Best Television Show Tournament Round 1h: The Walking Dead (27) vs Beavis and Butt-Head (102)

[Chris]

The Walking Dead
Plot: Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.
Genres: Horror, Serial drama, Zombie apocalypse
Developed by: Frank Darabont
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Norman Reedus, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Michael Rooker, David Morrissey, Melissa McBride, Scott Wilson, Michael Cudlitz, Emily Kinney, Chad L. Coleman, Lennie James, Sonequa Martin-Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alanna Masterson, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Katelyn Nacon, Tom Payne, Khary Payton, Samantha Morton, Ryan Hurst, Cooper Andrews, Callan McAuliffe, Eleanor Matsuura, Lauren Ridloff, Cailey Fleming, Nadia Hilker, Cassady McClincy, Angel Theory, Paola Lázaro, Michael James Shaw, Josh Hamilton, Laila Robins
On-air: October 31, 2010 – November 20, 2022


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Beavis and Butt-Head
Plot: Animated MTV series about two teenage heavy-metal music fans who occasionally do idiotic things because they're bored. For them, everything is "cool" or "sucks."
Genres: Adult animation, Satire, Black comedy
Created by: Mike Judge
Voices of: Mike Judge, Tracy Grandstaff, Kristofor Brown, David Spade
On-air: March 8, 1993 – present​

 

[Bobby Barrows]

First couple of seasons of Walking Dead are great but it wholly overstayed its welcome IMO.

 

[King Kota]

First couple of seasons of Walking Dead are great but it wholly overstayed its welcome IMO.

Think up till last season for sure show kind of died after Riggs left the show

 

[Keith]

Love how close this is! I’m voting Beavis & Butthead for nostalgia. Did Daria miaow it into the tournament?

 

[Marty McFourth]

I was a huge fan of Walking Dead right up to Negan's arrival and then the show really fell off for me. I've never had the desire to finish it.

If they didn't keep it running so long, it probably would have won here most likely.

 

[Dubble J]

Going with B&BH - TWD became a hate watch until I finally dropped it all together.

 

[Vegeta]

If Walking Dead ended earlier than it did, I probably vote it. But that kinda hurts it for me and gives the edge slightly to Beavis & Butthead.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

ill be real, I think there's some heavy revionism and nostalgia happening here. Walking Dead has some SHIT last seasons and it got very boring. but Beavis and Butthead...is really not a good show at all I dare people to go watch it now and tell me it's a good show. It was, to me, always more of a meme than a good show

 

[Canadian Dragon]

like for real, first 2 seasons of Walking Dead were fantastic and universally praised. I don't really ''get'' this result lol

 

[Jimmy King]

I like both (though I fell off of TWD after awhile), but I went with B&BH. Not a knock on TWD even though I stopped watching it but I just prefer B&BH. Sometimes I need a good laugh and B&BH is there. I haven’t felt the urge to go back and rewatch TWD like I have with B&BH.

 

[The Gipper]

Jeff do be correct.

 

[Gentleman Jake]

I was a huge fan of Walking Dead right up to Negan's arrival and then the show really fell off for me. I've never had the desire to finish it.

If they didn't keep it running so long, it probably would have won here most likely.

This is how I feel exactly. Plus Beavis & Butthead introduced me to some great music in the 90s

 

[Jimmy King]

I respectfully disagree with Jeff on this. If someone prefers B&BH over TWD then let them have that preference. It’s not some revisionism it’s just a personal preference. Not trying to be a dick either, just respectfully disagree.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I said some revisionism, it obviously doesn't apply to everyone as it's a general sentiment. I respect anyone who likes BnBH , but I stand by my statement, I don't think it's a good show at all and I don't find it rewatchable whatsoever. I like Mike Judge, I like BnB Do America and I am the target audience being a metalhead stoner. Still think the show is not great and definitely not better than especially early seasons of Walking Dead, which was a legit cultural phenomenon. I also think people are using some lackluster few final seasons to dismiss the entirety of TWD, which may be fair, may be not, but in this case, for me, I think the first two seasons are better than any singular BnB episode.

 

[Jimmy King]

I said some revisionism, it obviously doesn't apply to everyone as it's a general sentiment. I respect anyone who likes BnBH , but I stand by my statement, I don't think it's a good show at all and I don't find it rewatchable whatsoever. I like Mike Judge, I like BnB Do America and I am the target audience being a metalhead stoner. Still think the show is not great and definitely not better than especially early seasons of Walking Dead, which was a legit cultural phenomenon. I also think people are using some lackluster few final seasons to dismiss the entirety of TWD, which may be fair, may be not, but in this case, for me, I think the first two seasons are better than any singular BnB episode.

Fair enough. I don’t necessarily agree still but that’s fair enough.