A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

The documentary explores the disappearance of millions of bees, known as "colony collapse syndrome."

In 1975, Ron Burgundy is a famous anchorman for a San Diego TV station, KVWN Channel 4, working alongside his lifelong friends on the news team: lead field reporter Brian Fantana, sportscaster Champ Kind, and meteorologist Brick Tamland. Station director Ed Harken informs the team that they have retained their long-held status as the highest-rated news program in San Diego, prompting them to throw a wild party, where Ron unsuccessfully attempts to pick up a beautiful blonde woman named Veronica Corningstone. Ed later informs the team that they have been forced to hire Veronica. After a series of unsuccessful attempts by the team to seduce her, she finally agrees to a "professional tour" of the city with Ron, culminating in a sexual relationship. Despite agreeing to keep the relationship discreet, Ron announces it on air. After a dispute with a motorcyclist ends in Ron's beloved dog Baxter being punted off the San Diego–Coronado Bridge, Ron is late to work. Veronica fills in for him on air, drawing higher ratings than Ron usually does, and the couple breaks up when he bemoans her success. Veronica is promoted to co-anchor, to the team's disgust. The co-anchors become fierce rivals off-air while maintaining a phony facade of cordiality on-air. Depressed, the team (barring Veronica) decides to buy new suits, but Brick, leading the way, gets them lost in a shady part of town. Confronted by the main competitor, Wes Mantooth and his news team, Ron challenges them to a fight. When several other news teams converge on-site (including the Channel Two News team, the Public News Team, and the Spanish-language News team), a full-on melee ensues, only broken up by police sirens that cause them to flee. Realizing that having a female co-anchor is damaging their reputation, Ron gets into another heated argument with Veronica, and they end up in a physical fight after she insults his hair. After one of Veronica's co-workers informs her that Ron will read whatever is written on the teleprompter, she sneaks into the station and alters the text in revenge. The next day, he (unaware of what he is saying) concludes the broadcast with " Go fuck yourself, San Diego!" instead of his signature closing line, "You stay classy, San Diego!" triggering an angry mob outside the studio and forcing Ed to fire him. Realizing she went too far, Veronica confesses to him that she was responsible, making him angry. Unemployed, friendless, and heavily antagonized by the public, Ron grows depressed while Veronica enjoys her newfound fame, with Brian, Champ, and Brick begrudgingly working with her. Ed has warned against them talking to Ron, under threat that they'd be fired as well. Three months later, when a panda is about to give birth, every news team in San Diego rushes to the zoo to cover the story. In an attempt to sabotage her, a rival news anchor pushes Veronica into a Kodiak bear enclosure. When Ed is unable to locate her, he recruits and rehires Ron. Once at the zoo, Ron, with his morale restored, jumps into the bear pen to save Veronica as the public watches. The rest of the news team then jumps in to save them. Just as a bear is about to attack, Ron's dog Baxter, who miraculously survived his fall, intervenes and encourages the bear to spare them. As the group climbs out of the pit, Wes appears and holds the ladder over the bear pit, threatening to drop Ron back in, saying that deep down, he has always hated him, but then admits he does respect him before pulling him to safety. After Ron and Veronica reconcile, it is shown that, in the years to come, Brian becomes the host of a Fox reality show named Intercourse Island, Brick is married with 11 children and is a top political adviser to George W. Bush, Champ is a commentator for the NFL before getting fired after being accused by Terry Bradshaw of sexual harassment, and Ron and Veronica are co-anchors for the CNN -esque World News Center.

The film opens with Howard Cosell 's coverage of the assassination of the president of the fictional " banana republic " of San Marcos and a coup d'état that brings Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas to power. Fielding Mellish is a neurotic blue-collar man who tries to impress social activist Nancy by connecting with the revolution in San Marcos. He visits the republic and attempts to show his concern for the native people. However, Vargas secretly orders his men, disguised as Vargas's opponents, to kill Mellish to make the rebels look bad so that the U.S. will send Vargas financial aid. Mellish evades Vargas's assassins but is shortly captured by the real rebels. Vargas declares Mellish dead regardless, leaving Mellish no choice but to join the rebels for two months. Mellish then clumsily learns how to be a revolutionary. When the revolution is successful, it becomes apparent that Esposito, the Castro-style leader, has gone mad. The rebels decide to replace him with Mellish as their president. While traveling back to the U.S. to obtain financial aid, Mellish (sporting a long fake beard) reunites with Nancy and is exposed. In court, Mellish tries to defend himself from a series of incriminating witnesses, including a reigning Miss America and a middle-aged African-American woman claiming to be J. Edgar Hoover in disguise. One of the witnesses does provide testimony favorable to Mellish, but the court clerk, when asked to read back this testimony, replies with an entirely different, wholly unfavorable rendition. Mellish is eventually sentenced to prison, but his sentence is suspended on the condition that he does not move into the judge's neighborhood. Nancy then agrees to marry him. The film ends with Cosell's coverage of the between-the-covers consummation of their marriage, an event that was over much more quickly than Nancy had anticipated, with Mellish anticipating a rematch in the early spring.

Bartleby Gaines is a strongly persuasive high school senior in Wickliffe, Ohio. His gifts do not extend to his grades, however, and Bartleby receives rejection letters from all the colleges to which he applies, including those with high acceptance rates. To gain approval from his demanding father, Bartleby creates a fake college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.), and is joined by Rory Thayer, who only applied to Yale University and was rejected due to legacy preferences; Darryl "Hands" Holloway, who lost his athletic scholarship after an injury; and Glen, an outcast who received a 0 on his SAT due to not signing his name. To make the "college" seem legitimate to his father, Bartleby convinces his best friend, Sherman Schrader III, who has been accepted into his father's prestigious alma mater, Harmon College, to aid him by building a website. The two also hire Sherman's cynical uncle and a former philosophy professor at Harmon College, Dr. Ben Lewis, to pose as Dean. They then lease an abandoned psychiatric hospital near Harmon College and renovate it superficially to give the appearance of a college campus. Their plan initially succeeds in fooling Bartleby's parents, but backfires when the website automatically enrolls hundreds of other applicants. Out of empathy, Bartleby lets them believe the school is real and that they will finally be accepted, despite objections from his friends. After a visit to Harmon disenchants him with traditional college life, he decides to let the students create their own curriculum. This ranges from traditional topics of study like culinary arts and woodcarving to more unusual courses such as meditation, skateboarding, and even psychokinesis. As the college is further developed, Bartleby starts a school newspaper, a clothing line, and a mascot, while Dean Lewis gives brutally honest lectures about life that draw large crowds; and the students of South Harmon spend most of their time partying. Meanwhile Richard Van Horne, the narcissistic Dean of Harmon College, plans to tear down old and unused buildings on and near campus to construct a park-like walkway similar to Yale and Harvard 's, hoping to make Harmon look more prestigious. Van Horne dispatches Harmon's student body president Hoyt Ambrose to buy up the nearby properties, but Bartleby refuses to relinquish his lease, becoming an obstacle to Van Horne's ambitions. The dispute turns personal when Monica Moreland, a girl Bartleby has been vying for the affections of since high school, breaks up with Hoyt after catching him with another woman. She begins frequently visiting Bartleby at South Harmon, eventually deciding to transfer and start a relationship with him. Meanwhile, Schrader is attempting to join Hoyt's fraternity as a legacy but is constantly humiliated and abused by its members. After discovering Sherman at a South Harmon party, the fraternity forcibly coerces him into revealing South Harmon as a sham. Hoyt uses the information to contact all the students' parents and Van Horne exposes South Harmon as a fake institution. The school is forced to close, and Bartleby is at risk of prison time for fraud. Sherman, who directly experienced much of Harmon College's abuses, files with Ohio's State Board of Education for accreditation, giving Bartleby a chance to make South Harmon a legitimate college. At the subsequent hearing, Bartleby's attempts to meet the board's standards for accreditation frequently fall flat and proves their unconventional curriculum and student services to be lacking. Believing himself to be doomed, Bartleby makes an impassioned speech about the failures of conventional education and the importance of seeking knowledge and personal growth through following one's own passions. This convinces the board to grant his school a one-year probationary accreditation to test his new system. After some renovations, the college reopens with even more students enrolling, including Sherman and Monica, and Bartleby's friends becoming part of the faculty. Bartleby finally earns the approval of his father, who is proud his son now runs a College. In the film's final scene, Van Horne's car spontaneously explode due to an eccentric student having learned psychokinesis.

The film begins in 19th-century Saint Petersburg, and examines the life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a middle-aged Russian nobleman. Slothful and seemingly unhappy, Oblomov spends much of the beginning of the film sleeping and being attended to by his servant, Zakhar. In an attempt to get him more active, Andrei Ivanovich Stoltz, a Russian / German businessman and close friend, frequently takes Oblomov along with him to social events. Oblomov is introduced to a cultured woman named Olga, a friend of Stoltz. When Stoltz leaves the country, Olga is left with the task of civilizing and culturing Oblomov while he lives nearby. Olga and Oblomov eventually fall in love, but upon Stoltz's return, Oblomov moves back into town, eventually severing ties with Olga. Stoltz and Olga eventually marry, and Oblomov subsequently marries the woman with whom he was living, Agafya Matveyevna Psehnitsyna. The two have a son, and although Agafya has two children from a previous relationship, Oblomov treats them both as if they were his own. Oblomov is satisfied with his life, although it "lack the poetic and those bright rays which he imagined were to be found."