Chapter 17 of 22 · 4'15"
The boys come home to find their house renovated and listed for sale, with a realtor eager to show it. They keep asking where Serena is and learn there's no smart home system — "There's no Siri here" — so the girl they thought they had is exposed as a voice assistant. Then they turn on each other.
❝ Monologue · 4 lines I Thought We Had Something
You've Just Crossed a Line
Beavis and Butt-Head return to their old house and find it completely renovated and on the market. A realtor, Anita Ross, offers them a tour and explains the owner bought it to flip. The boys ask for Serena, but the house has no smart home system and no Siri — she was a phone assistant, not a person. They start blaming each other and get thrown out.
The house isn't just changed; it's been flipped, scrubbed of the life the boys knew. The realtor's pitch is all sales language — "the current owner bought the property to flip" — but the scene's real engine is what the boys think they lost. They're not mourning a family home so much as a promise: Serena was supposed to be here. "She's never lied to us before," one says, and the realtor's response — no smart home system, no Siri — reveals the whole misunderstanding. The girl they both imagined competing for was a voice in a phone. What follows is the friendship's usual pattern: blame, insults, and a fight. "Beavis, you've just crossed a line," one declares before going after the other, and the realtor's aside that this can be "an emotional decision for a couple" lands as accidental, perfect irony.
A1–C2 is the CEFR scale. Cards above the level you pick fade, and playback will not auto-pause on them.
“Anyway, you won't believe what happened to Shirley Beavis when her son died in space.”
The casual setup promises a wild story about a mother after her son's death.
Informal
“She's never lied to us before.”
His faith in a girl he never really had is both funny and oddly sad.
Neutral
“I thought we had something.”
Five plain words carry the whole sting of a one-sided crush.
Informal
“We were supposed to score!”
He says it like a broken promise, turning a sleazy plan into a grievance.
Informal
“I would have scored if you hadn't scared her off with all your wuss feelings talk.”
A perfect counterfactual built to pin the blame on someone else.
Informal
“Beavis, you've just crossed a line.”
It names the moment a joke stops being funny and a fight becomes inevitable.
Neutral
“I'm tired of you weighing me down.”
'Weighing me down' turns a partner into dead weight he plans to leave behind.
Informal
What happened, Butt-Head? She promised she was gonna be here. And now she's not. I thought we had something.
Up next · 18play dumbThe scene: Beavis & Butt-Head Mistaken for AliensThe current owner bought the property to flip it — the house sat empty for a long time after it belonged to Shirley Beavis, the mother of one of the teens who died in the shuttle accident. Now it's renovated and on the market.
It belonged to Shirley Beavis, Beavis's mother, which is the connection the realtor is trying to sell with the house. A new owner then bought and renovated it to resell.
The boys keep asking for Serena, and she assumes they mean a smart home system. She explains the house has no smart system and no Siri, revealing they've mistaken a phone voice assistant for a real girl.
Each blames the other for scaring Serena off — Butt-Head calls Beavis a wuss for his feelings talk, while Beavis says Butt-Head drove her away. It escalates until they get thrown out.
