tried to recreate the scene but ended up burning down the house and unfortunately losing his two-year-old sister in the fire the mom blamed beavis and butthead for the incident and it began an absolute hellstorm of beavis and butthead criticism in the media every news anchor talk show hosts and quote on quote expert in the country had something to say about beavis and butthead with the general consensus among most of them being that it was irresponsible for mtv to air such an explicit show so early in the evening when kids were still watching tv it seems that in the NUMBER_TOKENs parents started facing the harsh reality that they can't control everything their kids do or see and they took action by targeting shows that scared them instead of just doing a better job of making sure their kids weren't watching said shows this was huge with the simpsons earlier in the decade and beavis and butt had soon replaced the simpsons as the cartoon that parents and media decided to join forces and blame everything bad to ever happen on it was far and away the most controversial show on television and on top of all that it was often accused of dumbing down the american youth due to silly mindless comedy in the show mtv responded to the controversy by removing every single scene in the show that involved fire mike judge also comedically responded to the ridiculousness of the hysteria in an episode where bevis and butthead flew a kite into a lightning storm and blamed benjamin franklin's bad influence for their actions so the reception to the show was divided at the time with many people calling it trash and an example of the decay of american culture but others like david letterman recognized beavis and butthead for what it was a superb satire of modern america and the culture it was producing and like i said the teenage and young adults of america were overjoyed to see themselves represented more accurately for once something that had only really been done with bart simpson up until that point mike judge went on to create king of the hill king of the hill's main character was hank hill and an early version of hank hill was a recurring character on beavis and butthead the character from beavis and butthead was their classmate daria who went on to have her own spin-off mike judge wasn't involved in the spin-off but it ended up being one of mtv's most influential and iconic anime south park creators matt stone and trey parker have openly stated that beavis and butthead was a massive influence on them in their show justin roiland the co-creator of rick and morty is also on record saying beavis and butthead was a huge influence on him in the industry along with south park but now beavis and butthead is coming back again comedy central has announced two seasons of beavis and butthead are in production so it'll be interesting to see how it works out this time do you think beavis and butthead was at all responsible for any of the trouble that was supposedly influenced by the show sound off in the comments and be sure to like this video and subscribe to tune fridge for more cartoon content thanks for watching hello person of youtube uh my name is dee and i make videos about cartoons uh
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