Just as an update to this entry from three years ago, late last night John sent me a link to this clip, and I was immediately in stitches. Beavis and Butt-Head, it would appear, are back, only now as fat middle aged slobs. The clip John sent me was only a short taster, but having just rewatched it post my morning coffee, I am now desperate to watch more. The program seems to have lost none of the cynicism it had in the nineties, but seems to now be dealing with contemporary issues. For all it’s silliness and juvenility, cartoons like Beavis and Butt-Head have always functioned as forms of social commentary. Judging from this clip, that is now truer than ever.

I can see why John sent me the clip he did. In it, Beavis realises he needs to get a job, and is instructed by his social worker to start work as a personal assistant (no prises for guessing who he is told to work for). It immediately had me in balls of laughter, and did so again this morning. Beavis and Butt-head were a large part of my childhood and adolescence, so to see they have reappeared in such a cynical, topical way really is great. To see the return of these two morons really is awesome, and I’m now dying to see more.