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The Spy Next Door

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34 feature instances
7 referencing feature instances

The Spy Next Door	type	TVTItem
The Spy Next Door	label	The Spy Next Door
The Spy Next Door	page	TheSpyNextDoor
The Spy Next Door	comment	Jackie Chan's only movie aimed directly at kids, rather than families. It stars Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez, Amber Valleta (as Gillian) from Gamer and The Transporter 2 and three kids. Later in 2010, Chan made the much better-recieved The Karate Kid.It follows Bob Ho (Chan), a CIA agent who retires so that he can spend more time with his girlfriend, Gillian, who lives next door, and her three kids ( Nora, Farren, and Ian). When Gillian goes away to visit her father in the hospital, Bob agrees to babysit the children. Hilarity Ensues. However, a plot by Russian spies looking for a stolen secret formula they believe Ho has threatens to put the entire family, and the world, in danger.
The Spy Next Door	fetched	2023-06-30T04:12:48Z
The Spy Next Door	parsed	2023-06-30T04:12:48Z
The Spy Next Door	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Spy Next Door / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Spy Next Door / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Chan's character, Bob Ho, is a secret spy disguising himself as a pen importer.
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The Spy Next Door / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Spy Next Door / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: There are numerous impressive stunts in the trailer and ads. They are indeed in the movie...during the opening credits, as a series of clips to establish Bob Ho's skills. Even more egregiously, the clips were not actually filmed for The Spy Next Door; they were all taken from Jackie Chan's earlier films.
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The Spy Next Door / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Spy Next Door / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Ian feeds leftover bacon to their pet pig. The bacon is really just "Beggin' Strips".
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The Spy Next Door / int_23a633a8	type	Parental Fashion Veto
The Spy Next Door / int_23a633a8	comment	Parental Fashion Veto: Farren tries to go out in short skirts and crop tops, but Gillian and Bob make her go back and change.
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The Spy Next Door / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Spy Next Door / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad Farren's biological father, who abandoned her, leaving her with Gillian.
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The Spy Next Door / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Spy Next Door / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Bob singing lullabies to Nora in Chinese. Doubles as The Cast Showoff due to Jackie Chan's classically-trained and seldom-used singing pipes.
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The Spy Next Door / int_428197ae	type	Action-Hero Babysitter
The Spy Next Door / int_428197ae	comment	Action-Hero Babysitter: Bob Ho, of course.
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The Spy Next Door / int_45332ff5	type	Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting
The Spy Next Door / int_45332ff5	comment	Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Every single villain knows martial arts.
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The Spy Next Door / int_47dc2eeb	type	Everyone Owns a Mac
The Spy Next Door / int_47dc2eeb	comment	Everyone Owns a Mac
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The Spy Next Door / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
The Spy Next Door / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Again, with using scenes of Jackie Chan's older films (including a scene from Armor of God) at the start to introduce him as a martial arts badass spy.
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The Spy Next Door / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
The Spy Next Door / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: Bob susses out a spy by saying something Russian.
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The Spy Next Door / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Spy Next Door / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Farren does have a point that when Bob came over to their house prior to the movie's events, it was only to see Gillian; he never even spoke to the kids. It's really kind of a Clueless Aesop, though: we are given ample evidence that the kids avoid Bob like the plague, so how is he supposed to "speak to them" in the first place? If anyone's to blame, it's Gillian for never talking about the kids!
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The Spy Next Door / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
The Spy Next Door / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Bob and Gillian almost kiss in the beginning but Gillian interrupts with "We got an audience", referencing the kids.
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The Spy Next Door / int_811c990b	type	Stuffed into a Trashcan
The Spy Next Door / int_811c990b	comment	Stuffed Into A Trash Can: Ian got stuffed into one by bullies, after the poor kid got wedgied.
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The Spy Next Door / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Spy Next Door / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Pretty much all of the kids. Even their own mother can't deal with them. Farren is easily the worst offender. Ian and Nora warm up to Bob pretty quickly, but Farren acts like a complete brat in comparison. Arguably it could be because she's a teenager, but she generally comes off as an awful person.
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The Spy Next Door / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
The Spy Next Door / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: The main villain is more of a comical character than anything, not doing anything to pose as scary. Would qualify as Laughably Evil if his 'jokes' were actually funny.
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The Spy Next Door / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
The Spy Next Door / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: The villainess literally takes candy from a kid.
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The Spy Next Door / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
The Spy Next Door / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The oil-eating bacteria would be very useful in the Gulf of Mexico or some other major oil spill - or as a slimming product.
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The Spy Next Door / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Spy Next Door / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: A single mom leaves her three annoying children with her boyfriend, who they hate very much. What could go wrong!? Of course, Hilarity Ensues.
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The Spy Next Door / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
The Spy Next Door / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: Though every Jackie Chan movie fight scene is under this category, there's also a scene in which Bob tosses a small kid no older than 5 up in the air extremely high, and she lands into her clothes. Of course, if you were to do this in real life, it would be considered child abuse with a 99.9% chance the child will die. Unless you're Jackie Chan doing it.
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The Spy Next Door / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
The Spy Next Door / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: The substance-dissolving MacGuffin and the spy with a Secret Identity and romance problems were all in Agent Cody Banks.
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The Spy Next Door / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Spy Next Door / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Farren wants to be this, but obviously neither Bob nor Gillian are going to allow a 13 year old to be so.
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The Spy Next Door / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Spy Next Door / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Bob acts as a pushover to the kids, especially Farren, with whom he has no idea is trying to run him out of the family, he acts soft and passive to the kids rather than strict and stern person in authority, and that the kids have to respect him as an adult. The only people he isn't lenient to are criminals.
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The Spy Next Door / int_baa90ed2	type	Wedgie
The Spy Next Door / int_baa90ed2	comment	Wedgie: Ian gets a pretty big one from his bullies at school revealing his briefs to the entire student body in the hallway. Followed by his wedgie, he gets Stuffed into a Trash Can.
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The Spy Next Door / int_bfc84d44	type	Calling Parents by Their Name
The Spy Next Door / int_bfc84d44	comment	Calling Parents by Their Name: Bob notices that Farren calls Gillian by her first name instead of "mom". When he talks to Farren about this, she explains that it is because Gillian is not her birth mom, but her stepmom.
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The Spy Next Door / int_c957b993	type	Nerds Speak Klingon
The Spy Next Door / int_c957b993	comment	Nerds Speak Klingon: While snooping around on Bob's computer, Ian finds some interesting files.
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The Spy Next Door / int_ddac33c8	type	The Nudifier
The Spy Next Door / int_ddac33c8	comment	The Nudifier: Family-friendly variant as the oil-eating bacteria only consumes the villainess' shoes.
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The Spy Next Door / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Spy Next Door / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Gillian is capable of some rather offhanded violence when she thinks the kids are in danger, from dragging a guy away from her cab
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The Spy Next Door / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Spy Next Door / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: George Lopez' character turns out to be a villain near the end.
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The Spy Next Door / int_ecb480a4	type	Two Words: I Can't Count
The Spy Next Door / int_ecb480a4	comment	Two Words: I Can't Count: When Bob meets Farren’s older teenage date, Larry (who is soon revealed to be a Russian operative, and whose beatdown by Bob leads to him revealing to the kids that he’s a spy), he tries to warn him not to get too close to her by pointing out she’s too young, counting a one-word number as two words:
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The Spy Next Door / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
The Spy Next Door / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Bob gets a mini-flamethrower, which he uses to heat up the toast and bacon.
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The Spy Next Door / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Spy Next Door / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The freshly-sprung main villain going through one lousy outfit to replace his Institutional Apparel after another. Although the Siegfried And Roy suit looked all right.
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The Spy Next Door / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Spy Next Door / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Even though Farren has trouble getting along with Gillian and Ian, she is nice to Nora, hugging her after gymnastics practice.
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