Taking Sides: Beavis and Butthead vs Daria

I knew a guy from Finland who had the misfortune of looking like Beavis AND Butthead. He had the worst features of both.

Huh huh, huh huh

And popular band The Chicks have a song about her.

So Daria wins.

Huh huh

http://www.mtv.com/onair/daria/flipbook/altarego/images/flip8.gif

Daria, so so obv.

Not that I've ever seen B & B...

Note to Nabisco: You're thinking of Tiffany Blum-Deckler, if I recall the name correctly(Accesories Officer of the Fashion Club).

New thread idea: is it possible to be TOO into a cartoon series?

Consider many a Sailor Moon fan.

Tom: all the other characters have to be amusingly irritating in order to justify Daria's misanthropy.

Tim: yes, Tiffany with the slow-talking, sporty little Stacy for Daria Character I'd Be in Love With Were I in Love with any Daria Characters.

*weeps*

I took one of those internet tests and apparently, I *AM* Trent. Nothing interferes with my bass-playing or my nap schedule.

I still say Beavis and Butthead.

Consider many a Sailor Moon fan

Great example - Tim B and I know one well, and this is one of many very bad signs about him.

Hi, we're the Vines.

for the record, i say daria.

THANKYOU RICKY T!!

I say both shows are funny in different ways.

Daria should listen to more Carter.

(except nabisco and some other people)

My favorite mock critical phrase is "minimalist yet expansive"

By miles and miles, one of the funniest ever moments on TV was when they were going on the military camp trip and one of them asks the psycho bulging eye teacher "will we have a buddy system", and he goes "I had a buddy ONCE, then I got home and he'd MARRIED MY MOTHER!!!!!!" totally fucking freaking. It was classic.

daria wins by a mile. grateful dead fans are always right!

Also I think everyone who's harping on Daria's being humorless has not watched enough of the show: the whole premise was that Daria wandered around observing the hilarious antics of everyone else and dropping in a bon mot every sixth minute or so. In the end it was quite possibly more about Quinn than Daria.

(and I'm glad you've liked my posts, Ned)

I suspect a real world Claire Defoe, if only to evade the child-molesting charges... unless I'm sent back in time or something...

Actually, there IS a real-world Clair. She's married to a friend of mine, sadly (and typically) ...

Discuss.

i love both but my old roomamte had a song featured on daria so if forced to choose i'd give her her the edge.

more seriously (or as serious as you can be with B&B) one is a sketch show and one is a sitcom - can you compare 'em?

because it's not.

-- Sansai (dfasfds...), September 23rd, 2004.

OTM.

i don't think any show has nailed down the wasteland that is suburban america better than 'beavis and butthead'.

both! but Daria was a much better show

Beavis & Butt-head is prob my favorite show of all time though.

Thats because John Kricfalusi was silly enough to sell his rights to Nickolodeon and they stole the show out from under him after the first series and sent him on his way. The more obviously "hey hey we're being ZANY! stuff was the Nick writers not having an effing clue.

PS Daria is cool. But I would say that wouldnt I? ;)

Choice quotes (NB: I do not necessarily stand by anything I wrote five years ago):

"While Beavis and Butt-Head certainly weren't popular boys, they weren't quite intelligent enough to treat their lifestyle as a distinct refutation of the dominant boy culture. In fact, many of their attitudes, such as their piggish sexual fantasies about women, seem to be directly in line with that culture. In contrast, the protagonists of Daria and Ghost World go to extremes to separate themselves from the girls around them, and thus hold themselves up as superior."

"As for me, while I laugh at Daria, the show can sometimes draw its characters a little too broadly, its plots a bit too contrived for my taste. Ghost World, on the other hand, I immediately fell in love with, after first browsing through it in a London bookstore."

I've basically looked like a variation on this since I was 16. My friend Nellie served as the Daria in my school equation.

I think this sort of embodies the best and worst parts of the show.

but that was PRECISELY what was so GRATE about B&B. that they were EXACTLY like people that americans of a certain age (the GenX demographic, for lack of a better word) went to high-school or college/worked with! shit, there was even one dude from my high school who looked EXACTLY like beavis (and LAUGHED exactly like butthead).

shudder of recognition, and all that.

(* not that other cultures don't have lazy, dumb-ass teenagers or can't relate to same. just that B&B's type of lazy dumb-assedness seemed to be particularly american.)

tell, don't just tease us!

I have liked it, whenever I've seen it. I don't think it's on much, in England.

Uh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh.

Well, there weren't any gross diplays of inhumanity....just that he was a bit of a testy, paranoid, easily irritable guy.

I find "Beavis & Butthead" unfunny in the same way I found "All int the Family" unfunny -- sure it's accurate, but that's more depressing than funny.

Uh, sure I do! It isn't that she displays no emotion - it's there but done in a subtle way b/c masked most of the time. I thought it was pretty good at getting the way people are oblivious & think nothing bothers her.

La la LA la lahhh

http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics/news3/Daria_ComingSoon.jpg

And yet there's still no dvd of The Maxx. arghl

I've been watching Beavis & Butthead episodes gleaned from the net, complete with all of the videos, and I've been surprised by how hilarious they are. I think I remember my opinion veering between indifference and chagrin when the show was originally on. As a presentation of (as latebloomer so perfectly stated) 'low-key nihilism', it's akin to The Soup minus the witty banter, allowing us the option of laughing or weeping as the world goes down the terlet.

xx-post oh cool. all the episodes rebroadcast on the n were pretty heavily edited right?

OMFG you guys...

http://www.dariawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Daria_Multiverse

I'm guessing you are all lost exploring Daria 420 in the multi-verse. I mean this astounds me, this is like crazier than the interlinking Star Trek multi-verses.

what the fuck

gettin blitzed on Sparks and 312 exploring Daria 420 in the multi-verse

ok seriously wishing i hadn't even clicked on that Buffett thread

LOL ;)

it was a misguided attempt to make a point, but it came from a good place i swear

u know who the real enemies are, daria fan fiction writers

daria-911 changed everything

The universe created by Angelinhel as an entry in the PPMB thread IRON CHEF: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. The universe details a world ravaged by a virus known as "The Sickness" which was released during the events of the movie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The universe gets its designation because there were three bullets left in the gun mentioned in the beginning of the story.

Daria-217: The universe of "Misnomer," by Erin Mills. An alternate reality wherein the Lane family is slaughtered by a red cloaked, reality jumping Daria Morgendorffer who goes by the name Judith. The story was published on fanfiction.net on 2/17/06.

wtf

Daria-8: The universe of Smileyfax's Night of the Living Furniture. In the fic, the family of Tom Sloane pays the Morgendorffer family an eight-figure sum of money as compensation for his insane acts of brutality upon them.

What did he do? I am afraid to read the fanfic to find out what. It it hard to imagine Tom as a homicidal maniac.

What is wrong with these people, seriously.

s/m rated nc-17 NSFW x-post

The universe of Ostragoth's "Behind Enemy Lines." While aboard The Habitat, Franklin Davers finds out that the Slaver Mantoids start using human females designated for their breeding program to birth children at age fifteen.

whos going to look for daria slash

i'm at work

thank you, internet, for making me hate Daria

Daria-309: A parallel universe created by Ranger Thorne that closely resembles D-320; in this reality, Robert Nelson and Jane Lane are Ringbearers, while Daria Morgendorffer has become a member of the Green Lantern Corps.

Of course.

I will never hate Daria, but I will continue to hate crazy internet people.

http://www.sh33pie.com/erin/misnomer.htm

This is a steaming pile of shit (surprise surprise).

You looked it up? You have a stronger stomach and more courage than I ever will.

"What impasse?" Jane said. She felt lightheaded. No doubt it was due to the blood loss. Jane's legs felt drenched in it. SHe was trying to keep her anger up so that she didn't have to think about it and possibly throw up.

I hate it when my legs are drenched in blood loss.

It’s a strong likelihood the show’s pop soundtrack won’t make it to the DVDs – the very few releases so far have either replaced it with generic background music or nothing at all. It probably won’t matter to most, but I watched the series a lot on original broadcast and will always associate certain scenes with the music – Monaco’s “What Do You Want from Me” playing when Daria dressed up as Quinn, for example.

This really ruined the 21 Jump Street dvd, Johnny Depp or no.

so:

- State on DVD this month
- Dario on DVD next year
- "MTV2 Legit" = one hour a week of Beavis & Butthead, the Max, Aeon Flux, the State, and old MTV bumpers

all I need to do is take a vow of celibacy and start a band, and I can officially regress to exactly what I did with my spare time in high school

haha "dario"

I even tivo'ed mtv2 legit, I feel so pathetic.

I did too, but it's sort of unsatisfying -- it's mostly Beavis & Butthead w/o the videos, which isn't that good; the Max and Aeon Flux stuff is cut up into tiny out-of-context bits that are just like general reminders of what they were like; and my enjoyment of 90s MTV programming does not extend to needing to have Coolio videos on my DVR

they need to bring back Oddville

it's mostly Beavis & Butthead w/o the videos, which isn't that good; the Max and Aeon Flux stuff is cut up into tiny out-of-context bits that are just like general reminders of what they were like; and my enjoyment of 90s MTV programming does not extend to needing to have Coolio videos on my DVR

Yes, it was pretty disappointing -- it would be better if they expanded it, and included full episodes of B&B and Liquid Television. It's not like there's a lot of people flocking to MTV2 on Friday nights.

So has anybody else got the Daria DVD set? The whole music issue hasn't turned out so bad - the replacement soundtrack captures the feel of the original, though in a couple of cases it jars (like in the "Everybody Hurts" video reference).

The extras are fun, but a bit scanty; there's barely anything to the cast interviews.

But it's great to have the entire series on top-quality DVD.