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Can you remind me why I'm paying you to get me re-elected governor?Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022 — 第 8 / 22 章 · 3'24" · B2
Beavis and Butt-Head Discover Mobile Pay, Explained：changes everything
The scene jumps between two threads: a governor and his aides plot a "youth outreach" campaign, and a horrified witness from 1998 recognizes two faces he thought he'd killed. Meanwhile Beavis and Butt-Head are handed a device, learn you can "pay for anything with your phone," and treat it as a revelation: "this changes everything."
あらすじ
A politician's team presents a youth-outreach ad campaign using photos of two volunteers — faces the governor recognizes from the mission that stranded him in space decades ago. He orders his staff to clear the room and then to hunt the pair down. Elsewhere, Beavis and Butt-Head are given a phone, buy nachos with it, and realize it can pay for anything.
注目の表現
horseshityouth outreachstranded-wise
00:00 / 03:24Space 再生 · ← → セリフ移動 · R リピート
いま
このシーンの表現
changes everything
this alters everything
Butt-Head tells Beavis that a phone buying anything changes everything.
Learning to drive changes everything about getting around.
このシーンの他の表現
- horseshit
nonsense
- youth outreach
campaign aimed at young people
- stranded
stuck with no way out
- -wise
as for, in terms of
- sucks
is really bad
このシーンのメモ一覧
67 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ
noun clause: The why-clause is the object of 'remind', carrying the reason he is owed.
Can you remind me why I'm paying you to get me re-elected governor?The t in 'get me' is often dropped, so it sounds like 'geh-me'.
Can you remind me why I'm paying you to get me re-elected governor?deputy governor
- And me re-elected lieutenant governor, which is also-- - Well, Governor, our new strategy is youth outreach.campaign aimed at young people
An aide pitches youth outreach as the campaign's new strategy.
- And me re-elected lieutenant governor, which is also-- - Well, Governor, our new strategy is youth outreach.a worthless person — An insult or tease; face to face it stings, so avoid formal settings.
Loser. Eww.yuck — A disgust noise for friends; not for elders.
Loser. Eww.empty the room
Clear the room.the deputy
- I'm assuming you wanted me to stay, because I'm second in command.resemble completely
They look exactly like those kids I killed on the mission in '98.stuck far from home
I spent three weeks stranded in space because of those two, certain I would die.discover
- Yeah, I didn't actually get to eat any-- - And then 24 years haunted that I had killed two people, that the world would find out what I'd done.makes things awkward for me
- Yes, sometimes I wish I didn't know that because it sorta puts me in a tricky position going-to-jail-wise.subjunctive: Wish plus past tense marks a present regret about knowing this.
- Yes, sometimes I wish I didn't know that because it sorta puts me in a tricky position going-to-jail-wise.sort of, kind of — Casual version of 'sort of'; keep it out of writing.
- Yes, sometimes I wish I didn't know that because it sorta puts me in a tricky position going-to-jail-wise.time clause: The before-clause sets the deadline, with a nested what-clause inside it.
I mean, we have to tell the scientific community-- - We have to kill them before they tell everyone what I did.still in time
- I just hope we're not too late.display
Why would she put up a big picture of herself and then not be there?a small trick
- Uh...it's a little game she's playing.run after someone
She wants us to chase her.grip it this way
- No, you hold like this and look here.Check it out runs together, with a light flap on 'it'.
- Whoa. Check it out, Beavis.awesome — An easy compliment; fine in speech, too loose for formal writing.
That guy just gave us a cool little TV.move backward
Should we back up?kept at it
Glad we stuck with it.use the phone to pay
- So why don't you just pay with your phone?Your reduces to /jər/, so 'with your' almost merges into one word.
- So why don't you just pay with your phone?wow, hold on — Marks surprise or a beat of hesitation in casual speech.
- Whoa, we just paid for that with this?no exception
- That's right. Anything at all.this alters everything
Butt-Head tells Beavis that a phone buying anything changes everything.
- Beavis, this changes everything.「Beavis and Butt-Head Discover Mobile Pay」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene plays its two halves as a collision course. In the office, the governor's own guilt drives the plot: he says those photos look "exactly like those kids I killed on the mission in '98," and his instinct is not curiosity but damage control — "We have to kill them before they tell everyone what I did." His aides fall in line instantly, one assuring him that killing them was what she meant all along. Then the film cuts to Beavis and Butt-Head, who have no idea they're targets. Handed a phone, they treat payment as magic: "Yeah, you can pay for anything with your phone." Their awe is the punchline, and it sets up the finale — the same invention that makes them dangerous to a politician makes them powerful. "Beavis, this changes everything," one says, and the movie agrees.
Theme
CorruptionA governor hides a past killing and orders two witnesses eliminated to protect his career.
AbsurdityThe boys treat a smartphone as a miracle, and their awe at mobile payment drives the film's next turn.
このチャプターで学べること
- A phone can quietly replace a wallet.
- Calling a report horseshit shuts the talk down.
- The -wise suffix lets you improvise categories.
- Sarcasm can hide inside a calm compliment.
- This changes everything marks a turning point.
発音のポイント
- get me — The t in 'get me' is often dropped, so it sounds like 'geh-me'.
- Check it out — Check it out runs together, with a light flap on 'it'.
- with your — Your reduces to /jər/, so 'with your' almost merges into one word.
Can you remind me why I'm paying you to get me re-elected governor?The governor's sarcastic opener: he's furious at bad polling and frames his staff's job as keeping him in office.
But they can't be the same kids--that's impossible.The aide's rational objection to an impossible idea — the same faces from 1998 showing up today.
I spent three weeks stranded in space because of those two, certain I would die.The governor's grievance and his motive: the boys once left him stranded, and he's carried that fear for years.
We had to eat flight specialist Jung.The darkest detail in his story, delivered as a flat fact — the depths the stranded crew sank to.
Tell them I'm gonna go visit some sick-- I don't know-- veterans or dogs.His cover story for hunting the boys, invented on the spot and comically indifferent to the truth.
Why would she put up a big picture of herself and then not be there?The boys' literal-minded confusion at a publicity photo, mistaking marketing for a game.
- Yeah, you can pay for anything with your phone.The line that changes the movie's direction: a casual explanation the boys take as unlimited power.
このシーンについての質問
Why does the governor want Beavis and Butt-Head dead?
He recognizes them as the kids from the 1998 mission and says they know what he did to survive. He orders them killed so they can't reveal whatever happened out there.
What did the governor do during the 1998 mission?
He says he was stranded in space for three weeks because of the two boys, drank his own urine, and that the crew had to eat a flight specialist named Jung. He's haunted by having killed two people.
How do Beavis and Butt-Head find out about mobile payment?
Someone hands them a phone and tells them to hold it up. When they buy nachos, they're amazed; the person explains you can pay for anything with your phone, which they treat as a revelation.
Why does the governor's aide agree to the plan?
She quickly covers for herself, agreeing that killing the two was what she meant all along, worried that knowing about his past puts her in a tricky position too.
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