The other day, I stumbled across a Beavis and Butthead Marathon on Comedy Central, and then they had Beavis and Butthead Do America. It was a nice change from the typical Saturday afternoon bullshit of worthless big-school college football and wasting time on myspace. Amy was at work, so I really had nothing else of substance to do.

They had my favorite episode, which is the one where Beavis is in Cornholio mode and immigration picks him up from Burger World because they think he's Mexican. Turns out, Beavis claims to be Nicaraguan (from Lake Titicaca), so they dump him in Mexico, the territory of which he promptly claims for his bunghole.

I always thought Beavis was the cooler of the two. His manic tendencies and general stupidity were easier for me to relate to, I guess. Butthead was just mean and too much of a dominant personality.

When you watch Beavis and Butthead, you also get to see the early versions of various King of the Hill characters... Mr. Anderson is obviously Hank, and I'd make an argument that Stuart is a fetal version of the Bobby character, while a kid that looked and acted a lot like Joseph kicked Beavis in the nuts at one point.

Beavis and Butthead Do America was a road-trip movie, and every member of that genre is dripping in geographic perceptions and stereotypes. Maybe that will be a paper someday too? My research goals are too ambitious, and in many ways completely useless.

Anyway, I wouldn't've gotten on a Beavis and Butthead kick in this blog had I not come across this: