Beavis and Butt-Head visit McVicker in the hospital after he has a mental breakdown.
Tropes:
- Adults Are Useless: None of the staff members consider kicking Beavis and Butt-Head out for their misbehavior, misinterpreting their cruel insults towards McVicker as treatment suggestions.
- Artistic License – Medicine: Not only is McVicker allowed visitors into his facility despite clearly not being ready, but Beavis and Butt-Head also never get kicked out for their misbehavior. Justified in that the asylum staff is shown to be quite incompetent at their jobs.
- Bedlam House: McVicker gets sent to one of these, where the staff slaps him for having a Freak Out and later sends him in for electroshock therapy. They also don't understand that he doesn't want to be near Beavis and Butt-Head, allowing him visitors even when he isn't ready.
- Berserk Button: Seeing Beavis and Butt-Head sends McVicker into a Freak Out and destroys any progress he made.
- Blaming the Victim: The staff does this to McVicker when he flips out over Beavis and Butt-Head's arrival, ignoring the fact that they were not only the ones responsible for his situation in the first place but continued to torment him once they entered the room.
- Bullying the Disabled: Beavis and Butt-Head continue to harass McVicker as the latter is immobilized as a result of their antics. Beavis, in particular, taunts him about kicking him in the nads and using a straight jacket, to the point that McVicker strangles him and has to be taken in to receive electroshock therapy by the staff.
- Cassandra Truth: McVicker tries to inform the staff that Beavis and Butt-Head should stay away from him for his own good, but they refuse to listen to him and believe he is simply acting delusional again. Even as the two openly harass him, the staff, instead of realizing he was right about them being menaces, blame him for acting up and have him carried away to electroshock therapy.
- Comically Missing the Point: The staff believes that McVicker is freaking out because none of the treatments are working (and decides to send him in for electroshock therapy), not because of Beavis and Butt-Head themselves.
- Condescending Compassion: The asylum staff assigned to treat McVicker, especially the nurse.
- Didn't Think This Through: Van Driessen decides to bring Beavis and Butt-Head into the mental hygiene center to show them what they ended up doing to McVicker. Of course, he didn't consult McVicker himself before doing so, and because of who the two are, McVicker's mental health ends up getting worse to the point of requiring electroshock therapy.
- Dramatic Irony:
- The staff believes that seeing Beavis and Butt-Head will help improve McVicker's mental state. Not only were Beavis and Butt-Head the cause of his incarceration to begin with, but they ended up making things worse for him once they arrive. McVicker rightfully predicted this, but the staff refused to listen to him and misinterpreted this as him just being delusional again.
- Likewise, Van Driessen assumes Beavis and Butt-Head will apologize to McVicker for what happened. He realizes too late that they don't care in the slightest and, if anything, find the situation utterly amusing.
- Driven to Madness: Happens to McVicker when he sees the teacher's lounge destroyed and hears Beavis and Butt-Head's obnoxious laugh over the intercom. It only gets worse when they visit him at the asylum.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture: The staff decides to do this after Beavis and Butt-Head push McVicker over the edge.
- Expy: McVicker's nurse resembles Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
- Freak Out: McVicker has one after he sees Beavis and Butt-Head walking outside the asylum.
- Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Van Driessen is utterly astonished at the duo's callousness towards McVicker's predicament.Van Driessen: What is wrong with you two?! Don't you care about anyone? Look what you've done! Stop laughing! (goes into a similar breakdown as McVicker as the two continue their laughing)
- Groin Attack: Beavis suggests the doctors kick McVicker in the nads because all other treatment options are failing.
- Hell Is That Noise: Beavis and Butt-Head's laughing excessively into the intercom is what sends McVicker over the edge. Hearing them continue to laugh even as his condition worsens does the same to Van Driessen.
- Here We Go Again!: After witnessing Beavis and Butt-Head giggling after McVicker gets sent to electroshock therapy, Van Dreissen has a similar breakdown.
- Heroic BSoD: Van Dreissen goes into a similar breakdown as McVicker when he realizes that Beavis and Butt-Head don't care about anyone but themselves.
- Horrible Judge of Character:
- Van Driessen believes that Beavis and Butt-Head will feel remorse after they see McVicker in the mental hospital and even suggests they go inside first. Which leads to McVicker's mental health getting worse until he requires electroshock therapy.
- The staff also doesn't see a problem with allowing Beavis and Butt-Head to visit McVicker, despite the fact that they were responsible for his predicament in the first place. Even as they continue to make jokes at his expense, the staff sends McVicker to electroshock therapy instead of kicking them out.
- Intercom Villainy: Beavis and Butt-Head are left alone in McVicker's office with the intercom and proceed to laugh non-stop. McVicker, whose mental health is already shaky, has a full-on mental breakdown.
- Ironic Echo: Some of what the staff tell McVicker is similar to what he has told the duo in the past, such as "we've tried everything, from..."
- Karma Houdini: Per usual, Beavis and Butt-Head manage to get away with their behavior towards McVicker thanks to staff's incompetence.
- Kick the Dog: As McVicker is being dragged away to receive electroshock therapy, Beavis and Butt-Head continue to make fun of him for it.
- Lack of Empathy: As expected, the duo doesn't care that they mentally broke McVicker and laughs as they see him being wheeled in for electroshock therapy.
- Laser-Guided Karma: After causing McVicker's second breakdown by bringing Beavis and Butt-Head into the facility without his consent, Van Driessen ends up suffering a mental breakdown himself.
- Misplaced Retribution: The staff blames McVicker for his Freak Out (and has him set for electroshock therapy), even though Beavis and Butt-Head were the ones who caused it in the first place.
- Never My Fault:
- Beavis and Butt-Head take no responsibility for McVicker's breakdown.Butt-Head: It's not our fault he screwed up.
Van Driessen: Ah, I think it is, Butt-Head. - Likewise, Van Driessen blames the duo for McVicker's condition getting worse, while failing to realize that sending the two to the facility was a bad idea from the start.
- Beavis and Butt-Head take no responsibility for McVicker's breakdown.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Van Driessen's attempts to make Beavis and Butt-Head understand the damage they've done to McVicker's psyche only make the principal breakdown even more. Worse, the duo's continual lack of remorse ends up driving Van Driessen over the edge as well.
- No Sympathy: The staff doesn't take McVicker's problems into consideration, giving him Condescending Compassion and sending him in for electroshock therapy when the duo continues to torment him.
- Ordered Apology: Deconstructed. Van Driessen requests for the duo to apologize to McVicker for their actions, only for McVicker's sanity to worsen to the point of requiring electroshock therapy.
- Sanity Slippage: While McVicker's mental health was never the best in the first place, the antics of the two have driven him up the wall to the point of being institutionalized and later sent to electroshock therapy.
- Troubled Fetal Position: McVicker crouches on the floor during his Freak Out after hearing Beavis and Butt-Head's obnoxious laughter from the microphone.
- The Unapologetic: Beavis and Butt-Head not only refuse to apologize to McVicker, but they continue to harass him and outright condone his electroshock therapy treatment.
- The Unreveal: It's never revealed why the duo destroyed the teacher's lounge, but it was bad enough to send McVicker over the edge.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Van Driessen sending Beavis and Butt-Head to McVicker's facility to apologize only ends up causing McVicker's mental health to deteriorate so much that he requires electroshock therapy.
- Villainous Breakdown: "Villain" might be kind of a stretch, but McVicker finally snaps after seeing the damage to the teacher's lounge that the duo caused and upon hearing them laugh through the intercom.
