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''[[Spy Hard]]'' (1996) is an action-comedy movie that marked the film debuts of [[Seltzer and Friedberg]], spoofing spy and other action films. [[Leslie Nielsen]] stars as [[James Bond|Dick Steele]], Agent WD-40, opposite Nicolette Sheridan as his partner [[Femme Fatale|Veronique Ukrinsky]], Agent 3.14, as the two try to stop the evil genius, General Rancor ([[Andy Griffith]]), from taking over the world.
The film was clearly aiming for the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker style of [[Rapid
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* [[Blind Driving]]: See [[Drives Like Crazy]] below.
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* [[Eye Poke]]: Used against Dick Steele. He blocks successfully but he's punched out immediately after anyway.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Followed the spy movie parody genre - which is odd because [[James Bond]] never took itself seriously anyway.
* [[Full
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: The bad guys use a pillow to silence the ''machine gun'' they are using to execute prisoners.
** To be fair, they were using it to execute a [[Acceptable Target|mime]].
*** Even better, in the Dutch subtitles, they "''leg hem het zwijgen op''". ("Silence him.")
* [[Inner Monologue Conversation]]: A seductress responds vocally to Dick's [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Bill Conti's score utilizes numerous parodies of famous movie music, including ''[[Home Alone]]'', ''[[True Lies]]'', ''[[
* [[Left the Background Music On]]: [[Da Chief|The Chief]] is talking, while facing the camera, about how horrible it will be if General Rancor succeeds in his master plan, while a violin is playing in the background. He then gets annoyed and turns around to yell at the violinist standing to the side.
* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Parodied. The heroes get jumped by enemy mooks mid-montage.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: Weird Al Yankovic's head, after holding the final note of the title theme for about two minutes.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: "McClatchey" is clearly supposed to be a stand-in for Macaulay Culkin.
** [[And This Is For]]: The bad guys hit him for the bad movies Culkin did.
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* [[Noisy Nature]]: Parodied.
* [[Nun
* [[Parody Failure]]: Partial example with the spoof sequence of ''[[True Lies]]'', given that that was ''itself'' a comedic and near-parodic take on spy action films.
** Similarly, there is a parody of the already absurd scene from [[Pulp Fiction]] where [[John Travolta]] and [[Uma Thurman]] dance [[Batman (TV series)|the Batusi]]. It's no more ridiculous than the original.
** Don't forget the [[Sister Act]] spoof, another film that was already a comedy.
** Basically [[Foreshadowing]] of [[Seltzer and Friedberg]]'s later films. They never do seem to know if the movie they're spoofing was a drama, or an actual comedy.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: Andy Griffith as a supervillian
* [[Pungeon Master]]: General Rancor.
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* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: That note that Weird Al sings that was edited to last for a ridiculously long amount of time? Nope. That was the plan, but Al found out he really could hold the note out that long.
* [[Running Gag]]: A jogger is frequently injured during the film. Also the guy who keeps getting hit in the chest with arrows and knives.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Parodied.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[
* [[Suicidal Gotcha]]: Steele escapes by jumping off a roof, only to appear again in a Harrier jump-jet, scaring off the pursuers. It is then revealed to be a prop being lifted by a helicopter for a billboard.
* [[Take My Hand]]
* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]
* [[This Page Will Self
* [[Wafer
* [[Wag the Director]]: The final screenplay for the film was supposedly thrown together hastily by Leslie Nielsen, Rick Friedberg and another writer, after Nielsen had serious issues with the original screenplay that Jason Friedberg and Aaron Selzter had written. This probably accounts for the somewhat disjointed nature of the final product.
* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: Parodied.
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