Can we put the TV back on?” Butt-Head: “Yeah, but something cool this time, ’cause that show sucked.” Beavis: “Yeah, really. Greeting this news with triumphantly obtuse indifference, Beavis says, “I think we’re all thinking the same thing here. They couldn’t care less about the wonders of space, the awesome Shuttle telescope (peering through it, Beavis says, “All I see is, like, nighttime or something”), or the fact that when the ship’s delicate rendezvous with the space station Mir destroys everything in sight, they’re told by mission control that there’s only enough oxygen left for five of the seven crew members. They, however, are convinced that she wants them to “score” with her that’s the only thing on their awesomely primitive one-track minds.
It’s 1998, and their group is led by Serena (Andrea Savage), commander of the Endeavour, who after seeing our heroes demonstrate a docking maneuver as if it were something out of a porn film - she thinks they’re showing what dedicated student engineers they are - chooses them to join her on the Space Shuttle crew. Following a digital prelude that wittily parodies the climax of “Star Wars,” the two lay waste to the Highland High School Science Fair they’re then sentenced, by a philanthropic judge, to spend eight weeks at Space Camp.
But for all the tongue-in-butt-cheek quantum gamesmanship on display, it’s really a time machine of nostalgia, one that finds Beavis and Butt-Head very much their old familiar blitzed and big-haired metal-T-shirted selves, still unable to see what’s right in front of them after all these years. “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe” is a time-tripping sci-fi burlesque that features the Space Shuttle Endeavour and wormholes and a multiverse.
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