Synopsis

When their beloved television disappears, Beavis and Butt-Head set out across America to recover it. Their search leads them into a bizarre cross-country adventure involving mistaken identities, government agents, desert hallucinations, and a criminal scheme they barely understand. Along the way, their single-minded pursuit of television, trouble, and sex accidentally turns them into national heroes.

Factoids & Trivia

• Development began as a proposed live-action movie, with David Spade and Adam Sandler reportedly considered for the title roles. The project became animated after Mike Judge objected to the live-action approach.

• MTV had previously approached Judge about adapting the series for the big screen, but he initially turned down the idea. Production on the television series was later paused while Judge and Joe Stillman worked on the screenplay.

• The animation was produced by Rough Draft Korea, whose work helped expand the show's intentionally crude television style into a feature-length production.

• The film opened in the United States on December 20, 1996, with a $20.1 million weekend. It earned approximately $63.1 million domestically against a reported $12 million budget.

• The opening weekend set a December box-office record, which the film held until Scream 2 surpassed it in 1997.

• The movie's use of AC/DC's "Gone Shootin'" contains an in-joke connected to the television series: Mike Judge later acknowledged that the show's familiar guitar-theme riff was based on the song's guitar solo played backward.

• David Letterman provided the voice of the Motley Crue roadie credited as Earl Hofert, an alias used for his appearance.

• The film's soundtrack combined alternative rock, metal, and punk performers, including Red Hot Chili Peppers, White Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Rollins Band, reinforcing the music-video culture central to the original series.