"Beavis and Butt-Head were taking the place of VJs"

TV Mike Judge on the Return of 'Beavis and Butt-Head'. Most interesting element is that they're branching out from just sniggering through pop videos:

Yeah, that actually came up when they first pitched it – at least the way my manager told me about it. Part of the reason the show can't sell in syndication is because back in the day those videos were only cleared for MTV. No one was thinking that far in advance because they just thought that Beavis and Butt-Head were taking the place of VJs. But my manager was saying that the music business is so rough now that we could probably clear a lot of these videos. But after we started getting up and running, MTV said that we should really consider having them watch Jersey Shore and stuff like that."

Not sure what this says about the state of Mtv's programming that they're willingly opening it up to ridicule. Although from a certain point of view, My Super Sweet Sixteen could been seen as important social commentary.