Beavis and Butt-head

Original Air Date: 1993-1997

Network: MTV

The genius of Beavis and Butt-head was that they both shared the simple goals of the common teenage boy -- to be able to score without actually having to leave the couch or stop eating nachos. It was an admirable dream, and one that we could all relate to. There was something cathartic about watching these two miserable nitwits fail at just about everything they tried to do but still walk away with the feeling that they were both utter "badasses." And even though the show's fans weren't actually delinquents from the fictional town of Highland, Texas, they all still took their cues from what both Beavis and Butt-head thought was "cool" and what they thought "sucked." If Beavis and Butt-head liked a band, all of a sudden we found ourselves discovering a new "appreciation" for their music. And if Beavis and Butt-head thought a band sucked, all of a sudden we started second-guessing our own fandom. Mike Judge took real life Gen X slacker idiocy and put it out there for all of us to love and admire. And as frequent identifiers of every single double entendre, it could be said that Beavis and Butt-head started the whole "that's what she said" craze. The animation was often crude, but we were still transfixed on this parade of stupidity.