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Was met with mixed reviews but did moderately well at the box office.
 
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* [[I Meant to Do That]]: A variant. Dick and Jane try to hide how poor they are, but even their lawn plants are rented, and the company that rented them out comes to claim them after the check bounces. Jane sees the neighbor watching, so she starts ''ordering'' them to remove the plants, claiming they put in the wrong ones and she wants them gone and her money back.
* [[Involuntary Charity Donation]]: At the end of the remake, {{spoiler|Dick and Jane forge Jack's signature to set up a relief fund for former Globodyne employees using the money Jack stole from the company.}}
* [[It Works Better Withwith Bullets]]: Dick's third failed robbery.
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: Remake only.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: In the remake, a bank head pretends to call Dick in for a job interview, even letting him to bypass a long line of people queueing up for it. It turns out that he's just there so that the guy and the other higher-ups in the bank can mock him and take more pictures of him for the 'net. Turns into a [[The Dog Bites Back]] moment when Dick and Jane rob the guy, getting him fired in the process.
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* [[Police Are Useless]]: The remake has a Latino man being mistaken for Dick via a ''picture ID'' by the INS.
* [[Promoted to Scapegoat]]: Remake only.
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: Jane calls Jack McCallister a FUCKER for stealing all their money in the remake.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: When Dick is asked where he's getting all his money.
* [[Swiss Bank Account]]: The local bad guy has stashed all his plundered money in an offshore bank account (it's never mentioned what country it belongs to).
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