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The Other Guys

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The Other Guys	comment	A 2010 Adam McKay action comedy film that satirizes the Buddy cop picture.The Other Guys focuses on two New York City police detectives, Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz (Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg), who have been stuck at pencil-pushing desk jobs for most of their careers while the station's two top cops Highsmith and Danson (Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) garner praise from not only the NYPD but from the entire city for their cowboy, take-no-prisoners antics.After an unforeseen event forces the department to bring two new cops to the forefront to deal with a corporate embezzlement scheme, our two mismatched desk jockeys finally get the chance to prove their mettle and show that they can save the day... all without getting each other killed or driving each other crazy.Compare Hot Fuzz and Mystery Men.
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The Other Guys / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
The Other Guys / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: Subverted once. Two of the other cops convince Gamble to do a "desk pop", firing your gun at your desk. A dumb thing to do under most circumstances, even more so in a crowded police station. He gets in trouble for it. Also, when Captain Mauch takes Gamble's gun away from him and replaces it with a wooden one, Gamble removes the magazine but never clears the chamber. Mauch holds Gamble's sidearm with his finger on the trigger, which could easily lead to another desk pop. Played for laughs when Mauch is later seen asleep with the barrel of his service revolver against his temple. The freeze frame bar scene indulges in this as well with Gamble and Hoitz discharging Hoitz's service weapon while drunk, crossing into Reckless Gun Usage.
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The Other Guys / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
The Other Guys / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson taking their typecast roles. Somewhat the case as well with Mark Wahlberg, who has started to parody the perception that he's a Hot-Blooded jerk.
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The Other Guys / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Other Guys / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Director Adam McKay played Dirty Mike.
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The Other Guys / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Other Guys / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: To be expected in any comedy movie, but when Danson and Highsmith leap from a 13-story building thinking they will survive and the only thing to crack is the pavement, you know a line has been crossed.
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The Other Guys / int_14431f9	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
The Other Guys / int_14431f9	comment	Superpowered Evil Side: Gator for Allen.
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The Other Guys / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Other Guys / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: D&H get themselves killed because they thought they could survive anything.
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The Other Guys / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
The Other Guys / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The Chechen version of "Dora the Explorer."
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The Other Guys / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Other Guys / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers always show Mark Wahlberg's character playing the Straight Man to Will Ferrell's antics when in fact Detective Hoitz is just as crazy as Gamble, if not crazier. However, it's eventually subverted in that Hoitz is masking his gentle side with juvenile antics while Gamble's self-imposed control hides a borderline psychotic personality.
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The Other Guys / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Other Guys / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Brooke Shields, Rosie Perez, Tracy Morgan and pro wrestler Billy Gunn were also at the Knicks game.
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The Other Guys / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Other Guys / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Hoitz and Gamble may have given the term "Driving Range" a new meaning.
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The Other Guys / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
The Other Guys / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: Roger Wesley is for all intents and purposes the main villain. Nominally Pamela Boardman (who hired Wesley to keep an eye on Ershon and ordered Ershon to get back 'her' money) is the Big Bad, but she seems entirely detached from any actual direct machinations.
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The Other Guys / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Other Guys / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Practically the movie's premise (if the title didn't tip you off). Ironically, it's the Jerk Jock pair, Martin and Fosse, who get this role.
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The Other Guys / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
The Other Guys / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Played for Laughs, when Hoitz has this response to the suicidal victim:
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The Other Guys / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Other Guys / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Wahlberg's character seems to be forcibly trying to turn his life into a buddy cop action movie, and for the most part, he kind of succeeds, except for his insistence that the bad guys must be connected to drugs somehow. And Highsmith and Danson are, of course, not prepared to live outside a Bad Boys-esque action-thriller as evidenced by their infamous Leap of Faith to their deaths.
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The Other Guys / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Other Guys / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Faceback. May overlap with Brick Joke. The jewelry store robbery. The vote on the police pension fund.
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The Other Guys / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Other Guys / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Mrs. Gamble is a little too forward about her sex life, even to her parents.
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The Other Guys / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Other Guys / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: The Captain is the only one who knows that no one should imitate Danson and Highsmith.
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The Other Guys / int_2497e5b8	type	Atomic F-Bomb
The Other Guys / int_2497e5b8	comment	Atomic F-Bomb: Lendl Global CEO Pamela Boardman lets out a loud "SHIIIIIIIIT!" upon hearing how much money her company has lost.
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The Other Guys / int_2867ed5f	type	Too Cool to Live
The Other Guys / int_2867ed5f	comment	Too Cool to Live is parodied in the same manner, and at their funeral.
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The Other Guys / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Other Guys / int_2a090d00	comment	Also, when Hoitz forces Gamble at gunpoint in the hall to pursue Ershon, Gamble calls out to bystanders that no one is doing anything about it.
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The Other Guys / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
The Other Guys / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: Then Allen goes on to explain in length how he and his school of tuna, having acquired a taste for lion, would proceed to establish a beachhead and construct some breathing apparatus to hunt Terry's pride on land.
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The Other Guys / int_2be8a625	type	Mistaken for Exhibit
The Other Guys / int_2be8a625	comment	Mistaken for Exhibit: Terry's criticism of the table art piece first seems like a case of this, but it turns out he knows a lot about art. The other guests at the art show, however, mistake his rant for a performance art piece.
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The Other Guys / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Other Guys / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Hoitz says he did a lot of mocking kids who danced in his childhood, accidentally becoming a skilled ballet dancer in the process. In reality, he just says this to try to maintain his tough guy persona because he is a good ballet dancer, plays the harp, and is well-versed in modern art. He is also much more empathic than he would like to show. Note during the ballet scene he's inexplicably wearing jazz shoes. Straight-laced Gamble acts that way because of a Dark and Troubled Past as a (literal) pimp in college. Now he's also a software expert.
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The Other Guys / int_2dd7023a	type	Death as Comedy
The Other Guys / int_2dd7023a	comment	Death as Comedy: Danson and Highsmith's "jump" is played as nothing short of utterly hilarious.
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The Other Guys / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
The Other Guys / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: From the I Know Mortal Kombat example above when Allen performs the PIT Maneuver.
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The Other Guys / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Other Guys / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Gamble and Hoitz are called "Paper Bitch" and "Yankee Clipper", respectively.
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The Other Guys / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Other Guys / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: It starts with a Chevy Nova incinerating the lobby of Trump Tower. And it doesn't stop.
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The Other Guys / int_371b253a	type	Testosterone Poisoning
The Other Guys / int_371b253a	comment	Testosterone Poisoning: The two supercops.
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The Other Guys / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
The Other Guys / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills Youâ€¦: Subverted. Highsmith and Danson die when they jump off a building.
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The Other Guys / int_39899a44	type	Hypothetical Fight Debate
The Other Guys / int_39899a44	comment	Hypothetical Fight Debate: The film has a really quite hilarious scene where the two protagonists debate over a fight between a tuna and a lion.
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The Other Guys / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Other Guys / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: "I thought I was gonna hafta shoot my way out... What are you gonna do, y'know, bar mitzvahs..." Notably averted with the shooting of Derek Jeter. Then they bring it up enough to push it straight into Running Gag territory. "I got so drunk last night I think I thought a tube of toothpaste was astronaut food!"
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The Other Guys / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
The Other Guys / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Roger Wesley threatens to slice David Ershon's ear off with a butter knife. Ershon even lampshades it by saying, "Oh, that's blunt. Blunt's worse than if it's sharp."
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The Other Guys / int_3cf10fcf	type	Click Hello
The Other Guys / int_3cf10fcf	comment	Click Hello: Done to a harmless clerk during the climax.
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The Other Guys / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Other Guys / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Hoitz cools down considerably after spending an unspecified but implied to be quite long period of time stuck on traffic duty, which helps him reconcile with Francine. Zig-zagged with Gamble, who becomes more aggressive over time but also becomes more honest with himself about his relationship with his wife, which lets him eventually admit to her that he dismissed her as plain because he didn't want to confront the possibility that she was out of his league.
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The Other Guys / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Other Guys / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Detectives Danson and Highsmith are the standard badass version while Detective Hoitz tries to be this and drags Gamble along for the ride. It's deconstructed with Danson and Highsmith as they both leap to their deaths in pursuit of the jewel thieves, cause millions of dollars in property damage over a very small amount of marijuana in their Establishing Character Momentnote Though in their defense, the marijuana dealers were heavily armed with automatic weapons and were openly shooting at them throughout the Car Chase and Mauch notes that they weren't even particularly good at their jobs.
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The Other Guys / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
The Other Guys / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: A helicopter. Also, the Escalade in the beginning.
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The Other Guys / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Other Guys / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: This is how Danson and Highsmith die early in the movie. Turns out that jumping off a building is quite frequently fatal. The Unflinching Walk doesn't work here. A single explosion leaves Gamble and Holtz knocked right back on their asses and with temporary hearing loss from the impact. Gamble even calls bullcrap on the whole "people can be unaffected by explosions two feet behind them" thing as a result. After convincing the Captain to put them back on the case, one of the first things he tells Hoitz and Gamble is to stop trying to act "badass", saying that just because Highsmith and Danson did it, doesn't mean that's how you should act as a cop, going as far to call the postmortem duo "terrible cops"; case in point, Highsmith and Danson's destructive high-speed chase after the weed dealers, lead to millions of dollars worth of damages in contrast to the amount of weed the dealers had on them, which would've been considered legal in several other states. Martin and Fosse's attempt the emulate the duo only cements it as they were so focused on being badass that they didn't bother doing a thorough police investigation and missed evidence that implicated Wesley in Ershon's lawyer's murder.
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The Other Guys / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Other Guys / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Ershon is adamant that offering ten million dollars to cops for not doing their job is definitely not a bribe, while Gamble insists that he wasn't a pimp.
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The Other Guys / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Other Guys / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Danson and Highsmith are killed off not too long into the movie.
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The Other Guys / int_43c77dd9	type	Hellish Copter
The Other Guys / int_43c77dd9	comment	Hellish Copter: A helicopter gets taken out by a volley of golf balls.
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The Other Guys / int_43dc74d0	type	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
The Other Guys / int_43dc74d0	comment	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Mild-mannered, hard-working and gentle Gamble and rude, hot-headed tough guy Hoitz.
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The Other Guys / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
The Other Guys / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: Hoitz expresses the belief that "I'm a peacock! You gotta let me fly!" Numerous characters point out that that doesn't make any sense, notably because peacocks can't fly but one does at the end for symbolism and Rule of Funny.
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The Other Guys / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Other Guys / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both Hoitz and Gamble are cops who are interested in upholding the law, but they're both kind of assholes. Hoitz has a short temper and is prone to snapping at people, while Gamble is emotionally abusive to his wife.
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The Other Guys / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Other Guys / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Completely subverted. We get to watch Danson and Highsmith fall to their deaths, without any scene cut whatsoever, including when they hit the ground (though to be fair, there isn't much in the way of gore to begin with).
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The Other Guys / int_4cf1658	type	Commander Contrarian
The Other Guys / int_4cf1658	comment	Commander Contrarian: Partially subverted. Captain Mauch secretly knows the truth about the plot, but tries to stop Hoitz and Gamble precisely because he knows how dangerous it is. Further subverted in while Gamble and Hoitz give him no small measure of grief and force him to chastise them over and over, he's completely pleasant with them outside the office.
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The Other Guys / int_4cfe362e	type	Awesome Aussie
The Other Guys / int_4cfe362e	comment	Awesome Aussie: Roger Wesley is an Australian villain, but you can't deny he's pretty cool.
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The Other Guys / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
The Other Guys / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: The end credits, which serve to educate the viewer on the abundance of white-collar crime and corporate corruption in the 20th century without a shred of subtlety.
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The Other Guys / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
The Other Guys / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Detective Gamble is quite a plain-looking man who happens to be gigantic Manchild, yet his wife and ex-girlfriend are insanely attractive and successful women.
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The Other Guys / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Other Guys / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Danson and Highsmith cause insane amounts of property damage in the opening scene pursuing suspects over a very small amount of marijuana, something a reporter notes is only a misdemeanor at worst. In their (incredibly pitiful) defense, the goons were also carrying military-grade machine guns. The Chechens really want to kill Ershon for owing them money.
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The Other Guys / int_51882a24	type	Eyedscreen
The Other Guys / int_51882a24	comment	Eyedscreen: kicking off the movie's climax from the boardroom (see Guns Akimbo above) onwards.
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The Other Guys / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Other Guys / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The narration by Ice-T includes a Title Drop at the beginning and end.
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The Other Guys / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
The Other Guys / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Allen. He learned it from Grand Theft Auto.
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The Other Guys / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Other Guys / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Given that he's a Corrupt Corporate Executive, a perv, and British, Ershon would seem to be prime Big Bad material, but the film ultimately involves the heroes saving him from worse people, and he's so disarming and charming that he's hard not to like.
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The Other Guys / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
The Other Guys / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: While inside of a car being launched out of a double-decker bus into a building. And done later on by Hoitz during a boardroom shoot-out, sliding down a table on his back. Unusually for a movie, Hoitz actually shows the correct method of firing akimbo (yes, it can be done accurately), by aiming each gun independently before firing, instead of just pointing in the general direction of the target and firing both guns simultaneously.
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The Other Guys / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Other Guys / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: What happened to Hoitz after he accidentally shot Derek Jeter. Becomes an Ironic Echo when it happens to both Hoitz and Gamble later on. While Hoitz learns to mellow out for the first time in his life, Gamble Took a Level in Badass.
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The Other Guys / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Other Guys / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Downplayed. Allen Gamble isn't nasty per se (except for the instance when his old persona Gator takes over) just rather dismissive towards his wife, who he's utterly convinced is plain. It's later revealed he was deluding himself into believing this because he was afraid she'd leave him on account of thinking she's too good for him as he does.
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The Other Guys / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Other Guys / int_599f943f	comment	Danson and Highsmith got away with pretty much all their destructive hijinks. Unfortunately for them, their Karma Houdini Warranty came up in the form of a self-inflicted twenty-story drop into some bushes—the bushes in this case being the cold, hard concrete sidewalk.
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The Other Guys / int_5bf69547	type	Gang of Hats
The Other Guys / int_5bf69547	comment	Gang of Hats: Inverted. Terry and Allen go up against people in business suits so many times because the bad guys are business people.
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The Other Guys / int_5c2aea32	type	Hot Pursuit
The Other Guys / int_5c2aea32	comment	Hot Pursuit: Gamble and Hoitz (and Ershon) are chased all over Manhattan by the Chechens and other crooked people that are pissed at being victims of Ershon's Ponzi scheme.
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The Other Guys / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
The Other Guys / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The end credits detail how Ponzi Schemes work, how the 2008 TARP bailout mostly went to corporations instead of people and how the wealth inequality between the rich and the poor rose over the years. Director Adam McKay went on to direct The Big Short, a movie about what lead to the 2008 financial crisis.
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The Other Guys / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
The Other Guys / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: Our heroes crash the Prius through the garage door rather than let Ershon open it first.
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The Other Guys / int_608bf5a0	type	Shoot the Hostage
The Other Guys / int_608bf5a0	comment	Shoot the Hostage: Wesley to Ershon.
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The Other Guys / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
The Other Guys / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: Allen says this about Sheila's cooking (see Domestic Abuse above). "Is that deer vagina I smell?" "These braised ribs taste like a dog's asshole."
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The Other Guys / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Other Guys / int_62f9d08e	comment	An officer can be seen in the background with one of his handcuffs hanging from his belt loop, rather than stored in a dedicated holder. Downplayed as some Real Life officers choose to store extra pairs of handcuffs without cases in a similar manner, but played straight because only one cuff is secured in the loop while the other hangs freely - a big no-no in police work.
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The Other Guys / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
The Other Guys / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Ershon is able to lose Wesley by convincing the crowd at his financial seminar to mob him with one simple sentence.
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The Other Guys / int_657bb751	type	The Yardies
The Other Guys / int_657bb751	comment	The Yardies: The drug dealers who Highsmith and Danson are tracking down at the start of the film are black men with dreadlocks, Jamaican accents, and Rasta caps. And they're armed with machine guns.
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The Other Guys / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
The Other Guys / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: Martin and Hoitz's fight at Danson and Highsmith's funeral was nothing to brag about, consisting mostly of wrestling on the floor. Justified, as they had to keep quiet at the funeral.
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The Other Guys / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Other Guys / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: What does Hoitz do, when he and Gamble are in shock after the nearby explosion and Gamble shouts that the destruction of the Death Star was all but realistic? Warn him not to bad-mouth Star Wars, of course.
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The Other Guys / int_6c81c95	type	True Art Is Incomprehensible
The Other Guys / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: Zigzagged. In the unrated version, they parody modern art with a coffee table with junk on it (with a sale price of $500,000), then it turns out Hoitz understands the "artsy-fartsy" piece better than his artistically-inclined ex does and still thinks it's crap. Then his genuine tirade is critiqued and cheered on as if it was a provocative performance piece. invoked
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The Other Guys / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
The Other Guys / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: Definitely leans in this direction. In particular, Danson and Highsmith are presented as beloved jerk characters for satirical effect, and they are one of many elements that lead to Conversational Troping of cop movie tropes not fitting real life. Not to mention the message at the end to the effect of "Corrupt Corporate Executives are the real criminals".
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The Other Guys / int_6df8075f	type	Clueless Chick-Magnet
The Other Guys / int_6df8075f	comment	Clueless Chick-Magnet: Gamble doesn't seem to notice that he's irresistible to hot women, something which utterly perplexes Hoitz.
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The Other Guys / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The Other Guys / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Terry once accidentally shot Derek Jeter.note He saw a dark figure coming down a set of stairs at the baseball stadium, and when the approaching shadow didn't stop and identify themself, Terry opened fire. This gets brought up so much that his nickname around the precinct is "Yankee Clipper".
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The Other Guys / int_6fcfbf9c	type	The Plot Reaper
The Other Guys / int_6fcfbf9c	comment	The Plot Reaper: The two supercops die, so Hoitz and Gamble have a chance at being in the spotlight.
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The Other Guys / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
The Other Guys / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Averted, then immediately lampshaded.
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The Other Guys / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
The Other Guys / int_71329e49	comment	A negligent discharge, particularly one as egregiously stupid as Gamble's "desk pop", would at minimum result in his suspension from duty pending mandatory remedial gun safety training... and likely a psychiatric evaluation as well. His outright dismissal from the department would not be unlikely.
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The Other Guys / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Other Guys / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: At the end of the movie, Hoitz and Gamble briefly discuss a case involving corruption at Goldman Sachs before driving off in a classic Camaro. In the unrated version, Derek Jeter reappears and hands Gamble and Hoitz their next case.
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The Other Guys / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Other Guys / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: In retrospective, swindling European crime gangs to invest in a Ponzi scheme was not the best of ideas, as Ershon discovered the hard way.
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The Other Guys / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Other Guys / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Only Hoitz uses two guns one time, and not like that. Plus, not a single Desert Eagle appears in the film.
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The Other Guys / int_758c3034	type	Prison Rape
The Other Guys / int_758c3034	comment	Prison Rape: Alluded to when one of the jerkass detectives taunts Ershon- "I hope you like prison food." (Beat) "...and penis." It's the "tips for staying out of jail" cop, too.
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The Other Guys / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
The Other Guys / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry: AMEERRRICAAAAA!!
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The Other Guys / int_7dafc482	type	ChewToy
The Other Guys / int_7dafc482	comment	Chew Toy: In a way. Hoitz certainly thinks he's this, and life does dump on him a lot, but it's evident much of his misfortune is his own fault, and him being such a terrible person isn't helping things. Character development, however, does help by the end of the movie.
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The Other Guys / int_7f2427a6	type	Dawson Casting
The Other Guys / int_7f2427a6	comment	Dawson Casting: Parodied. In a flashback to his college days, younger Gamble looks exactly like his older self. No attempts to hide his grey hair or wrinkles were made. invoked
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The Other Guys / int_81414673	type	AM/FM Characterization
The Other Guys / int_81414673	comment	AM/FM Characterization: While on their way to a crime scene, the impulsive and outspoken Terry plays some heavy metal music to get them pumped, only for the meek and nerdy Allen to switch it to Little River Band. When Terry tosses the easy-listening disk out the window, Allen reveals that his car's disk changer is full of nothing but disks of the same band.
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The Other Guys / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
The Other Guys / int_820ac351	comment	It Amused Me: When the bystander bank clerk asks Wesley whether or not he wants the transfer approved, he replies "You mate, I'm gonna kill just for fun.".
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The Other Guys / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
The Other Guys / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: Allen. "Where did you learn to drive like that?" "Grand Theft Auto!"
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The Other Guys / int_8687f945	type	What Were You Thinking?
The Other Guys / int_8687f945	comment	What Were You Thinking?: Terry, Gamble and the narrator can't believe that Danson and Highsmith were crazy and/or stupid enough to just jump off a building when there was absolutely nothing to cushion their fall.
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The Other Guys / int_87c7f99d	type	Sidetracked by the Analogy
The Other Guys / int_87c7f99d	comment	Sidetracked by the Analogy: Allen does this frequently, most notably Hoitz' rant about how much he hates Allen gets sidetracked into a scenario wherein tuna construct robotic land walking devices and begin hunting down and eating lions.
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The Other Guys / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
The Other Guys / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: The movie starts with an epic action sequence, showing off the cops' badassary - before it's revealed they aren't the main characters of the movie.
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The Other Guys / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Other Guys / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The list of all the disgusting things that happened to Gamble's car.
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The Other Guys / int_8a8f37f9	type	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement
The Other Guys / int_8a8f37f9	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law Enforcement: As a parody of the Buddy Cop and Cowboy Cop genres, this trope is played with heavily. Some notable examples: Danson and Highsmith are archetypal Cowboy Cops, to the extent that they are given awards for the reckless pursuit of some small-time marijuana dealers that results in over $12 million in collateral damage and during which they commandeer a bus still loaded with passengers. (A reporter does call them out on the minuscule value of drugs seized compared to the damage they caused, but is quickly shouted down.) A negligent discharge, particularly one as egregiously stupid as Gamble's "desk pop", would at minimum result in his suspension from duty pending mandatory remedial gun safety training... and likely a psychiatric evaluation as well. His outright dismissal from the department would not be unlikely. Gamble notes after his "apartment pop" that he has only fired his weapon twice, despite U.S. law enforcement being required to pass a gun safety class and live fire evaluation before being permitted to carry a service weapon. An officer can be seen in the background with one of his handcuffs hanging from his belt loop, rather than stored in a dedicated holder. Downplayed as some Real Life officers choose to store extra pairs of handcuffs without cases in a similar manner, but played straight because only one cuff is secured in the loop while the other hangs freely - a big no-no in police work.
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The Other Guys / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
The Other Guys / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: A few times. The first happens at the start of the movie when Danson flies towards the crooks he's been chasing in a car, firing his gun, and yelling, "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, TO REMAIN, SILENT! BUT I WANNA HEAR YOU SCREAM!", including the subsequent explosion.
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The Other Guys / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
The Other Guys / int_8c96ae78	comment	No One Could Survive That!: At the start, Highsmith crashed his car into a building that seemed to be Made of Explodium.
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The Other Guys / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
The Other Guys / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Detective Gamble
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The Other Guys / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
The Other Guys / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: The villains' helicopter is taken down with the help of some driving range patrons.
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The Other Guys / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Other Guys / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Danson and Highsmith have this happen to them early in the flick when one of their death-defying moments of glory goes horribly wrong. They leap off a building with no conveniently placed item to break their fall.
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The Other Guys / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
The Other Guys / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: The entire plot of the movie revolves around cops who feel that it is their time to step up and prove themselves in order to replace the two heroes of the setting when they die in the line of duty. Subverted in that, though Hoitz and Gamble ended up becoming heroes for exposing the white collar crime that was going to bankrupt the police pension fund, they don't become the heroic replacement super cops. They stay the Other Guys, who the film makes out to be the real heroes: the guys who don't look spectacular saving the day, but do it nonetheless.
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The Other Guys / int_9a2aee13	type	Heroic Bystander
The Other Guys / int_9a2aee13	comment	Heroic Bystander: When Hoitz and Gamble are being chased by a helicopter through Chelsea Piers, the golfers at the driving range help them out by shooting their balls at the copter and taking it out.
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The Other Guys / int_9c5ce9ed	type	Blunt Metaphors Trauma
The Other Guys / int_9c5ce9ed	comment	Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Hoitz, half of the time. "I'm a peacock; you gotta let me fly!"
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The Other Guys / int_9f87b4fb	type	Little Useless Gun
The Other Guys / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: Literally. Gamble's real gun is replaced by a wooden prop, and then that's taken away and replaced with a rape whistle.
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The Other Guys / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
The Other Guys / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: Most of the movie would have never happened if Gamble didn't bump into Ershon in the restaurant kitchen, recognize him, and arrest him for building code violations.
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The Other Guys / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Other Guys / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: David Ershon bandies the buzzword "excess" in his speech, just as Gordon Gekko did with "greed".
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The Other Guys / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Other Guys / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Captain Gene Mauch is an overall pleasant and patient man who, more often than not, has to be the Only Sane Man in his precinct filled with gun toting manchildren, who he is able to deal with quite skillfully. And the only reason he is ever obstructive to Gamble and Hoitz is because he knows how in over their heads they are and how stupidly dangerous the investigation is.
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The Other Guys / int_a32dcd7f	type	Desk Jockey
The Other Guys / int_a32dcd7f	comment	Desk Jockey: Gamble and Hoitz, for different reasons. Gamble is a forensic accountant, while Hoitz is stuck on desk duty after shooting Derek Jeter.
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The Other Guys / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
The Other Guys / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Captain Mauch, who is probably the most mellow example imaginable. It's also not his main job, as he moonlights as a manager at a Bed Bath and Beyond.
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The Other Guys / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
The Other Guys / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Derek Jeter has a cameo in Terry's flashback, where Terry mistakes him for an attacker and shoots him in the leg. He also shows up at the end of the unrated edition to give Hoitz and Gamble their next case.
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The Other Guys / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Other Guys / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Danson and Highsmith got away with pretty much all their destructive hijinks. Unfortunately for them, their Karma Houdini Warranty came up in the form of a self-inflicted twenty-story drop into some bushes—the bushes in this case being the cold, hard concrete sidewalk. Pamela Boardman ends up getting a federal bailout since Lendl Global is too big to fail. Martin and Fosse are utter douchebags throughout the movie but never suffer any major humiliation or suffering and indeed are implied to be filling in the "Super Cops" role in the eyes of the public that Danson and Highsmith left.
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The Other Guys / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Other Guys / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Some protagonists and antagonists seem to be star graduates. The boardroom scene is a highlight.
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The Other Guys / int_a8a0603e	type	Juggling Loaded Guns
The Other Guys / int_a8a0603e	comment	Juggling Loaded Guns: Gamble's "desk pop" scene, in which he is convinced to shoot his gun in the middle of the precinct, is played for laughs. The officers who talk him into it treat it as a big, hilarious prank, and at least one other officer can be seen high-fiving them afterwards. Likewise, the only repercussion from the incident is Gamble getting a fake wooden pistol to carry instead of his real one; as an added bonus, Captain Mauch also displays some poor safety habits when confiscating said gun.
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The Other Guys / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
The Other Guys / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: Danson and Highsmith cause enormous amounts of property damage to catch low-level drug offenders in the opening scene of the film. When a reporter rightfully points out how unnecessarily destructive the chase was, Highsmith quickly shuts him up.
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The Other Guys / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Other Guys / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Hoitz is a quick-tempered Manchild, but can identify Australian Special Forces at a glance and defeat several thugs in close combat. It's implied he was originally a skilled cop with a lot of potential but was sidelined thanks to a case of Once Done, Never Forgotten.
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The Other Guys / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Other Guys / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Foo Fighters' "My Hero" just before two "heroic" cops jump 20 stories straight into the sidewalk to their deaths. Then there's the Grand Theft Auto style chase in the final act, set to "Monday, Monday" by The Mamas and the Papas.
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The Other Guys / int_ac92aad1	type	White-Collar Crime
The Other Guys / int_ac92aad1	comment	White-Collar Crime: The credits detail not only some of the legit (but often greedy or stupid) finances that got us into the credit crunch but also some of the now blatant criminality of some financial practices, such as a Ponzi scheme.
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The Other Guys / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
The Other Guys / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: Happened to Gamble after he almost died of a drug overdose, which frightened him enough to make him step away from his life as a pimp and become as straight-laced as possible.
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The Other Guys / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Other Guys / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Samuel L. Jackson, as expected.
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The Other Guys / int_b08b714c	type	Good Policing, Evil Policing
The Other Guys / int_b08b714c	comment	Good Policing, Evil Policing: Hoitz and Gamble, for all of their bumbling and Hoitz's cavalierness, perform a thorough investigation and try to stick to the rules. In contrast—in terms of morality and competence—the Cowboy Cop duo of Danson and Highsmith are reckless in their pursuit of criminals to the point of causing property damage and eventually getting themselves killed, while Martin and Fosse dismiss possible leads just to get a collar ASAP and make the news. At one point, Captain Mauch even dismisses the late Danson and Highsmith as inefficient idiots not worth remembering, let alone imitating.
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The Other Guys / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
The Other Guys / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: While he never provides a term to replace it, Ershon still gets very defensive about admitting that the stuff he offers Allen and Terry in exchange for letting him go are bribes.
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The Other Guys / int_b0cbdcb1	type	Black Helicopter
The Other Guys / int_b0cbdcb1	comment	Black Helicopter: A very nice AS355 Twin Squirrel. Hoitz complains that because the gunmen have it, they're "cheating." The villains also use two unmarked (albeit white) vans.
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The Other Guys / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
The Other Guys / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Not used within the plot, but sets up a Brick Joke: Gamble mentions at one point that he developed a computer program in his off time named "Faceback", that allows computers to create a reconstruction of the back of a person's head from a picture of them facing a camera (and Terry instantly points out that it sounds stupid — if someone's already facing the camera, what use is creating a picture of them from behind?). In the closing narration, the narrator mentions that the precinct's forensic investigators eventually figured out that the program could also work to reconstruct how a person's face looks like from a picture of them facing away from the camera.
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The Other Guys / int_b3230549	type	419 Scam
The Other Guys / int_b3230549	comment	419 Scam: Among the collectors Ershon owes money to are multiple Nigerian princes.
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The Other Guys / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
The Other Guys / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: Danson and Highsmith. Ultimately subverted when they jump off a building, expecting to miraculously survive somehow. They don't.
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The Other Guys / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Other Guys / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: With Danson and Highsmith: "Aim for the bushes."
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The Other Guys / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Other Guys / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Hoitz is told by a fellow cop that he should have shot Alex Rodriguez instead of Jeter.
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The Other Guys / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Other Guys / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Danson and Highsmith. Badasses? Indeed. So much so, that cheating death seems to be their calling card. And so, they decide to test just how badass they are by jumping off of a 20-story building to chase the bad guys. It ends just about as well as you'd expect. Too Cool to Live is parodied in the same manner, and at their funeral.
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The Other Guys / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Other Guys / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Apparently Gamble wants to do something to Sheila involving a mannequin hand and a golf club with a shaving razor attached to it.
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The Other Guys / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Other Guys / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Subverted. Neither the characters nor the audience is thrilled to discover that the local SEC lawyer assigned to look over the evidence moonlights as Ershon's personal attorney, but he isnâ€™t corrupt and becomes suicidally distraught after seeing the evidence before ultimately getting murdered for knowing too much.
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The Other Guys / int_b6d3e6fc	type	Smokescreen Crime
The Other Guys / int_b6d3e6fc	comment	Smokescreen Crime: A heavily-armed crew robs a jewelry store in a heist that involves the use of a wrecking ball. However, the perpetrators' true target is an adjoining accounting firm which they snuck into and altered the books.
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The Other Guys / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
The Other Guys / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Gamble and Hoitz accepting Ershon's tickets is really close to this trope. They eventually stop falling for the bribes, if only because he's run out of tickets for shows they like.
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The Other Guys / int_b95c0fe9	type	Villainous Gold Tooth
The Other Guys / int_b95c0fe9	comment	Villainous Gold Tooth: Allen had an entire golden denture during his days as a pimp.
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The Other Guys / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Other Guys / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Gamble's ex-girlfriend, Christinith, completely flies off the handle when Hoitz mispronounces her name as "Christina".
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The Other Guys / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Other Guys / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Hoitz can shoot down an overhead banner to take down motorcyclists pursuing him. Wesley can pull off three non-fatal shots in rapid succession at close-range (Though his skills of being an ex-special forces professional bodyguard did helped).
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The Other Guys / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
The Other Guys / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Gamble's ex-girlfriend's husband. Why is he telling Hoitz about shaving his chest?
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The Other Guys / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Other Guys / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The film takes place in New York City. Gamble, Hoitz, and their colleagues are all NYPD officers, and Hoitz is infamous within the department for having mistakenly shot Derek Jeter while on security duty in Yankee Stadium.
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The Other Guys / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Other Guys / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: The titular duo are alternately crazy, violent and rude, but their goals are noble and sympathetic at least. Cheerfully deconstructed with Danson and Highsmith, whose Cowboy Cop antics are noted to be disproportionately destructive and whose Cowboy Cop attitude doesn't save them from the fact that long falls from a great height with no parachute can be fatal.
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The Other Guys / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
The Other Guys / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Allen and Sheila. No, really.
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The Other Guys / int_bf75c797	type	Binge Montage
The Other Guys / int_bf75c797	comment	In the beginning of the film Will Ferrell's character is convinced to do a "desk pop". When he fires his gun in Mark Wahlberg's apartment, he offhandedly says "Apartment pop". The Binge Montage even has a couple of "bar pops".
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The Other Guys / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
The Other Guys / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Invoked, but subverted when Allen thinks that they're doing "Bad Cop/Bad Cop."
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The Other Guys / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Other Guys / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: "It turned backwards, then it went upside down!"
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The Other Guys / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
The Other Guys / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: A lot of the humor in this film stems from watching the leads get injured, fooled or otherwise humiliated.
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The Other Guys / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Other Guys / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The captain is named Gene Mauch. The final Car Chase has a huge nod to Grand Theft Auto which Gamble namedrops when Hoitz asked when did he learn to drive like that. Allen then performs a PIT manoeuvre — this move is actually required to complete the driving school in San Andreas. When they are chased by bad guys, Allen says that there is a shortcut at the Chelsea Pier. Eventually, they end up on the fenced-off driving range. In GTA IV there is really a shortcut in this place.
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The Other Guys / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Other Guys / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Both Allen and Terry. It's probably easier to list the characters who aren't.
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The Other Guys / int_cebc6ed0	type	Funeral Cut
The Other Guys / int_cebc6ed0	comment	Funeral Cut: After Danson and Highsmith jump to their deaths chasing the perps, the scene cuts straight to their funeral.
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The Other Guys / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Other Guys / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: After a couple of botch-ups, the rest of the police stop believing Gamble and Hoitz.
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The Other Guys / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
The Other Guys / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: When Gamble and Hoitz first go to Ershon's office, he's watching Hentai on his laptop, and has trouble turning it off.
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The Other Guys / int_d3e9483a	type	Non-Fatal Explosions
The Other Guys / int_d3e9483a	comment	Non-Fatal Explosions: Averted and lampshaded, after a shop blows up a few feet from Hoitz and Gamble's faces, they lay half-deaf and in pain on the ground.
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The Other Guys / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
The Other Guys / int_d6707631	comment	Waxing Lyrical: Captain Mauch swears he doesn't know he's quoting TLC.
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The Other Guys / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Other Guys / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Played for laughs. The Brazilian Woman is only credited as The Brazilian Woman.
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The Other Guys / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Other Guys / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Soup kitchen" Averted with Gamble, who still calls it a "dating service".
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The Other Guys / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
The Other Guys / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Everyone in the precinct pretty much ignores every conversation that Gamble and Hoitz have with each other. Though one person reacts when Hoitz smashes his computer to the ground. Also, when Hoitz forces Gamble at gunpoint in the hall to pursue Ershon, Gamble calls out to bystanders that no one is doing anything about it.
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The Other Guys / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
The Other Guys / int_dbfd6b8	comment	"While their Harry Potter books were burned..."
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The Other Guys / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Other Guys / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite being Da Chief and frequently chastising Hoitz and Gamble for their antics, Captain Mauch is willing to hear them out and tries to keep them safe. Notably, even after he's reassigned them both, he's perfectly cordial when seeing them at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
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The Other Guys / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Other Guys / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Bob. Just Bob. First, he gets yelled at by Terry just for asking him to come to a conference; then we see him at the board meeting, about to invest the police pension fund; then finally when Wesley is apprehended, he's one of the cops with their guns on him.
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The Other Guys / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
The Other Guys / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: Trump Tower's lobby gets incinerated by an exploding Chevy Nova in the film's prologue. Danson and Highsmith at work.
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The Other Guys / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
The Other Guys / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Subverted. Hoitz keeps thinking that all the crimes/criminals are drug-related when in fact they are white-collar financial crimes. Also, Danson and Highsmith cause millions of dollars worth of damage chasing after some guys who only have a small amount of marijuana on them.
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The Other Guys / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: The movie begins with an epic action sequence involving Danson and Highsmith, setting them up as Cowboy Cop Action Heroes, before they die a few scenes later. Than the narration fully concentrates on Gamble and Hoitz.
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The Other Guys / int_e3f88af2	type	The Real Heroes
The Other Guys / int_e3f88af2	comment	The Real Heroes: The Aesop of the movie is that the real heroes are the ones who genuinely make the world a better place and work behind the scenes instead of doing more harm than good and still getting in the paper for being big and flashy like Highsmith and Danson.
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The Other Guys / int_e5434af9	comment	Gamble's Prius being used for hobo orgies.
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The Other Guys / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Allen sure takes a long time to admit that he was a pimp in college. Ershon has a similar hangup with the word "bribe".
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The Other Guys / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Gamble's ex-girlfriend and her husband, who chase Gamble and Hoitz twenty miles on foot. Danson and Highsmith jumping off a building chasing a bunch of thieves. The fall kills them pretty much instantly.
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The Other Guys / int_ea2c8da6	type	Watch the Paint Job
The Other Guys / int_ea2c8da6	comment	Watch the Paint Job: Boy, does that Prius suffer.
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The Other Guys / int_ea6fdefb	type	Casual Danger Dialog
The Other Guys / int_ea6fdefb	comment	Casual Danger Dialog: "Your hair is really soft!"
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The Other Guys / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Other Guys / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Detective Hoitz at the beginning is absurdly belligerent to everyone. He mellows out a bit towards the end.
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The Other Guys / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Other Guys / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Allen. "Is that a wastebasket?"
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The Other Guys / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
The Other Guys / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The Prius is slowly transformed into this during the course of the movie, from hobo orgies to gunfire. Highsmith seemed to have a history of getting his cars wrecked.
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The Other Guys / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Other Guys / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: In the extended version, Derek Jeter has not only put the shooting incident behind him, but is working with Hoitz and Gamble now.
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The Other Guys / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Other Guys / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Of the hero being willing to hit a villainess kind. We don't actually see Hoitz hit the Brazilian Dark Action Girl but he does so hard enough that she's still unconscious several minutes later.
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The Other Guys / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Other Guys / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: It's everywhere in the movie with the most prominent being Gamble's Toyota Prius and Captain Mauch working at Bed Bath and Beyond, of course. In one scene Gamble is drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade. Another has Gamble and Hoitz practically shilling Jersey Boys. "While their Harry Potter books were burned..." "Your hair is really soft!" "V05 Hot Oil!" Every computer is a Sony Vaio (Including the one Hoitz smashes onto the office floor in a rage).
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The Other Guys / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
The Other Guys / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Danson and Highsmith, who plow their car into a double-decker tour bus in the opening.
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The Other Guys / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Other Guys / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Captain Mauch unwittingly quoting lyrics from the band TLC with Detective Hoitz and Gamble's disbelief that he's doing it by accident. Random attractive women being into Gamble (Except Terry's girlfriend). So far, we had his current wife Sheila, whom Hoitz notes to be "smoking hot" and is smitten by, his ex-wife Christinith who is still both romantically and psychotically crazy for him, The Brazilian Woman, Brooke Shields and at the end, Gamble says he lost his virginity to Heather Locklear. Wesley and his fellow thugs taking Hoitz's shoes and Gamble's wooden gun. Gamble's Prius being used for hobo orgies. Hoitz's fascination with Sheila that causes him to repeat everything concerning her a few times. During a conversation with her husband, nonetheless. Ershon's insistence that everything he offers Gamble and Hoitz to let him go is most definitely not a bribe.
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The Other Guys / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
The Other Guys / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: Allen thinks Terry's disappointment in a "Female Body Inspector" mug is because he doesn't get the joke.
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The Other Guys / int_fbcdeede	type	Leap of Faith
The Other Guys / int_fbcdeede	comment	And Highsmith and Danson are, of course, not prepared to live outside a Bad Boys-esque action-thriller as evidenced by their infamous Leap of Faith to their deaths.
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The Other Guys / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The Other Guys / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When Hoitz tries to mock Gamble by saying he's a lion and Gamble's a tuna, Gamble goes off on a tangent about how tuna could beat lions in the water, and evolve ways to fight them upstream and on land. When Sheila informs her husband that she's pregnant, his first question is "Whose baby is that?!" and reverts to his Gator persona.
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The Other Guys / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Other Guys / int_fe0330fb	comment	Faceback. May overlap with Brick Joke.
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The Other Guys / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Other Guys / int_fed93e1b	comment	Straight-laced Gamble acts that way because of a Dark and Troubled Past as a (literal) pimp in college. Now he's also a software expert.
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