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Just take a look at the October 11 issue of Newsweek: Beavis and Butt-head have made the cover. After this, we can probably look forward to seeing them as Time's Men of the Year, or nude on the front of Vanity Fair...
...pseudo-dys-functional family. The nominal plot revolves around three friends in Palm Springs, California, who spend most of their time swapping wacked-out parables that are supposed to contain within them, somewhere, the meaning of modern life (or lack thereof). The message? You guessed it, Butt-head: it sucks. Everything sucks. "Our Parents Had More," one chapter wails; for good measure, Coupland throws in an appendix of figures illustrating that, in fact, they...
...doomed? Well, there can be no question that the Beavis and Butt-head phenomenon is ubiquitous. Laugh that moronic laugh in any group and people will instantly know what you are doing--and will most likely join in. In 1992, when the "Wayne's World" movie hit its peak of popularity, it was hard to get through a conversation without using the word "not." Like Wayne and Garth, Beavis and Butt-head have become a point of cultural reference...
...really gotten out of control. Even Peer Contraceptive Counselors, who spend a great deal of their time trying to get tittering first-years to talk about sex frankly, give us a nudge and a wink as they proclaim, "We're there for you when things get hard." Beavis and Butt-head might laugh at this...
...while such synergistic ideas sound good at the outset, they could prove difficult to engineer. For instance, Viacom plans to award rights to a film based on MTV characters Beavis and Butt-head to Paramount instead of Warner Bros., as originally planned. But impresario David Geffen spent a good part of last week fighting Viacom's Sumner Redstone to keep the film at Warner...