If anyone has purchased the Beavis and Butthead DVD’s surely you’ve realized the music videos have been excised from the actual episode and a handful have been placed as bonus features. Now, I can understand this, it’s not easy or cheap to get the rights to the 6 or 7 music videos featured in every episode, fair enough (this is the main reason Wonder Years has never been released on DVD). However, I watched an episode of Beavis and Butthead on Spike TV the other day and their were no music videos. All I could think was ok this is strange, but maybe MTV had exclusive rights to air the videos on the show. I hunted down a few episodes on MTV2 and guess what? NO fucking videos! What gives?
The music videos helped define the show and break up the episode. It has to do more with pacing than anything else. Those mid 1990’s music videos were so strange. It would be like watching first Austin Powers movie without the mock 1960’s interludes. They aren’t part of the story but they are their for a fucking reason! And more importantly why can’t MTV show them? Too busy with King of the Hill, Mike Judge?
I was watching this yesterday on Spike and it was horrible without the music videos, those were totally the best parts.
This is an outrage!! Beavis and Butthead are probably really pissed!
The real reason that they haven’t released the Wonder Years on DVD is that new legislation dictates forces any media featuring Jack Arnold’s Anti-Communist rage be rated NC-17 (Or, in the case of Wonder Years: Battle Arena for the PS2, “MA-15+”). This makes any widespread DVD release fiscally unreasonable.
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