Editing Beavis and Butt-Head (section)

==Reception==
===Original run===
{{quote box|quoted = 1|Beavis and Butt-Head are so stupid and sublimely self-absorbed that the exterior world has little reality except as an annoyance or distraction.
It would be easy to attack B&B as ignorant, vulgar, depraved, repulsive slobs. Of course they are. But that would miss the point, which is that Mike Judge's characters reflect parts of the society that produced them. To study B&B is to learn about a culture of [[narcissism]], [[social alienation|alienation]], [[functional illiteracy]], [[instant gratification]] and [[social aspects of television|television zombiehood]].|source=— [[Roger Ebert]] (1996)<ref>{{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|date=December 20, 1996|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/beavis-and-butt-head-do-america-1996|title=Beavis and Butt-Head Do America movie review (1996)|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=February 29, 2020|via=rogerebert.com}}</ref>|width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;|border=1px}}

During its original run, ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' was MTV's highest rated show.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edition |first1=Morning |title=MTV Is Turning 40. Here's How Beavis, Butt-Head And Daria Upended TV Animation |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/07/30/1022642071/mtv-beavis-butthead-daria-aeon-flux-liquid-television |access-date=28 April 2022 |publisher=npr |date=30 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1= |first1= |date=13 November 2009 |title="Beavis and Butt-Head" premieres on MTV |publisher=history.com |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mtvs-highest-rated-series-premieres |access-date=28 April 2022}}</ref> It was one of the most popular series when it premiered in 1993.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brizuela |first1=James |title=Beavis & Butt-Head Are Making A Comeback This Year, See Their New Design |url=https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/beavis-butt-head-movie-comeback.html |access-date=28 April 2022 |publisher=giant freakin robot |date=January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hildebrandt |first1=Zack |title=The Return Of Beavis and Butt-Head |url=https://thehuronemery.com/6941/culture-and-entertainment/the-return-of-beavis-and-butt-head/ |access-date=28 April 2022 |publisher=the huronemery |date=21 April 2022}}</ref> In 1993, ''Rolling Stone'' described ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' as the "biggest phenomenon on MTV since the heyday of [[Michael Jackson]]".<ref name=":4" /> In ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', Kurt Andersen wrote that ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' "may be the bravest show ever run on national television".<ref name=":4" /> In 1997, Judge said the show was "my reaction to the whole fringe aspects of the [[political correctness]] movement".<ref name=":5" />

Over its run, ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' received both positive and negative reactions from the public with its combination of lewd humor and implied criticism of society.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/arts/television-keeping-beavis-and-butt-head-just-stupid-enough.html|title=TELEVISION; Keeping Beavis and Butt-Head Just Stupid Enough|last=Kolbert|first=Elizabeth|date=October 17, 1993|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225185353/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/arts/television-keeping-beavis-and-butt-head-just-stupid-enough.html|archive-date=December 25, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> It became the focus of criticism from some social critics such as [[Michael Medved]], while others such as [[David Letterman]] and the ''[[National Review]]'' defended it as a cleverly subversive vehicle for social criticism and a particularly creative and intelligent comedy. Either way, the show captured the attention of many young television viewers and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and [[Generation X]]. [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]], creators of ''[[South Park]]'', cite the series as an influence and compared it to the [[blues]].<ref>"Taint of Greatness: The Journey of Beavis and Butt-Head Part 2," in ''The Mike Judge Collection'' Volume 2</ref>

In 1997, Dan Tobin of ''[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|The Boston Phoenix]]'' commented on the series' humor, saying it transformed "stupidity into a crusade, forcing us to acknowledge how little it really takes to make us laugh."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://phoenix.library.northeastern.edu/phoenix/archive/tv/97/11/BEAVIS_AND_BUTTHEAD.html|title=Butting out|last=Tobin|first=Dan|date=November 26, 1997|work=[[The Boston Phoenix]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228022024/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/tv/97/11/BEAVIS_AND_BUTTHEAD.html|archive-date=February 28, 2008}}</ref> In 1997, Ted Drozdowski of ''[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|The Boston Phoenix]]'' described the 1997 ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' state as "reduced to self-parody of their self-parody".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://phoenix.library.northeastern.edu/phoenix/archive/tv/97/05/TEN_REASONS.html|title=Eye pleasers|last=Drozdowski|first=Ted|date=May 8, 1997|work=[[The Boston Phoenix]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203205756/http://bostonphoenix.com/archive/tv/97/05/TEN_REASONS.html|archive-date=February 3, 2008}}</ref> In the ''Baltimore Sun'', [[David Zurawik]] said that ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' was "intelligent social satire that especially speaks in a meaningful way to a generation of teenage boys who are going through a uniquely complicated socialization at the hands of their [[Baby boomers|baby-boomer]] parents".<ref name=":5" /> He said that its popularity may have taught audiences about male adolescence in the 1990s; he wrote that they were the [[Postmodernism|postmodern]] descendants of [[Tom Sawyer]] and [[Huckleberry Finn]], who were the "exemplars of males coming of age in American popular culture".<ref name=":5" />