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Horror author Stephen King, definitely no stranger to strangeness, has become a fan of MTV's crude "Beavis and Butt-Head" cartoon show. King watches the dumb-dumb duo's underachieving exploits with his 16-year-old son, he says in this week's TV Guide. At first, the 46-year-old King admitted he didn't understand the show's tribute to teen stupidity. "When I started to get what was going on, I couldn't understand why anybody would let it on," King said. "Then, the next thing I knew, I was laughing hysterically." A woman blamed the show and its references to fire for influencing her 5-year-old son to set a fire that killed his 2-year-old sister. MTV eliminated references to fire and moved the show to late night.