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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

★ 6.6 · 776 ratings on TMDB

Coming to a screen bigger than your TV.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America poster★ 6.6

Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.

DirectorMike Judge
CastBruce Willis, Cloris Leachman, Demi Moore, Eric Bogosian, Jacqueline Barba, Kristofor Brown
GenresAdventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing culture, authority, consumerism, misunderstanding, violence.

zero-distanceUScultureauthorityconsumerismmisunderstandingviolence
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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