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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|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.
 
Compare ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''.
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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** Hoitz is basically [[The Departed|Dignam]], reassigned and demoted instead of {{spoiler|left on his own to kill off Sullivan}} as per [[Reality Ensues]]. {{spoiler|Bonus points for Gamble ambushing Hoitz in his own apartment.}}
*** Also, when Terry is in group therapy for officers who have had to fire their weapons in the line of duty, everyone but him is extremely proud of themselves. In ''[[The Departed]]'', [[Leonardo Di CaprioDiCaprio]]'s character tells his therapists that cops who cry about having to fire a weapon is something made-up for tv, and that real cops love it.
** He could also be the [[Max Payne (Filmfilm)|other]] Wahlberg's cop role.
** And Gamble yelling at length about injuries (or even a ''hangover'') comes all the way from his role in the first two [[Austin Powers]] movies.
*** Speaking of hangovers, Rob Riggle demands his taser back from a class of schoolchildren, parodying his [[One-Scene Wonder]] role in ''[[The Hangover]]''.
** While doing [[Samuel L. Jackson]]'s paperwork, Will Farrell hums the theme from ''S.W.A.T.'' Jackson played Hondo in [[The Movie]].
* [[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.
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]]:
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Given that he's a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], a perv, and [[Evil Brit|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.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: The Prius is slowly transformed into this during the course of the movie, from hobo orgies to ''gunfire''.
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: In the unrated version, {{spoiler|Derek Jeter reappears and hands Gamble and Hoitz their next case.}}
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: Desk pop.
* [[As Himself]]: Derek Jeter!
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* [[Bavarian Fire Drill]]: "Ladies and gentlemen, guess who gave me the secret to making my first million... That guy there!"
* [[Binge Montage]]
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: [[Samuel L. Jackson]] and [[Dwayne Johnson]]'s supercop characters 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.
* [[Black Helicopter]] (and two unmarked white vans)
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Ershon is adamant that offering ten million dollars to cops for not doing their job is definitely not a bribe. Gamble {{spoiler|insists that he wasn't a pimp}}.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: 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".
** The {{spoiler|flying peacock}} at the end of the movie.
** [[Everything's Better Withwith Bob|Bob.]] Just Bob. First he gets yelled at by Terry just for asking him to come to a conference; then we see him at {{spoiler|the board meeting, about to invest the police pension fund}}; then finally when Wesley is apprehended, {{spoiler|he's one of the cops with their guns on him.}}
** After Ershon learns that Gamble calls himself "Gator," he is shown in prison wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of the University of Florida Gators.
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Mrs. Gamble is a little too forward about her sex life, even to her parents.
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* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Detectives Danson and Highsmith are the standard badass version while Detective Hoitz tries to be this and drags [[By-The-Book Cop|Gamble]] along for the ride.
* [[Cringe Comedy]]: Oh boy....
* [[Cut His Heart Out Withwith a Spoon]]: Roger Wesley threatens to slice David Ershon's ear off with a butterknife. Ershon even lampshades it by saying, "Oh, that's blunt. Blunt's worse than if it's sharp."
* [[Da Chief]]: Captain Mauch, who is probably the most mellow example imaginable.
* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]: When Gamble & Hoitz first go to Ershon's office, he's watching [[Hentai]] on his laptop, and has trouble turning it off.
* [[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 of wrinkles were made.
* [[Deconstructive Parody]]: Definitely leans in this direction. In particular, Danson and Highsmith are presented as [[Jerk Sue]] 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 as the real criminals".
* [[Death Asas Comedy]]: {{spoiler|Danson and Highsmith's "jump" is played as nothing short of utterly hilarious.}}
* [[Determinator]]: Gamble's ex-girlfriend and her husband. "COME BACK HERE AND HAVE SEX WITH MY WIFE!"
** "He chased us twenty miles?!"
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* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: Roger Wesley is for all intents and purposes the main villain. Nominally [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|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.
** He is more of [[The Heavy]] than this, really.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: You gotta wonder how [[Samuel L. Jackson]] and [[Dwayne Johnson]] could sign on for a movie where {{spoiler|their characters are killed in the first twenty minutes over a stupidly hilarious stunt gone horribly awry.}}
** [[Money, Dear Boy|Yeah,]] [[Rule of Cool|you]] [[Rule of Funny|really do.]]
*** Actually, [[Doing It for Thethe Art|given both of their approach to acting,]] how much they're both known for loving what they do, and how fun both of those role obviously were, it's not that hard to explain.
*** Also, given how both have already done films that make fun of their action hero typecasting, it makes sense.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Hoitz keeps thinking that all the crimes/criminals are drug related when in fact they are white collar financial crimes.}} Also {{spoiler|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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** Also parodied when they {{spoiler|interrogate Ershon in his office}}.
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: The Chechen version of "Dora the Explorer."
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Completely subverted]] We get to watch [[Dwayne Johnson]] and [[Samuel L. Jackson]] fall to their deaths, without any scene cut whatsoever, including when they hit the ground.}}
* [[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.
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** Well, the latter is not so improbable for a {{spoiler|ex-special forces professional bodyguard}}.
* [[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'.
* [[Insult Backfire]] / [[Sidetracked Byby the Analogy]]: Involving lions and tuna.
* [[It Amused Me]]: "You mate, I'm gonna kill just for fun." - Wesley, to the bystander bank clerk who asks him whether or not he want the transfer approved.
* [[It Tastes Like Feet]]: Allen says this about Sheila's cooking (see [[Moral Dissonance]] below).
* [[Jerkass]]: Detective Hoitz.
** [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Pamela Boardman when she gets a bailout}}.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Detective Gamble.
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* [[Serious Business]]: What does Hoitz do, when he and Gamble are in shock after the 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.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The captain is named [[wikipedia:Gene Mauch|Gene Mauch]].
* [[Sidetracked Byby the Analogy]]: Allen does this frequently.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: [[Foo Fighters (Music)|Foo Fighters]]' "My Hero" just before {{spoiler|two heroic cops jump 20 stories straight into the sidewalk.}}
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Gator for {{spoiler|Allen}}.
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