04x29 - Generation in Crisis

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GENERATION IN CRISIS

Class? Class?

Guys, let's cooperate, okay?

We have a very special guest
with us today. His name is Ken Alder.

And he's a graduate student in film

and anthropology.

Mr. Alder is working on
a very important project

- he'd like to share with us.
- Thank you, Mr. Van Driessen.

Now I'm sure you cats are all
familiar with "documentary filmmaking".

The fine art of capturing
real life on film.

That's what I do for a living. Thought it's
not really a living actually, but anyway,

that's what I do.
I think you'll find

the project I'm working on
now extremely relevant.

I'm calling it "Generation
in Crisis." And it's about you.

That's right, it's about
you, people your age... teenagers.

That's cool.

But this film is not about
achievement-oriented

academically successful young people like
yourselves. Frankly, it's about so-called

problem teens, losers,
dead-end kids,

dirtbags, call them what you will.
So what I wanna know is,

does anyone here
know any kids like that?

Hey Beavis,
check this out.

Where's the drums?

Yeah, yeah, and the guitars and stuff.

- Maybe this is rap.
- Yeah, yeah.

- It's missing something though.
- Yeah.

- It doesn't rhyme.
- Yeah, yeah.

- He needs to bust a move or something.
- Yeah.

He needs to take off
those damn glasses too.

No way Butt-Head, maybe he needs
them to see. Did you ever think of that?

- Whoa, hey Butt-Head, that's your Uncle Jack!
- No it's not.

Yeah it is.

Hey Jack, how's it goin'?

- That was him.
- No it wasn't, Beavis.

He's alot fatter than that.

That must've been him 'cause he was comin'
outta, like, one of those... naked places.

Oh yeah! I think that was him.

But I'm a substitute…

Did he say "prost*tute"? I think he
said prost*tute, Butt-Head, yeah.

No he didn't, he's talking about,
y'know, like, substitute teachers.

Oh yeah... Kojak!

So, uh...

- What was I saying?
- You said something about Kojak.

Oh yeah, yeah... yeah.

They should have,
like... prost*tute teachers.

Yeah!

They could get your mom to come in.

Oh yeah.

She's a slut!

Hey Butt-Head, check it out, it's Lemmy!
And that chick from White Zombie! Yeah!

- Yeah, that is Lemmy.
- What's he doing in this video?

He's Lemmy.

He can walk into any
damn video he wants.

Oh yeah. That's probably
because he rules!

Hey look, Butt-Head, someone's
hassling your Uncle Jack!

Yeah.
He's not supposed to be in a bar.

He always gets all
drunk and gets in a fight,

- and then he calls up.
- Yeah.

He says: "Hey Butt-Head...

you think you could
come down here?"

Next time he does that,
we should go.

Yes! Yes, perfect.

Golden! Don't lose it
fellas, don't lose it fellas!

Hey Butt-Head, check this out.

I am the great Cornholio!

I come from Lake Titicaca,
Titicaca, Titicaca.

That's cool.

Excellent.

I am a genius!

Quick, Dave, roll sound.
I don't wanna miss a thing.

Please, just forget the
camera and be yourselves.

Okay. So you said this is
where you guys hang out. So...

what do you do?

FOOTAGE

- Come on, do something!
- Like what?

I don't know, engage in some anti-social
behavior or something.

This sucks.
Let's get out of here.

Stop! You can't!
My film!

Wait!

Here's five bucks.

- This is cool.
- Great. Will you just do something?

GENERATION IN CRISIS

It could be any
American town.

Hard-working men and women
go about their daily lives,

raising families, pursuing
the American dream.

Where are the children?
Where are the young people

who constitute this nation's future?

- You're a wuss.
- No way, buttmunch, you're a wuss.

- No way, you're a wuss.
- We'll call them Steven and Bernard.

Although those are not in fact their
real names. In the wealthiest and most

scientifically advanced
nation the world has ever seen,

they lead an existence
devoid of meaning,

and barren of intellectual content.

- It's flat.
- Yeah, flat. And it's dead.

That's cool.

Their primary influences seem to be
a steady diet of bland television

and loud mindless
heavy metal music.

- Look! That guy's touching his wiener!
- So?

- You are too.
- Yeah.

- But that's different.
- What's different about it?

It's a different wiener!

Yeah.

It's probably bigger too.

Oh yeah.

Whoa, check it out! I-I'd like to trying
peeing on a snail some time.

Tha-that'd be cool, yeah.

You wanna pee on a snail?

Yeah, yeah, it's like, it's like, I'd like
to pee anywhere outside, but y'know,

I just feel like, y'know, peeing on a snail,
y'know, that'd be something different.

How about peeing in the toilet?

Oh yeah. I haven't
done that in a while.

- Check it out, a wolf.
- Whoa, really?

I'd like to try peeing on a wolf
some time, yeah, that'd be cool.

Beavis, if you try to pee on a wolf,
he would bite your wiener off.

Oh yeah.

I'd like to try maybe
peeing on one of these guys

some time, y'know, like,
while they're asleep.

Yeah. You must get tired
of peeing on yourself all the time.

Shut up Butt-Head.

Y'know, when I was like, y'know, talkin'
about peeing on those wolves and stuff?

I wasn't really gonna do it, y'know.

It's just like, y'know, it like,
helps to talk about it.

Tempting though it may be,

it is not for the documentary filmmaker
to pass judgment on his subject.

Let us hear from Steven and
Bernard in their own words.

In a word, Steven, what
is your "raison d'être"?

It's in my pants.

Where do you picture
yourself in ten years?

You know, the 21st century marketplace
you're going to enter will be a

global electronic village.
How are you preparing yourself

for what's bound to be a complex
and challenging world?

You said "enter".

What are you
feeling right now?

My left nad,
it itches.

- Can I say nad?
- There's no censorship of any kind.

This is an independent
documentary film.

With a generous grant from our
friends at the Ex-co Corporation.

- Censorship is cool.
- Yeah. Censorship is cool.

I like when they put those black boxes
on people's thingies.

Yeah. Like when somebody's
talking and then they say: Get the...

Cut!

Snow.

Yeah.
Snow.

These guys are going get
their asses kicked for like,

making a bunch of
noise on this dude's farm.

Ye-yeah.

Screw.

Yeah. Screw! Screw! Screw!

- A dog.
- Yeah.

And if you look after at your
right, you will see a barn.

A barn.

You think they're gonna
close the barn door?

Yeah.

That reminds me of this joke.

There is this traveling salesman and
it's like, he went to this farmer's house.

And then his
car broke down.

And so, like, the farmer wanted
to do it with his daughter...

but... he told him not to.

- And then he had all these eggs...
- I understand, yeah.

And then he like, did it with
the farmer's daughter.

They did it!