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Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022 — 第 21 / 22 章 · 2'27" · B2

Beavis and Butt-Head Drive Backwards, Explained：hang in the balance

Their car is going the wrong way down the road, and figures from another universe yell through the screen: "You only have three minutes to go through the portal." The boys barely listen, asking whether that advanced technology can show them anything they want and demanding the channel be changed.

あらすじ

Beavis and Butt-Head are speeding backwards down the street, apparently having lost their pursuers, when another universe breaks in through their screen. The message: go through the portal within three minutes or their universes are lost, and the portal now sits in their old home's half bathroom. Instead of listening, they ask if the technology can show them anything they want.

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注目の表現

field of visionhang in the balancego throughthe basis of English grammar

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このシーンの表現

hang in the balance

be at risk, undecided

The counterpart warns that both universes now depend on what the two do in three minutes.

The whole project is hanging in the balance.

このシーンの他の表現

  • field of vision

    what you can see

  • go through

    pass through; undergo

  • the basis of English grammar

    the foundation of English grammar

  • sucks

    is terrible

  • no matter

    it doesn't matter

このシーンのメモ一覧

50 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

表現 · A2go backwards

move in reverse

- The car is going backwards, Butt-Head.
表現 · A2nothing to worry about

no need to worry

Nothing to worry about, I guess.
スラング · B1What the hell

what on earth — Casual shock or annoyance; avoid it in formal settings.

- What the hell is happening?
表現 · B2field of vision

what you can see

The smart counterpart explains why the assassins drive backwards: it gives their snipers a better view.

- The East Germans train their assassination teams to drive backwards to give their snipers a better field of vision.
発音hang in the

Try running hang in the together as one unit.

Our universes hang in the balance.
表現 · B2something you can only dream of

beyond imagination

- Our universe has technology that you can only dream of.
文法 · B2that you can only dream of

relative clause: The that-clause describes the technology; the preposition stays at the end.

- Our universe has technology that you can only dream of.
発音dream of

Practice linking dream of as one smooth sound.

- Our universe has technology that you can only dream of.
表現 · B2everything you can ever imagine

all you can picture

- Every scenario you can ever imagine.
表現 · A2go through something

pass through

- But none of it will exist if you do not go through the portal.
表現 · B1the basis of something

the foundation of

- You could have saved the universe and maybe learned how Latin is the basis of English grammar.
文法 · B2could have saved

past unreal: Could have done marks a past chance that was missed, with a hint of blame.

- You could have saved the universe and maybe learned how Latin is the basis of English grammar.
表現 · B1no matter

it doesn't matter

After scolding them, the counterpart waves it off and announces the portal has been moved again.

- But no matter. At great personal expense, we have moved the portal again.
表現 · B2at great expense

at a heavy cost

- But no matter. At great personal expense, we have moved the portal again.
表現 · B2poorly renovated

badly fixed up

It is now in your old home, in the poorly renovated half bathroom.
表現 · B2seal itself

close on its own

- Enter now so the portal might seal itself, and you will return to a universe where you never went through the black hole but instead lived your lives these past 24 years.
文法 · B2so the portal might seal itself

purpose clause: The so-clause states the purpose: letting the portal close itself.

- Enter now so the portal might seal itself, and you will return to a universe where you never went through the black hole but instead lived your lives these past 24 years.
表現 · A2pretty + adjective

quite cool

They seem pretty cool, though.
表現 · A2not too bad

not bad at all

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, not too bad, really.
表現 · A2change the channel

switch channels

Change the channel, Butt-Head, come on, right now.
表現 · B1tell someone what to do

order someone around

- Don't tell me what to do.
スラング · B2hit 'em

hit them — Cheering or rough play between friends; very informal.

- Yeah, yeah, hit 'em, hit 'em again.
表現 · A1there is no time

no time left

- There is no time.

「Beavis and Butt-Head Drive Backwards」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene runs two registers at once: a cosmic emergency and a pair of idiots watching TV. The visitors deliver the stakes in grand language — "Our universes hang in the balance," "There is no time" — and then explain the sci-fi gadget, which the boys reduce to one crude question. The film's joke is that the answer is yes, "an infinite amount," so the universe-saving offer turns into a subscription instead. Even the Latin-lesson guilt trip ("You could have saved the universe") bounces off them entirely. What they actually want is the channel changed, and the visitors' plea — "But none of it will exist if you do not go through the portal" — is the only line that registers at all. Then it's back to the chase, with a stop sign they ignore.

Theme

AbsurdityA universe-saving mission is reduced to whether the advanced technology can show them what they want, and they'd rather change the channel.
SatireTwo idiots are offered a cosmic rescue and treat it as bad television, mocking the sci-fi stakes the film sets up.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Hang in the balance means the outcome is still open.
  • Field of vision is the range you can see.
  • Sucks is blunt, casual and mildly vulgar.
  • A standalone no matter drops the complaint and moves on.

発音のポイント

  • hang in the — Try running hang in the together as one unit.
  • dream of — Practice linking dream of as one smooth sound.
- Our universe has technology that you can only dream of.

The visitors' boast about their advanced world, right before the boys reduce it to one crude question.

- You could have saved the universe and maybe learned how Latin is the basis of English grammar.

A guilt trip loaded with an educational bonus, aimed at the boys' wasted chance — and flying straight over their heads.

- But no matter. At great personal expense, we have moved the portal again.

The visitors shrug off the insult and reveal they've relocated the portal, framing it as a costly sacrifice.

- The East Germans train their assassination teams to drive backwards to give their snipers a better field of vision.

A spy-movie explanation for the boys' backwards driving, delivered as if it were established tradecraft.

You only have three minutes to go through the portal.

The deadline that drives the scene: a countdown the boys ignore while they argue about the TV.

- Enter now so the portal might seal itself, and you will return to a universe where you never went through the black hole but instead lived your lives these past 24 years.

The offer of a do-over life without the black hole, explaining the film's time-skip premise, and the boys' last real chance.

- We almost got 'em, Butt-Head, hurry.

The boys treating the chase as a game they're winning, with the portal deadline barely registering.

このシーンについての質問

Why are the visitors so desperate for the boys to enter the portal?

Their universes "hang in the balance" and the boys have only three minutes to go through. The visitors believe the portal must seal itself once they're through, or their reality is lost.

Where is the portal now?

The visitors say they moved it at great personal expense. It now sits in the boys' old home, in the half bathroom that was poorly renovated.

What do the boys care about instead of saving the universe?

They ask whether the advanced technology can show them something they want, then complain that the program is boring and demand the channel be changed.

What happens after the boys ignore the warning?

They keep driving backwards and dodging their pursuers. One of them spots a stop sign, but they fly on anyway, heading toward Woodson Street.

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