Eventually, this leads to them getting sucked into a black hole, and popping out in 2022. The movie picks up in 1998, shortly after their show’s 1997 end: When Beavis and Butt-Head (both voiced, as ever, by creator Mike Judge) are sent to space camp in an attempt to rehabilitate their general delinquency, they are improbably recruited for a real mission. Like a lot of the classic Beavis shorts, it’s all predicated on a misunderstanding - a steadfast and mistaken belief that these two eternally snickering, muttering, horny teenage boys must be concealing hidden depths. In between the sci-fi embellishments, the movie has set pieces in such exotic, far-flung locales as a porta-potty and a motel room. We also have cuts from White Zombie, Rancid, a pre- Tragic Kingdom No Doubt, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers delivering one of the best damn cover songs ever.Like The Simpsons in its fifth season, it does indeed send its dull-witted protagonists into space - and, unlike The Simpsons (as far as I know I’m not current on the last few seasons), it also gives them multi-versal doppelgangers, smarter versions of the boys who urge them to do their part to save the universe. We've got a truly odd track from the one and only Engelbert Humperdinck. We've got the tail end of 70s nostalgia with Isaac Hayes riffing on his famous Shaft theme. It's held up far better than one would expect.Īnd the soundtrack is peak 1996. Or we might have said, "Yes! That rules!" Because, honestly? This movie still rules.
This week we're hitting the road like Sam and Max! Or rather, like Beavis and Butthead, because on this week's episode we're discussing Beavis and Butt-Head Do America! If you had told us twenty years ago that THIS would be one of the 90s' most enduring comedies, we might have laughed in your face.
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