History Film / BioDome

* PantyShot: When his girlfriend squats down to help Pauly Shore's character after he's been hit by the encyclopedia. It's so obvious it's almost definitely intended as {{Fanservice}}.

* UnsymapethicComedyProtagonist: Bud and Doyle are both immature, selfish, and impulsive.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: In one flashback, Doyle's mom is seen drowning Bud to teach them how to hold their breath for several minutes at a time. [[ChildhoodBrainDamage Probably explains why they act as if they're brain damaged]].

* LoudOfWar: Subverted when the police try to get the protagonists out of the dome by blasting Music/MenWithoutHats' "The Safety Dance". It doesn't work; it just means they have a rhythm as they fix the place up.
** In a ShoutOut to the music video, it also causes a dancing midget to suddenly show up...

-->'''Dr. Faulkner:''' (''bringing up the boys' records by fax machine'') [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Bud [=MacIntosh=] and Doyle Johnson. That's who]].

* ButtMonkey: Faulker and the scientists become this when Bud and Doyle start annoying and harassing them with their goofy antics.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: In one flashback, Doyle's mom is seen drowning Bud to teach them how to hold their breath for several minutes at a time. [[ChildhoodBrainDamage Probably explains why they act like they're brain damaged]].

In more detail: Bud Macintosh (Shore) and Doyle Johnson (Creator/StephenBaldwin) are your average [[TheSlacker slackers]], neither particularly bright, nor particularly attractive. Somehow they managed to get hot girlfriends, Monique and Jen (played respectively by Creator/JoeyLaurenAdams and Creator/TeresaHill). The two girls are very interested in environmental efforts and quite fed-up with the two slackers' indifference towards it.

* TotallyRadical: The main characters, again. After all, this ''is'' set in TheNineties. Even for the 90's, it was way over the top and unbelievable.

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While traveling in the Arizona desert, our not-too-bright duo discover the Bio-Dome. A group of scientists is about to be sealed inside for a year for research purposes. The duo decides it is a new mall and enters just before the building is sealed. Now the scientists have to endure the many ways the duo are destroying the environment within the Dome, while the lady scientists have just met their new stalkers. Not that the guys want to cheat on their girlfriends, they act as if flirting with any attractive woman is obligatory. Sleeping with her is not. Among the few actually named scientists is Dr. Petra von Kant (Music/KylieMinogue).

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: After spending a whole year inside the bio-dome, Bud and Doyle reconcile with Monique and Jen and drive off. When Doyle once again needs to use the bathroom, the four drive into a nuclear power plant.]]

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Eventually the lead scientist ''does'' try to kill them.

* IdiotHoudini: Both of them, Bud and Doyle being [[PairTheDumbOnes a duo]] of {{Insufferable Imbecile}}s.
* {{Jerkass}}: Again, Bud and Doyle.

* IdiotHoudini: Bud and Doyle.

* SwallowTheKey: One of the characters does this, swallowing the key to the biodome in order to keep the project going.

Not related in any way to the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' franchise, or to Creator/BioWare.

* AffectionateParody: ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' did a spoof of this movie in one episode.

* TheNineties: Embarrassingly so. The fashion, the "loveable [[TheStoner stoner]] [[TheSlacker slacker]]", the attitude towards women, the TotallyRadical dialog...

Briefly, a group of people are sealed into a Bio-Dome which is ''supposed'' to be a miniature self-sufficient ecology, sealed off from the outside world. One of these people is played by Creator/PaulyShore. HilarityEnsues. Supposedly. In theory.

* BlackComedyRape: Probably among the most unfunny versions seen in media.

* GreenAesop: A relatively subtle and intelligent one, and arguably the only subtle thing in the entire film.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: A whole chunk of the film is centered on our two [[DesignatedHero "heroes"]] participating in insanely unfunny stuff that contributes absolutely nothing to the plot.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Eventually the lead scientist ''does'' try to kill them... Leaving the audience confused why this is supposed to be a ''[[RootingForTheEmpire bad]]'' thing.

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: In one flashback, Doyle's mom is seen drowning Bud to teach them how to hold their breath for several minutes at a time. [[Childhood Brain damage Probably explains why they act like they're brain damaged]].

Not related in any way to the VideoGame/BioShock franchise, or to Creator/{{Bioware}}.

* ButNotTooBi: Bud and Doyle are supposedly bisexual, even though they never hit on any male character save for a brief moment [[FanDisservice with each other]]. Which would be assuming that they weren't going for cheap laughs.

* AbusiveParents: In one flashback, Doyle's mom is seen drowning Bud to teach them how to hold their breath for several minutes at a time. Probably explains why they act like they're brain damaged.

* BiTheWay: The protagonists, [[InformedAttribute even though they never hit on any male character]] save for a brief moment [[FanDisservice with each other]]. Which would be assuming that they weren't going for cheap laughs.

* ChildhoodBrainDamage: There's a scene where Doyle's mom is holding his head under water to teach him how to hold his breath for long periods of time.

* FlashbackCut

** Monique's step-dad.

** In a shout out to the music video, it also causes a dancing midget to suddenly show up...