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Beavis and Butt-Head
American animated television series
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- In Mike Judge
That series, Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–97; 2011), became a massive hit and a cultural phenomenon. The show was split between segments of music videos with overlaid commentary from the titular duo—a pair of imbecilic teenagers obsessed with television, sex, and casual violence—and vignettes of their misadventures around…
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television in the U.S.
- In Television in the United States: Teen dramas and adult cartoons
…decade were cable products: MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–97, 2011) and Comedy Central’s South Park (begun 1997). Both animated series that challenged traditional notions of taste, and both part of a new wave of adult cartoons inspired by the success of The Simpsons, these programs demonstrated that the bulk of…
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