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Beavis Tries to Say I Love You, Explained:score

Beavis works up the nerve to ask how you know you're in love, gets called a wuss, and pretends he said nothing. Later he calls the phone's voice assistant, Serena, to confess — "I've never said this to any girl before" — but the signal drops before he can finish, and Butt-Head starts hunting for the missing phone.

あらすじ

Beavis nervously asks Butt-Head how you know when you're in love, then backs off when Butt-Head mocks him. Alone, he reaches the voice assistant on the phone — Serena — and tries to confess, but the connection fails and the call is lost. Butt-Head suspects he's talking to Serena and makes him fish the phone out of the toilet.

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never mindwuss-assson of a bitchyou better be

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このシーンの表現

score

to hook up; get lucky

Butt-Head calls the phone hunt a mission to score, as if it were about picking someone up.

He thinks he'll score if he keeps texting her.

このシーンの他の表現

  • never mind

    forget it; drop it

  • wuss-ass

    cowardly; wimpy

  • son of a bitch

    a contemptible person

  • you better be

    you had better be

  • tradecraft

    spy techniques; know-how

このシーンのメモ一覧

58 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B1have a conversation with someone

talk with someone

I had a conversation with this chick one time.
表現 · A2how do you know (when / if) something

how can you tell

And so, um, I was wondering, um, how do you know when you're like, in love?
表現 · A2be in love (with someone)

romantically in love

And so, um, I was wondering, um, how do you know when you're like, in love?
発音when you're

You're is often reduced to /jər/.

And so, um, I was wondering, um, how do you know when you're like, in love?
スラング · B2wuss-ass

wimp — Mocking between friends, too crude for formal talk.

- What wuss-ass thing did you just say, Beavis?
表現 · A2go ahead and do something

go ahead and do it

I'll just go ahead and get that from you.
表現 · B1good to hear your voice / good to see you

nice to hear from you

- It's good to hear your voice.
表現 · A2think about someone

thinking of you

And then, um, and then I was thinking about you and me.
表現 · B1know what someone is talking about

what I mean

- You know what I'm talking about though, right?
表現 · A2start with something

begins with

You know, it's a word that starts with an L, I think, or something, I mean, maybe you could say it first.
文法 · B1a word that starts with an L

relative clause: The that-clause describes which word he means without naming it.

You know, it's a word that starts with an L, I think, or something, I mean, maybe you could say it first.
表現 · B1have trouble doing something

having difficulty doing it

- Sorry, I'm having trouble connecting to the network.
発音connecting to the

Connecting to blends into one run, with to reduced.

- Sorry, I'm having trouble connecting to the network.
表現 · B1you better not be doing something

should not be doing it

You better not be talking to Serena in there.
文法 · B1You better not be talking

negative progressive: The progressive pins the warning to an action happening right now.

You better not be talking to Serena in there.
スラング · B2spanking my monkey

masturbating — Very crude slang, only among close friends.

- No, no, I'm just spanking my monkey.
スラング · B1dumbass

idiot — An insult for someone stupid, often teasing between friends.

- You dumbass.
表現 · B1be covered with something

covered in something

Now get it before it gets all covered with turds.
文法 · B1before it gets all covered

time clause: The before-clause uses a present tense to talk about a future point.

Now get it before it gets all covered with turds.
表現 · B1get down there

go down in there

- Damn it, Beavis, you gotta really get down there.
表現 · B1do everything myself

do it all alone

Guess I have to do everything myself.
発音have to

Have to often sounds like 'hafta'.

Guess I have to do everything myself.
表現 · B2score something

hook up; get lucky literally to score points, here to hook up

Now get down there. We need that phone to score.
表現 · B1some sort of something

some kind of

- They must have known we were tracking their phone and put it in some sort of signal blocking device or Faraday cage.
表現 · C1study someone's tradecraft

learned our tricks

- They've studied our tradecraft.

「Beavis Tries to Say I Love You」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene plays Beavis's crush as something he can't say out loud. He opens with a question he's clearly rehearsed — "how do you know when you're like, in love?" — and the moment Butt-Head mocks him, he retreats: "never mind, never mind," then invents an excuse to leave. On the phone he gets further, telling Serena "I've never said this to any girl before," and the punchline is that the network drops right as he tries to say the word. What's going on underneath is the gap between the two friends: Butt-Head's rule is that girls are something you "score," not someone you love, so Beavis's confession has to happen in secret, in a toilet, through a voice assistant. The film lets him get close to the words and then yanks them away.

Theme

RomanceBeavis tries to name his feelings for Serena but can only hint at a confession, and the call cuts out before he says it.
FriendshipButt-Head's response to love is mockery and "score," forcing Beavis to hide his feelings even from his best friend.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Beavis cannot even name the word 'love' out loud.
  • 'never mind' is a door he slams on his own question.
  • score here means to hook up, not to win a game.
  • The spy talk is their way of hiding embarrassment.

発音のポイント

  • when you're — You're is often reduced to /jər/.
  • connecting to the — Connecting to blends into one run, with to reduced.
  • have to — Have to often sounds like 'hafta'.
And so, um, I was wondering, um, how do you know when you're like, in love?

Beavis's real question, buried under nervous filler words — the shyest way possible to ask about being in love.

- It's good to hear your voice.

A sincere, romantic opener aimed at what he thinks is Serena, and part of why his confession feels genuine.

You better not be talking to Serena in there.

Butt-Head's suspicion, half a warning: he treats the call as a violation of their usual rules.

Guess I have to do everything myself.

Butt-Head's complaint while digging for the phone, blaming Beavis for a mess they both made.

- They must have known we were tracking their phone and put it in some sort of signal blocking device or Faraday cage.

Spy jargon applied to a phone in a toilet, mocking how seriously the pursuers describe a mundane situation.

Now get it before it gets all covered with turds.

The scene's gross punchline: the prized phone might be swallowed by the toilet before they can use it.

- Anyway, Serena, I was just gonna say, and I've never said this to any girl before but, um...

His almost-confession, prefaced by a claim of first-time sincerity, and finished by nothing before the signal cuts.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Beavis pretend he said nothing to Butt-Head?

He asks how you know you're in love, but when Butt-Head calls it a wuss thing, he backs off with "never mind" and invents a reason to leave rather than admit what he meant.

Who is Beavis calling on the phone?

He calls the phone's voice assistant, which speaks in Serena's voice. He thinks he's talking to Serena and tries to confess his feelings before the network cuts out.

Why does Butt-Head make Beavis crawl into the toilet?

The phone ends up in the toilet and they need it back — Butt-Head says they need it to score. He orders Beavis to dig it out, then complains he has to help.

What do the pursuers think happened to the phone signal?

They assume the boys detected the tracking and blocked the signal, calling it "some sort of signal blocking device or Faraday cage" and praising their tradecraft.

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