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* Gib is one of the funniest sidekick characters ever in an action film.
--> '''Gib:''' Same thing happened to me with wife number two, remember? I have no idea nothing's going on, right? I come home one day and the house is empty, and I mean completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch takes the ''ice cube'' trays out of the ''freezer?''

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* Gib Gibb is one of the funniest sidekick characters ever in an action film.
--> '''Gib:''' '''Gibb:''' Same thing happened to me with wife number two, remember? I have no idea nothing's going on, right? I come home one day and the house is empty, and I mean completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch takes the ''ice cube'' trays out of the ''freezer?''



--->''Will you '''stop''' cheering me '''up!'''''

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--->''Will --> ''Will you '''stop''' cheering me '''up!'''''



"You're fired."

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--> "You're fired."
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--->'''Harry:''' They're going to shoot us in the head, or they're going to torture us to death. Or they're going to leave us here until the bomb blows up.
--->'''Helen:''' Harry!
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** Finally, Aziz gets hooked on the wingtip missile of the Harrier, and the remaining mooks are in a helicopter on the other side of the building, visible through the damaged floor that was chewed up earlier. What does Harry do? Engage the master arm, lock on to the helicopter, and launch the missile, and Aziz, with it, but not before delivering an epic line:

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** Finally, Aziz gets hooked on the wingtip missile of the Harrier, and the remaining mooks are in a helicopter on the other side of the building, visible through the damaged floor that was chewed shot up earlier. What does Harry do? Engage the master arm, lock on to the helicopter, and launch the missile, and Aziz, with it, but not before delivering an epic line:
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** Finally, Aziz gets hooked on the wingtip missile of the Harrier, and the remaining mooks are in a helicopter on the other side of the building, visible through the damaged floor that was chewed up earlier. What does Harry do? Engage the master arm, lock on to the helicopter, and launch the missile, and Aziz, with it, but not before delivering an epic line:
"You're fired."
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* The entire Harrier sequence in Miami is comedic gold.
** A mook hears a loud jet noise, and he and his counterparts get ready, while he scans the surrounding area with binoculars. Suddenly a large grey shape rises up outside the window, and he focuses his binoculars to see a very pissed off Harry Tasker, piloting a Marine Corps Harrier jet. Said mook no doubt shits his pants, and everybody opens fire, only to immediately get diced by the Harrier's GAU-12 cannon.
** Aziz is chasing after Dana, and has her cornered on a rooftop crane. Suddenly she slips and falls, hanging on for dear life. As he closes in on her, the Harrier swoops in underneath. Aziz's dumbfounded reaction is priceless.
** Later, Aziz leaps onto the Harrier and wrestles with Harry for control of the jet. As the jet spins around in mid-air, it passes by a janitor cleaning a room in another part of the building, completely oblivious to what's going on. The jet ends up slamming tail first into said room, launching Aziz backwards, landing crotchfirst on the jet's tailfin.
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* In the opening, Harry arrives at a party in Switzerland, completes his mission and is walking out when he is accosted by a guard, demanding to see his invitation. Harry pulls out a cigarette case, and memorably says "Sure. Here's my invitation" and presses a button on the side, detonating hidden explosives he had planted earlier.

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** The second terrorist truck avoids getting blown up when the bridge gets taken out, but is left precariously dangling over the edge. The driver and his surviving bad guys start laughing at their good fortune... only to watch a pelican [[OhCrap nonchalantly fly onto the dashboard]], forcing the truck to slide off the bridge[[note]]Relax, the pelican is able to fly away unharmed.[[/note]] and explode in the debris below.

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** During the bridge chase, one of the terrorist vans breaks out their surface-to-air missile and two of the gunmen use it [[IdiotBall without realizing]] what the back-blast will do to the front of the van... [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace and to another terrorist]] who gets blasted through the windshield.
** The second terrorist truck avoids getting blown up when the bridge gets taken out, but is left precariously dangling over the edge. The driver and his surviving bad guys start laughing at their good fortune... only to watch a pelican [[OhCrap nonchalantly fly onto the dashboard]], forcing the truck to slide off the bridge[[note]]Relax, the pelican is able to fly away unharmed.[[/note]] and explode in the debris below. Basically: Death By Pelican.
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** The second terrorist truck avoids getting blown up when the bridge gets taken out, but is left precariously dangling over the edge. The driver and his surviving bad guys start laughing at their good fortune... only to watch a pelican [[OhCrap nonchalantly fly onto the dashboard]], forcing the truck to slide off the bridge[[note]]Relax, the pelican is able to fly away unharmed.[[/note]] and explode in the debris below.
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** Even funnier is this story comes at the end of Gibb trying to make Harry feel ''better'' about his wife cheating on him.
--->''Will you '''stop''' cheering me '''up!'''''
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* "Oh yeah, she's got her head in the guy's lap all right. Yahoo."

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* "Oh Creator/JamesCameron: "Oh, yeah, she's got her head in the guy's lap all right. Yahoo."
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* When Gib tries to hide a transcript detailing Helen meeting up with Simon, Harry yells "GIMME DAH GAHDDAMN PAGE!" and smashes a window with his fist. It's hilarious in its own right, but it's even funnier if you know the filming context like the striptease accident above: Arnold was supposed to hit a window rigged with safety glass, but broke a real window instead. Tom Arnold played it with the speechless reaction that the scene called for, but one would imagine part of it was also seeing his co-star breaking a car window for real with an OffhandBackhand.

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* When Gib tries to hide a transcript detailing Helen meeting up with Simon, Harry yells "GIMME DAH GAHDDAMN PAGE!" and smashes a window with his fist. It's hilarious in its own right, but it's even funnier if you know the filming context like the striptease accident above: Arnold was supposed to hit a window rigged with safety glass, but broke a real window instead. Tom Arnold Creator/TomArnold played it with the speechless reaction that the scene called for, but one would imagine part of it was also seeing his co-star breaking a car window for real with an OffhandBackhand.
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** Ironically, this is one of the few times in film that nuclear weapons being shot at is portrayed correctly. The engineering and science involved in just building a nuke means that it will only go off in the way it is designed to. Burning it, Shooting it, or detonating explosives next to it will not do the trick, and will in fact, render the nuke a dud.

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** Ironically, [[ShownTheirWork this is one of the few times in film that nuclear weapons being shot at is portrayed correctly.correctly]]. The engineering and science involved in just building a nuke means that it will only go off in the way it is designed to. Burning it, Shooting it, or detonating explosives next to it will not do the trick, and will in fact, render the nuke a dud.
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** By the way, that last scene merits a funny moment all its own. Aziz does a crazy stunt that involves leaping from skyscraper to skyscraper. Harry tries to follow, but that horse just isn't having it at all, and almost dumps him over the edge!

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** By the way, that last scene merits a funny moment all its own. Aziz does a crazy stunt that involves leaping from skyscraper to skyscraper. Harry tries to follow, but that horse just isn't having it at all, and almost dumps him over the edge!edge! You can just hear the horse thinking "are you CRAZY?!"
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** By the way, the two buildings the horse refused to jump? ''Skyscrapers''. And the horse was clearly thinking "SCREW THIS."

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** By the way, the two buildings the that last scene merits a funny moment all its own. Aziz does a crazy stunt that involves leaping from skyscraper to skyscraper. Harry tries to follow, but that horse refused to jump? ''Skyscrapers''. And just isn't having it at all, and almost dumps him over the horse was clearly thinking "SCREW THIS."edge!
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--->'''Harry:''' ''(gives directions to Gib to get backup to catch Aziz)'' All right, and make it happen quick, because my horse is getting tired.\\

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--->'''Harry:''' '''Harry:''' ''(gives directions to Gib to get backup to catch Aziz)'' All right, and make it happen quick, because my horse is getting tired.\\



--->'''Harry:''' ''(after the horse refuses to jump from one building to the next and Aziz escapes)'' Now what the hell were you thinking? I mean, I had the guy, and you let him get away. ''(horse looks away; Harry pulls it back)'' Look at me when I'm talking to you. What kind of a cop are you, anyway?

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--->'''Harry:''' '''Harry:''' ''(after the horse refuses to jump from one building to the next and Aziz escapes)'' Now what the hell were you thinking? I mean, I had the guy, and you let him get away. ''(horse looks away; Harry pulls it back)'' Look at me when I'm talking to you. What kind of a cop are you, anyway?

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** By the way, the two buildings the horse refused to jump? ''Skyscrapers''. And the horse was clearly thinking "SCREW THIS."

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--> '''Harry:''' Federal officer in pursuit of suspect! ''[[HeroStoleMyBike (shoves mounted police officer off her horse and mounts up)]]'' [[RunningGag Sorry.]]\\


-->'''Harry:''' ''(gives directions to Gib to get backup to catch Aziz)'' All right, and make it happen quick, because my horse is getting tired.\\

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--> ---> '''Harry:''' Federal officer in pursuit of suspect! ''[[HeroStoleMyBike (shoves mounted police officer off her horse and mounts up)]]'' [[RunningGag Sorry.]]\\


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''(gives directions to Gib to get backup to catch Aziz)'' All right, and make it happen quick, because my horse is getting tired.\\




-->'''Harry:''' ''(after the horse refuses to jump from one building to the next and Aziz escapes)'' Now what the hell were you thinking? I mean, I had the guy, and you let him get away. ''(horse looks away; Harry pulls it back)'' Look at me when I'm talking to you. What kind of a cop are you, anyway?

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\n-->'''Harry:''' --->'''Harry:''' ''(after the horse refuses to jump from one building to the next and Aziz escapes)'' Now what the hell were you thinking? I mean, I had the guy, and you let him get away. ''(horse looks away; Harry pulls it back)'' Look at me when I'm talking to you. What kind of a cop are you, anyway?
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** What makes this funnier is that Gib has been shown to be a sort of bumbling sidekick next to the awesome that is Schwarzenegger, but then he shoots at Simon and deliberately misses with such indifference you can tell he's really competent with a gun.
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It's not that she's in character. Her character is a hooker. If she was too in character, she'd be going along with it.


** Towards the end, Harry tries to be romantic, but Helen is too far in-character to enjoy the gesture and decks him with the phone. After kicking him a couple times, she retains the presence of mind to complete her assigned mission, going back to plant the bug on the phone.

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** Towards the end, Harry tries to be romantic, but Helen is too far in-character to enjoy the gesture has no idea it's him and decks him with the phone. After kicking him a couple times, she retains the presence of mind to complete her assigned mission, going back to plant the bug on the phone.
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** As Helen was readying to shoot, Harry was busy struggling with another mook; when Helen's dropped gun starts to spray fire everywhere, Harry ''and'' the mook stop their fight and run for cover. On top of that, several mooks come around the corner, see the falling gun, and [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat immediately try to run back (and get shot doing so)]].

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** As Helen was is readying to shoot, Harry was is busy struggling with another mook; when Helen's dropped gun starts to spray fire everywhere, Harry ''and'' the mook stop their fight and run for cover. On top of that, several mooks come around the corner, see the falling gun, and [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat immediately try to run back (and get shot doing so)]].
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** Towards the end, Harry tries to be romantic, but Helen is too far in-character to enjoy the gesture and decks him with the phone. After kicking him a couple times, she retains the presence of mind to complete her assigned mission, going back to plant the bug on the phone.
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** The poor old man caught in the middle of the bathroom shootout

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-->'''Harry:''' ''(after the horse refuses to jump from one building to the next and Aziz escapes)'' Now what the hell were you thinking? I mean, I had the guy, and you let him get away. ''(horse looks away; Harry pulls it back)'' Look at me when I'm talking to you. What kind of a cop are you?

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-->'''Harry:''' ''(after the horse refuses to jump from one building to the next and Aziz escapes)'' Now what the hell were you thinking? I mean, I had the guy, and you let him get away. ''(horse looks away; Harry pulls it back)'' Look at me when I'm talking to you. What kind of a cop are you?you, anyway?
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** Their reaction to Simon taking credit for what Harry did: they can't believe the gall of it and even Harry thinks it's ActuallyPrettyFunny: a scammer lying to his wife about what her husband did.
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** Surpassed by Harry finishing him off in a wonderfully, ludicrously over-the-top manner. We'll let Creator/{{Seanbaby}} elaborate:
-->"Due to the nature of evil, bad guys aren't always aware they're the bad guys. But let's say the very last of your friends are in a helicopter, it's hovering in front of Arnold's final missile, and your body is dangling from that missile. As you rocket towards hilariously impossible circumstances it'll probably hit you that shit like that never happens to the good guy."
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** Ironically, this is one of the few times in film that nuclear weapons being shot at is portrayed correctly. The engineering and science involved in just building a nuke means that it will only go off in the way it is designed to. Burning it, Shooting it, or detonating explosives next to it will not do the trick, and will in fact, render the nuke a dud.
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* Juno's face when Helen decks Harry after he confessed he is a spy. She really enjoyed this moment!
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*The chase over the bridge; one of the harrier pilots, before firing at the bridge to take out Aziz's convoy and prevent them reaching the mainland with the second nuke, asks if there is a danger that they might set off the warhead. Harry reassures the pilot that it won't go off...but then throws Gib a look as if to say, "How the hell do I know?!?"
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*When Aziz lays eyes on Harry in the harrier jet, the BigBad pulls a "WTF?!?" expression for the ages.
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--->'''Harry:''' [[BluntYes YEP!]]

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--->'''Harry:''' [[BluntYes YEP!]]YEP.]]
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--->'''Harry:''' [[BluntYes Yyyyep!]]

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--->'''Harry:''' [[BluntYes Yyyyep!]]YEP!]]

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