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* [[Acceptable Inevitable Targets]]: Gamble's cop car is a Prius.
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** Doubles as a [[Brick Joke]] when you hear the full version at the end.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Okay... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPgbMAdAsbI ''Monday, Monday''] in a scene of a Prius literally destroying a van. Don't know how that worked but it did.
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130928142709/http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/788c7d3064/pimps-don-t-cry-ft-cee-lo-green-eva-mendes end theme], co-written by Will Ferrell, doubles as an [[Ear Worm]].
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: in this movie, [[Will Ferrell]] is a software expert and [[The Smart Guy]] of the pair; in his next movie, he's [[Megamind]].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5JAPkvnyso This clip] from the Oscars a few years back, when Will Ferrell addresses Mark Wahlberg.
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* [[Never Live It Down]]: Terry once accidentally shot Derek Jeter. This gets brought up a lot.
** This could possibly be Fridge Brilliance. Mark Wahlberg is from Boston, Jeter is basically Mr. Yankee. Connect the dots.
* [[Shocking Swerve]]: {{spoiler|The death of Johnson's and Jackson's characters}}. In a movie that's gratuitously over the top, including {{spoiler|shooting down an attack chopper with ''golf balls''}}, the biggest [[M. Night Shyamalan|Shyamalanian twist]] comes when you expect something impossible to happen and ''it doesn't happen''.
* [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: The end credits
** At least one commentator has noted that they [[Hypocrisy|don't mention the disparity]] between what a director or actor makes and what an average studio worker makes.
*** Blame a bad union contract for that one. What banks and other corporations are doing is blatant criminality.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: So you got [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] and [[Samuel L. Jackson|Sam Jackson]] as partners. What do you do? You killed them in the first 20 minutes in a blatant [[Dropped a Bridge
** Of course, that was the ''entire'' point.
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