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* ILoveTheDead: Things turned ''really strange'' when Tina, one of Bernie's lovers who came to argue with him, and ended up having sex with him. And she claimed it was the best they'd ever had. And he was ''dead''. It's implied that the drug overdose Paulie gives Bernie ends up giving him [[RagingStiffie an erection]] even as it kills him. And, of course, with rigor mortis setting in...
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* ILoveTheDead: Things turned ''really strange'' when Tina, one of Bernie's lovers who came to argue with him, and ended up having sex with him. And she claimed it was the best they'd ever had. And he was ''dead''. It's implied that the drug overdose Paulie gives Bernie ends up giving him [[RagingStiffie an erection]] even as it kills him. And, of course, with rigor mortis setting in... Larry is not impressed. (This becomes a CallBack in the second film, where it's revealed Larry's a virgin.)
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* ILoveTheDead: Things turned ''really strange'' when Tina, one of Bernie's lovers who came to argue with him, and ended up having sex with him. And she claimed it was the best they'd ever had. And he was ''dead''.
** It's implied that the drug overdose Paulie gives Bernie ends up giving him an erection even as it kills him. And, of course, with rigor mortis setting in...
--->'''Larry''': How do you like that? The guy gets laid more dead than I do alive.
*** Naturally, this becomes a CallBack in the second film, since it turned out that Larry's a virgin.
** It's implied that the drug overdose Paulie gives Bernie ends up giving him an erection even as it kills him. And, of course, with rigor mortis setting in...
--->'''Larry''': How do you like that? The guy gets laid more dead than I do alive.
*** Naturally, this becomes a CallBack in the second film, since it turned out that Larry's a virgin.
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* ILoveTheDead: Things turned ''really strange'' when Tina, one of Bernie's lovers who came to argue with him, and ended up having sex with him. And she claimed it was the best they'd ever had. And he was ''dead''.
**''dead''. It's implied that the drug overdose Paulie gives Bernie ends up giving him [[RagingStiffie an erection erection]] even as it kills him. And, of course, with rigor mortis setting in...
--->'''Larry''': -->'''Larry''': How do you like that? The guy gets laid more dead than I do alive.
*** Naturally, this becomes a CallBack in the second film, since it turned out that Larry's a virgin.alive.
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*** Naturally, this becomes a CallBack in the second film, since it turned out that Larry's a virgin.
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Part of why Vito has Bernie killed is because Bernie's having an affair with his girlfriend Tina. The other part is because [[YouHaveFailedMe Bernie was in serious trouble of getting caught]].
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: Part of why Vito has Bernie killed is because Bernie's having an affair with his girlfriend Tina. The other part is because [[YouHaveFailedMe Bernie was in serious trouble danger of getting caught]].
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only does the bratty kid seems too obsessed with burying Bernie's body, but he also flips Richard and Larry the bird after scaring them with a toy gun.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Not only does the bratty kid seems too obsessed with burying Bernie's body, but he also [[FlippingTheBird flips Richard and Larry the bird bird]] after scaring them with a toy gun.
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* MistakenForMurderer: It's a fear of this that prevents the first attempt to call the police about Bernie's death.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Assumed by the protagonists during the first attempt to contact them that the police would blame them, and not look at the evidence (proof they had only just taken a boat to the island, lack of a reasonable motive, etc)
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->''"What kind of a host invites you to his house for the weekend and dies on you?""''
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->''"What kind of a host invites you to his house for the weekend and dies on you?""''
you?"''
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%%* DudeShesLikeInAComa
%%* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Vito, Paulie, and company.
%%* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: Vito, Paulie, and company.
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%%* InspectorJavert: Hummel.
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%%* TheMafia: The boss Bernie reports to is even named Vito.
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* NoDeadBodyPoops: As is common in movies like this, Bernie evidently doesn't smell like he died within the past 24 hours.
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* HoYay: Between Larry and Richard; it's noticed by Bernie. Also, a woman at Bernie's party acknowledges the ho yay in ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', writing a book about him and Watson being 'secretly married'. It's also invoked in the original "suicide note" written by Bernie. He was originally going to claim that Larry stole the money ''so he could have a sex change operation''. And live with ''Richard'' as his lover.
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* HoYay: Between Larry and Richard; it's noticed by Bernie. Also, a woman at Bernie's party acknowledges the ho yay in ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, to the point where she is writing a book about him Holmes and Watson being 'secretly married'."secretly married". It's also invoked in the original "suicide note" written by Bernie. He was originally going to claim that Larry stole the money ''so he could have a sex change operation''. And live with ''Richard'' as his lover.
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->''"What kind of a host invites you to his house for the weekend and dies on you?"''
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->''"What kind of a host invites you to his house for the weekend and dies on you?"''
you?""''
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* [[ActorAllusion Director Allusion]]: After knocking out two guys who he ''thinks'' have come to kill Bernie (they are in fact the domestic staff, but he doesn't know that), Richard sarcastically addresses Larry as "[[Film/FirstBlood Rambo]]".
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* DramaticIrony: Larry and Richard find a message on Bernie's answering machine where he asks Paulie to kill them, but only if he's not nearby to prevent him from being implicated in the crime. So to keep themselves alive, they decide to drag Bernie's corpse around with them and [[OfCorpseHesAlive pretend he's not dead]]. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot Unknown to them]], but not the audience, Paulie was actually following orders from his boss Vito to kill Bernie and ''only'' Bernie, had already done so, and was planning to leave the island without further incident until the duo's antics convinced him Bernie was still alive. When one factors in Paulie's [[SanitySlippage increasing derangement]] at his target apparently not staying dead, Larry and Richard pretending Bernie was still alive accomplished the exact ''opposite'' of what they set out to do.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: When Bernie's actuaries Larry and Richard discovered insurance fraud and told them they were planning to expose it with the hopes of getting promoted in doing so, Bernie (who was behind the fraud) begs his boss Vito to assassinate the two. Vito decides Bernie is getting too greedy and sloppy and has ''Bernie'' killed instead.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: When Bernie's actuaries Larry and Richard discovered insurance fraud and told them they were planning to expose it with the hopes of getting promoted in doing so, Bernie (who was behind the fraud) begs asks his boss Vito to assassinate the two. Vito decides Bernie is getting too greedy and sloppy and has ''Bernie'' killed instead.
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* HopeSpot: Afer missing the ferry, Larry realizes that they have another way off the island: Bernie's speedboat. After a few calamities, including jumping a wake and Bernie water skiing, they make their way out of the channel and away from the island. And then...
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* HopeSpot: Afer After missing the ferry, Larry realizes that they have another way off the island: Bernie's speedboat. After a few calamities, including jumping a wake and Bernie water skiing, they make their way out of the channel and away from the island. And then...
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Part of why Vito has Bernie killed is because Bernie's having an affair with his girlfriend Tina. The other part is because [[YouHaveFailedMe Bernie was in serious trouble of getting caught]].
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: The plot [[TropeNamer formerly known as]] Weekend at Bernie's. It also [[TropeCodifier Codified]] the trope as being a bit of an IdiotBall, although it's indeed an understandable one due to a case of both our protagonists being LockedOutOfTheLoop as well as a case of PoorCommunicationKills. For context, Richard and Larry find Bernie dead of an ''apparent'' drug overdose, then find a recorded message on the answering machine ordering a hit on them, but Bernie specifically told the hitman ''not'' to kill them if he (Bernie) was anywhere near them, so that he could have an alibi. The two then decide (well more-so Larry, as Richard objected to the idea from the start) to pretend Bernie is alive for protection until they can get off the island. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot However, unknown to them]], the hitman in question actually had higher orders to kill Bernie and ''only'' Bernie, having disregarded Bernie's own personal request for a hit and, after having done away with the guy, was just going to leave the island peacefully. Therefore, while the whole act was indeed an understandable (albeit a morbid and rather ridiculous) choice, all dragging Bernie's corpse around did was instead freak the hitman out until he eventually lost his mind, going so far as to unceremoniously shoot Bernie repeatedly (six times to be exact) so as to make ''sure'' he was dead, and then turned his gun to our protagonists to kill them for witnessing the shooting.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: The plot [[TropeNamer formerly known as]] Weekend at Bernie's. It also [[TropeCodifier Codified]] the trope as being a bit of an IdiotBall, although it's indeed an understandable one due to a case of both our protagonists being LockedOutOfTheLoop as well as a case of PoorCommunicationKills. For context, Richard and Larry find Bernie dead of an ''apparent'' drug overdose, then find a recorded message on the answering machine ordering a hit on them, but Bernie specifically told the hitman ''not'' to kill them if he (Bernie) was anywhere near them, so that he could have an alibi.[[TheAlibi alibi]]. The two then decide (well more-so Larry, as Richard objected to the idea from the start) to pretend Bernie is alive for protection until they can get off the island. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot However, unknown to them]], the hitman in question actually had higher orders to kill Bernie and ''only'' Bernie, having disregarded Bernie's own personal request for a hit and, after having done away with the guy, was just going to leave the island peacefully. Therefore, while the whole act was indeed an understandable (albeit a morbid and rather ridiculous) choice, all dragging Bernie's corpse around did was instead freak the hitman out until he eventually lost his mind, going so far as to unceremoniously shoot Bernie repeatedly (six times to be exact) so as to make ''sure'' he was dead, and then turned his gun to our protagonists to kill them for witnessing the shooting.
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* TransEqualsGay: Invoked by Bernie, who writes a fake [[GoodbyeCruelWorld suicide note]] claiming that Larry stole the money so that he could afford a sex change operation and live with Richard as his lover.
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* ImmediateSequel: ''Weekend at Bernie's II'', despite its four-year SequelGap, begins on the Monday after that crazy weekend where Richard and Larry drop off Bernie's body at the New York Morgue.
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* ImmediateSequel: ''Weekend at Bernie's II'', despite its four-year SequelGap, gap, begins on the Monday after that crazy weekend where Richard and Larry drop off Bernie's body at the New York Morgue.
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* BalefulPolymorph: The two bad guys are turned into goats by the end of the film, and are stuck being dragged around by Bernie.
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* ForcedTransformation: The two bad guys are turned into goats by the end of the film, and are stuck being dragged around by Bernie.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: The CentralTheme, PlayedForLaughs. [[IdiotPlot EVERY ONE]] of [[SlobsVersusSnobs Bernie's snob neighbors]] is so self-absorbed they fail to realize that him being oddly limp, quiet, and unresponsive means he is ''dead.'' [[OnlySaneMan Richard]] figures it out almost ''immediately'', as do the two beat cops who find him on the subway in the second movie. Larry's first reaction - who hopes to somehow climb to Bernie's social standing - is to complain about how his weekend has now been ruined.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: The CentralTheme, PlayedForLaughs. [[IdiotPlot EVERY ONE]] '''''EVERY ONE''''' of [[SlobsVersusSnobs Bernie's snob neighbors]] is so self-absorbed they fail to realize that him being oddly limp, quiet, and unresponsive means he is ''dead.'' [[OnlySaneMan Richard]] figures it out almost ''immediately'', as do the two beat cops who find him on the subway in the second movie. Larry's first reaction - who hopes to somehow climb to Bernie's social standing - is to complain about how his weekend has now been ruined.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: The plot [[TropeNamer formerly known as]] Weekend at Bernie's. It also [[TropeCodifier Codified]] the trope as being a bit of an IdiotPlot, although it's indeed an understandable one due to a case of both our protagonists being LockedOutOfTheLoop as well as a case of PoorCommunicationKills. For context, Richard and Larry find Bernie dead of an ''apparent'' drug overdose, then find a recorded message on the answering machine ordering a hit on them, but Bernie specifically told the hitman ''not'' to kill them if he (Bernie) was anywhere near them, so that he could have an alibi. The two then decide (well more-so Larry, as Richard objected to the idea from the start) to pretend Bernie is alive for protection until they can get off the island. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot However, unknown to them]], the hitman in question actually had higher orders to kill Bernie and ''only'' Bernie, having disregarded Bernie's own personal request for a hit and, after having done away with the guy, was just going to leave the island peacefully. Therefore, while the whole act was indeed an understandable (albeit a morbid and rather ridiculous) choice, all dragging Bernie's corpse around did was instead freak the hitman out until he eventually lost his mind, going so far as to unceremoniously shoot Bernie repeatedly (six times to be exact) so as to make ''sure'' he was dead, and then turned his gun to our protagonists to kill them for witnessing the shooting.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: The plot [[TropeNamer formerly known as]] Weekend at Bernie's. It also [[TropeCodifier Codified]] the trope as being a bit of an IdiotPlot, IdiotBall, although it's indeed an understandable one due to a case of both our protagonists being LockedOutOfTheLoop as well as a case of PoorCommunicationKills. For context, Richard and Larry find Bernie dead of an ''apparent'' drug overdose, then find a recorded message on the answering machine ordering a hit on them, but Bernie specifically told the hitman ''not'' to kill them if he (Bernie) was anywhere near them, so that he could have an alibi. The two then decide (well more-so Larry, as Richard objected to the idea from the start) to pretend Bernie is alive for protection until they can get off the island. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot However, unknown to them]], the hitman in question actually had higher orders to kill Bernie and ''only'' Bernie, having disregarded Bernie's own personal request for a hit and, after having done away with the guy, was just going to leave the island peacefully. Therefore, while the whole act was indeed an understandable (albeit a morbid and rather ridiculous) choice, all dragging Bernie's corpse around did was instead freak the hitman out until he eventually lost his mind, going so far as to unceremoniously shoot Bernie repeatedly (six times to be exact) so as to make ''sure'' he was dead, and then turned his gun to our protagonists to kill them for witnessing the shooting.
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* TokenRomance: While it was in no way considered a bad thing, the whole romance subplot between Richard and Gwen could be cut from the film without anything feeling out of place. Especially when you consider that Gwen never gets involved with Richard and Larry's OfCorpseHesAlive antics.
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* TokenRomance: While it was in no way considered a bad thing, the whole romance subplot between Richard and Gwen could be cut from the film without anything feeling out of place. Especially when you consider that Gwen never gets involved with Richard and Larry's OfCorpseHesAlive antics.antics with Bernie.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Richard refuses to let Larry drive in the sequel because he doesn't have a license despite driving Bernie's cart with no incident in the previous movie. One possibility could be Richard not trusting Larry anymore after the [[DrivesLikeCrazy boating incident]].
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Larry and Richard and Charles and Henry drag Bernie around in a busy road and no one seems to notice or care.
* VirginShaming: At the end, Richard teases Larry about him still being a virgin.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Larry and Richard and Charles and Henry drag Bernie around in on a busy road and no one seems to notice or care.
* VirginShaming: At the end, Richard teases Larry about him still being avirgin.virgin (Despite it being the reason it saved his life).
* VirginShaming: At the end, Richard teases Larry about him still being a
