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3Briefly, 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.
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5In 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 Teresa Hill). The two girls are very interested in environmental efforts and quite fed-up with the two slackers' indifference towards it.
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7While 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 are the project lead Dr. Noah Faulkner (Creator/WilliamAtherton) and Dr. Petra von Kant (Music/KylieMinogue).
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9Not to be confused with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Biodome the zoological institute]] in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}, Canada (due to how that's just one word).
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12!!Tropes Used in This Movie:
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14* BigEater: Bud and Doyle.
15* BlackComedyRape: When the two try to make out with the two female scientists in their sleep without their consent before getting thrown out. This sequence is PlayedForLaughs.
16* ButtMonkey: Faulkner and the scientists become this when Bud and Doyle start annoying and harassing them with their goofy antics.
17* 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.
18* ChaoticStupid: Guess who.
19* TheDitz: Both of the main characters.
20* DisappearedDad:
21-->'''Mimi Simkins:''' [[SarcasmMode Where did you come from?]]\
22'''Doyle:''' [[SarcasmBlind My mom and the authorities are still trying to figure that out.]]
23* EarthSong: Music/TenaciousD cameos as musicians singing a tree-hugging song at an Earth Day environmentalist rally.
24* EroticEating: The way Petra eats a carrot in front of Bud.
25-->'''Bud:''' [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny What's up, Doc?]]
26* FlashbackCut: The scene mentioned in HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood below.
27* FriendsRentControl: The two leads have a relatively nice home despite being incredibly stupid and not shown to have any jobs at all. Then again, [[BasementDweller this could be a case of living with Doyle's mother]], who's seen throughout the movie.
28* GreenAesop: A relatively subtle and intelligent one.
29* HeroAntagonist: Dr. Faulkner only wants to preserve the stability of the project that the two leads keep messing up.
30* 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.]]
31* 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. Assuming she did the same thing to Doyle, [[ChildhoodBrainDamage it may explain why why they're both so immature as adults]].
32* IdiotHoudini: Both Bud and Doyle.
33* {{Jerkass}}: Again, Bud and Doyle being [[PairTheDumbOnes a duo]] of {{Insufferable Imbecile}}s.
34** This seems to follow Bud and Doyle wherever they go, for ''none'' of their transgressions against anyone are brought to any justice.
35** Monique's stepdad.
36* LaserGuidedKarma: Both Bud and Doyle are kicked out and forced to stay in the desert section in the Biodome when they sneak inside a room full of snacks and other foods that have been confiscated by the scientists.
37* 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 dwarf to suddenly show up.
38* TheNineties: Embarrassingly so. The fashion, the "loveable [[TheStoner stoner]] [[TheSlacker slacker]]", the attitude towards women, the TotallyRadical dialogue...
39* PoorPredictableRock: Doyle always uses rock when doing rock-paper-scissors with Bud, causing him to lose. It's even in their first scene together.
40* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: They break into the bio-dome, mess about with the scientist attempts at research, destroy the bio-dome itself and with it any attempt at gaining scientific insight by letting others inside after being told they couldn't leave for just such a reason, the sexual abuse of the two female scientists...and we're supposed to root for them because they feel bad about it.
41* PsychopathicManchild: Bud and Doyle are grown men, but have all the maturity and self-control of undisciplined eight-year-olds.
42* RandomEventsPlot: Takes up most of the movie, which pretty much stems from entering the Biodome onwards.
43* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The film is heavily inspired by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 Biosphere 2]], a facility in Arizona intended to test the ability for a small crew of people to be completely self-sufficient for for a span of two years. The experiments at the facility in the early 90's were notoriously troubled; the only full experiment conducted there saw the failure of multiple self-sustaining projects and the division of the crew of eight into two warring factions.
44* SanitySlippage: Faulkner even grows a beard to show this happened to him after going missing.
45* ShoutOut: Kylie Minogue's character is named after the film ''Film/TheBitterTearsOfPetraVonKant''.
46* StonerFlick In the movie, the main duo try to convince the Bio-Dome scientists to grow weed inside of the dome (and eventually get what they want post-party). Heck, one of the main characters is even named “Bud”…
47* SwallowTheKey: Doyle does this, swallowing the key to the biodome in order to keep the project going.
48* TotallyRadical: The main characters, again. After all, this ''is'' set in TheNineties, but even for that time period this movie is way over the top and unbelievable.
49* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Bud and Doyle are both immature, selfish, and impulsive.
50* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Several experiments were done with self sustained ecologies, including one in Arizona called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 Biosphere 2]], but that's about it.
51* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Dr. Leaky does this trope upon finding out that Bud and Doyle snuck into the Bio-Dome, thinking that it was a mall with a bathroom.
52-->'''Dr. Leaky:''' Who would be ''stupid enough'' to think Bio-Dome was a mall?\
53'''Dr. Faulkner:''' (''bringing up the boys' records by fax machine'') [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Bud [=MacIntosh=] and Doyle Johnson. That's who]].
54* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Eventually Faulkner ''does'' try to kill them.

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