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Originally Posted by neatoman
I'm not sure you fully understand the humor of Beavis and Butt-head. It's genuinely hard to see anything but surface level comparisons in the video examples you posted. I know a frequent joke in SpongeBob is about how Squidward is annoyed by SpongeBob's behavior, but I'm not sure if SpongeBob behaves enough like Beavis and Butt-Head for it to be similar. As for RotTMNT, the video example clearly demonstrates a dare, Raph is well aware it won't end well and I can't remember anything that similar to Beavis and Butt-Head otherwise. As for Fanboy and Chum Chum, I'm not familiar with the show in general but I'm not seeing much comparable to Beavis and Butt-Head in the videos either.
In order to qualify as similar in my eyes, it needs to fit the following criteria: - The main characters must be indifferent to their destructive behavior, it can't just be malicious (or at least not think they are) nor can it be well intentioned but misguided, they have to genuinely not care.
- They can't just be stupid, they must also fail to understand what's going on around them, correct assumptions should not be made by them.
- People around them need to either be irritated by their behavior, mistake it for a good deed or be oblivious to it, they can't just go along with it or accept it for what it is.
If you can find clear cut examples of something that fits all of these criteria, that would be a good start. |
I mean... surface level, those three examples fit Spongebob and Patrick to a tee, especially Patrick. The only difference that would REALLY make in B&B humor is for them to also be trying to get laid. A lot of times B&B get into their shenanigans because they think they can score. Oh, and have Spongebob constantly abuse Patrick as well.
Also while most of the time B&B are too stupid to fully grasp what they're doing, they know they're doing bad stuff since doing bad stuff and causing vandalism and whatnot is 'cool'. I'm not sure exactly what level of malice they actually comprehend, but at the same time they don't want to be boring goody-goodies like Stewart and actually do good things either. That's 'not cool'.