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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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* [[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 (Creator)]] and [[Uma Thurman]] dance [[Batman (TV)|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.
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* [[The Tape Knew You Would Say That]]
* [[This Page Will Self Destruct]]: Steele leaves the tape recorder in the helicopter that he was being flown in.
* [[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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