Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Synopsis: Two of the biggest animated slackers around, Beavis (Mike Judge) and Butt-head (also Judge) get a kick-start when two crooks steal their TV. On their mission to find a replacement, Beavis and Butt-head wind up in the motel of Muddy Grimes (Bruce Willis), where a case of mistaken identity has them after his wife, Dallas (Demi Moore). Due to misunderstanding Grimes when he says to "do" his wife, the two travel from Las Vegas to Washington, not realizing they've been sent out to kill the woman.
Director(s): Mike Judge, Mike de Seve
Production: Paramount Home Video
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG-13
Year:
1996
81 min
852 Views


The movie begins with scenes of people screaming in horror

and running down the streets of a big city. The ground shakes from

what seems like giant footsteps. There are pieces of building

debris falling everywhere, people getting crushed, power lines

coming down, etc. - complete pandemonium. It all looks very much

like a Japanese animated King-Kong or Godzilla movie. We hear the

footsteps getting closer and the ground shaking becomes more

intense - more debris falling. Then we see a HUGE BLACK TENNIS

SHOE come into frame and smash a National Guard truck. As we pan

up, we see the white socks, then the red shorts, the AC/DC T-

shirt, then we hear the familiar, "Huh huh huh." - only it's a

huge sound...this is a THREE-HUNDRED FOOT TALL BUTT-HEAD. "Butt-

Kong" continues his path of destruction - stomping on cars and

buildings and saying, "This is cool. Huh huh huh."

Airplanes and tanks start firing at Butt-Head (Butt-Kong).

He looks irritated and says, "Cut it out butt-munch!" Butt-Head

swats at the planes, sending them crashing to the ground and

stomps on the tanks. Then, something catches his eye. Butt-Head

reaches into a skyscraper and picks up a nice looking woman - a

lot like the one from the King Kong movie. He looks down at her in

his hand and goes wide-eyed, "Whoa! Huh huh huh." The woman

screams in terror as Butt-Head looks down at her and tries a few

lame pick up lines. "Uuuuh...Hey baby. I'm like, pretty tall. Huh

huh huh." He swats down a helicopter that is circling his head,

"Dammit, I'm trying to score!" The helicopter goes down in flames.

We CUT TO some guys sitting on a tank firing at him. They notice

giant footsteps coming from the other direction and turn the tank

around. Through their binoculars we see a THREE-HUNDRED FOOT

BEAVIS coming from the horizon. The giant Beavis is even more

destructive than Butt-Kong (maybe he could be breathing fire).

Beavis starts trying to pick up on Butt-Head's woman. Butt-Head

puts the woman down and he and Beavis begin to go at it, leveling

the city with one of their stupid juvenile smack-fights.

We CROSS-DISSOLVE from three-hundred foot Beavis shaking

Butt-Kong to Butt-Head asleep on the couch with Beavis shaking

him.

INT. B&B'S HOME - DAY

BEAVIS (O.C.)

Butt-Head! Butt-Head! Hey, Butt-Head!

Butt-Head is dead asleep on the couch. Beavis shakes him.

BEAVIS:

Butt-Head, wake up, wake up!

Butt-Head comes around.

BUTT-HEAD

Dammit, Beavis, I was about to score.

Huh huh.

BEAVIS:

Yeah, but check it out. It's gone!

BUTT-HEAD

What's gone?

BEAVIS:

The TV.

Beavis is making STRANGE NOISES, in a state of shock.

Butt-Head rubs his eyes and looks at the empty space where the TV

was.

BUTT-HEAD

Uuuuuuh, huh huh. Uuh,...

Out the window, we see two YOUNG MEN carrying B&B's TV into their

van.

Still on the couch, Butt-Head looks over at the broken window. We

see a CROWBAR lying on the floor, and the front door left open.

Butt-Head looks at the BROKEN WINDOW, at the CROWBAR, the OPEN

DOOR, then back at the EMPTY SPACE where the TV was. He does this

a couple of times - piecing it all together.

BUTT-HEAD (CONT.)

Whoa! I think I just figured something

out Beavis.

BEAVIS:

What?

BUTT-HEAD

This sucks.

BEAVIS:

Yeah, heh heh.

Beavis is still in shock. They both stare at the empty space where

the TV was for a beat, not quite sure what to do.

Beavis is SHAKING AND MAKING WEIRD NOISES. He presses buttons on

the remote a few times, as if it might help somehow.

BUTT-HEAD

This sucks more than anything that

has ever sucked before. We must find

this butt-hole that took the TV.

EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT

Bad neighborhood. 70's music blares.

A fast driving car drives right at us and stops. Punks run in

fear. Beavis hops out of the driver's seat, wearing bell-bottoms,

chain jewelry and a 70's afro. Into a dramatic CLOSE-UP, he takes

off his glasses.

FREEZE ON BEAVIS

ANNOUNCER:

Beavis!

FRAME UNFREEZES. Beavis whips out a huge gun.

BEAVIS:

Freeze, butt-wipe!

An attacker comes from one side. Beavis uses Judo. Another tosses

a knife. Beavis ducks, then shoots with two hands, police style.

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

Swinger's pad. Totally 70's. A group of bikini'd girls on a

waterbed. Butt-Head approaches them. He wears a leisure suit,

collar way open. He plops down in the bed.

FREEZE ON BUTT-HEAD

ANNOUNCER:

Butt-Head!

FRAME UNFREEZES. The girls wrap their arms around him.

BUTT-HEAD

Huh huh huh. Come to Butt-Head, baby.

ANNOUNCER:

Star in...

MAIN TITLE - FULL FRAME

EXT. CITY STREETS - DAY/NIGHT

ACTION MONTAGE BEGINS. Styled like a 70's cop show opening.

OPENING CREDITS to the movie appear just as cop show credits

would.

Beavis does a Starsky and Hutch-style roll with a gun.

Butt-Head slaps a pimp.

Beavis drives, chasing a car.

Butt-Head is slapped by a girl.

BUTT-HEAD

Huh huh huh. That was cool.

Beavis and Butt-Head are in a warehouse shoot-out.

A black police chief rises from a desk to yell at B&B.

B&B dive for cover just before a building explodes.

In CLOSE-UP, Beavis smiles for an ID shot.

Butt-Head does the same.

Beavis, in a rooftop fight, kicks his opponent over the edge.

A beautiful woman, back to us, takes off her dress for Butt-Head.

FINAL OPENING CREDIT APPEARS. Butt-Head and the woman fall into

bed. Suddenly...

INT. SCHOOL HALLWAY/DOOR TO A.V. ROOM - DAY

From inside, SOUND of equipment crashing.

B&B come out wheeling a TV on one of those carts. There are cables

attached to it still leading back into the A.V. room. As they push

the cart we hear more equipment falling.

BUTT-HEAD

Dammit, it's stuck.

They give it one big push and it finally breaks free. We see that

the cables are tangled with cables from other TVs and VCRs, which

all come crashing to the ground.

BUTT-HEAD (CONT.)

Huh huh huh. That was cool.

BEAVIS:

Yeah, heh heh. Let's just wheel this

thing back to the house.

INT. SCHOOL/ANOTHER HALLWAY - DAY

MR. VAN DRIESSEN stops B&B.

VAN DRIESSEN:

Ah, excuse me boys. What's going on

here?

BUTT-HEAD

Uh, someone stole our TV.

BEAVIS:

Yeah. We're just gonna use this one.

Get outta the way. Heh heh.

VAN DRIESSEN:

I'm afraid that TV belongs to the school.

Mmmkay? You know, this could be a positive

experience for you guys. There's a

wonderful world out there when we discover

we don't need TV to entertain us.

BUTT-HEAD

Huh huh huh. He said "anus."

BEAVIS:

(to himself)

Entert-ain...us...an-us...Oh yeah! Heh

heh. Anus. Heh heh.

VAN DRIESSEN:

(frustrated)

Have you guys heard a word I've said?

BUTT-HEAD

Yeah, "anus." Huh huh huh huh.

VAN DRIESSEN:

Look, guys, just take the TV back to the

A.V. room right now. And try to be a little

more open-minded. Mmkay?

Van Driessen leaves. B&B continue to wheel the cart home.

BUTT-HEAD

What a dork. Huh huh.

BEAVIS:

Yeah, heh heh. He's a anus. Heh heh.

EXT. SCHOOL/STAIRWAY - DAY

B&B arrive with the cart at the top of a stairway. They lamely

attempt to let it slowly down the steps. The cart is too top-heavy

and goes tumbling to the bottom of the stairs, shattering the TV.

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Mike Judge

Michael Craig "Mike" Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He created and starred in the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997, 2011), King of the Hill (1997–2010) and The Goode Family (2009), and co-created the television sitcom Silicon Valley (2014–present). more…

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