'Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head' Mocks TikTok Video, Puts Fire Obsession Forefront in Series' First Look (Exclusive) Mike Judge Talks 'Beavis and Butt-Head' Evolving for New Series Gives 'King of the Hill,' 'Daria' Updates Mike Judge Explains Why 'Beavis and Butt-Head' Won't Drop F-Bombs in New Series and Reveals Secret Message Put in Original Show I don’t want to say that Beavis and Butt-Head’s influence is comparable to, hypothetically, Shakespeare or the other progenitors of language, but there’s a template for 21st-century trolling that would not exist without Mike Judge. There is a certain sort of reactive discourse that Beavis and Butt-Head didn’t exactly invent, but one they definitely pushed into widespread popularity along with perhaps more erudite offerings like Mystery Science Theater 3000.įrom their suburban couch, the fire-loving Texas teens were live-blogging and live-tweeting their TV-addicted existences long before there were blogs and Twitter, long before it became a socially - or social-media-ly - acceptable conversational style to leap into a virtual conversation with an intentionally and aggressively stupid response or just an immature meme.
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