Western Animation / Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe is an American adult animated science-fiction comedy film based on the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head. Written by and starring series creator Mike Judge, it is the second film adaptation of the series, and a sequel to 1996’s Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.

The film sees the duo being sent to space camp and eventually taking a ride on the space shuttle, partaking on their usual antics along the way. However, they soon end up getting sucked into a black hole and find themselves transported from 1998 to 2022, and try to adjust to the modern times while being pursued by the governor of Texas, the NSA, the Deep State, and even alternate versions of themselves.

The film premiered on June 23, 2022 on Paramount+. The film also serves as jumping-off point for a new Beavis and Butt-Head series, which premiered on the service on August 4th.

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• Achievements in Ignorance:
  • Beavis and Butt-Head were able to flawlessly pull off a space docking sequence again and again and again and again for hours on end, and creatively use a robotic arm as a backup stabilizer, which no engineer thought of, purely because they were amused at how much the actions looked like sex and masturbation to them. It's what convinces Serena and NASA to bring them along on the mission despite their lack of astronaut experience.
  • Butt-Head manages to repeatedly track down and tail the NSA van. All without knowing how to drive and, for most of the chase, going in reverse.
• All for Nothing: Beavis and Butt-head think they're going to score with Serena, which motivates most of their actions both in space and after their return to Earth. In the end, they come within moments of Serena actually agreeing to do them... only to be cockblocked by Smart Beavis.
• Alternate Self: Beavis and Butt-Head encounter two variations of themselves, dressed up as the Watcher, who tells the two to call them "Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head".
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Downplayed. Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head have knowledge and powers that seem outright extraterrestrial and are more intelligent than most normal humans, and yet they still aren't that bright in the grand scheme of things, at least in their own universe. They lampshade this near the end of the movie. Played straight in the sense that Smart Beavis becomes the first Beavis in the multiverse to lose his virginity or "score".
• Apocalypse How: Beavis and Butt-Head's trip to the black hole flung them 24 years into the future to the year 2022. This also caused damage to space-time and the fabric of their universe and the universe of Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head. The Smart version task Beavis and Butt-Head to use a time portal to return to the past to repair the damage or else both of their universes will be destroyed.
• Art Evolution: The art is different from the previous revival, with brighter colors (e.g. Beavis' hair looking more orange) and slightly thicker outlines, along with more realistic character designs for anyone that isn't the titular duo, giving the movie an Archer-esque look. Titmouse did the animation services, making it rather puppet-like as a result. The revival series follows this trend for any newly introduced characters, with the title duo and other returning characters kept in their usual style.
• Artistic License – Geography: The environment in the scenes taking place along Galveston's seawall is close, but not quite identical to the real deal — the BBQ festival billboard (much less any billboards, for that matter) isn't there in real life, for instance. The most notable area in these scenes, the pier amusement park, is very clearly modeled after the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier (complete with a building labelled "Gump", referring to the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant located on the same pier as the park), but it's notably more expansive, given the presence of various additional buildings and Serena's campaign station; there's also stairs leading up from the beach and what appears to be a raised dock towards the very end of the pier, both of which aren't there in real life, and the actual pier itself is seemingly made entirely of wood instead of hard concrete, which would be disastrous given Galveston's history of hurricane landings. Every other location Beavis and Butthead visit while they're in Galveston, including the fancy hotel they stay at, are completely made-up for the movie.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Averted with Empress Beavis, who just looks like an older Beavis wearing drag.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Obviously, a platonic version. The scene where Butt-Head makes peace with Beavis and says that "we're gonna score" with Serena, instead of them fighting over who gets the honor, is probably as close as these Vitriolic Best Buds are ever going to get to this trope.
  • Throughout the series, Beavis's mother was implied to be neglectful, if not outright abusive. Here, we learn from a realtor that Beavis's apparent death devastated her.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Serena Ryan constantly talks over Jim Hartson and never takes him seriously. After over 24 years of this, Hartson is long tired of this treatment, and it causes him to invoke The Dog Bites Back near the end of the film... and he fails miserably.
• Berserk Button: Beavis finally snaps and attacks Butt-Head after the latter calls Serena a slut.
• Big Bad: Serena Ryan, the captain of the space mission, is convinced Beavis and Butt-Head will reveal that she tried to kill them, and takes Jim Hartson to find them and finish the job for good. When she finds out what the boys really wanted all this time, she has something of a Heel Realization.
• Big Good: Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head more or less fill this role in the movie. They make contact with Beavis and Butt-Head and warn them of the upcoming destruction of both of their universes and explain how to fix it. They never try to threaten or force Beavis and Butt-Head through the portal back to their time, but instead try to reason with them. When it becomes apparent that Beavis and Butt-Head are failing in their quest, Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head move the portal twice to make fixing the rip easier. Unlike Beavis and Butt-Head, their Smart counterparts are sincere, calm, respectful, exceedingly patient, and concerned not just about their own lives but also the lives of billions that hang in the balance.
• Big "NO!": Beavis lets one out after getting arrested.
• Bittersweet Ending: Beavis and Butt-Head don't get to score (again) nor do they return to 1998 and they have to keep quiet the events of the movie (again), but they get their old house back with a makeunder to look how it was back in The '90s, and a brand-new flatscreen TV. On the other hand, Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head are awarded for being the first duo to score.
• Blown Across the Room: How the movie kicks off. Butt-Head convinces Beavis to stand in front of the "Powerkick 3000" at the science fair and suffers a painful Groin Attack that sends him flying, with his high-pitch squeal destroying everything and setting the gym on fire.
• CallBack: The line "you said mount" was originally used in this announcement trailer for the movie.
  • Butt-Head referring to himelf as a 'deer' when he is portrayed as a winged unicorn in Beavis' Imagine Spot is a call back to the episode "Cow Tipping" where he calls a horse a deer.
• The Cameo: Daria (her first appearance in a B&B work since the original series ended), Principal McVicker, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Buzzcut, Mr. Van Driessen, Stewart and his mother appear briefly without any dialogue in Beavis and Butt-Head's trial, though McVicker can be heard muttering "Oh no!". Van Driessen talks to the boys in an earlier scene, and Buzzcut can be seen extinguishing the fire in the burning gym. In a later scene, Todd appears in a daydream Beavis has where Serena decapitates him.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Near the end, Beavis tries to confess his feelings for Serena, but finds himself stuttering incoherently as he struggles to get the words out. In the end, he takes so long that Smart Beavis butts in and delivers his own love confession to Serena, charming her instantly and resulting in him being the only incarnation of Beavis in the multiverse to score!
• Canon Discontinuity:
  • Given that it's about Beavis and Butthead time traveling from 1998 to 2022, it presumably ignores the 2011 series that was set in that year due to Comic-Book Time or Alternate Continuity.
  • Daria is shown in the gallery at Beavis and Butt-head's trial in 1998. The first episode of her series, in which she moves far away from the two, aired in 1997, and is set around that time. Though, the last season of the original Beavis & Butt-Head ran at the same time as the first season of Daria, and Daria still appeared in the former, so it's possible this chronologically takes place before she moved.
• Chainmail Bikini: Serena wears one in Beavis's fantasy where she kills Todd and his gang with a sword.
• Comically Missing the Point: Beavis & Butt-Head practically wrote the book on this trope, and this film continues that proud tradition.
  • After Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head from an alternate universe confirm that in all the infinite realities of all infinite possibilities, no version of the duo ever scored, Butt-head reacts to this shocking reveal the way only he could:
    Butt-Head: Cool. Uh huh huh. We're gonna be the first ones.
  • The boys learn about white privilege from their experience in a gender studies class. In true Beavis & Butt-Head fashion, instead of learning a lesson about race and power dynamics, they only really processed the part where they can have whatever they want. They proceed to blithely wander through the college campus swiping people's food and belongings for fun.
    • During the class lecture on white privilege, a woman of color is interrupted by a white man who is clearly trying to demonstrate how progressive he is.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Serena Ryan fills a very similar niche to Dallas Grimes from the first movie, particularly with the boys' desire to "score" with Serena driving the plot of the movie, much like with their attraction to Dallas but ends up being a very different kind of antagonist. Dress-wise, Dallas tends to wear more skimpy clothing while Serena dresses more modestly by comparison. While Dallas was an open criminal and terrorist, Serena managed to lead a more legit political career and whatever corrupt, criminal things she did were done in secrecy, without exposure. Dallas was also openly hostile to Beavis and Butt-head to begin with and despite acting seductive to get what she wanted out of them, had no intention of ever "scoring" with them and notably never undergoes a Heel–Face Turn. Serena, on the other hand, is actually genuinely friendly with the boys to begin with and despite growing more hostile to them throughout the movie, eventually gives up on that hostility, has her Heel Realization, and consents to their desires, albeit with some small reluctance.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Beavis and Butthead need to go through a time portal back to their own time in order to save the universe. At the end of the movie Hartson gets sucked into it and the universe is saved all the same. Smart Butthead realizes that even throwing a brick through the portal would have worked, and none of the hassle he and Smart Beavis went through was necessary.
• Despair Event Horizon: Beavis once again loudly laments that he's never going to score when they arrive at their old house and Serena isn't waiting for them.
• Didn't Think This Through: As it turns out, the whole portal problem Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head wanted the two to deal with by sending them two back actually didn't need them, and anyone or anything would have worked in their place. Smart Butt-Head lampshades that they may be "Smart", but they aren't the brightest.
• Ditzy Genius: Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head may be the most intelligent versions of Beavis and Butt-Head, but they can still make silly mistakes. Smart Butt-Head himself notes that being the smartest versions of Beavis and Butt-Head isn't exactly glowing praise of their own intelligence. At the very least, they're much more self-aware of their (relative) lack of intelligence, and have none of the nihilistic tendencies of the regular duo.
• The Dog Bites Back: Downplayed. Beavis has a fantasy where Serena becomes his girlfriend and goes on to behead Todd and kill his entire gang just as they're about to beat him up. It's only a dream sequence, but it implies Beavis bore some lingering resentment toward the thug for the way he treated Beavis (and Butt-Head) in the past.
• Dull Surprise: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head are so stoic that when the impulse comes up to chuckle and giggle like their more stupid counterparts, they just state how funny they find the situation.
  Smart Butt-Head: Humorous. Quite humorous, yes.
  Smart Beavis: Droll, very droll, yes. Whimsical.
  Smart Butt-Head: That is amusing, yes. Quite jocular, yes.
  Smart Beavis: Yes. Mirthful, yes.
  Smart Butt-Head: Okay. That's enough frivolity.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Several involving Old Beavis and Butt-Head.
  • Old Butt-Head is shown to be so obese as to require a cane and a rascal, which only appears again in "Home Aide."
  • The duo still live at their childhood home, albeit The Couch has been changed to a small red chair to accommodate Old Butt-Head. In the revival proper, they instead live in a low-income apartment, for unexplained reasons.
• Enemy Mine: Serena and the Pentagon goons chase after Beavis and Butt-Head for completely different reasons, which puts them at odds when they both catch a different boy. However, when they learn that their goals are aligned, as they both effectively want to kill the duo, they're overjoyed to team up.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Even characters who liked Beavis and Butt-Head and/or showed lots of lenience toward them, like Stewart and Mr. Van Dreissen, show disapproval of the judge's incredibly light sentence.
  • Beavis looks put off as Serena describes what he wrongly assumes was her sex life (which would include 256 men, 49 women, a Russian dog, and a chimpanzee), implying even he thinks that's excessive, or at least more than he ever wanted to know about her.
• Exact Words: When Butt-Head is cranking the kicking simulator at the fair, Beavis asks Butt-Head if he's going to kick him in the groin again. Butt-Head says that he isn't going to. He never said anything about the kicking simulator.
• Expy: Serena Ryan serves the same (albeit toned-down) role in this film that Dallas Grimes did in Do America: a Femme Fatale who Beavis and Butt-Head mistakenly believe they have been hired to have sex with. Although she did try to have the boys killed out of frustration (which, to be fair, stemmed from them causing literally millions of dollars of damage to America's space program), she is not so criminal as to use them to smuggle a WMD, like Dallas did.
• Facepalm: Daria's reaction to the Unishment Beavis and Butt-Head receive from the judge after their trial.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Beavis and Butt-Head end up being flung to the year 2022. Naturally, being unfamiliar with the times, the duo don't know how to use a smartphone and misinterpret the concept of white privilege; being Beavis and Butt-Head, they'll probably never fully catch up.
• Fisticuff-Provoking Comment: While arguing over whose fault it is that Serena isn't at their house, Beavis blames Butt-Head for always calling Serena a slut. Butt-Head says that she is a slut, citing (what he thinks is) her sexual history. Pushed too far, Beavis smacks Butt-Head in the face with a book.
  Butt-Head: Beavis. You've just crossed a line. And I think we both know what needs to happen now.
• Future Loser: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head show the boys a glimpse of an alternative universe where they did not go into the black hole and grew up normally. They're depicted as two middle-aged losers who never made anything of their lives and continue to do nothing but watch TV.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: Beavis suffering a Groin Attack from the "Powerkick 3000" results in an Instant Soprano of such volume that everything made of glass at the science fair shatters, leading to Disaster Dominoes that burns the whole gym down.
• Groin Attack: The film begins with Butt-Head kicking Beavis repeatedly in the crotch to see how much he can take before passing out. When he notices a football kicking machine called the Powerkick 3000, Butt-Head decides to apply that on Beavis' groin. It proves to be so powerful that it sends Beavis flying into the air, across the gymnasium, and making him scream so loudly that he shatters all the available glass, causing a chain reaction that leads to the whole place catching on fire.
  • Beavis angrily kicks Butt-Head in the groin during their fight after they return to their house.
• Hidden Depths: This movie shows that deep down, underneath all his stupidity, perversion, and pyromania, Beavis has a sense of melancholy where he feels unsatisfied, frustrated with Butt-Head's abuse, and really does want something more out of life. This is depicted in his conversations with the Siri AI, which he mistakes for Serena.
  Siri: How can I help you?
  Beavis: Oh, y'know, just, like, listening helps a lot. Y'know, 'cause...I never really had anybody who, like, actually listens when I'm talking and stuff. Like, nobody hears the real Beavis, you know what I'm saying? Heh heh heh.
  Siri: I don't understand, Beavis.
  Beavis: You know, neither do I sometimes! Yeah. Neither do I...
• Horrible Judge of Character: Serena really takes this to new levels. She is completely blind to the boys' obvious idiocy and perversion, viewing them as teenage geniuses capable of completing a very delicate operation in space, and insisting they join her on the mission. She, her crew, and NASA pay very dearly for this mistake. Even after she wises up to Beavis and Butt-Head's personalities, she still makes the mistake of thinking they're out for revenge when all they want to do is have sex with her.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Serena Ryan does look like her voice actress Andrea Savage.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Serena is shown to have been a decent person and devoted astronaut at the beginning, wanting to further her studies of astronomy, being protective of all the people under her command, and sharing her passion with what sees as two devoted prodigies. However, Beavis and Butt-Head's antics drive her to attempt to kill them, and from that point on, she becomes more willing to break the law to get what she wants. Starting with murdering another one of her crew mates for food, breaking more laws to advance her political career, and trying to kill the duo again to cover up her previous crimes.
• Karma Houdini:
  • Granted, she does have a Heel Realization towards the end when she realizes all this time the boys only wanted to have sex with her instead of killing her, but Serena did admit to committing some crimes in her political career, including killing people, and the film ends with her hooking up with Smart Beavis instead of facing any legal consequences (with Hartson ended up being sucked into the portal back to 1998 before he could do anything).
  • Beavis and Butt-Head, as usual, suffer no lasting consequences for their actions. Over the course of the film, they sabotage an experiment for a once-in-a-trillion years phenomenon, get some people killed, cause an international incident with Russia, and cause all sorts of other chaos. In the end, all this is swept under the rug, and the duo are rewarded with their old house and a new TV.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Although it was Beavis' daydream, Serena decapitating Todd can be seen as one, as he always got away with beating up the boys in the original series.
• Ladykiller in Love: Well, more like Lovable Sex Maniac in Love, but Beavis genuinely develops romantic feelings for Serena beyond a mere carnal desire. He also chews out Butthead for calling her a slut.
• Lady Swears-A-Lot: Serena is the only character in Beavis and Butt-Head to say "shit" uncensored (and multiple times). On the other hand, the only uncensored use of "shit" in Do America was during the song "Love Rollercoaster" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, at the beginning of the song (it was not in the original version by Ohio Players).
• Lethally Stupid: The fire at the science fair? Small potatoes. This film sees Beavis & Butt-Head's catastrophic idiocy reach new heights (literally) when they destroy millions of dollars worth of equipment in space, ruin a once-in-a-trillion-years mission for NASA, and nearly kill everyone on board. And that's before they get sucked into the black hole, which ends up threatening all existence.
• LOL, 69: Spotting the Texas BBQ Festival sign, Beavis initially sees the "2022" sign before Butt-Head points to the "69th Annual" portion and starts laughing.
• Loving a Shadow: Beavis develops romantic feelings for Serena, but only because he mistakes her for the Siri AI he keeps on speaking to on the phone.
• Made of Iron:
  • Beavis and Butt-Head, naturally. The two surviving a black hole is a major plot point in the movie!
  • Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head get run over three times and, while extremely painful, they do survive.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Beavis and Butt-Head once again cause chaos and destruction through their utter stupidity. However, special mention has to also go to Serena; by throwing the duo into outer space and sending them careening into a black hole, she unknowingly threatens the existence of the entire universe!
• Minor Living Alone: This movie implies this was not the case for the boys originally. The house they lived in is outright said to have been owned by Beavis' mother before she sold it sometime after their disappearance. Played straight in the ending though. The government gives the house to Beavis and Butt-Head and leaves them to fend for themselves afterward, meaning they really are living without parental supervision now.
• Missed the Call: Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head charge Beavis and Butt-Head to go throw a portal and set things right. Butt-Head cares more about scoring and Beavis follows him.
• Mistaken for Aliens: When Beavis and Butt-Head exit the wormhole in 2022, the government detects their life signatures and assumes that they are aliens from another dimension. The boys' mannerisms and oddly shaped heads further reinforce this belief.
• Mistaken for Gay: When the boys come to blows in their old house, the realtor makes a remark about how "buying a house can be a difficult decision for a couple", thinking they're having a lovers' spat.
• The Multiverse: This movie reveals that the world of Beavis and Butt-Head takes place in one. The most intelligent version of Beavis and Butt-Head are a driving force in the plot and we get a small glimpse of various other iterations of the duo from other universes just before the movie ends.
• Mythology Gag: Beavis & Butt-Head's Sad-Times Montage is set to "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You" by Michael Bolton. Infamously, the boys watched the video for this song during the original series, and, well, they were not fans.
• Noble Demon: Both Serena and the NSA who were chasing the boys are a lot more principled than they look. When both find out that Beavis and Butt-Head are neither a threat to Earth or Serena's career, they drop their murderous vendettas and become more willing to simply just buy the boys' silence and leave it at that.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jim Hartson is a parody of retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Daria appears in a tweaked version of her design from her series rather than her design from the original Beavis & Butt-Head, making her stand out from the other characters.
• No Party Like a Donner Party: After being stranded in space by Beavis and Butt-Head, Serena was forced to eat one of the other astronauts to survive, which doubtless contributed to her Sanity Slippage.
• No-Respect Guy: Jim Hartson, Serena's second-in-command. No one ever listens to what he has to say, especially Serena, who always talks over him and treats him like a servant. This eventually drives him to betray her.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Compared to their prime universe counterparts, Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head come across as cultured, intelligent geniuses. In their home universe, they're still pretty far from the brightest bulb.
• Oh, Crap!: In space, when the duo first notice they're being drawn towards the black hole, Beavis has a major freakout, thinking he's about to die in a giant bunghole.
• Once per Episode: It would seem that the Beavis and Butt-head movies have adopted the tradition of having Beavis become Cornholio for at least one scene.
• One Dialogue, Two Conversations: When Serena tells Beavis that 256 men, 49 women, a Russian dog, and a chimpanzee have been to space, he thinks she's talking about her body count and says "that's a little more than I was hoping". Understandable, since the boys once again mistakenly believe they're being hired to score.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The boys going their separate ways after their Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure falls under this. Wandering through the streets and seeing a bunch of other stupid best friends together makes them realize how lost they are without each other. Beavis actually sheds a tear (a real tear, unlike the crying incident in the 2011 revival series) at a biker kicking another biker in the nads, and in an even rarer moment, Butt-Head, seeing a little boy smack another little boy, looks genuinely heartbroken.
• Our Wormholes Are Different: The Unrealistic Black Hole variant where it transports people through time.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Butt-Head randomly assumed the iPhone he took has a bank account on it with the password "Password". It worked, and the nacho vendor sarcastically calls it original.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Butt-Head mocks Beavis for his crush on Serena and, fed up, bails on Beavis.
• Prison Riot: Beavis leads one as the Great Cornholio, as the prison had a toilet paper shortage. Combined with Conrholio's signature catch-phrase and obsession, well...
• Production Foreshadowing: The movie shows a glimpse of Old Beavis and Butt-Head, who would have a few episodes devoted to them in the series' subsequent revival.
• Rainbows and Unicorns: The Winged Unicorn in Beavis's fantasy leaves a rainbow behind it when it flies.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: While the boys fail to score again, they both take solace in the fact that there is a Beavis out there who did, which means there's hope that they will too. This extends to the entire multiverse, as Smart Beavis scoring is considered a cause for celebration in the Citadel of Beavises and Butt-Heads.
• The Reveal:
  • It's revealed, through a real estate agent selling a remodeled version of the boys' old house, that Beavis and Butt-Head had been living with Beavis' mother the whole time, and her name is Shirley Beavis, meaning that Beavis has been called by his last name the whole time. What Shirley Beavis has been doing in her grief since Beavis was assumed dead, however, falls under The Unreveal, since Beavis is too busy playing with the kitchen sink’s garbage disposal to even notice the story being told.
  • Beavis and Butt-Head's home address is fittingly revealed to be 322 Woodson Street ("Woodson". Huh huh huh. "You have wood, son").
• Revenge Before Reason: Jim Hartson is so determined to expose Serena's crimes in revenge for her horrid treatment of him that he uses his body to block off all access to the portal that Smart Beavis and Butt-Head summon. He continues to stay in place and tries to call the Whistleblower's Hotline even while he's getting suck in.
• Sad-Times Montage: When Beavis & Butt-Head briefly have a falling out, they wind up wandering through the streets alone, seeing nothing but similarly stupid best friends picking on each other.
• Screw Destiny: Apparently, no version of Beavis and Butt-Head has ever "scored", thus urging the main Beavis and Butt-Head to become the first ones to do so. Smart Beavis scores with Serena at the end of the movie and gets a medal for doing so.
• Sexless Marriage: Implied to be the case for Emperor Butt-Head and Empress Beavis in the Citadel of Beavis and Butt-Head. Despite being the rulers of the multiversal gathering of Beavises and Butt-Heads, neither of them have scored.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Beavis tries to admit his feelings to Serena, but before he can, Smart Beavis beats him to the punch.
• Shout-Out:
  • When Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head attempt to explain the multiverse to the two, Smart Beavis asks if they saw that "...that cartoon Spider-Man movie..."
  • Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head bear a resemblance to Uatu the Watcher.
  • In Beavis’ dream, he envisions Serena dressed like Red Sonja.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head's dialogue fluctuates between poetic intellectualism and talking like an average Joe.
• Spock Speak: Smart Beavis and Smart Butt-Head's version of their regular counterparts' laughter is to repeatedly say words like "amusing" and "humorous".
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Both the judge and the prison warden cite Touched by an Angel as a factor in their compassion towards the titular duo.
• Toilet Humor: It's Beavis and Butt-Head, so this is a given. Taken to extremes when Beavis is stuck face-first in a port-a-potty toilet for a long truck ride.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • While it was implied in the show and in Do America, this movie makes it explicit that Beavis is a pretty decent person deep down whose worst behavior is a result of Butt-Head's Toxic Friend Influence. Much of the movie is about him developing romantic feelings for Serena that go beyond a mere carnal desire for sex, which Butt-Head cruelly mocks him for.
  • Likewise, after the two split, Butt-head does come to realize that he cares about Beavis as a friend in his own way and when they get back together again, affirms his friendship with Beavis by telling him they can do Serena together.
• Time and Relative Dimensions in Space: The black hole conveniently deposits the duo back on Earth (and in Texas, the state where the series has mostly been set) rather than in space.
• Tranquil Fury: Butt-Head sounds just as disinterested and monotone as ever when he flies into a rage after Beavis hits him with a book.
  "Beavis, you've just crossed a line. And I think we both know what needs to happen now..."
• Unishment: A judge takes pity on the duo and sentences them to eight weeks of Space Camp much to the chagrin of Principal McVicker and the shock of everyone else in the court, even Buzzcut. Daria just does a Facepalm.
• The Unreveal: The realtor goes into a long explanation about what happened to Shirley Beavis after the duo went missing, all of which is drowned out by the boys playing with the garbage disposal.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A cyclist walks past the duo and their (distinctly alien) smart versions unfazed.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The judge at the beginning of the movie sets the entire plot in motion by sending Beavis and Butt-Head to space camp, which not only leads to death and billions of dollars worth of damage, but very nearly causes the destruction of the entire universe!
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Beavis fantasizes Serena as putting on a Chainmail Bikini and killing all of Todd's gang with a sword while loudly proclaiming herself as his girlfriend.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The boys are sick all over the place during their zero gravity training.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: While on the Space Shuttle, Beavis and Butt-head destroy a satellite and outright kill a Russian cosmonaut. They are unaware of it, but Serena and the other NASA guys must have used a very strong cover-up, since the dead cosmonaut is immediately forgotten about and the incident seems to have caused no international repercussions.
• Winged Unicorn: Beavis' Fantasy Sequence about Serena shows Butt-Head as one of these.
  Uh huh huh huh. Uh huh huh huh. I'm a deer.
• Wonder Twin Powers: The government agents who capture Beavis because they think he's an alien can't understand how someone so stupid could master interstellar travel. They figure that he and Butthead must share a brain and are only intelligent when they're together.
• Zero-G Spot: The boys think they're being brought into space to have sex with Serena.

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