Beavis barging into the cockpit screaming "I AM CORNHOLIO!" and nearly crashing the plane was funny in 1996, not quite so funny after 9/11.Bruce Willis and Demi Moore play Muddy and Dallas Grimes, a husband-and-wife criminal duo.If they knew the X-5 Unit was capable of killing millions, there's a good chance they would've detonated it. Fridge Horror: Beavis and Butt-Head's love of bombs, explosions and similar forms of chaos, is well-documented in the series.After the boys sneak into confessionals and actually take confessions from churchgoers, they walk outside and get struck by lightning.Beavis's peyote-induced hallucination in the desert.Red Hot Chili Peppers' cover of The Ohio Players' " Love Rollercoaster "." Two Cool Guys ", the film's theme song In the Style of Shaft.Not only is the music amazing, but the contrast between the doofy humor and the dead-serious music is hilarious. At the suggestion of Elmer Bernstein, John Frizzell scored (huh huh) the movie as if it were a straight action-drama a 'la Bernstein's score for Airplane!.Award Snub: "Two Cool Guys" wasn't nominated for Best Song at the Academy Awards.It actually predates both the film and the show by nearly two decades, having been recorded in 1979 by Tom Wilson Weinberg. Aluminum Christmas Trees: Lots of viewers at the time assumed "Lesbian Seagull" was a joke song created for the project.However, it's also possible that Butthead assumed Beavis figured out the obvious too. Alternative Character Interpretation: Butthead's summary of "This Sucks" when the TV is stolen is likely Failed a Spot Check.Adaptation Displacement: While the show is by no means obscure, the movie gets rerun more frequently than any standalone episodes and is typically most non-fans' first exposure to Beavis and Butt-Head as a result.
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