Gov. Terry Branstad has pulled the plug on "Beavis and Butthead" at the Governor's Mansion.

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He told a conference of young people in Des Moines Tuesday that he considers the MTV cartoon show "a really bad influence on our 9-year-old." Branstad said the underachieving Beavis and Butthead reinforce the wrong kind of values.Branstad says he had Des Moines' cable company install a "trapping" device, making it impossible for 9-year-old Marcus Branstad to watch the MTV channel.

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