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A 2010 Adam McKay action comedy that satirizes the [[Buddy Cops]] picture.
''The Other Guys'' focuses on two New York City police detectives Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz ([[Will Ferrell]] and [[Mark Wahlberg]]) that have been office pencil pushers for years, while the station's two top cops Highsmith and Danson ([[Samuel L. Jackson]] and [[Dwayne Johnson|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.
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* [[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.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Gamble doesn't seem to notice that he's irresistible to hot women, something which utterly perplexes Hoitz.
** To be fair, [[Weirdness Magnet|there's always something wrong with those women]].
* [[Click. "Hello."]]: Done to a harmless clerk during the climax.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: '''Both''' Allen and Terry.
** It's probably easier to list the characters who aren't.
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* [[Epic Fail]]: With Danson and Highsmith {{spoiler|"Aim for the bushes"}}.
* [[Eyedscreen]]: kicking off the movie's climax from the boardroom (see [[Guns Akimbo]] above) onwards.
** When they are chased by bad guys, Allen says that there is a shortcut at the Chelsea Pier. Eventually, {{spoiler|they and up on the fenced-off mini-golf course}}. In ''GTA IV'', there is really a shortcut in this place.
** Hoitz having the mad skills to curb-stomp a band of motorcycle hitmen single-handedly may well have stemmed from the physical coordination derived from ''dance lessons''.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: A helicopter. Also, the Escalade in the beginning.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Detective Hoitz.
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Pamela Boardman when she gets a bailout}}.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Detective Gamble.
* [[Little Useless Gun]]: Literally. Gamble's real gun is replaced by a wooden prop and then {{spoiler|that's taken away and replaced with a rape whistle}}.
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** This is also how The Rock's and Sam Jackson's characters died early in the movie.
* [[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
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[Running Gag]]: Captain Mauch [[Waxing Lyrical|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 ([[Averted Trope|except Terry's girlfriend]]).
*** Not merely 'attractive' but explicitly 'hot' (i.e. sexy) women; Terry's girlfriend is played by Lindsay Sloane who, though pretty, is more of an [[Girl Next Door|understated attractiveness]] than the obvious babes that seem to fall for Gamble.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: {{spoiler|Danson and Highsmith}}.
* [[Troperrific]]
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: Zigzagged. In the unrated version, they parody modern art with a coffee table with junk on it, then it turns out Hoitz understands the "artsy-fartsy" piece better than his artistically inclined ex does and still thinks its crap. Then his genuine tirade is critiqued and cheered on as if it was provocative performance piece.
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Allen and Sheila. No, really.
{{quote|'''Terry:''' "Seriously, who ''is'' she?"}}
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{{quote|''How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them? There's NO WAY!''}}
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Soup kitchen".
** Averted with Gamble, who still calls it a "dating service".
{{quote|"That was no pimp... [[Overly Long Gag|Pimps don't cry."]]}}
* [[Visual Pun]]: Hoitz and Gamble may have given the term "Driving Range" a new meaning.
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* [[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.
* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: {{spoiler|Gamble/Gator gets one of these when he allows himself to lose control (just a little)}}.
* [[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.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Wahlberg's character seems to be forcibly trying to turn his life into a [[Buddy Cop Show|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 Are Bad|drugs]] somehow.
** And Highsmith and Danson are, of course, {{spoiler|not prepared to live outside a Bad Boys-esque action-thriller}}.
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