History WesternAnimation / BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica

** Beavis and Butt-Head themselves qualify. While they were ultimately unwitting pawns in Dallas and Muddy's schemes, they still cause massive property damage over the course of their journey and their antics get the completely innocent Tom Anderson arrested. Despite it all, they're hailed as heroes and walk home at the end no worse for wear.

* PrisonersDilemma: When Flemming catches both Muddy and Dallas, he puts this deal on them. Whoever gives him the information on the X5 Unit's location will get a lighter sentence, while the other will get 60 years in prison. Muddy refuses to cooperate, only to have Dallas backstab him immediately afterward, tell the ATF the unit is in Beavis' pants, and make it seem as though Muddy was behind everything.

** Beavis and Butt-Head themselves qualify. While they were ultimately unwitting pawns in Dallas' and Muddy's schemes, they still cause a lot of massive property damage over the course of their journey and their antics get the completely innocent Tom Anderson arrested, but they still get to walk home at the end no worse for wear.

** Zig-zagged in the Vegas montage, which features an intensely funky cover of Rollercoaster of Love by Music/TheRedHotChiliPeppers over footage of Beavis and Butthead living it up in a casino. The dissonance only occurs if you look at the scene beyond what the title duo are doing, which shows the casino's other visitors to almost exclusively be elderly people mindlessly playing slot machines and the band performing the song in-universe to be a bunch of schlubby middle-aged men in tacky powder-blue playing in front of an almost-empty crowd of incredibly bored-looking people.

* SoundtrackDissonance: {{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.

* HeroAntagonist: The ATF led by Agent Flemming and his assistant, Bork.

* AbsenteeActor: While the film strives to include as many show characters as it can, Stewart, Todd and Buzzcut weren't able to make the cut.

* PrecisionFStrike: Actually Precision GD-Strike since ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' is a TV-14 show from TheNineties back when saying "goddamn" was forbidden on TV unless the show was TV-MA. This movie shows that the show is edgier on the silver screen with characters saying "goddamn" three times.

In February 2021, a sequel, ''Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe'', was announced for Creator/ParamountPlus.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Done intentionally with the subplot regarding Muddy Grimes and his wife. Grimes mistakes the pair for hitmen and offers them $10,000 to "do" his wife -- that is, kill her (which is what "doing someone" originally meant). Beavis and Butt-Head, meanwhile interpret it as a request to have sex with her, resulting in them taking the job.

In February 2021, a sequel, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, was announced for Paramount+.

'''Beavis:''' Yeah, ir really sucks.

'''Beavis:''' Yeah, this sucks.

'''Flemming:''' Bork! You are a federal agent. You represent the United States government. [[YouMakeMeSic Never end a sentence with a preposition!]]\\

The film was theatrically released on December 20, 1996 to critical and commercial success, grossing $63 million at the United States box office. It held the largest December opening weekend until a year later with ''Film/Scream2''.

* AbsenteeActor: While the movie strives to include as many characters from the show as it can, Stewart, Todd, and Buzzcut weren't able to make the cut.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Beavis is shown to be the slightly smarter one of the duo in this version, instead of Butt-Head. He is depicted as a GeniusDitz while Butt-Head is mostly useless.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Lots of viewers at the time assumed "Lesbian Seagull" was a joke song recorded for the movie. It actually predates both the movie ''and'' the show by quite a while, having been recorded in 1979.

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

* AntiClimax: After the X-5 Unit lands in Butt-Head's hand, everybody starts backing away from him, evidently thinking he's about to try something desperate. Butt-Head, blissfully unaware that everyone sees him as a menace, simply turns and hands it over to Flemming.
-->'''Butt-Head''': Uh, here you go.

-->'''Agent Flemming''': Don't stop 'till you reach the back of his teeth!

* CharacterCheck: Because of looser censorship standards on the big screen, Beavis gets to say his AbandonedCatchphrase "Fire!" in the movie.

-->'''Pilot''': Get the hell out of the cockpit!\\
'''Butt-Head''': Huh huh huh, you said...\\
'''Pilot''': NOW!

* 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.

* {{Facepalm}}: Dallas does this and laughs when she realizes the pair aren't actually assassins and are just stupid teenagers trying to "score" with her.

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

--> '''Agent Bork:''' Chief, you know that guy whose camper they were whacking off in?\\
'''Agent Flemming:''' Bork, you're a federal agent. You represent the United States government. Never end a sentence with a preposition.\\

-->'''Muddy:''' AGGGGGHHHH! GODDAMN IT! She did it to me again!
-->'''Beavis:''' Is this a god dam? [[DontExplainTheJoke You know]]. Goddamn.

* PrecisionFStrike: Actually Precision GD-Strike since ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' is a TV-14 show from TheNineties back when saying "goddamn" was forbidden on TV unless the show was TV-MA. This movie shows that the show is edgier on the silver screen with characters saying "goddamn" three times.
-->'''Muddy:''' AGGGGGHHHH! GODDAMN IT! She did it to me again!
-->'''Beavis:''' Is this a god dam? [[DontExplainTheJoke You know]]. Goddamn.

* PrecisionFStrike: Actually Precision GD-Strike since ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' is a TV-14 show from The90s back when saying "goddamn" was forbidden on TV unless the show was TV-MA. This movie shows that the show is edgier on the silver screen with characters saying "goddamn" three times.

* ShootTheTelevision: See above.

* DefconFive: Zig-Zagged. When Beavis-as-Cornholio is in the Oval Office, the person at the Defense Control Center gets worried and opts to go from DEFCON V to IV (since they have no idea what's going on). While everyone in the White House is gently evacuated, the people in the Defense Control Center go into a panic with red lights flashing and klaxon going off.

* RealityEnsues:
** The dim pair [[TooDumbToLive walk into the friggin' Mojave Desert]]. Without a drop of water or any kind of map or compass. Sure enough, they start to succumb to heatstroke.
** Beavis starts to hallucinate, by way of a [[Music/RobZombie White Zombie]] video. Episodes of hallucination are a distinct symptom of heatstroke and heat exhaustion. Hallucinations are also a byproduct of peyote, which is likely the type of cactus that Beavis eats part of.

Guest stars providing voices for the film included Creator/BruceWillis and Creator/DemiMoore (double-crossing OutlawCouple Muddy and Dallas Grimes), Creator/RobertStack (Agent Flemming of the FBI, leading the hunt for our heroes), and Creator/ClorisLeachman (the old lady on the tour bus that B&B somehow keep encountering).