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Their program on MTV has become one of the media sensations of 1993. Ever sensitive to the tone of teen fashion, and ever ready to shamefully exploit a successful commercial property, the executives at MTV have all but surrendered their network to the alliterative duo. "Beavis and Butthead" began as a weekly half-hour show; the program is now broadcast twice daily, Monday to Friday, bracketed with a spin-off show aptly titled "Rock Videos That Don't Suck." On Saturdays the pair command their own hour-long primetime block. Media and cultural critics are already taking notice, and "Beavis and Butthead" is being hailed, or denounced, depending upon your point of view, as a new low in the history of television programming. Beavis and Butthead, to put it mildly, possess no redeeming social value, nor are they politically correct. MTV, an unctious network, remarkably pleased with its own unctiousness despite, or perhaps because of its own programming, runs a disclaimer before episodes of "Beavis and Butthead," pointing out the crudity, sexism and general stupidity of the boys - but what the hey, because, as the disclaimer concludes, "For some reason the little wienerheads make us laugh." The disclaimer, of course, is part of the joke. The joy of watching Beavis and Butthead is reveling in their social and political incorrectness. VIDEO
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