Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) on Netflix
PG-1319961h 21mAdventureAnimationComedy
Beavis and Butt-Head lose their television and search for a replacement. At a motel, Muddy Grimes mistakes them for the hitmen he hired and offers them money to do his wife Dallas.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.8/1063,326 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes71%
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Plot summary
Beavis and Butt-Head discover their television has been stolen and try to get another one. The motel they come to offers a set in every room. There they meet Muddy Grimes, who takes them for the hitmen he hired. His job for them: go to Las Vegas and do his wife, Dallas. Butt-Head convinces Beavis the errand is their chance to score and buy a new television. Muddy drives them to the airport. In Las Vegas, Dallas finds them listening at her door and pulls a gun on them. She offers them $20,000 to do Muddy instead, and their argument over who goes first shows her they have misread the arrangement. She plants the stolen X-5 unit, a biological weapon, in Beavis's shorts and instructs them to meet her at the Capitol. The boys board a tour bus.
Cast
- Jacqueline Barbaas FBI Agent Hurly (voice)
- Tony Darlingas Motley Crue Roadie #2 / Tourist Man (voice)
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- Jim Flahertyas Petrified Forest Recording (voice)
- Sam Johnsonas Limo Driver / TV Thief #1 / Man in Confession Booth #1 / Petrified Forest Ranger (voice)
- Rosemary McNamaraas Flight Attendant #2 (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
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- Mike Judge eventually admitted that the guitar solo serving as the Beavis and Butt-Head television theme was in fact the solo from AC/DC's "Gone Shootin" played backwards.
- A deleted scene showing Chelsea Clinton packing up to leave the White House was shot as a backup to the film's scene of Butt-Head meeting her in her bedroom, in case Bill Clinton lost his 1996 reelection bid to Bob Dole; by spring 1996 Mike Judge kept the original scene, confident Clinton would win.
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America was first conceived as a live-action film, with Saturday Night Live regulars David Spade and Adam Sandler in mind to play the title characters, before the live-action concept was dropped under pressure from series creator Mike Judge.
- "Two Cool Guys", written and performed by Isaac Hayes for the soundtrack, is a semi-parody of his Academy Award-winning "Theme from Shaft" that works the Beavis and Butt-Head TV theme in as a rhythm guitar line, with Mike Judge sharing a co-writing credit.
- The film used an earlier demo of Ozzy Osbourne's "Walk on Water" rather than the revised version on the soundtrack; Osbourne and co-writer Jim Vallance both prefer the demo, which later turned up on Osbourne's Prince of Darkness box set.
- The film's $20.1 million opening weekend broke the record for the highest December opening weekend, previously held by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Scream 2 took the record a year later.
