The 15 Most Controversial TV Shows Of All Time

Beavis and Butt-Head

The animated sitcom Beavis and Butthead followed two ignorant, socially inept, heavy metal-loving teens who lacked empathy and morals and spent their time on the show commenting on music videos and burning and destroying things. When a five-year-old boy in Moraine, Ohio, set a fire that burned and destroyed the family’s mobile home and killed his two-year-old sister, his mother blamed the show for promoting burning as fun. This wasn’t the only incident involving fire to land the shot in hot water. There were reports that three girls in Western Ohio had set another fire while they were imitating a trick from the show. The show was also blamed for animal cruelty and the death of a cat with fireworks in 1993, which kick-started a letter-writing campaign against the show.