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* EvilDoppelganger: {{Inverted}}. Smart Todd is a much more intelligent and lawful character than his main counterpart, with his eloquent defense of the law even earning him praise from Smart Daria. That being said, he's [[GoodIsNotNice perfectly fine with putting Smart Beavis and Butt-head to death for their failure]] but at least this time it can be chalked up to him being willing to defend the system that the Smart duo abused, rather than for any petty or criminal reasons.



* GoodCounterpart: Smart Todd is a much more intelligent and lawful character than his main counterpart, with his eloquent defense of the law even earning him praise from Smart Daria. That being said, he's [[GoodIsNotNice perfectly fine with putting Smart Beavis and Butt-head to death for their failure]] but at least this time it can be chalked up to him being willing to defend the system that the Smart duo abused, rather than for any petty or criminal reasons.
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* CompanyCreditCardAbuse: The head of the council points out that instead of their mission, which was to explore the various universes, Smart Beavis and Smart Butthead ran up an expense account on space nachos and interstellar pornography.
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* GoodCounterpart: Smart Todd is a much more intelligent and lawful character than his main counterpart, with his eloquent defense of the law even earning him praise from Smart Daria. That being said, he's [[GoodIsNotNice perfectly fine with putting Smart Beavis and Butt-head to death for their failure]] but at least this time it can be chalked up to him being willing to defend the system that the Smart duo abused, rather than for any petty or criminal reasons.
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* JerkassBall: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head are normally pretty benign, but in this episode, they attempt to abduct Tom Anderson and perform scientific experiments on him via an anal-probing device. To be fair to them though, the supreme leaders of their planet are forcing them to do so under penalty of death.

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* JerkassBall: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head are normally pretty benign, but in this episode, they attempt to abduct Tom Anderson and perform scientific experiments on him via an anal-probing device. To be fair to them though, the supreme leaders of their planet are forcing them to do so under penalty of death.death, and they are quite polite to Tom Anderson, intending to wipe his mind after the fact.
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* PlanetOfHats: The world Smart Beavis and Butt-Head come from appears to be populated by [[TheSpock ultra scientifically-minded]] [[MyBrainIsBig big-brained geniuses]] who all attach the word "smart" to the beginnings of their names.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Smart Todd is not only far more verbose than his original counterpart, he's more verbose than the rest of the supreme leaders combined.
-->'''Smart Judge''': This tribunal finds you guilty. \\
'''Smart [=McVicker=]''': Guilty. \\
'''Smart Buzzcut''': Guilty. \\
'''Smart Daria''': Guilty. \\
'''Smart Van Driessen''': Guilty, m'kay. \\
'''Smart Todd''': Thoroughly at odds with the Deontological Theory of Law as put forth by Smart Immanuel Kant. \\
'''Smart Daria''': Well put, Smart Todd.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The Supreme Leaders threaten Smart Beavis and Butt-head with death for spending two years wasting their time and money on nachos, porn, and observing Old Beavis and Butt-head, rather than have them do something more mundane or proportionate like community service to pay back their expenses.
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-->'''Smart Butt-Head''': "Humorous, but also menacing, yes." \\
'''Smart Beavis''': "Yes, yes, mirthful and sinister as well, yes, yes."

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-->'''Smart Butt-Head''': "Humorous, Humorous, but also menacing, yes." yes. \\
'''Smart Beavis''': "Yes, Yes, yes, mirthful and sinister as well, yes, yes."
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** Todd, [=McVicker=], and Buzzcut, or at least the Smart versions of them, return. Also the Smart version of the judge from ''Do the Universe'' and "Two Stupid Men" returns to preside over Smart Beavis and Butt-Head's trial.

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** Todd, [=McVicker=], and Buzzcut, and Mrs. Stevenson, or at least the Smart versions of them, return. Also the Smart version of the judge from ''Do the Universe'' and "Two Stupid Men" returns to preside over Smart Beavis and Butt-Head's trial.
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* IShotMarvinInTheFace: Smart Butt-Head unknowingly holds his stun ray the wrong way and shoots Smart Beavis by accident. Later, he does the same thing with a memory-wiping device, erasing both he and Smart Beavis' memories when he was intending on inflicting amnesia on Anderson.

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* IShotMarvinInTheFace: IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Smart Butt-Head unknowingly holds his stun ray the wrong way and shoots Smart Beavis by accident. Later, he does the same thing with a memory-wiping device, erasing both he and Smart Beavis' memories when he was intending on inflicting amnesia on Anderson.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head get an appearance that goes beyond a quick cameo.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head get an appearance AchievementsInIgnorance: Anderson fixes the interdimensional boys' anal probing device without understanding what it even is, or that goes beyond it's part of a quick cameo.vehicle capable of both space and dimensional travel.
* AnalProbing: What the boys intended to do to Anderson. It's the only kind of "scientific" experiment they can think of doing.


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* ADayInTheLimelight: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head get an appearance that goes beyond a quick cameo.
* EvilLaugh: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head don't laugh evilly ''per se''. They just attach villainous descriptors to their usual expressions of amusement.
-->'''Smart Butt-Head''': "Humorous, but also menacing, yes." \\
'''Smart Beavis''': "Yes, yes, mirthful and sinister as well, yes, yes."


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* IShotMarvinInTheFace: Smart Butt-Head unknowingly holds his stun ray the wrong way and shoots Smart Beavis by accident. Later, he does the same thing with a memory-wiping device, erasing both he and Smart Beavis' memories when he was intending on inflicting amnesia on Anderson.
* JerkassBall: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head are normally pretty benign, but in this episode, they attempt to abduct Tom Anderson and perform scientific experiments on him via an anal-probing device. To be fair to them though, the supreme leaders of their planet are forcing them to do so under penalty of death.

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* TheBusCameBack: Todd, {{McVicker}}, and Buzzcut, or at least the Smart versions of them, return.

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* TheBusCameBack: TheBusCameBack:
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Todd, {{McVicker}}, [=McVicker=], and Buzzcut, or at least the Smart versions of them, return. return. Also the Smart version of the judge from ''Do the Universe'' and "Two Stupid Men" returns to preside over Smart Beavis and Butt-Head's trial.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** It's never explained what happened to Serena Ryan.

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WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never explained what happened to Serena Ryan.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Implied. Smart Beavis needs to ask how many anuses a human has.
* TheBusCameBack: Todd, {{McVicker}}, and Buzzcut, or at least the Smart versions of them, return.
** Perhaps the one cameo nobody expected was ''Daria'', even being voiced by her original actress!



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Smart Beavis, delirious from the beam, sticks himself into the machine and turns it on, which probes his anus.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Tom Anderson assumes Smart Beavis and Butt-Head are members of the Elks Club who want to induct him for winning the chili cook-off.



* TheUnreveal: If Smart Beavis and Butt-Head were able to get their sentence commuted.

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* TheUnreveal: If Smart Beavis and Butt-Head were able to get their sentence commuted.commuted or not.
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Smart Beavis and Butt-Head abduct Tom Anderson for experimentation.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Smart Beavis and Butt-Head get an appearance that goes beyond a quick cameo.
* ContinuityNod: Their ship still is missing material from when they crashed it in "Home Aide."
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The Supreme Leaders mention how the duo were supposed to spend the last two years - roughly the amount of time since the revival has started airing - observing other universes, but in addition to spending all their money on nachos and porn, they also spent their time observing versions of themselves that were in middle age... at the height of their powers.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Implied by their other appearances, this episode spells out how Smart Beavis and Butt-Head are losers in their home universe, but above average in ours.
* TheUnreveal: If Smart Beavis and Butt-Head were able to get their sentence commuted.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** It's never explained what happened to Serena Ryan.
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