo or something. But instead they are still 14 in highschool and half the teachers sound like Hank Hill.

When the standard for entertainment are idiotic, entitled, self-serving, shallow dimwit housewives of New Jersey, and the standard of politics are idiots yelling "you lie" at the president on national TV, and the standard for education is that intelligence and knowledge of scientific fact are considered "elitist", then yeah, American society has gone to hell.

I found it entertaining and the ratings are decent, so I guess no. Not to say pop culture isn't more retarded than before.

and to be more relative to my previous statement, i would bet all of my earthly possessions that the number of stupid people today greatly outweigh that of some 20 years ago.

i agree with metametameta though. the completely shiattarded are the heralded these days.

I poop too much. And then I get tired.

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I love you!

Beavis' voice is not quite right. I could not get over that enough to see if I liked it or not.

New episode was an instant classic.

Glad the boys are back. Soooo much new material for them to play with.

Eh, I think the new stuff is funny. My friends and I thought they seemed smarter than they did in the old episodes; but I guess it's less that they're smarter, and that everything else is dumber.

Beavis: "Um, heh... it's not funny, but, you know, I get it. Heh heheh heheh."

Sherjo311: you wouldn't tune in and watch stephen hawking and carl sagan watch jersey shore and lampoon it

The hell i wouldn't, if it weren't for the fact that carl is dead, i would tell you to market that right now... That show sounds hilarious

Especially with Steve's awesome robot voice.

import silvia: Beavis' voice is not quite right. I could not get over that enough to see if I liked it or not.

I don't see why this is a problem. Their voices changed from the beginning of the original run to the end, as well.

Sherjo311: you wouldn't tune in and watch stephen hawking and carl sagan watch jersey shore and lampoon it for all of it's downfalls

The hell I wouldn't!

<b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/comments/6714233/72911106#c72911106">metamet ameta</a>:</b> <i>We stopped mocking the stupid a decade ago. Now we celebrate it. If you are smarter than Joe Sixpack, you aren't a true American.</i>

That's because it is suddenly not P.C. to make fun of dumbasses anymore. The panty-wipes want us to be sympathetic to the retards and pussies and dumbshiats of the world, and not make them feel like retards or dumbshiats.

Disclaimer: I'm kind of an asshole, so YMMV. I'm actually guilty of turning around to someone in a lecture hall and saying "You SURE you belong here? 'Cause you're AWFULLY retarded for a college student. Hope you enjoy the food service industry."

The Flintstones was considered 'edgy' in its day. So was The Simpsons.
What is considered acceptable in cartoons has evolved, and B&B played their part, but they are no longer surprising or particularly 'edgy'.

I wanted to dress up as a person from Idiocracy for Halloween. Sadly there weren't any of those sponsor shirts available online.

deadsanta: How about this instead: The show was funniest when Mike Judge was at his peak creative age, in his late 20's and early 30's, and now that he's 48 he's lost a satirical step or two? That makes more sense to me.

That explanation doesn't let us feign outrage at our perceived persecution for our intelligence, nor does it let us bemoan the fall of Western civilization that we are surely witnessing.

fireclown: Sherjo311: you wouldn't tune in and watch stephen hawking and carl sagan watch jersey shore and lampoon it for all of it's downfalls

The hell I wouldn't!

Seconded.

The Homer Tax:

Same Lens, different target. B&B has shifted from being, as you say, a parody of what old people thought of us as teenagers to what we think of "kids today" through the lens of teenage-usses

Somehow, this made perfect sense to me.

Also, am I the only one who's tired of Fark referencing Idiocracy?

The more you eat the more you fart: Disclaimer: I'm kind of an asshole, so YMMV. I'm actually guilty of turning around to someone in a lecture hall and saying "You SURE you belong here? 'Cause you're AWFULLY retarded for a college student. Hope you enjoy the food service industry."

Bet you're a lot of fun at parties.

I always love these articles where the writer laments the decline of Western Civilization, then you look around at the other links (let's see there's: Lohan, Kardashian, Bieber, DWTS/Chaz Bono...).

YOU'RE NOT HELPING, MEDIA!

/I wonder if the editors toss these out as some kind of intellectual deposit to convey legitimacy so they can get away with being otherwise banal.

deadsanta: How about this instead: The show was funniest when Mike Judge was at his peak creative age, in his late 20's and early 30's, and now that he's 48 he's lost a satirical step or two? That makes more sense to me.

How will you ever sound poignantly insightful spouting a position like that?

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Andric: Eh, I think the new stuff is funny. My friends and I thought they seemed smarter than they did in the old episodes; but I guess it's less that they're smarter, and that everything else is dumber.

Beavis: "Um, heh... it's not funny, but, you know, I get it. Heh heheh heheh."

This. Their jokes and dialogue seem a little more elaborate.

If, like me, you're not the kind of person who watches aspirational or trashy reality TV, then you probably don't really watch MTV, and Internet buzz alone won't drive you to it. Even in the TiVo age, I can't really bring myself to get a Season Pass for Beavis and Butt-head even if it means I don't have to watch any other show on MTV, because I get to MTV and I see the wall of "16 and Pregnant" and I just instinctively bounce off the channel.

metametameta: We stopped mocking the stupid a decade ago. Now we celebrate it. If you are smarter than Joe Sixpack, you aren't a true American.

Well, the important part is that you think you are one of the smart ones.

CeroX: Sherjo311: you wouldn't tune in and watch stephen hawking and carl sagan watch jersey shore and lampoon it

The hell i wouldn't, if it weren't for the fact that carl is dead, i would tell you to market that right now... That show sounds hilarious

Especially with Steve's awesome robot voice.

What if it was Stephen Hawking and Roger Ebert?

Imagine the variations on dueling banjoes that the two could make!