{"id":124150,"date":"2016-03-08T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/124150\/on-this-day-in-history-mtv-debuts-beavis-and-butthead-6\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:17:48","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-mtv-debuts-beavis-and-butthead-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/08\/on-this-day-in-history-mtv-debuts-beavis-and-butthead-6\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History: MTV debuts Beavis and Butthead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1993, animated series <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/shows\/beavis-butt-head\/episode-guide\" target=\"_blank\">Beavis and Butthead<\/a><\/em> debuted on Music Television Network (MTV).<\/p>\n<p>The series, which followed two teenage boys living in a fictional town of Highland, offered audiences crude and buddy humour made famous by shows like Wayne\u2019s World.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/1e1bfe5332923743cd5c311a046f9fbc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98928\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/1e1bfe5332923743cd5c311a046f9fbc.jpg\" alt=\"1e1bfe5332923743cd5c311a046f9fbc\" width=\"564\" height=\"846\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The titular characters spent most of their time watching TV, eating junk food, talking about girls and most importantly, commenting on\u00a0MTV music videos and clips. Their funny commentary solidified the show&#8217;s signature bone-style humour and sarcasm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/bf1bcc8d25ea42216d4ea7ebe6ec2b51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98929\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/03\/bf1bcc8d25ea42216d4ea7ebe6ec2b51.jpg\" alt=\"bf1bcc8d25ea42216d4ea7ebe6ec2b51\" width=\"533\" height=\"1628\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The network signed on for 65 episodes on weeknights but critics were divided in their response. Some praised the show for maximising on their own core demographic of young men who watched music videos. Other critics found the humour the lowest common form and signalling a decline in TV quality.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the show went on to become the network\u2019s highest-rated series up to that point.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rf6hQWfRcyA' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='342f6cc05227e960dfcfad3087798ba9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1993, Music Television Network (MTV) aired the first episode of the popular animated series Beavis and Butthead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":124151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10150,10151,3305,10152,10153,10154,2989],"class_list":["post-124150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-animation","tag-beavis-and-butthead","tag-history","tag-mtv","tag-music-videos","tag-teenagers","tag-tv"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["animation","Beavis and Butthead","history","MTV","music videos","teenagers","TV"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}