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I think Mike Judge's humor lands best with people who recognize the behavior on the screen as driven by impulses they feel in themselves. It simultaneously gra
by dkarl 10y ago
I think Mike Judge's humor lands best with people who recognize the behavior on the screen as driven by impulses they feel in themselves. It simultaneously gratifies those impulses and teaches us what the world looks like without the moderating influences of culture and experience. "Beavis and Butt-Head" is a celebration of crudity, a lesson in empathy and humility, and a reminder that "refinement" and "education" are not just silly, fancy things but aspects of every person's experience. The distance between us and Beavis and Butt-Head was created by myriad formative experiences with parents, friends, teachers, and culture, who not only influenced us directly but also taught us which influences to be open to. If you take perverse delight in their misadventures then you truly know: there but for the grace of good fortune go I.
- vlunkr 10y agoThis may be the most intelligent paragraph ever written with the word "Butt-Head" in it.
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- aaron695 10y agoI really like a some of Mike Judges work but B&BH is not part of that. Where is the humor in killing an ant with a magnifying glass. I see were it was heading/went for the better but no. Don't like B&BH. It was a non clever, be cruel but true to parady show to start IMO. It had truths but not cleverness.
- fapjacks 10y agoI think you were not the target demographic, so it doesn't make sense to you. If you were never an unpopular, troublemaking loser (the kind that Beck sang about), there is a lot of stuff you wouldn't get.
- oceanghost 10y agoNice try Mike Judge!!!!
- nsgi 10y agoThis is not Reddit.
- oceanghost 10y agoHow sure are you about that?