Beavis & Butthead Take On Jersey Shore

God bless Beavis & Butt-head, the "best TV critics ever," who returned to MTV last night for the first time in 14 years. The mouth-breathing duo sniggered their way through all sorts of modern ~~masterpieces~~ horrors, including 16 and Pregnant and the Twilight movies with their trademark mixture of stupid-smart awe, but perhaps the best ribbing was reserved for a show so one-dimensional it makes Beavis and Butt-head look like fully-fleshed MENSA members: The Jersey Shore.

Here's a clip of the couch surfers riffing on J-Woww's pizza-making-skills, which she swears she'll pass down to her grandchildren. "Heh, heh. Hey, Grandma J-Woww, where did you get syphillis?" "Yeah, heh, tell us that story again." Pure gold:

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By Jamie Feldmar in Arts & Entertainment on October 28, 2011 4:57 PM

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chee1rs

can't wait to see their Zuccotti Park spoof

Adam Moreira

The series needs to be reintroduced entirely---Beavis and Butthead, that is.

Tim_N

Oh, that I lived to see this day.

TheRealCannibal

I was happy to see Beavis and Butthead come back with videos, but then pissed because they just use the video time to comment on other MTV shows.

Roark

What's a music video?

This is 2011.- things need to be in the context of the times in order to be relevant and make an impact. Besides the 911 video and that champagne video they were completely just commenting on the music - doing exactly what you are complaining about them not doing, it's called not opening your mouth unless you know the shot. Watch the episode.

So you'll call your grandchild bitch?
Please don't hit me again Grandma J-woww
Maybe Uncles Steroids and Roofies will help us.

gambalore

Seeing as how MTV doesn't show music videos anymore, kids watching the show would probably be confused as to what they were. But the more likely reason is probably that a) fewer ridiculous music videos are being made nowadays than were made back in the heydays of B&B and b) MTV & VH1 used to have unlimited license to do what they wanted to with the music videos that labels sent them. When clip shows like "I love the 80's" became popular, the labels realized that the networks were using their videos and music for free without any additional compensation. So when that old deal ran out, new terms were negotiated that probably make it cost-prohibitive to use music videos on B&B.

TheRealCannibal

thanks, that makes total sense. It also totally sucks. I was hoping for a second that I would actually want to watch something on that stupid channel, but now Im back to feeling blind rage toward them and taking it out on their dickhead film crew that wont leave my neighborhood.

gambalore

You live in Clinton Hill? I've heard a lot of people who live there complaining about that fake reality show with that girl who goes to Pratt.