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{{quote|''"I thought this was gonna be funny, but instead it's just kinda sad."''|'''Det. Nichols''', ''Observe and Report''}}
''Observe and Report'' (2009) is a ''very'' dark comedy starring Seth Rogen as a delusional mall security guard who becomes obsessed with catching a flasher. Being released 3 months after the [[Comedy Ghetto|PG-rated]] ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]'', the films have drawn inevitable [[Dueling Movies|comparisons]] to each other.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: {{spoiler|Dennis seems to be a quiet-natured and supportive friend who genuinely believes he can help Ronnie... by getting him to steal, beat up kids and take heroin. Even after betraying Ronnie, he sends a friendly postcard.}}
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Brandi through and through.
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** {{spoiler|Ronnie shoots the flasher in the chest. Sure, he's a flasher, but gunfire is a bit much for such a petty criminal. He doesn't die and is duly arrested, though.}}
** Ronnie might be a jerk and a hindrance, but {{spoiler|Detective Harrison going out of his way to personally inform Ronnie that he failed the psychological test to become a police officer and the enjoyment he got from seeing Ronnie's dream crushed was just cruel. One of his fellow pranksters even calls him on it, saying it's "just sad."}}
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* [[Dueling Movies]]: This film and ''Paul Blart Mall Cop'', created completely independently, as most dueling films are.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Detective Harrison is just a cop trying to bust a flasher and butting heads with a seriously deranged mall cop, but he's also such a sleazebag that he manages to stay pretty firmly in the villain category.
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* [[Playing Against Type]]: While Rogen has played jerks before, he earned his fame playing likable schlubs. Many viewers expected Ronnie to be along a similar line, rather than the seriously disturbed man that he is.
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: What Ronnie believes being left at "the crossroads" was.
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* [[Stood Up]]: What Brandi tried to do to Ronnie. Subverted when he waits outside her house for hours until she arrives and convinces her to still go out with him.
* [[Throwing Off the Disability]]: Nell, towards the end, though she was never truly disabled; she was just recovering from surgery.
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