The gems of ’90s television are finally being realized.
First, Nick Cannon made his best career move ever, second only to marrying Mariah Carey, and brought The ’90s Are All That to Nick At Night. Thanks to the impressive lineup of ‘90s Nickelodeon, College aged students are now able to chug their 40oz while watching the same cartoons they once slurped their Froot Loops to.
And now, after an almost 15 year hiatus, Beavis and Butthead are joining the lineup of cartoons resurrected from the television past, sitting comfortably on their depleted couch in MTV’s primetime Thursday lineup.
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The return of B squared came just in time because the ish that I have been seeing on my television needs to be addressed with some relentless sarcasm — a la Beavis and Butthead style!
Sure we already have parodies of all the foolishness that happens on reality TV. We have our Snooki renditions on South Park, Joan Rivers taunting stylists’ decisions on The View, and The Soup pointing out the shenanigans that entertainment is serving up, but there is something so effortlessly addictive about Beavis and Butthead and their unpolished panache.
See, the thing here is as viewers, myself included, we accept microwaved recklessness as entertainment, and we may just need a pair of socially inept teens with porn addictions and ridiculous laughs to help us realize that we are passively entertaining ourselves with trash.
Why do I love these novice animations and their lackluster personalities so much? Well, because I believe there is a little Beavis and Butthead inside of us all that longs to sit on a ratty couch in yesterday’s clothes, channel surfing and making snarky commentary.
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That is why we watch Beavis and Butthead, they are reflections of our deep inner selves. You know, the part of you that you daydream about being every morning when your alarm sounds.
The truth is that while most of us functioning members of society do not have the time to indulge in that channel flicking fantasy, we can afford the 30 minutes or so to tune in to watch Mike Judge vocalize our inner perverted pop culture critics through these characters.
The return of Beavis and Butthead is a necessity. The t-shirt clad boys help us realize that some things that we didn’t think sucked, really sucks! And I hope that they can bring the same enlightenment to the creators of television shows.
Now that the duo is back, maybe the ones who entertain heed to what is being passed up as entertainment more creatively. Maybe a short reflection of “I don’t want to end up on Beavis and Butthead” will stop Deena from stumbling on cobblestone and showing her lady parts — Ok, that’s a hope larger than Ronnie’s bicep, but a girl can dream.
