History WesternAnimation / BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening credits depict Beavis and Butt-Head as stars in a '70s-style BuddyCopShow opening, complete with a theme song performed by none other than Music/IsaacHayes in the mode of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' or ''Truck Turner''. As one might have guessed, the protagonists spend little of the remainder of the film blowing stuff up, kicking ass, or scoring... though certainly not for lack of trying.

** {{Invoked|Trope}} for comedy. Similar to Elmer Bernstein's score for ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', John Frizell's music score sounds more like it belongs in [[BMovie a campy, dead-serious action-drama]] than it does a ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' story.

** When the two are crawling in the desert in exhaustion and dehydration, Beavis comes across a cactus. He somehow knows the fact that water is contained in cacti, something he might have picked up in Science class. Unfortunately for him, [[TooDumbToLive he isn't smart enough to know that it's a peyote plant, which causes him to hallucinate]].

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The opening credits depict Beavis and Butt-Head as stars in a '70s-style BuddyCopShow opening, complete with a theme song in the mode of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' (performed by none other than Music/IsaacHayes). As one might have guessed, the protagonists spend little of the remainder of the film blowing stuff up, kicking ass, or scoring... though certainly not for lack of trying.

* ContinuityNod: The only reference to their job at Burger World is in the Rob Zombie sequence.

* DramaticIrony: Muddy believes Beavis and Butt-Head are assassins he hired to kill his ex-wife, the duo believe that they're going to Las Vegas [[QuestForSex to score]], the U.S. government believes they're terrorists, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the old lady believes they're respectful gentlemen]].

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* KarmaHoudini: The two criminals and would-be hitmen who kicked off the whole plot by stealing the boys' TV get off completely scot-free at the end of the film. Justified in that they weren't really important characters to begin with (they were supposed to be the guys Muddy would hire to "do" Dallas, but he got Beavis and Butt-Head instead). Though one might consider their karma being unable to sell the boys' TV.
-->'''Guy 1:''' Worthless piece of crap.\\

*** Just to reiterate...''inadvertently.'' Beavis and Butt-Head had ''no IDEA that they were DOING any of this, let alone that it was even HAPPENING half the time.''

** Every conversation Beavis has with the old woman, whose age causes her to slur her words at times. She thinks they're talking about gambling in Vegas. He thinks they're talking about having sex.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Beavis and Butt-Head manage to get from one end of the continental United States to the other and evade the ATF without ''ever'' realizing they were being pursued in the first place!

!! Huh, huh, huh...:

** When getting back on the bus a third time after visiting the Capitol building, Butt-Head climbs in while oblivious. However, Beavis remembers that they were supposed to meet Muddy’s wife there, which means they just lost another chance at scoring. Butt-Head is still oblivious and tells him to settle down, but Beavis has finally realized at this point how [[StatusQuoIsGod futile their attempts at scoring are]] [[DespairEventHorizon and goes insane]].

* {{Bowdlerise}}: After [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9[=/=]11]], TV airings remove the scene where Beavis's Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Flemming calls them "masterminds".

* ButtMonkey: Tom Anderson, as usual. Along with Van Driessen, who gets taken down by ATF agents in painful fashion for his connections to Beavis and Butt-Head. And, of course, there's Beavis and Butt-Head themselves. There's also Beavis's father in the few minutes of screentime he has, who is abused and disrespected by Butt-Head's father in a similar manner as their respective sons, but unlike his son is so intimidated from the abuse that he never retaliates. Amusingly enough, the term "butt monkey" is actually used near the end, though in a different context, as it's one of the insults the duo give to each other.

--->'''Beavis:''' Hey, what's going on? *See plane leave the ground* AHHHHHHHHH!!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!

* HeroicBSOD: Beavis's "We're Never Gonna Score" rant on the bus after the capitol building.

* MistakenForEvidence: [[spoiler:The ATF find the picture of Dallas in Tom Anderson's trailer (which Beavis left there after masturbating to it), assuming he is the one who set up Beavis and Butt-Head on their debauchery and promptly arresting him.]]

* AccidentalHero: Butt-Head helps save the day by catching the X-5 Unit and giving it to the ATF. He didn't even know what it was or why they even needed it; he just figured they'd want it.

-->'''Beavis:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} FIRE!]]

** When getting back on the bus a third time after visiting the Capital building, Butt-Head climbs in while oblivious. However, Beavis remembers that they were supposed to meet Muddy’s wife there, which means they just lost another chance at scoring. Butt-Head is still oblivious and tells him to settle down, but Beavis has finally realized at this point how [[StatusQuoIsGod futile their attempts at scoring are]] [[DespairEventHorizon and goes insane]].

* AnimationBump: The animation is noticeably more solid and fluid than even the series' best episodes, thanks to the studio budget of $12 million (it was also the first time ''B&B'' ever had an art director which also explains the richer backgrounds). Standouts include...

* AnimationBump: Though only a marginal step up, the animation is noticeably more solid and fluid and the backgrounds are richer than even the series' best episodes, thanks to the studio budget of $12 million (it was also the first time ''B&B'' ever had an art director). Standouts include...

-->- '''Butthead,''' in the film's opener

** When the two are crawling in the desert in exhaustion and dehydration, Beavis comes across a cactus. He somehow knows the fact that water is contained in cacti, something he might have picked up in Science class. Unfortunately for him, [[TooDumbToLive this makes him think that it is edible for humans, which causes him to hallucinate]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Beavis has one in Anderson's camper. And it's implied ''both'' of them have done this in Anderson's camper and tool shed in the past.

* BuxomIsBetter: Unsurprisingly, the woman Butt-Head captures in his kaiju rampage dream has noticeably big breasts.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Lots of viewers at the time assumed "Lesbian Seagull" was a joke song created for the project. It actually predates both the film ''and'' the show by nearly two decades, having been recorded in 1979 by Tom Wilson Weinberg.

* HurricaneOfEvidence: When Beavis goes into Tom Anderson's camper to whack off in D.C., he leaves behind a number of items that end up implicating the old man and leaving the ATF convinced that he was the criminal mastermind all along. Among those are Beavis' pants, which he took off to do his thing and which the ATF were now aware contained the X5 Unit, as well as the picture of Dallas, which makes it look like there was a connection between she and Anderson.

* ButtMonkey: Tom Anderson, as usual. Along with Van Driessen, who gets taken down by ATF agents in painful fashion for his connections to Beavis and Butt-Head. And, of course, there's Beavis and Butt-Head themselves. There's also Beavis's father in the few minutes of screentime he has, who is abused and disrespected by Butt-Head's father in a similar manner as their respective sons, but unlike his son is so intimated from the abuse that he never retaliates. Amusingly enough, the term "butt monkey" is actually used near the end, though in a different context, as it's one of the insults the duo give to each other.

* CoolOldLady: Beavis and Butt-Head literally have this opinion of an old woman they befriend on their plane to Vegas (and on the subsequent bus trip across the country) when they think all of her comments apply to a rich sexual history. Bonus points for being voiced by Creator/ClorisLeachman.