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* NotSoDifferent: Beavis and Butthead get a hold of the intercom at the Capitol Building, asking for "the woman with big boobs" so they can "score". Cut to the House of Representatives going "Huh-huh-huh" just like the duo.


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* RidingIntoTheSunset: The final scene.
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* HeroicBSOD: Beavis's "We're Never Gonna Score" rant on the bus after the capitol building.
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** Beavis yelling "Fire! Fire!" in the desert. Due to controversy surroounding him burning down a comedy club early on in the show (which was blamed for a child burning down his mother's trailer and killing his infant sister, despite having never seen MTV or ''Beavis and Butthead''), Beavis was no longer allowed to say "fire" on the show.

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* TheComicallySerious: Agent Fleming remains dead serious and professional all throughout, even as he orders for unnecessary cavity searches, gets constantly outsmarted by the two dumbest people in the country, and insists that PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith. Being voiced by Robert Stack of ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries'' fame certainly helps.



* HeroAntagonist: The FBI led by Agent Fleming and his assistant, Bork.

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* HeroAntagonist: The FBI ATF led by Agent Fleming and his assistant, Bork.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Completely coincidental version. If those two thieves hadn't stolen Beavis and Butthead's TV, then the duo wouldn't have stumbled upon Muddy and his bid to murder Dallas and secure the X-5 Unit, which was originally a job the thieves themselves were hired for.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: While the film still has comedic beats, the plot eventually becomes more serious than any other episode of the series. A criminal confuses Beavis and Butt-Head for a couple of hired thugs to kill his girlfriend, who ends up using Beavis' pants to hide an extremely dangerous biological weapon, which prompts the ATF to go after the duo. In numerous cases, Beavis and Butthead fell into mortal danger. (Hell, the film even featured more blatant sexuality than the entire original series combined.)

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* DarkerAndEdgier: While the film still has comedic beats, the plot eventually becomes more serious than any other episode of the series. A criminal confuses Beavis and Butt-Head for a couple of hired thugs to kill his girlfriend, wife, who ends up using Beavis' pants to hide an extremely dangerous biological weapon, which prompts the ATF to go after the duo. In numerous cases, Beavis and Butthead fell into mortal danger. (Hell, the film even featured more blatant sexuality than the entire original series combined.)
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** They still step up to DEFCON 4, though.

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** They still step up to DEFCON 4, though.though.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Agent Fleming calls Beavis and Butt-Head a pair of sick individuals for masturbating in Tom Anderson's camper when he himself is disturbingly obsessed with issuing cavity searches on people, whether they're suspects or just witnesses.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Estranged husband-and-wife criminal duo Muddy and Dallas Grimes are voiced then-Hollywood power couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. They split up not long afterwards. Though for them it's probably HarsherInHindsight.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Estranged husband-and-wife criminal duo Muddy and Dallas Grimes are voiced then-Hollywood power couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. They split up not long afterwards. Though for them it's probably HarsherInHindsight.
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* BigShutUp: The famous "never gonna score" speech gets interrupted by a cranky bus driver.
-->'''Driver:''' Hey, buddy! Sit down!
-->'''Beavis:''' SHUT UP, ASSWIPE!!
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* ArtShift: The MushroomSamba sequence takes on the aesthetic of Music/RobZombie.

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* ArtShift: The MushroomSamba sequence takes on the aesthetic of Music/RobZombie.is literally a Music/RobZombie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqFHwSNNYw music video]].
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** They still step up to DEFCON 3, though.

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** They still step up to DEFCON 3, 4, though.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: When Beavis (on a major Cornholio trip) [[ItMakesSenseInContext calls the military on the Big Red Phone in the Oval office,]] the soldier who answers the phone is understandably confused to hear his Commander-In-Chief introducing himself as "Cornholio" and rambling incoherently about his bunghole. About five seconds into this "conversation," said soldier [[BreakingTheFourthWall looks directly at the camera]] with a "You have GOT to be kidding me" look on his face.

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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: When Beavis (on a major Cornholio trip) [[ItMakesSenseInContext calls the military on the Big Red Phone in the Oval office,]] the soldier who answers the phone is understandably confused to hear his Commander-In-Chief introducing himself as "Cornholio" and rambling incoherently about his bunghole. About five seconds into this "conversation," said soldier [[BreakingTheFourthWall looks directly at the camera]] with a "You have GOT to be kidding me" look on his face.face.
** They still step up to DEFCON 3, though.
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* AssShove: Agent Flemming is ''obsessed'' with giving people cavity searches.
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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: {{Invoked|Trope}} {{h|ehHehYouSaidX}}ard for humorous effect. The title characters star in a [[BuddyCopShow '70s-style cop show]] opening, complete with a theme song in the mode of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' (performed by none other than Isaac Hayes). As one might have guessed, the protagonists spend little of the remainder of the film [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], [[EpicBattleBoredom kicking ass]], or [[QuestForSex scoring]]...though certainly not for lack of trying.

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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: {{Invoked|Trope}} {{h|ehHehYouSaidX}}ard for humorous effect. The laughs. During the opening credits, the title characters star in a [[BuddyCopShow '70s-style cop show]] opening, complete with a theme song in the mode of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' (performed by none other than Isaac Hayes). As one might have guessed, the protagonists spend little of the remainder of the film [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], [[EpicBattleBoredom kicking ass]], or [[QuestForSex scoring]]...though certainly not for lack of trying.
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* AllJustADream: The opening sequence with the ''{{Franchise/Godzilla}}''-style fight between the boys.


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* BigDamnMovie: Double-subverted. The first scene in the movie involves a giant monster fight between the boys that turns out to be AllJustADream, at which point the boys set out to find their stolen TV...and wind up in the middle of a plot involving a biological superweapon prototype.
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* {{Bowdlerlise}}: After Sept. 11, public TV showings of this movie cut out the part where Beavis' Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Fleming calls them "masterminds."

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* {{Bowdlerlise}}: {{Bowdlerise}}: After Sept. 11, public TV showings of this movie cut out the part where Beavis' Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Fleming calls them "masterminds."
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* Bowlderlize: After Sept. 11, public TV showings of this movie cut out the part where Beavis' Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Fleming calls them "masterminds."

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* Bowlderlize: {{Bowdlerlise}}: After Sept. 11, public TV showings of this movie cut out the part where Beavis' Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Fleming calls them "masterminds."
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* WeaponofMassDestruction: The X-5 Unit & its [[Understatement deadly]] disease.

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* WeaponofMassDestruction: The X-5 Unit & its [[Understatement deadly]] disease.deadly disease which can wipe out 5 states in just 5 days.
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* WeaponofMassDestruction: The X-5 Unit & its [[Understatement deadly]] disease.
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* Bowderlize: After Sept. 11, public TV showings of this movie cut out the part where Beavis' Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Fleming calls them "masterminds."

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* Bowderlize: Bowlderlize: After Sept. 11, public TV showings of this movie cut out the part where Beavis' Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Fleming calls them "masterminds."



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

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

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* ButtMonkey: Tom Anderson, as usual. Along with Van Dreissen, who gets taken down by ATF agents in painful fashion for his connections to Beavis and Butthead.

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* ButtMonkey: Tom Anderson, as usual. Along with Van Dreissen, who gets taken down by ATF agents in painful fashion for his connections to Beavis and Butthead.Butt-Head. And, of course, there's Beavis and Butt-Head themselves.
** IronButtMonkey: Frankly, given everything that they end up going through, it's a wonder that Beavis and Butt-Head came out alive at all.



* DarkerAndEdgier: While the film still has comedic beats, the plot eventually becomes more serious than any other episode of the series. A criminal confuses Beavis and Butt-Head for a couple of hired thugs to kill his girlfriend, who ends up using Beavis' pants to hide an extremely dangerous biological weapon, which prompts the CIA to go after the duo. In numerous cases, Beavis and Butthead fell into mortal danger. (Hell, the film even featured more blatant sexuality than the entire original series combined.)
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Beavis has one in Anderson's camper.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: While the film still has comedic beats, the plot eventually becomes more serious than any other episode of the series. A criminal confuses Beavis and Butt-Head for a couple of hired thugs to kill his girlfriend, who ends up using Beavis' pants to hide an extremely dangerous biological weapon, which prompts the CIA ATF to go after the duo. In numerous cases, Beavis and Butthead fell into mortal danger. (Hell, the film even featured more blatant sexuality than the entire original series combined.)
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Beavis has one in Anderson's camper. And it's implied BOTH boys have done this in Anderson's camper and tool shed in the past.



-->'''Beavis:''' ...WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE! WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!! WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

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-->'''Beavis:''' ...WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE! WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!! WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! (Gets tackled by the angry bus driver who was trying to make him shut up)



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

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



* TemptingFate: An unwitting example. After exposition on the X-5 bio-weapon--such as its flawed casing, which could break open and release the virus if hit hard enough--Agent Fleming concludes his marching orders to his men with "Let's just pray that nothing hits that unit." [[GilliganCut Cut to a tour bus,]] where Butt-Head is repeatedly kicking Beavis in the ass--''exactly'' where Dallas hid the X-5 Unit.

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* TemptingFate: An unwitting example. After exposition on the X-5 bio-weapon--such as its flawed casing, which could break open and release the virus if hit hard enough--Agent Fleming concludes his marching orders to his men with "Let's just pray that nothing hits that unit." [[GilliganCut Cut to a tour bus,]] where Butt-Head is repeatedly kicking Beavis in the ass--''exactly'' seat of his pants--''exactly'' where Dallas hid the X-5 Unit.
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** He gets another one when he realizes that their trip to Washington ended without them scoring. His speech ends with:
-->'''Beavis:''' ...WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE! WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!! WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!


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* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: While Beavis and Butt-Head never actually destroy the world--which is ''seriously'' saying something, considering these two were carrying a dangerous bio-weapon for two-thirds of the movie--their ChaoticStupid nature leads to them inadvertently:
** Nearly crashing a jet-liner.
** Flooding the area around the Hoover Dam when they unwittingly sabotage the control system.
** Blacking out all of Las Vegas with the aforementioned Hoover Dam Fiasco.
** Causing a major traffic accident on the freeway when they do some unplanned body-surfing across the road at 60 MPH.
** Causing many witnesses who saw them in passing, along with acquaintances like Van Dreisen and Tom Anderson, to get subjected to intensive grilling by the ATF.
** Raising a panic in Washington, D.C.
** Causing repeated misfortunes for Tom Anderson, culminating in his [[spoiler: being MistakenForTerrorist]] at the end.
*** Just to reiterate...Beavis and Butt-Head had ''no freaking IDEA that they were DOING any of this, let alone that it was even HAPPENING half the time.''

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* ButtMonkey: Tom Anderson, as usual.

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* Bowderlize: After Sept. 11, public TV showings of this movie cut out the part where Beavis' Cornholio antics nearly cause a jetliner to crash. Also, instead of assuming the boys to be terrorists, Fleming calls them "masterminds."
** Though in a way, for a professional government agent to be considering [[ChaoticStupid Beavis and Butthead]] smart enough to be ''masterminds'' is pretty damn funny in and of itself.
* ButtMonkey: Tom Anderson, as usual. Along with Van Dreissen, who gets taken down by ATF agents in painful fashion for his connections to Beavis and Butthead.



* TheFool: Beavis and Butt-Head become the most wanted people in the United States, and constantly evade the nationwide manhunt without realizing it.

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* TheFool: Beavis and Butt-Head become the most wanted people in the United States, and constantly evade the nationwide manhunt without realizing ''ever realizing'' it.



** Of course, considering all the damage that Beavis and Butthead [[ChaoticStupid unwittingly cause,]] they could easily fall under this trope, as well.



* MacGuffin: The X-5 Unit, a viral bio-weapon that could wipe out five states in five days. And guess which moronic duo end up carrying it without ever realizing it?
* MacGuffinDeliveryService: Dallas Grimes plans to use the titular duo as an unwitting example, sewing the MacGuffin into Beavis' pants and telling him and Butthead to take the bus to Washington D.C., where she intends to meet them.



* MistakenForTerrorist

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* MistakenForTerroristMistakenForTerrorist: Beavis and Butthead, due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. [[spoiler: Mr. Anderson also falls into this situation at the very end.]]



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* QuestForSexQuestForSex: This ends up being Beavis and Butthead's major goal. [[BrainBleach Thankfully,]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption their success rate is pretty much the same as always in this regard.]]


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* TemptingFate: An unwitting example. After exposition on the X-5 bio-weapon--such as its flawed casing, which could break open and release the virus if hit hard enough--Agent Fleming concludes his marching orders to his men with "Let's just pray that nothing hits that unit." [[GilliganCut Cut to a tour bus,]] where Butt-Head is repeatedly kicking Beavis in the ass--''exactly'' where Dallas hid the X-5 Unit.
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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: {{Invoked|Trope}} {{h|ehHehYouSaidX}}ard for humorous effect. The title characters star in a [[BuddyCopShow '70s-style cop show]] opening, complete with a theme song in the mode of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' (performed by none other than Isaac Hayes). As one might have guessed, the protagonists spend little of the remainder of the film [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], {{kicking ass|AndTakingNames}}, or [[QuestForSex scoring]]...though certainly not for lack of trying.

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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: {{Invoked|Trope}} {{h|ehHehYouSaidX}}ard for humorous effect. The title characters star in a [[BuddyCopShow '70s-style cop show]] opening, complete with a theme song in the mode of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' (performed by none other than Isaac Hayes). As one might have guessed, the protagonists spend little of the remainder of the film [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], {{kicking ass|AndTakingNames}}, [[EpicBattleBoredom kicking ass]], or [[QuestForSex scoring]]...though certainly not for lack of trying.
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-->'''Bork:''' Oh, uh...you know that guy in-whose camper they...I-I mean, that guy often whose camper they were whacking?

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-->'''Bork:''' Oh, uh...you know that guy in-whose camper they...I-I mean, that guy often off in whose camper they were whacking?
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** Muddy and Dallas Grimes finally meet again, but Dallas charms her way into not getting Muddy to kill her by tempting him with sex. The camera is ''just'' far away enough so that you can't see their genitals touching.

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!! ''Beavis and Butt-head Do America'' contains examples of the following tropes:

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TheMovie of ''[[WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Beavis and Butt-Head]]''. After the duo wake up and find their TV stolen, they scour Highland in search of a replacement. Their quest results in the pair stumbling onto a murder-for-hire plot, a cross-country trip to Washington DC, and the federal government's most wanted list. [[{{Understatement}} You know, the usual.]]

!! ''Beavis and Butt-head Do America'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* ArtShift: The MushroomSamba sequence takes on the aesthetic of Music/RobZombie.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: {{Invoked|Trope}} {{h|ehHehYouSaidX}}ard for humorous effect. The title characters star in a [[BuddyCopShow '70s-style cop show]] opening, complete with a theme song in the mode of ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' (performed by none other than Isaac Hayes). As one might have guessed, the protagonists spend little of the remainder of the film [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]], {{kicking ass|AndTakingNames}}, or [[QuestForSex scoring]]...though certainly not for lack of trying.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Muddy and Dallas Grimes.
* BittersweetEnding: The boys don't get any money and fail to score (as usual), [[spoiler:but they do get their TV back]].
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: The boys get struck by lightning after posing as priests in a confession booth (and mistaking said booth for a portapotty). They don't even notice it.
* ButtMonkey: Tom Anderson, as usual.
* CirclingVultures: The boys, lost in the desert, see vultures circling them overhead. Even in this dire situation, the boneheads still take the time to "huh-huh!" when they see a pair of vultures "doing it".
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Muddy offers to pay the boys ten grand to "do" his wife, mistaking them for hitmen. Being [[AllMenArePerverts Beavis and]] [[FreudWasRight Butt-Head]], they have a very different idea of what he means by "do".
* 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 [[HehHehYouSaidX comments]] apply to a rich sexual history.
* CurseCutShort:
-->'''Pilot''': "Get the hell out of the cockpit!"
-->'''Butt-Head''': "Huh huh huh, you said..."
-->'''Pilot''': "NOW!"
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the film still has comedic beats, the plot eventually becomes more serious than any other episode of the series. A criminal confuses Beavis and Butt-Head for a couple of hired thugs to kill his girlfriend, who ends up using Beavis' pants to hide an extremely dangerous biological weapon, which prompts the CIA to go after the duo. In numerous cases, Beavis and Butthead fell into mortal danger. (Hell, the film even featured more blatant sexuality than the entire original series combined.)
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Beavis has one in Anderson's camper.
* DespairEventHorizon: When Beavis gives his "we're never gonna score" speech.
* DestinationDefenestration: Butthead gets thrown out the window by [[spoiler:Chelsea Clinton]] after he makes a pass at her.
* DistractedByTheSexy: When the boys lurk about the Vegas casino, they only notice the bare-breasted Egyptian statue.
* TheFool: Beavis and Butt-Head become the most wanted people in the United States, and constantly evade the nationwide manhunt without realizing it.
* FreakOut: Beavis, when the plane he and Butt-Head are on takes off.
-->'''Beavis:''' Hey, what's going on? *See plane leave the ground* AHHHHHHHHH!!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The scene where the boys see two vultures screwing in the desert. (It only lasts for a few seconds.)
** Also, the CurseCutShort mentioned above.
* HeroAntagonist: The FBI led by Agent Fleming and his assistant, Bork.
* KnightOfCerebus: Muddy and Dallas Grimes; in most of the scenes where they appear, the movie loses its comedic beats and focuses on the dramatic.
* LukeIAmYourFather: The boys meet their biological fathers while lost in the desert. Due to their complete idiocy, none of the four ever realize it.
* MindScrew[=/=]MushroomSamba: Beavis eats a peyote cactus in an attempt to prevent dehydration, but this results in a nightmare hallucination set to the tune of Music/RobZombie's "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks, and Cannibal Girls".
* MistakenForTerrorist
* PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith
-->'''Bork:''' Chief! You know that guy whose camper they were whacking off in?
-->'''Flemming:''' Bork! You are a federal agent. You represent the United States government. [[YouMakeMeSic Never end a sentence with a preposition!]]
-->'''Bork:''' Oh, uh...you know that guy in-whose camper they...I-I mean, that guy often whose camper they were whacking?
* QuestForSex
* RunningGag: Agent Fleming's obsession with giving everyone cavity searches leads up to an inevitable punchline when Butt-Head says "Did I just score?" after receiving one himself.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Muddy does what the FBI cannot and manages to track down the boys after they've passed out in the middle of the desert.
* TheVamp: Dallas uses her good looks and the boys' obvious lust to smuggle her stolen bioweapon across the country.
* WouldHurtAChild: Muddy spends about half the movie trying to hunt down and kill Beavis and Butt-Head.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: When Beavis (on a major Cornholio trip) [[ItMakesSenseInContext calls the military on the Big Red Phone in the Oval office,]] the soldier who answers the phone is understandably confused to hear his Commander-In-Chief introducing himself as "Cornholio" and rambling incoherently about his bunghole. About five seconds into this "conversation," said soldier [[BreakingTheFourthWall looks directly at the camera]] with a "You have GOT to be kidding me" look on his face.

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