Denizens of the Magic Kingdom and their holiday cheer-ful ilk won't ever address the truism that Christmas kinda sucks. Of course MTV's attempted Beavis and Butt-Head revival didn't stick in 2011, because MTV's latter-day target demographic of 12-year-old girls don't enjoy watching two ugly dudes talk about farts.īut not until Huh-Huh-Humbug and It's a Miserable Life, the two primary chapters of this 1995 satire (which you can watch below on Vimeo), had A Christmas Carol or It's a Wonderful Life been retold on an animated cable TV show with such disregard for sentimentality. It isn't even the best cartoon to feature Daria Morgendorffer as a regular character.
It's not the most successful cartoon Mike Judge ever created. While it ruffled some prudish feathers in its day, the show never resorted to shock-value shit on the scale of Family Guy. It didn't stay relevant by going hyper-topical like South Park. It was too crass and ironic to become a pop-culture institution anywhere near the magnitude of The Simpsons.
Like almost everything from the '90s, Beavis and Butt-Head didn't age well. Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas ranks up there with A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but not everyone understands this.
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