Sam strike butt7/23/2023 The film’s main plot involves Beavis and Butt-Head somehow thinking that Muddy (Bruce Willis) is hiring them to have sex with his wife Dallas (Demi Moore) and traveling across the country to pursue this aim. Even the opening scene-which parodies kaiju but always mostly put me in mind of the arcade game Rampage-features a certain objectification of women. Here is a film that centers around the protagonists trying to “score”-the plot device of their missing TV is actually a bit tangential. It’s hard to see Beavis and Butt-Head Do America being made now, or all too easy to imagine the new kind of outraged reaction it might elicit. There are both the changes in myself and the shifts in the culture to grapple with. It is somewhat strange watching the film again now, 25 years later. It also plays with the notion that the duo exerts a nefarious influence, as when Butt-Head appears demonically in Beavis’s hallucination. And they won, insofar as running gags about fire were removed from the show not just for future episodes, but retrospectively.īeavis and Butt-Head Do America calls back to this, of course, as the pair watch the monitors at the Hoover dam-they need more shows about fire. Many “family values” types were up in arms, putatively worried about Mike Judge’s show corrupting the youth. I remember them yelling “fire!” and the controversy that sprung up around it at the time. I first encountered Beavis and Butt-Head a few years before on MTV’s Liquid Television and followed them as they got their own show. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America hit theaters on December 20, 1996.
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