VLVL2 (9.5): "A Thanatoid Sitcom"

[Dave Monroe]

"'There'll never be a Thanatoid sitcom,' Ortho Bob
confidently predicted, ''cause all they could show'd
be scenes of Thanatoids watchin' the Tube!'" (VL, Ch.
9, p. 171)


The joy of watching Beavis and Butthead is reveling in
their social and political incorrectness - basking in
their unrestrained and unselfconscious barbarism and
nihilism. For Beavis and Butthead are barbarians, and
they are nihilists. They lack knowledge of and
appreciation for civilized graces, and, above all,
they live in a world unmoored from any absolute moral
bearings. Watching Beavis and Butthead is an
evanescent act of liberation - from responsibility and
morality, rationality and compassion. For a half-hour,
Beavis and Butthead offer the vicarious pleasure of
living beyond good and evil.

http://history.hanover.edu/texts/beavis.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://jh.pair.com/bnb/

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/image/bnb.html

http://neptune.spaceports.com/~words/beavis.html

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