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Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe · 2022 — 第 3 / 22 章 · 3'06" · B1

Beavis and Butt-Head Train for Space, Explained：didn't make it

Beavis and Butt-Head treat their NASA training as a sex lesson, with one asking, 'what part of sex does this train us for?' The trainers think they are preparing astronauts; the two think they are being schooled in scoring. At the press conference, the same confusion meets an unexpectedly earnest dream.

あらすじ

Beavis and Butt-Head are taken to NASA and put through astronaut training, which they misread as instruction in sex. The session ends and they are told to clean up. Then, at a press conference, the two are introduced as the youngest shuttle astronauts ever. Asked how they feel, one delivers a surprisingly sincere speech about a lifelong dream that is about to come true.

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注目の表現

schlongsor somethingupside downscore with

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このシーンの表現

didn't make it

did not survive

The reporter adds that some didn't make it, a quiet way of saying they died, and the laughing stops.

Two hikers didn't make it back before the storm.

このシーンの他の表現

  • schlongs

    vulgar slang for penis

  • or something

    or something like that

  • upside down

    inverted, flipped over

  • score with

    slang: to sleep with someone

  • one of those

    that kind of person

このシーンのメモ一覧

50 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · A2be about to do something

on the verge of doing

The government is about to train our schlongs.
発音about to

About to often links into one smooth sound.

The government is about to train our schlongs.
スラング · B2schlongs

vulgar slang for penis — Vulgar; only among close friends, never in formal settings.

The government is about to train our schlongs.
表現 · B1what part of something

which part of

Beavis asks which part of sex this training is for, taking the program at face value.

- Hey, Butt-Head, what part of sex does this train us for?
表現 · A2or something

or something like that

Butt-Head answers a question he cannot really answer and trails off with or something.

- Uh...I think it's the part where your face hurts or something.
表現 · B1the part where ...

the point at which

- Uh...I think it's the part where your face hurts or something.
文法 · B1the part where your face hurts

relative clause: The where-clause tells you which part of the training he means.

- Uh...I think it's the part where your face hurts or something.
表現 · B1everybody who does something

the people who get lucky

- Does everybody who scores have to do this?
文法 · B1who scores

relative clause: The who-clause narrows everybody down to those who score.

- Does everybody who scores have to do this?
表現 · B1that concludes something

that brings something to an end

- Well, that concludes your training.
表現 · B1do something upside down

inverted, flipped over

Beavis brags that he can now do it upside down, mixing space training with something else entirely.

- Yeah, I was ready before, but now I know how to do it upside down, or something.
表現 · A2do something right now

immediately

I'm ready to do it right now, if you want.
表現 · B1that's what I like to hear

just what I want to hear

- That's what I like to hear.
表現 · A2get cleaned up

washed and tidied

Now, go get yourselves cleaned up.
表現 · B2score with someone

slang: to sleep with someone

Butt-Head promises Beavis they will score with the reporter tomorrow.

- Beavis, tomorrow, we are going to score with that lady.
スラング · B2score with

crude slang for sleeping with — Crude; fine as a joke between friends, rude to the person involved.

- Beavis, tomorrow, we are going to score with that lady.
表現 · B2how few people have done something

how small the number is

- Do you know how few people have done what you're about to do?
文法 · B2how few people have done what you're about to do

embedded clause: Two clauses nest inside know: how few people have done it, and what you're about to do.

- Do you know how few people have done what you're about to do?
表現 · A2a little more than something

slightly more than

- That's a little more than I was hoping, but, you know, that's okay.
発音a little more than

A and than reduce; the stress lands on more.

- That's a little more than I was hoping, but, you know, that's okay.
スラング · B1Jesus Christ

exclamation of shock or annoyance — A blasphemous exclamation; avoid it in religious or formal settings.

- Jesus Christ! We get it.
表現 · B2not even counting something

without even including

- And that's not even counting the Russian dog and the monkey.
表現 · B2make it through something

did not survive

The reporter adds that some didn't make it, a quiet way of saying they died, and the laughing stops.

- Enough! [nervous giggling] - Of course, there were some who didn't make it.
表現 · B1be one of those

that kind of person

Right after the mention of those who died, Butt-Head insists they won't be one of those.

- We're not going to be one of those, ma'am.
文法 · B2I'd wake up and feel ashamed

past habit: I'd here means I would, marking a repeated past habit, not a future plan.

Um, I just wanna say I've wanted to do this my whole life, but I never thought it would really happen, and I dreamed about it every night and then--and then I'd wake up and feel ashamed and I'd try to hide it from my mom.
表現 · A2a dream comes true

to become reality

Beavis drops the jokes and says his dream will come true today, and for once he sounds sincere.

But today, my dream will come true.
発音come true

Stress true; let come lift and true settle.

But today, my dream will come true.

「Beavis and Butt-Head Train for Space」を読み解く

What's really going on

The comedy runs on a single persistent misunderstanding: two clueless teenagers are handed the vocabulary of spaceflight and hear only sex. 'What part of sex does this train us for?' one asks with total sincerity, and the joke is that nobody corrects him. The NASA staff, meanwhile, speak in the language of history and risk — 'Only 256 men and 49 women' — which the pair receive as a score to beat rather than a warning. When the press conference turns to sacrifice — 'there were some who didn't make it' — the two wave it off: 'We're not going to be one of those, ma'am.' The final turn lands because it stays in character. Asked about the moment, the boys drop the innuendo and speak plainly about a dream they were once ashamed of. The scene is funny and, briefly, sincere at the same time.

Theme

DreamsA lifelong wish, once hidden out of shame, is finally said out loud when the mission becomes real.
AbsurdityThe whole scene turns on a misunderstanding: astronaut training is mistaken for a sex lesson, and nobody corrects it.

このチャプターで学べること

  • About to means the action is seconds away.
  • Come true only fits dreams and wishes.
  • Didn't make it quietly means someone died.
  • Or something makes a boast sound unsure.

発音のポイント

  • about to — About to often links into one smooth sound.
  • a little more than — A and than reduce; the stress lands on more.
  • come true — Stress true; let come lift and true settle.
The government is about to train our schlongs.

Butt-Head's summary of NASA training. He reads a government program as sexual instruction, which sets the scene's whole misunderstanding in one crude line.

- Yeah, I was ready before, but now I know how to do it upside down, or something.

His version of readiness: training taught him a meaningless extra move. The 'or something' shows he has no idea what he actually learned.

Outer space, the back of a car, I don't care.

Butt-Head's indifference about where they will have sex. The joke is the mismatch between a space mission and his single-track mind.

- That's a little more than I was hoping, but, you know, that's okay.

His reaction to learning only a few hundred people have done this. He hears a count of people, not a warning about danger.

- Do you know how few people have done what you're about to do?

The interviewer's attempt at gravity. It is meant to convey rarity and risk, and the boys answer as if she were counting contestants.

- We're not going to be one of those, ma'am.

Their promise not to join the astronauts who died. They say it politely and confidently, treating a mortality statistic as a ranking to beat.

But today, my dream will come true.

The sincere turn. After a scene of crude jokes, the speech about a lifelong dream lands because it is said without irony.

このシーンについての質問

Why do Beavis and Butt-Head think the training is about sex?

They misinterpret everything the NASA staff say and do. Butt-Head declares the government is about to 'train our schlongs,' and they spend the session convinced it is a sex lesson.

What does 'score with' mean?

It is slang for having sex with someone or getting someone to sleep with you. Butt-Head uses it when he says they are going to score with the woman tomorrow.

Why does the interviewer mention the number of past astronauts?

She is trying to convey how rare and dangerous the job is. She notes only 256 men and 49 women have done it, and that some never came back.

How do Beavis and Butt-Head react to the risks?

They brush them off. They promise they won't be one of the people who don't make it, and say they understand the risks without meaning it.

What makes the press conference speech stand out?

After all the crude jokes, one of them speaks sincerely about a lifelong dream and says he feels like the luckiest man in the world.

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