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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-Fire Comedy]], but fell short and probably suffered from comparisons to the still-recent ''[[
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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-Moon Silhouette]]: Executed during the ''[[
* [[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]]'', ''[[E.T. the
* [[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-Too-Holy]]: ... but they will [[More Dakka|make]] ''you'' hole-y.
* [[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
** 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]]
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