Beavis & Butthead - As revolutionary as they say?

While Beavis and Butt-head didn't jumpstart adult animation itself. It certainly paved the way for adult animated series on cable television. We probably wouldn't have Adult Swim withouth them
 
Agreed, I also thought that Daria was a better show. I found B&B to be funnier than Daria, but I found Daria to be a better overall show. It's weird though, at the age of 14 or so, I thought that B&B was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. If I try to watch it now, I can't sit through an episode.





Gonna have to agree that it was The Simpsons, not B&B, that started the modern day adult themed cartoons.
 
Perhaps. But it was Beavis and Butt-head that pushed the envelope just a little more and I think we have B&B's success to thank for stuff like South Park. The show made adult animation on cable viable.
 
It certainly did, but as a teenager during that exact time, I don't follow the other comments about Beavis and Buthead's symbolic value. They had none. Everyone my age watched the show because it was about two teenagers, with a combined IQ also of two, doing whatever they wanted, it was crude, without consequences, and therefore hilarious. There wasn't anything else to it.

I always thought that was why Judge eventually decided to stop. King of The Hill was a deeper, better quality show.

And from what I remember about news reports and related outrages, teenagers wanting to play Frog Baseball and set things on fire didn't happen until AFTER Beavis and Buthead did it. I remember a kid setting his mobile home (or house?) on fire and Howard Stern commenting on it on his show.
 
Beavis & Butt-head were revolutionary for cable animation. It helped prove that The Simpsons wasn't a fluke and adults would tune into animated series if they were of quality.
 
Agreed. I was never much into B&B, though.

I always thought King Of The Hill was the better Mike Judge show. Even though I was almost the polar opposite of Hank Hill when it came to a lot of issues, I could still relate to it a lot easier than B&B.
 
Beavis & Butthead were like the 3 Stooges. You weren't supposed to relate to them; you were supposed to marvel at how thunderously stupid they were.
 
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