Beavis and Butt-head to return to MTV with fewer music videos, which is fine because no one currently watching MTV will perceive any such lack of music videos anyway

Beavis and Butt-head to return to MTV with fewer music videos, which is fine because no one currently watching MTV will perceive any such lack of music videos anyway

Like most of you, I can’t remember the last time I thought of MTV as a music-related content provider. The last memory I have of ever consistently watching that channel is from when I was in college in the early aughts. My housemates and I used to place modest bets at the beginning of every episode of that dating show Next as to which one of the idiot contestants would win the date with the idiot bachelor/ette. Then we’d laugh at how stupid the whole network was, pat ourselves on the back for watching TV ironically, and get on with our days. So when Beavis and Butt-head return to their MTV-watchin’ couch on October 27 after a near-15 year hiatus, it’s really pretty fitting that they won’t be watching as many music videos, due to licensing issues. In fact, the only thing more realistic than them not watching music videos on a television set would be them watching Hulu Plus on their HTC Evo 4G’s instead.

According to Billboard, B&B creator Mike Judge says (in that adorable voice of his) that the conspicuous lack of music videos on the reboot was the result of having to go through proper channels on these new editions of the show. “It’s licensing,” he said, noting that the premiere itself was actually delayed six months partially because of pending approval to use music videos. So far, he says that Deadmau5, MGMT, Yolanda Be Cool, and T-Baby’s off-key “It’s So Cold in the D” have been licensed. And “we’re working on Lady Gaga.” So, you know, there’s a lot to look forward to there.

Licensing of some of the show’s content became an issue in th early 2000’s and is probably Lars Ulrich’s fault. When Sony issued its first collection of episodes in 2005, many of the episodes had to be edited to compensate for deleted videos, frustrating AC/DC and Metallica fans everywhere. Now in 2011, the pair will fill air time on the new series the time-honored George Lopez Way: by making fun of whatever’s going on in pop culture at the time. In addition to performing the oh-so-difficult task of skewering the network’s current batch of shitshows — Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom, etc. — they’ll “take a shot at becoming Siskel and Ebert, vampires, tech support workers and re-enact Morgan Spurlock’s Super-size Me diet.” Ooh, topical. Although, actually, I can’t wait to sit in front of my TV and criticize cartoon characters while they criticize TV. Nothing’s more ironic than that.

Beavis & Butt-head: http://www.mtv.com/shows/beavis_and_butthead/series.jhtml

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