| abstract | - The film opens with a surreal dream; Butt-head is now "Butt-Kong" , and he battles the fire-breathing "Beaviszilla" . This was revealed to be Butt-head's dream, which Beavis wakes him from. Beavis explains that their TV has been stolen in the night. Attempting to analyze the situation from the differences in the house, looking at a broken windows, muddy footprints leading to the TV, Butt-Head then simply claims to have figured out that the scenario "sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before", and that they must "find this butt-hole that took [their] TV". The film opens with a 70s cop theme (song by the late Isaac Hayes). After a 70's-esque opening, Beavis and Butt-head begin searching for the television. Butt-head suggests that they check Highland High. The duo decide to steal a TV from the AV club room, only to be stopped by Mr. Van Driessen. Beavis and Butt-Head told him that their TV got stolen, about which Mr. Van Driessen wasn't sympathetic. Instead, he unsuccessfully tried to make them understand that it could be a good thing for the boys which could lead to them being more open to life experience and that they should forget about TV. Beavis and Butt-Head laugh at him. They leave Mr. Van Driessen to go out the front door, and accidentally drop the TV off the A/V cart down the front steps, destroying the TV, much to Beavis' dismay. Principal McVicker sees this as he's walking out the door, and expels the boys, who then wander off to find another TV set. The duo come across Tom Anderson's new camper, which Tom's wife Marcy kindly lets them into after they say they're "here to fix the TV". They start watching the camper's TV, and Beavis helped himself to a cola, which wasn't cold, so Beavis spit the cola out onto the TV, destroying it. Marcy tells Tom Anderson that the two are here to fix the TV, to which he replies, "The TV ain't broken!". Butt-Head then responds, "Uhh, yeah it is!". Tom then asked, "Aren't you them two kids that've been whackin' off in my toolshed?", not having fully recognized the two for their previous shenanigans. Beavis and Butthead hide their laugh, which implies that they're the culprits. Later, they find a motel lineup which advertised "full-color TV". They approach the complex, barging into doors, interrupting McVicker's X-rated session, they find the open room of Muddy Grimes (Bruce Willis), who, in a drunken state, believes that the two are hitmen that he just hired. He offers them to "do" his wife, Dallas (Demi Moore), who left him with nothing. Butt-Head misconstrues "do" (murder-job) with "do" (intercourse), so they gladly comply. Beavis refuses at first until Butthead convinces him that they could easily buy a new, big-screen TV with their would-be earnings. The next morning, Muddy books the two on a plane to Las Vegas, and drunk-drives Beavis and Butt-Head to the Highland airport, asking them to retrive a leather satchel. On the plane, they meet an old woman named Martha (Cloris Leachman), who Beavis believes to be a slut. The plane takes off, and Beavis gets ahold of Martha's "No-Drowz" pills, becoming "Cornholio" once more. Beavis then barges into the cockpit, scaring the living daylights out of the pilots who accidentally spin the plane out of control as a result. . They land in Las Vegas, where a limo driver with a sign that says "Mr. Beavis and Mr. Butt-Head" catches their attention and then informs them that they have a limo waiting. They arrive at a casino, dancing the night away. Meanwhile, back at Highland, the Moving Men who were the actual hitmen Muddy had really hired, who had stolen Beavis and Butthead's TV, finally show up at Muddy's hotel room. Muddy realizes that the two kids, Beavis and Butthead, weren't hitmen at all, so he heads to Vegas to kill his wife and the duo. The next morning, after receiving a hotel room Muddy booked for them next to Dallas Grimes' room, Beavis and Butt-Head come across Dallas, Muddy's aforementioned wife. Dallas plants a dangerous biological warfare agent, known only as the "X-5 Unit", in Beavis's shorts after the boys reveal that "this drunk dude" sent them to "do" her for ten grand. She understands that the boys thought that by "do her", they thought that their task was to fornicate with her. Dallas proceeds to manipulate the two, promising that they can score with her if they meet her in DC. She books them a "DreamAmerica" tour bus, and sends them off. Dallas is later interrogated by Agent Flemming, ATF (Robert Stack of "Airplane!" fame). He and his sidekick Bork can only legally hold her for a short time, so they let her go after realizing that she won't tell them anything. Meanwhile, Beavis and Butt-Head discover that Martha and her husband Jim are on the bus, and they make a visit to the Hoover Dam. The boys enter the Hoover Dam's control room, and carelessly play with and scratch their butts on all the controls, which causes the system to go awry, destroying the Hoover Dam. Nearby, Tom and his wife are washed away from the dam by the excessive force of the water. Back at the ATF building, Flemming explains the extremely dangerous nature of the highly sensitive X-5 unit, which will activate if it is hit at any forceful velocity. The agents discover an elevator-security snapshot of Beavis and Butt-Head. Then, they discover that Beavis and Butt-Head destroyed the Hoover Dam, which Flemming believed that they did to cut the power to get away. Flemming dubs them "the most dangerous men in America", and sends out the fullest possible search for them after also discovering that they came from Dallas's room. The duo and the seniors make trips all around the US, Flemming and Bork ever-so closer to catching the "crooks". The bus stops at "Old Faithful" geyser, and one of the tour guides recognizes Beavis and Butt-Head passing by on foot. He calls in Flemming, who sends out a head-hunt of SWATs after the giggling boys. At the geyser, the boys board the wrong bus—a bus full of nuns instead of the Dream America bus. They semi-befriend the ladies, and mess around in the church's "port-o-potties" (confessionals). Just before the boys were about to board the bus, the bus is struck by a random, inexplicable bolt of lightning (implying that God wasn't happy with their church shenanigans). They are ditched by the nuns at the Petrified Forest, they ask a civilian how far away Washington DC, who points toward the general direction of DC and says it's "about 2,000 miles that way". The two take the man's advice, and proceed to walk straight through the vast desert wilderness to DC. Meanwhile, Tom ran into the ATF. The ATF showed the picture of the boys to Tom, who recognized them. Because Tom knew them, the ATF begin searching his camper. Later, Flemming and Bork head to Highland when they got a report of Cornholio from the airport. When the ATF got to Highland, they raid Beavis's and Butthead's home and the hotel room in which Muddy was staying. They later raid Highland High School and begin questioning the school faculty about the boys. When Flemming questioned Van Driessen about the boys, he didn't answer Flemming's question. The ATF knock out Van Driessen and they take him into custody. Flemming yells at principal McVicker for harboring two criminal masterminds. The rest of the students get cavity-searched, as a result of Flemming's insistence on maximum possible thoroughness in their search for the duo. Beavis and Butthead, still traveling through the desert, come across two old guys, appearing with near-exact resemblances to them. These men are revealed later by Flemming to be ex-Mötley Crüe roadies/drifters who are also, through forensic DNA analysis, reviealed to be Beavis and Butt-Head's biological fathers. Butt-Head's dad (David Letterman, falsely credited as "Earl Hofert") even shows off a trick involving a fart and a campfire. Beavis and Butt-Head, however, never become aware that they were their fathers. Since that point Beavis and Butthead have fallen asleep, and the two older men have left. The duo continues walking until they become so exhausted that have to crawl, only a half-mile from the highway. Beavis eats a deserted peyote cactus because he is almost certain that cacti contain water. Having eaten the peyote cactus sends him into a hallucinogenic trip, and the two fall asleep again. Muddy finds them the next morning, but before he can kill them, they reveal that they only need to go to DC to "do" her. Muddy locks them in his trunk, and sets off to DC. They find an old jack in the trunk, which they humorously play with which causes the trunk to be force open, and the two accidentally fall out onto the freeway street. The driver of an 18-wheeler swerves to miss the two, which causes the truck to tip over onto its side, blocking any and all traffic on the road cause a traffic pileup as more and more cars crash into the wrecked semi. Muddy travels to DC, not knowing that the two are no longer in his trunk. Flemming and Bork see Beavis and Butt-head on the news broadcast about the highway disaster and they realize that the two are heading to Washington DC. Beavis and Butt-Head are reunited with the Dream America tour bus, and much later arrive in DC where Dallas sees the boys and parks her car, intently trying to meet up with them and to recover the weapon until Muddy shows up. They arrive at the White House after the Capitol (where they announce over the PA system that "they're ready to score" with the "chick with big boobs" after the secretary leaves the two with her announcement microphone still active). Beavis becomes upset with, and makes a demoralized, hopeless rant on the bus about the fact that the two have traveled 100 miles thinking they were going to score but they haven't yet, and probably never will score. The bus driver unsuccessfully tells Beavis to shut up, and then knocks some sense into him because he still doesn't. Later, Beavis drinks a large amount of coffee and eats a cupful of sugar cubes, and once again becomes Cornholio, disrupting the US in the Oval Office, accesses the president's phone and sets the nation to Defcon 4. He wanders off in a group of foreigners, and ends up "whackin'" in Anderson's camper with a small photo of Dallas. Butt-Head, alone in the white house, comes across the room of Chelsea Clinton and awkwardly attempts flirtation, which causes him to be defenestrated from her window. He is then immediately surrounded by the SWATs and Flemming, resulting in him getting a "deep and hard" cavity-search from Agent Hurley, which makes Butt-Head think he just scored. Beavis/Cornholio is thrown from Tom Anderson's camper, and, without shorts and in underwear, parades back and forth down the road in front of the SWAT's readily armed firing squad. Just before Flemming is going to give the squad the command to fire, Tom Anderson jumps out of the camper in anger/shock, with Beavis's pants that the agents know contain the X-5 Unit, in his grasp. An ATF agent lunges and tries to yank the pants from Anderson's hold, haphazardly grabbing the pants, but, unfortunately manages to rip the pants, sending the X-5 Unit soaring through the air to the shocking, fear-ridden suspense of the ATF squad surrounding them. The unit lands safely in Butt-Head's barely extended hand. Knowing absolutely nothing about the object he's holding, kindly hands it to an ATF agent. The agents, now having secured the unit, then celebrate the relief of the security of the nation. The agents and Flemming arrest Tom and throw him in the back of an armored SWAT van with the previously-arrested Muddy and Dallas when the squad find a picture of Dallas in Tom's camper, with the belief that Tom is an accomplice of Muddy and Dallas, who they believed were trying to frame Beavis and Butt-head. Flemming apologises to Beavis & Butt-Head and admits that he was wrong about them and their actions will remain top secret. Beavis & Butt-Head are escorted by Flemming to the office of Bill Clinton, Beavis and Butthead are sad seeing him, who officially announces them ATF agents, they become ecstatic to be in the bureau of "beer, cigarettes, FIRE-arms, and chicks". Their plane lands back in Highland, and, while walking home, they were not happy that they didn't score and they didn't get any money, however, they found their stolen TV. They walk back to their house with it, insulting each other with rude names. Beavis exclaims his need to stop in Anderson's tool shed, in a reference to "whackin'" once more.
- After arriving in their Vegas casino where they are staying, the boys get arrested by security after being mistaken for trespassers and then they are taken to their rooms. Their room was purchased by Muddy to be adjacent to the room of the hunted woman, Dallas Grimes and they accidentally burst in. Dallas soon realizes they have no idea what they have been hired for. While Beavis and Butt-head begin fighting over who will "do" Dallas first, the police arrive to arrest her. Thinking quickly, she plants a stolen biological weapon known as the "X-5 Unit" in Beavis' pants in order to get rid of it. She then gets them tickets on a bus to Washington, D.C. instructing them that she will be waiting for them in the United States Capitol and will let them "do her" there. The stolen biological weapon attracts the attention of the ATF, headed by Agent Flemming who orders a body cavity search on everyone he encounters and in spite of his tough talk, relies on fellow Agent Bork's assistance virtually all the time. Flemming becomes convinced that the duo are criminal masterminds after they accidentally release the water behind Hoover Dam, cutting the power to Las Vegas. On the tour bus, they visit landmarks including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park. After becoming stranded in a gift shop at Petrified Forest National Park, they are told Washington is "about 2000 miles that way" and begin to wander through the desert. Then a security guard admits that he let them go because he was afraid of them, Agent Hurley then gives him a cavity search, Flemming then sends out roadblocks for over 200 miles over every road in the desert. They soon meet two men who are implied to be their fathers, but part ways before they can make the kinship connection. During the trek across the desert, they soon begin to die of dehydration. Delirious from the heat, Beavis unwittingly consumes a peyote cactus, and has a vidid psychedelic experience overnight. The next day, Beavis and Butt-head are found by Muddy, who plans to kill them after realizing they were not the hit men he hired. However, after hearing that Dallas is going to meet up with the duo in D.C., Muddy decides to take them the rest of the way in his trunk to hunt down Dallas. In the middle of I-81 in Virginia, Butt-Head opens the trunk with a car jack, and they escape by jumping onto the road, causing an 18-wheeler to swerve off the road, resulting in a huge, 400-car pileup. Beavis and Butt-head casually walk past the scene and get back on the tour bus, stopping at the United States Capitol Building before finally reaching the White House. Before Dallas can meet with Beavis and Butt-Head to recover the weapon, she is confronted in the parking garage by Muddy. Muddy and Dallas then briefly reconcile before they are arrested by the ATF while having sex in Muddy's car. Faced with the possibility of a 60-year jail sentence, Dallas betrays Muddy by saying that he hid the weapon "in some kid's pants" but she still gets the sentence. The ATF is dispatched to the White House due to Beavis and Butt-Head being there on the same day as the "Give Peace A Chance" conference. Beavis consumes caffeine pills (following a fight with the bus driver), sugar and coffee while on the White House tour, then transforms into Cornholio. He wanders around the White House and picks up the red phone in the Oval Office, causing the military to go to DEFCON 4. Meanwhile, Butt-head wanders around the White House where he runs into Chelsea Clinton; his attempts at hitting on her lead to him being pushed out of a window where he is detained and cavity searched by ATF officers. Beavis leaves the White House and goes inside Mr. Anderson's trailer. Moments later, Anderson catches Beavis "whacking off" and angrily throws him out of the trailer. The ATF spots Beavis walking around the camper pants-less and confront him, thinking he has the weapon on him. They are just about to open fire when Anderson opens his camper door, telling Beavis to take his pants with him, which causes the ATF to go after the pants. The pants are ripped open, with the weapon flying out of them. The weapon, landing safely in Butt-Head's hand, is recovered; Butt-head simply hands it to Flemming. Blame for the incident is ultimately pinned on Anderson, who is arrested along with Dallas and Muddy. Agent Flemming informs Beavis and Butt-Head that their adventure will remain top secret. Beavis and Butt-head are shown seeing President Bill Clinton, who then makes Beavis and Butt-head honorary ATF agents. The boys are ecstatic by the news thinking that they're now in the "Bureau of beer and FIRE!! And maybe chicks too!!" Beavis and Butt-head return to Highland and find their TV in front of the motel. The film ends with them carrying their TV into the sunset while insulting each other, then Beavis suggests going to Anderson's tool shed to masturbate.
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