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That's funny, when they were doing the whole "Mister Bateman" thing, I thought, "I wonder if Jason Bateman ever gets that." And then he showed up, so I guess he does now.

True story, my sixth grade English teacher was named Bates, and we all called him, to his face, Master Bates. He also gave me a two-week extension on a paper when I broke my leg the day before it was due. We had already had upwards of two weeks to get it done, and I hadn't done shit. Breaking my leg had no effect on that. What a chump.

SaBrina, Best man at my wedding, his name was Bates and he called himself "Master." He's a teacher now, interestingly enough.

Dustin,

I've tried to send you two e-mails re "A favor" and they've both bounced back with "Delivery Status Notification" followed by a bunch of garble. In other words, fail. Funny business on your end or mine? I'll keep trying.

heh-heh heh-heh, he said, "Get any."

Is Beavis and Butthead something you had to grow up with to enjoy? Because that clip was really nothing special. Their schtick is old and has been done better.

SaBrina, doesn't that whole extension on a paper thing make him kind of cool actually?

By the end of this clip I was cracking up. It's always killed me whenever Beavis uses his high voice: "You mean to tell me that this movie has all that. . . "

I am still 13. 14 years later. Oh my god, I am old.

Oh, Beavis and Butthead. The inspiration for so many 9th grade dorks trying to do the laugh. And failing. Miserably.

Oh I love Mike Judge.

Beavis & Butthead were truly a pinnacle of MTV's days and of humor in general. An integral part of my college experience (which is a little sad but still.....). Watching them and Ren & Stimpy helped pass countless hours of boredom and hangovers. The parts where they comment on videos are actually some of the funniest parts, not sure why those are excised from the reuns.

Found this on askville.amazon, in answer to someone who asked a similar (though really badly written) question:

A: Simply because the music rights are only for a limited duration

Generally, on shows which use commercially recorded music (and not "anonymous stock music"), the show will pay only a certain amount to the artist to cover a certain amount of airings (usually the original broadcast and a repeat). If the show is sold into syndication (perpetual reruns) or to DVD sales, they need to renegotiate a new contract to use that music again. In some cases, the cost is too prohibitive to justify based on expected return on investment (especially on DVDs which may only sell several thousand copies), so they instead substitute cover music. One particularly notorious case is with the television show WKRP in Cincinnati, which had much of the music replaced on the DVD due to the cost of royalties to the original artist. You ask why can't they issue a version with the music intact--are you willing to pay 10 times the cost of the "scrubbed" version? Production companies know the likely response to this ("NO WAY"), so they feel it's throwing money away that they'll never recoup.

SaBrina, doesn't that whole extension on a paper thing make him kind of cool actually?

The dude let us call him Master Bates. Of course he was cool.

He was also a chump.

On topic: I didn't think Beavis and Butthead was funny the one time I watched an episode, and I didn't think much of this either.

Hey!! I learned to speak better English from those two assholes!! ;-)

Seriously though, I wasn't allowed to watch B&B at home. My parents gave it a big "NO." So of course I did. If I recall correctly they pretty much bashed every video that played so my favorite episode had a Pantera video, they just shut up and stared straight ahead. Best...shit...ever.

I don't know if I like that I can hear a little bit of Hank Hill in Butthead's voice...