Beavis and Butt-Head
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Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series created by Mike Judge. The show originally aired on the cable television channel MTV from March 8, 1993 to November 28, 1997. It has won many fans due to what was generally considered to be deliberately unintelligent and crude nature.
Premise
The show centers on two socially incompetent teenage delinquents, Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced by Judge), who go to school at Highland High in Highland, Texas. They have no apparent adult supervision at home, are dim-witted, under-educated and barely literate. Both lack any empathy or moral scruples, even regarding each other. They will usually deem things they encounter as "cool" if they are associated with heavy metal, violence, sex, destruction or the macabre. While they have no experience with girls, the two share an obsession with sex, and tend to chuckle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be interpreted as sexual or scatological.
Each episode features frequent interstitial scenes in which they critique music videos using commentary improvised by Judge (in season eight, they also commented on clips from other MTV shows such as The Jersey Shore and True Life, plus shows from other Viacom-owned networks such as Spike). The remainder of the episodes depict the duo embarking on some kind of scheme or adventure. Their teachers at Highland High are often at a loss as to how to deal with them, and in many episodes, they skip school altogether. Their actions sometimes result in serious consequences, but often for others, for which they themselves show no remorse.
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