Just Because: Beavis And Butt-Head's "Nosebleed"

Posted at 3:00 PM Nov 28, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

 

 

 

A few weeks ago, NCDSUV began broadcasting a new feature known as Just Because, highlighting something inane, obscurely amazing or just plain jaw-dropping from the outlines of pop culture and viral content.

These differ from, say, insanely retarded local ads, or  eccentric YouTube karaoke performers, which can be grouped into their own self-referencing regular spotlights. Nor do they need to be burdened by standards of timeliness or having been as-yet-unearthed.

They are the standalone wonders of the cybersphere that made us all get a computer in the first place, and occasionally need to be inserted into a day of normal online programming. Just because.

So while last week we shared the unspeakable pleasure of a unitard-sporting, sort-of breakdancing Jean Claude Van Damme circa a quarter-century ago, today we bring you five minutes of bratty animated bliss that's both preciously innocent in retrospect and graphically ahead of its time.

It's hard to understate the understated genius of Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head. By working within network standards of the time while subversively disrupting established boundaries of primetime taste, the cartoon was both charmingly innocuous and ferociously lewd and provocative.

And nowhere is that more evident than in the above vignette, "Nosebleed." Enjoy it because it features Beavis at his spastic peak, relish it for Butt-Head's absorption of the well-meaning prankster he oft-embodies, marvel at the its absolute brutality, and sit through to the spot-on satirical final moments, well, just because.

Feel free to e-mail any stupendous Just Because ideas to nudecelebritydeathsuv@gmail.com. We will make sure to credit you and offer you millions of dollars in Arabian riches.