Why I dyed my mullet green: Bio-Dome, Fern Gully, and other eco-friendly fun

I’ve always been curious if readers my age - 27 - grew up like me watching Captain Planet on Saturday mornings and found their calling. Maybe it was the green mullet.

We all know protecting the Earth can lead to some interesting entertainment. Bio-Dome? Batman and Robin? On Deadly Ground?

The A.V. Club has you covered with “Greenzo’s revenge: 17 amusingly misguided eco-friendly entertainments .” Here’s what they say about Bio-Dome:

Is it wrong to confess, ever so sheepishly, that Bio-Dome has a solid premise? Setting a pair of yahoos loose in a hermetically sealed, self-sustaining dome populated by snooty, tightwad scientists… It sounds like a Marx brothers movie, and it was probably just what the nation needed after witnessing the melodrama stirred up by the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona. But since those yahoos are Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin, and the dome is a structure they’ve mistaken for the mall, the film fills the precious synthetic atmosphere with toxic gas, and uses every opportunity to thumb its nose at the earnest, highly educated bark-eaters who would rather save the planet than party hearty. After this unclean dumb-and-dumber duo trash the place through flagrant wastefulness and a secret kegger that gets out of control, they finally see the error of their ways and complete the experiment. But by then, the last-ditch pro-environment message is superceded by the audience’s desire to kill the messengers.

You’ve been warned.