Stress the second syllable of imprison.
- You cannot imprison the almighty bunghole!Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022 — 第 15 / 22 章 · 2'23" · B2
Cornholio Leads a Prison Riot, Explained：contagious
Cornholio — Beavis in his manic alter ego — demands toilet paper in custody, and the demand spreads until it's out of control. Officials can't explain him and compare him to a TV angel with a message. When the prisoners hail him as a hero, the commander orders his men to stand down and decides that hope is contagious.
あらすじ
Beavis becomes Cornholio and demands toilet paper from custody, and the request snowballs until it is out of control. An official compares Cornholio to a TV angel who always comes with a message. When the prisoners treat him as a hero, the commander orders his men to stand down. He decides hope is contagious, gives the inmates all their toilet paper, and sends the boys home by bus.
注目の表現
almightyget itin chainstouched by an angel
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このシーンの表現
contagious
spreading easily
The warden says hope itself is contagious as the inmates chant.
Laughter is contagious.
このシーンの他の表現
- almighty
all-powerful
- get it
understand
- in chains
imprisoned, enslaved
- touched by an angel
visited by a divine messenger
- unleash hell
let loose total chaos
このシーンのメモ一覧
45 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
asshole, crude — Very crude slang; never use it in polite company.
- You cannot imprison the almighty bunghole!on earth, the heck — Adds surprise or anger in casual speech; keep it informal.
begin as
It started out as a simple request for toilet paper, but now it's out of control.no longer under control
It started out as a simple request for toilet paper, but now it's out of control.Out of blends together, close to outta.
It started out as a simple request for toilet paper, but now it's out of control.no downside at all
- You have nothing to lose but your bunghole!man, person — A casual word for a person, too loose for formal writing.
- Who is this guy?the result showed
- We ran him and his associate's fingerprints, and it came back that they died in 1998.adverbial clause: The while-clause sets the condition under which no one is free.
- No man is free while one bunghole is in chains!impossible to explain
We're dealing with something here that's beyond explanation.relative clause: The that-clause describes the something they cannot explain.
We're dealing with something here that's beyond explanation.include, carry
- They always come with a message.wait ready to act
- Stand by to take down Cornholio.subdue, defeat
- Stand by to take down Cornholio.cancel the alert
- Stand down.become
This has turned into something bigger.relative clause: The clause you can do modifies thing and omits that.
He did the most dangerous thing you can do in this place.a curious point about
And there's a funny thing about hope.every bit we can get
And these days, well, I think we need all the hope we can get.Can reduces to /kən/; it is not the negative can't.
And these days, well, I think we need all the hope we can get.the one option
- The only thing we can do.in my view
And as far as I'm concerned, they were never here.take a lesson from
And with God's help, we will learn from Cornholio's message today, and we will become better men.with divine help
And with God's help, we will learn from Cornholio's message today, and we will become better men.「Cornholio Leads a Prison Riot」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene plays the boys' crudest running gag against the vocabulary of a national-security briefing, and the mismatch is the joke. Cornholio's slogan is just a demand for toilet paper, yet the officials treat it like an ideology: they compare him to 'Touched by an Angel' and search for 'a message,' and one of them calls the situation 'beyond explanation.' Then the accidental revolution is real — the prisoners copy the chant and Cornholio becomes their hero for doing 'the most dangerous thing you can do in this place.' The official's response is where the satire sharpens. Instead of crushing it, he says hope is contagious and orders the guards to hand over all the toilet paper, then has the boys put on a bus and their records destroyed. The government's solution to a prisoner revolt is to pretend it never happened.
Theme
SatireA prison's toilet-paper revolt is treated like a national-security crisis and quietly erased.
AbsurdityOfficials read deep meaning into Cornholio's nonsense chant and copy it as hope.
このチャプターで学べること
- Cornholio turns a toilet-paper demand into a revolution.
- Unleash hell sounds like war but lands as comedy here.
- The warden frames dumb chaos as a divine message.
- Hope, he says, is contagious and worth spreading.
発音のポイント
- cannot imprison — Stress the second syllable of imprison.
- out of control — Out of blends together, close to outta.
- we can get — Can reduces to /kən/; it is not the negative can't.
- No man is free while one bunghole is in chains!A parody of a famous freedom slogan, with 'bunghole' swapped in. The joke is that the high-flown language is attached to toilet humour.
- You have nothing to lose but your bunghole!Another mock-revolutionary line, echoing the language of protest. It sounds rousing until you notice what it's actually about.
It started out as a simple request for toilet paper, but now it's out of control.The official summary of how a trivial demand became a prison movement. The bureaucratic tone is what makes it funny.
We're dealing with something here that's beyond explanation.The officials admit they can't make sense of the boys. It sets up the joke that they then try to read meaning into nonsense.
He did the most dangerous thing you can do in this place.The praise for Cornholio's act, which is really just asking for toilet paper. The gap between the wording and the deed is the punchline.
And as far as I'm concerned, they were never here.The official's decision, stated as a personal policy: erase the boys from the record. It closes the scene with a wink at cover-ups.
このシーンについての質問
What does Cornholio actually want?
Toilet paper. The entire prison crisis starts as a simple demand for TP, which then spreads among the prisoners until the authorities lose control of the situation.
Why do the officials compare Cornholio to a TV angel?
Because one of them remembers Touched by an Angel, where visitors always arrive with a message. They assume Cornholio must carry some meaning, when he is only chanting about toilet paper.
Why does the commander stand down?
Because Cornholio has become a hero to the prisoners for doing the most dangerous thing possible in the place. Rather than crush the revolt, he decides hope is contagious and gives in.
What does 'contagious' mean here?
Literally it means spreading like a disease, but here it describes how hope spreads from person to person. The commander says hope is contagious and acts on it.
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