Line #60 Film/TheOtherGuys


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3	A 2010 Creator/AdamMcKay action comedy film that satirizes the [[BuddyCopShow Buddy cop]] picture.
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5	''The Other Guys'' focuses on two New York City police detectives, Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz (Creator/WillFerrell and Creator/MarkWahlberg), who have been stuck at pencil-pushing desk jobs for most of their careers while the station's two top cops Highsmith and Danson (Creator/SamuelLJackson and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]) garner praise from not only the NYPD but from the entire city for their cowboy, take-no-prisoners antics.
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7	After an unforeseen event forces the department to bring two new cops to the forefront to deal with a corporate embezzlement scheme, our two mismatched desk jockeys finally get the chance to prove their mettle and show that they can save the day... all without getting each other killed or driving each other crazy.
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9	Compare ''Film/HotFuzz'' and ''Film/MysteryMen''.
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12	!!This film features examples of:
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14	* FourOneNineScam: Among the collectors Ershon owes money to are multiple Nigerian princes.
15	* AdamWesting: Creator/SamuelLJackson and Wrestling/DwayneJohnson taking their typecast roles. Somewhat the case as well with Mark Wahlberg, who has started to parody the perception that he's a HotBlooded jerk.
16	* AffablyEvil: Given that he's a CorruptCorporateExecutive, a perv, and [[EvilBrit British]], Ershon would seem to be prime BigBad material, but the film ultimately involves the heroes saving him from worse people, and he's so disarming and charming that he's hard not to like.
17	* TheAllegedCar: The Prius is slowly transformed into this during the course of the movie, from hobo orgies to ''gunfire''. Highsmith seemed to have a history of getting his cars wrecked.
18	* AmbiguouslyBi: Gamble's ex-girlfriend's husband. Why is he telling Hoitz about shaving his chest?
19	* AMFMCharacterization: While on their way to a crime scene, the impulsive and outspoken Terry plays some heavy metal music to get them pumped, only for the meek and nerdy Allen to switch it to Little River Band. When Terry tosses the easy-listening disk out the window, Allen reveals that his car's disk changer is full of nothing but disks of the same band.
20	* AmoralAttorney: Subverted. Neither the characters nor the audience is thrilled to discover that the local SEC lawyer assigned to look over the evidence moonlights as Ershon's personal attorney, but he isn’t corrupt and becomes suicidally distraught after seeing the evidence [[spoiler: before ultimately getting murdered for knowing too much]].
21	* AnalogyBackfire:
22	-->'''Terry:''' If we were in the wild, I would attack you. Even if you weren't in my food chain, I would go out of my way to attack you. If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out in the middle of the ocean and freakin' ''eat you''! And then I'd bang your tuna girlfriend.\
23	'''Allen:''' Okay, first off: a lion? Swimming in the ocean? Lions don't like water. If you'd placed it near a river or some sort of freshwater source, that'd make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, twenty-foot waves, I'm assuming it's off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full-grown, 800-pound[[note]]The Atlantic bluefin tuna actually weighs nearly ''double'' that at 1,500 lb so he's actually understated their size.[[/note]] tuna with his twenty or thirty friends? You lose that battle. You lose that battle nine times out of ten.
24	** Then Allen goes on to explain in length how he and his school of tuna, having acquired a taste for lion, would proceed to establish a beachhead and construct some breathing apparatus to hunt Terry's pride on land.
25	--->'''Allen:''' You just lost at your own game, you're outgunned and outmanned. [''beat''] [[LampshadeHanging Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope]].
26	* AnAesop: Just because corporations can get away with rampant greed legally doesn't make it okay. Also, being a real cop doesn't mean you get to act like a rogue CowboyCop. The real heroes are the ones who do their jobs without expectations of glory.
27	* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the movie, Hoitz and Gamble briefly discuss a case involving corruption at Goldman Sachs before driving off in a classic Camaro. In the unrated version, [[spoiler:Derek Jeter reappears and hands Gamble and Hoitz their next case.]]
28	* AntiHero: The titular duo are alternately crazy, violent and rude, but their goals are noble and sympathetic at least. Cheerfully deconstructed with Danson and Highsmith, whose CowboyCop antics are noted to be disproportionately destructive and whose CowboyCop attitude [[spoiler:doesn't save them from the fact that long falls from a great height with no parachute can be fatal.]]
29	* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety:
30	** Subverted once. Two of the other cops convince Gamble to do a "desk pop", firing your gun at your desk. A dumb thing to do under most circumstances, even more so in a crowded police station. He gets in trouble for it.
31	** Also, when Captain Mauch takes Gamble's gun away from him and replaces it with a wooden one, Gamble removes the magazine but never clears the chamber. Mauch holds Gamble's sidearm with his finger on the trigger, which could easily lead to another desk pop.
32	** Played for laughs when Mauch is later seen asleep with the barrel of his service revolver against his temple.
33	** The [[BingeMontage freeze frame bar scene]] indulges in this as well with Gamble and Hoitz discharging Hoitz's service weapon while drunk, crossing into RecklessGunUsage.
34	* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: As a parody of the [[BuddyCopShow Buddy Cop]] and CowboyCop genres, this trope is played with heavily. Some notable examples:
35	** Danson and Highsmith are archetypal [[CowboyCop Cowboy Cops]], to the extent that they are given awards for the [[CarChaseShootOut reckless pursuit]] of some small-time marijuana dealers that results in over $12 million in collateral damage and during which they commandeer a bus still loaded with passengers. (A reporter does call them out on the minuscule value of drugs seized compared to the damage they caused, but is quickly shouted down.)
36	** A negligent discharge, particularly one as egregiously stupid as Gamble's "desk pop", would ''at minimum'' result in his [[TurnInYourBadge suspension from duty]] pending mandatory remedial gun safety training... and likely a psychiatric evaluation as well. His outright dismissal from the department would not be unlikely.
37	** Gamble notes after his "apartment pop" that he has only fired his weapon twice, despite U.S. law enforcement being required to pass a gun safety class and live fire evaluation before being permitted to carry a service weapon.
38	** [[FreezeFrameBonus An officer can be seen in the background]] with one of his handcuffs hanging from his belt loop, rather than stored in a dedicated holder. {{Downplayed}} as some RealLife officers choose to store extra pairs of handcuffs without cases in a similar manner, but played straight because only one cuff is secured in the loop while the other hangs freely - a big no-no in police work.
39	* AsHimself: Derek Jeter has a cameo in Terry's flashback, where Terry mistakes him for an attacker and shoots him in the leg. [[spoiler: He also shows up at the end of the unrated edition to give Hoitz and Gamble their next case.]]
40	* AtomicFBomb: Lendl Global CEO Pamela Boardman lets out a loud "SHIIIIIIIIT!" upon hearing how much money her company has lost.
41	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Gamble and Hoitz accepting Ershon's tickets is really close to this trope. They eventually stop falling for the bribes, if only because he's [[SkewedPriorities run out of tickets for shows they like]].
42	* AuthorTract: The end credits, which serve to educate the viewer on the abundance of white-collar crime and corporate corruption in the 20th century without a shred of subtlety.
43	* AwesomeAussie: Roger Wesley is an Australian villain, but you can't deny he's pretty cool.
44	-->'''Wesley:''' There are three things I love in this world: Music/KylieMinogue, small dimples just above a woman's buttocks... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and the fear in a man's eyes when he knows I'm about to hurt him]].
45	* BadassBystander: [[spoiler:The villains' helicopter is taken down with the help of some driving range patrons.]]
46	* BadassDriver: [[spoiler: Allen]]. [[IKnowMortalKombat He learned it from]] ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.
47	* BattleCry: AMEERRRICAAAAA!!
48	--> '''Hoitz:''' Did you yell "America" when you hit the accelerator?\
49	'''Gamble:''' [[BlatantLies Nope, no. No.]]
50	* BatmanColdOpen: The movie starts with an epic action sequence, showing off the cops' badassary - before it's revealed [[DecoyProtagonist they aren't the main characters of the movie]].
51	* BavarianFireDrill: Ershon is able to lose Wesley by convincing the crowd at his financial seminar to mob him with one simple sentence.
52	-->'''Ershon:''' "Ladies and gentlemen, guess who gave me the secret to making my first million... That guy there!"
53	* BenevolentBoss: Captain Gene Mauch is an overall pleasant and patient man who, more often than not, has to be the OnlySaneMan in his precinct filled with [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy gun toting manchildren]], who he is able to deal with quite skillfully. [[spoiler: And the only reason he is ever obstructive to Gamble and Hoitz is because he knows how in over their heads they are and how stupidly dangerous the investigation is.]]
54	* BerserkButton: Gamble's ex-girlfriend, Christinith, completely flies off the handle when Hoitz mispronounces her name as "Christina".
55	* BigApplesauce: The film takes place in New York City. Gamble, Hoitz, and their colleagues are all NYPD officers, and Hoitz is infamous within the department for having mistakenly shot Derek Jeter while on security duty in Yankee Stadium.
56	* BingeMontage: An unusual version -- rather than a TimeCompressionMontage, there's a fake [[TheOner continuous shot]] in which the camera weaves through the slow-mo antics going on over the course of the evening (including a worrying number of incidences of JugglingLoadedGuns).
57	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Danson and Highsmith have this happen to them early in the flick when one of their death-defying moments of glory goes horribly wrong. They leap off a building with no [[BenevolentArchitecture conveniently placed item to break their fall]].
58	* BlackHelicopter: A very nice [=AS355=] Twin Squirrel. Hoitz complains that because the gunmen have it, they're "cheating." The villains also use two unmarked (albeit white) vans.
59	* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: While he never provides a term to replace it, Ershon still gets very defensive about admitting that the stuff he offers Allen and Terry in exchange for letting him go are bribes.
60	-->'''Ershon:''' ''(muttering)'' [[InsistentTerminology Not a bribe]].
61	* BlatantLies: Ershon is adamant that offering ten million dollars to cops for not doing their job is definitely not a bribe, while Gamble [[spoiler:insists that he wasn't a pimp]].
62	* BloodlessCarnage: To be expected in any comedy movie, but when [[spoiler:Danson and Highsmith leap from a 13-story building thinking they will survive and the only thing to crack is the pavement, you know a line has been crossed.]]
63	* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: Hoitz, half of the time. "I'm a peacock; you gotta let me fly!"
64	* BookEnds: The narration by Music/IceT includes a TitleDrop at the beginning and end.
65	* BornLucky: Danson and Highsmith. Ultimately subverted when they jump off a building, expecting to miraculously survive somehow. They don't.
66	* BrickJoke:
67	** In the beginning of the film Will Ferrell's character is convinced to do a "desk pop". When he fires his gun in Mark Wahlberg's apartment, he offhandedly says "Apartment pop". The BingeMontage even has a couple of "bar pops".
68	** The [[spoiler:flying peacock]] at the end of the movie.
69	** After Ershon learns that Gamble calls himself "Gator," he is shown in prison wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of the University of Florida Gators.
70	** After Gamble's car is found one of the things discovered in the personal effects is a note from "Dirty Mike & the Boys" informing him that they had an orgy in his car and thanking him for the space to do it in. Later on in the film, [[spoiler: After Gamble gets kicked out by his wife,]] he and Hoitz meet them in person and prevent a repeat session.
71	** A very short one since it’s only one scene later, but after Hoitz and Gamble’s bizarre encounter with Hal and Christineth, they’re sitting in Gamble’s car discussing the case when Hal and Christeneth suddenly show up and chase them.
72	--> '''Hal:''' GET BACK HERE AND MAKE LOVE TO MY WIFE!!!
73	* BrutalHonesty: Mrs. Gamble is a little too forward about her sex life, even to her parents.
74	* BulletTime: A few times. The first happens at the start of the movie when Danson flies towards the crooks he's been chasing in a car, firing his gun, and yelling, "YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, TO REMAIN, SILENT! BUT I WANNA HEAR YOU SCREAM!", including the subsequent explosion.
75	* ByTheBookCop: Detective Gamble
76	* TheCameo: Creator/BrookeShields, Creator/RosiePerez, Tracy Morgan and pro wrestler Billy Gunn were also at the Knicks game.
77	* CarFu: "It turned backwards, then it went upside down!"
78	* CassandraTruth: After a couple of botch-ups, the rest of the police stop believing Gamble and Hoitz.
79	* CasualDangerDialog: "Your hair is ''really'' soft!"
80	* ChaseScene: It's a BuddyCopShow movie. There are a few.
81	* ChekhovsGun:
82	** [[spoiler:Faceback]]. May overlap with BrickJoke.
83	** [[spoiler: The jewelry store robbery.]]
84	** [[spoiler: The vote on the police pension fund]].
85	* ChekhovsGunman: {{Bob\|FromAccounting}}. Just Bob. First, he gets yelled at by Terry just for asking him to come to a conference; then we see him at [[spoiler:the board meeting, about to invest the police pension fund]]; then finally when Wesley is apprehended, [[spoiler:he's one of the cops with their guns on him.]]
86	* ChewToy: In a way. Hoitz certainly thinks he's this, and life does dump on him a lot, but it's evident much of his misfortune is his own fault, and him being such a terrible person isn't helping things. Character development, however, does help by the end of the movie.
87	* ClickHello: Done to a harmless clerk during the climax.
88	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: '''Both''' Allen and Terry. It's probably easier to list the characters who aren't.
89	* CluelessChickMagnet: Gamble doesn't seem to notice that he's irresistible to hot women, something which utterly perplexes Hoitz.
90	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
91	** When Hoitz tries to mock Gamble by saying he's a lion and Gamble's a tuna, Gamble goes off on a tangent about how tuna could beat lions in the water, and evolve ways to fight them upstream and on land.
92	** When Sheila informs her husband that she's pregnant, his first question is "Whose baby is that?!" [[spoiler: and reverts to his Gator persona]].
93	* CommanderContrarian: Partially subverted. [[spoiler: Captain Mauch secretly knows the truth about the plot, but tries to stop Hoitz and Gamble precisely because he knows how dangerous it is.]] Further subverted in while Gamble and Hoitz give him no small measure of grief and force him to chastise them over and over, he's completely pleasant with them outside the office.
94	* CoversAlwaysLie: Only Hoitz [[GunsAkimbo uses two guns one time]], and not like that. Plus, not a single Desert Eagle appears in the film.
95	* CowboyCop: Detectives Danson and Highsmith are the standard badass version while Detective Hoitz tries to be this and drags [[ByTheBookCop Gamble]] along for the ride. It's deconstructed with Danson and Highsmith as they both [[TooDumbToLive leap to their deaths]] in pursuit of the jewel thieves, [[DisproportionateRetribution cause millions of dollars in property damage over a very small amount of marijuana]] in their EstablishingCharacterMoment[[note]]Though in their defense, the marijuana dealers were heavily armed with automatic weapons and were openly shooting at them throughout the CarChase[[/note]] and Mauch notes that they weren't even particularly good at their jobs.
96	* CreativeClosingCredits: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBfWz2bSOQ The end credits]] detail how {{Ponzi}} Schemes work, how the 2008 TARP bailout mostly went to corporations instead of people and how the wealth inequality between the rich and the poor rose over the years. Director Adam [=McKay=] went on to direct ''Film/TheBigShort'', a movie about [[spoiler:what lead to the 2008 financial crisis]].
97	* CreatorCameo: Director Adam [=McKay=] played Dirty Mike.
98	* CringeComedy: A ''lot'' of the humor in this film stems from watching the leads get injured, fooled or otherwise humiliated.
99	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Hoitz is a quick-tempered {{Manchild}}, but can identify Australian Special Forces at a glance and defeat several thugs in close combat. It's implied he was originally a skilled cop with a lot of potential but was sidelined thanks to a case of OnceDoneNeverForgotten.
100	-->'''Gamble:''' Can you imagine where you'd be in your career if you hadn't shot Jeter?
101	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Roger Wesley threatens to slice David Ershon's ear off with a butter knife. Ershon even lampshades it by saying, "Oh, that's blunt. Blunt's worse than if it's sharp."
102	* DaChief: Captain Mauch, who is probably the most mellow example imaginable. It's also not his main job, as he moonlights as a manager at a Bed Bath and Beyond.
103	* DawsonCasting: Parodied. In a flashback to his college days, younger Gamble looks exactly like his older self. No attempts to hide his grey hair or wrinkles were made. [[invoked]]
104	* DeadpanSnarker: Samuel L. Jackson, as expected.
105	-->"Did someone call Nine-One-Holy-Shit?"
106	* DeconstructiveParody: Definitely leans in this direction. In particular, Danson and Highsmith are presented as beloved jerk characters for satirical effect, and they are one of many elements that lead to ConversationalTroping of cop movie tropes not fitting real life. Not to mention the message at the end to the effect of "CorruptCorporateExecutives are the real criminals".
107	* DecoyProtagonist: The movie begins with an epic action sequence involving Danson and Highsmith, setting them up as CowboyCop {{Action Hero}}es, before they die a few scenes later. Than the narration fully concentrates on Gamble and Hoitz.
108	* DeathAsComedy: Danson and Highsmith's "jump" is played as nothing short of utterly hilarious.
109	* {{Determinator}}:
110	** Gamble's ex-girlfriend and her husband, ''who chase Gamble and Hoitz twenty miles on foot.''
111	--->'''Hal:''' COME BACK HERE AND HAVE SEX WITH MY WIFE!
112	** Danson and Highsmith jumping off a building chasing a bunch of thieves. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The fall kills them pretty much instantly]].
113	* DeskJockey: Gamble and Hoitz, for different reasons. Gamble is a forensic accountant, while Hoitz is stuck on desk duty after [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten shooting Derek Jeter]].
114	* DisproportionateRetribution:
115	** Danson and Highsmith cause insane amounts of property damage in the opening scene pursuing suspects over a very small amount of marijuana, something a reporter notes is only a misdemeanor at worst. In their (incredibly pitiful) defense, the goons were also carrying military-grade machine guns.
116	** The Chechens really want to kill Ershon for owing them money.
117	* DomesticAbuse: Downplayed. Allen Gamble isn't ''nasty'' per se (except for the instance when his old persona Gator takes over) just rather dismissive towards his wife, who he's utterly convinced is plain. It's later revealed [[spoiler: he was deluding himself into believing this because he was afraid she'd leave him on account of thinking she's too good for him as he does.]]
118	* DontExplainTheJoke: Allen thinks Terry's disappointment in a "Female Body Inspector" mug is because he doesn't get the joke.
119	->'''Gamble:''' "...it's the FBI, right? It has the same logo, the same shield. And at first glance you're like 'Oh, it's just a mug that says FBI', but... but then at second glance you're like 'F-Female Body Inspector? Get outta town! This is outrage--'"
120	-> '''Hoitz:''' "[[BigShutUp SHUT UP!!]]"
121	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Danson and Highsmith, who plow their car into a double-decker tour bus in the opening.
122	-->'''Highsmith:''' ''(nonchalantly)'' I'm sorry, I was texting.
123	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Danson and Highsmith are killed off not too long into the movie.
124	* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. Hoitz keeps thinking that all the crimes/criminals are drug-related [[spoiler:when in fact they are white-collar financial crimes.]] Also, Danson and Highsmith cause millions of dollars worth of damage chasing after some guys who only have a small amount of marijuana on them.
125	* EasilyForgiven: In the extended version, [[spoiler:Derek Jeter has not only put the shooting incident behind him, but is working with Hoitz and Gamble now.]]
126	* EdutainmentShow: The [[http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/08/09/other-guys-end-credits-sequence-video/ end credits]] has a rather informative animated slideshow about Big Company corruption...with "Pimps Don't Cry" playing in the background, suggesting that Allen created it.
127	* EmbarrassingNickname: Gamble and Hoitz are called "Paper Bitch" and "Yankee Clipper", respectively.
128	* EnhanceButton: Not used within the plot, but sets up a BrickJoke: Gamble mentions at one point that he developed a computer program in his off time named "Faceback", that allows computers to create a reconstruction of the back of a person's head from a picture of them facing a camera (and Terry instantly points out that it sounds stupid -- if someone's already facing the camera, what use is creating a picture of them from behind?). [[spoiler:In the closing narration, the narrator mentions that the precinct's forensic investigators [[NotTheIntendedUse eventually figured out]] that the program could also work to reconstruct how a person's face looks like from a picture of them facing away from the camera.]]
129	* EpicFail: With Danson and Highsmith: [[LeapOfFaith "Aim for the bushes."]]
130	* EveryCarIsAPinto: A helicopter. Also, the Escalade in the beginning.
131	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Played for laughs.
132	-->"Mr. Ershon, Detective Gamble and the officer who shot Derek Jeter here."
133	** The Brazilian Woman is only credited as The Brazilian Woman.
134	* {{Eyedscreen}}: kicking off the movie's climax from the boardroom (see GunsAkimbo above) onwards.
135	* FuneralCut: After Danson and Highsmith jump to their deaths chasing the perps, the scene cuts straight to their funeral.
136	* GangOfHats: Inverted. Terry and Allen go up against people in business suits so many times ''because'' the bad guys are business people.
137	* GoodCopBadCop: Invoked, but subverted when Allen thinks that they're doing "''Bad'' Cop/Bad Cop."
138	* GoodPolicingEvilPolicing: Hoitz and Gamble, for all of their bumbling and Hoitz's cavalierness, perform a thorough investigation and try to [[ByTheBookCop stick to the rules]]. In contrast--in terms of morality and competence--the CowboyCop duo of Danson and Highsmith are [[DestructiveSavior reckless in their pursuit of criminals to the point of causing property damage]] and eventually getting themselves killed, while Martin and Fosse dismiss possible leads [[GloryHound just to get a collar ASAP and make the news]]. At one point, [[DaChief Captain Mauch]] even dismisses the late Danson and Highsmith as inefficient idiots not worth remembering, let alone imitating.
139	* GoneHorriblyWrong: The Chechen version of "Dora the Explorer."
140	* GoryDiscretionShot: [[SubvertedTrope Completely subverted]]. We get to watch Danson and Highsmith fall to their deaths, without any scene cut whatsoever, including when they hit the ground (though to be fair, there isn't much in the way of gore to begin with).
141	* GunsAkimbo: ''While inside of a car being launched out of a double-decker bus into a building''. And done later on by Hoitz during a boardroom shoot-out, sliding down a table on his back. Unusually for a movie, Hoitz actually shows the correct method of firing akimbo (yes, it can be done accurately), by aiming each gun independently before firing, instead of just pointing in the general direction of the target and firing both guns simultaneously.
142	* TheHeavy: Roger Wesley is for all intents and purposes the main villain. Nominally [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Pamela Boardman]] (who hired Wesley to keep an eye on Ershon and ordered Ershon to get back 'her' money) is the BigBad, but she seems entirely detached from any actual direct machinations.
143	* HellishCopter: A helicopter gets taken out by a volley of ''[[LethalJokeCharacter golf balls]].''
144	* HeroInsurance: Danson and Highsmith cause enormous amounts of property damage to catch low-level drug offenders in the opening scene of the film. When a reporter rightfully points out how unnecessarily destructive the chase was, Highsmith quickly shuts him up.
145	* HeroicBystander: When Hoitz and Gamble are being chased by a helicopter through Chelsea Piers, the golfers at the driving range help them out by shooting their balls at the copter and taking it out.
146	* HiddenDepths: Hoitz says he did a lot of mocking kids who danced in his childhood, accidentally becoming a skilled ballet dancer in the process. In reality, he just says this to try to maintain his tough guy persona because he is a good ballet dancer, plays the harp, and is well-versed in modern art. [[RealMenHateAffection He is also much more empathic than he would like to show]]. Note during the ballet scene he's inexplicably ''wearing jazz shoes.''
147	-->'''Gamble:''' Hey, I didn't know you can dance!\
148	'''Hoitz:''' We used to do those dance moves to make fun of guys when we were kids to show them how queer they were, okay?\
149	'''Gamble:''' You learned to dance like that ''sarcastically''?\
150	'''Hoitz:''' [[SureLetsGoWithThat Yeah, I guess]]...
151	** Straight-laced Gamble acts that way because of a DarkAndTroubledPast as a (literal) pimp in college. Now he's also a software expert.
152	* {{Homage}}: David Ershon bandies the buzzword "excess" in his speech, just as [[Film/WallStreet Gordon Gekko did with "greed".]]
153	* HotPursuit: Gamble and Hoitz (and Ershon) are chased all over Manhattan by the Chechens and other crooked people that are ''pissed'' at being victims of Ershon's {{Ponzi}} scheme.
154	* HumiliationConga: The list of all the disgusting things that happened to Gamble's car.
155	* HypotheticalFightDebate: The film has a really quite hilarious scene where the two protagonists debate over a fight between a tuna and a lion.
156	* IKnowMortalKombat: [[spoiler: Allen]]. "Where did you learn to drive like that?" "''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''!"
157	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Some protagonists and antagonists seem to be star graduates. The boardroom scene is a highlight.
158	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Hoitz can shoot down an overhead banner to take down motorcyclists pursuing him. [[spoiler:Wesley can pull off three non-fatal shots in rapid succession at ''close-range'' (Though his skills of being an ex-special forces professional bodyguard did helped).]]
159	* InsistentTerminology: Allen sure takes a long time to admit that he was a pimp in college. Ershon has a similar hangup with the word "bribe".
160	* ItAmusedMe: When the bystander bank clerk asks Wesley whether or not he wants the transfer approved, he replies "You mate, I'm gonna kill just for fun.".
161	* ItTastesLikeFeet: Allen says this about Sheila's cooking (see DomesticAbuse above).
162	** "Is that deer vagina I smell?"
163	** "These braised ribs taste like a dog's asshole."
164	* {{Jerkass}}: Detective Hoitz at the beginning is absurdly belligerent to everyone. He [[TookALevelInKindness mellows out a bit]] towards the end.
165	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both Hoitz and Gamble are cops who are interested in upholding the law, but they're both kind of assholes. Hoitz has a short temper and is prone to snapping at people, while Gamble is emotionally abusive to his wife.
166	* JugglingLoadedGuns: Gamble's "desk pop" scene, in which he is convinced to shoot his gun in the middle of the precinct, is played for laughs. The officers who talk him into it treat it as a big, hilarious prank, and at least one other officer can be seen high-fiving them afterwards. Likewise, the only repercussion from the incident is Gamble getting a fake wooden pistol to carry instead of his real one; as an added bonus, Captain Mauch also displays some poor safety habits when confiscating said gun.
167	* KarmaHoudini:
168	** Danson and Highsmith got away with pretty much all their destructive hijinks. Unfortunately for them, their KarmaHoudiniWarranty came up in the form of a self-inflicted twenty-story drop into some bushes--the bushes in this case being the cold, hard concrete sidewalk.
169	** [[spoiler:Pamela Boardman ends up getting a federal bailout since Lendl Global is too big to fail]].
170	** Martin and Fosse are utter douchebags throughout the movie but never suffer any major humiliation or suffering and indeed are implied to be filling in the "Super Cops" role in the eyes of the public that Danson and Highsmith left.
171	* KavorkaMan: Detective Gamble is quite a plain-looking man who happens to be gigantic ManChild, yet his wife and ex-girlfriend are insanely attractive and successful women.
172	-->'''Hoitz''': Why are you with Alan? ...I mean- that's not what I meant, um, how did you guys meet?
173	* LittleUselessGun: Literally. Gamble's real gun is replaced by a wooden prop, and then that's taken away and replaced with a rape whistle.
174	* LyricalDissonance: Arguably [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JC9dTKskg those songs Allen sings in the bar]]. Hoitz lampshades it by saying they're depressing.
175	* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Hoitz expresses the belief that "I'm a peacock! You gotta let me fly!" Numerous characters point out that that doesn't make any sense, notably because peacocks can't fly [[spoiler: but one does at the end for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic symbolism]] and RuleOfFunny]].
176	* MistakenForExhibit: Terry's criticism of the table art piece first seems like a case of this, but it turns out he knows a lot about art. The other guests at the art show, however, mistake his rant for a performance art piece.
177	* MonumentalDamage: Trump Tower's lobby gets incinerated by an [[MadeOfExplodium exploding]] Chevy Nova in the film's prologue. [[DestructiveSavior Danson and Highsmith]] [[CowboyCop at]] [[EstablishingCharacterMoment work]].
178	* MuggingTheMonster: In retrospective, [[RuthlessForeignGangsters swindling European crime gangs]] to invest in a {{Ponzi}} scheme was not the best of ideas, as Ershon discovered the hard way.
179	* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers always show Mark Wahlberg's character playing the StraightMan to Will Ferrell's antics when in fact Detective Hoitz is just as crazy as Gamble, if not crazier. However, it's eventually subverted in that [[spoiler:Hoitz is masking his gentle side with juvenile antics while Gamble's self-imposed control hides a borderline psychotic personality]].
180	* NonFatalExplosions: Averted and lampshaded, after a shop blows up a few feet from Hoitz and Gamble's faces, they lay half-deaf and in pain on the ground.
181	-->'''Allen:''' How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them!? There's no way! I CALL ''BULLSHIT'' ON THAT! When they flew the Millenium Falcon outside of the Death Star and it was followed by the explosion, that was ''bullshit!''\
182	'''Terry:''' Don't you ''dare'' bad-mouth Star Wars, that was all accurate!
183	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: At the start, Highsmith crashed his car into a building that seemed to be MadeOfExplodium.
184	* NoodleImplements: Apparently Gamble wants to do something to Sheila involving a mannequin hand and a golf club with a shaving razor attached to it.
185	* NoodleIncident:
186	** "I thought I was gonna hafta shoot my way out... What are you gonna do, y'know, ''bar mitzvah''s..."
187	** Notably averted with the shooting of Derek Jeter. Then they bring it up enough to push it straight into RunningGag territory.
188	** "I got so drunk last night I think I thought a tube of toothpaste was astronaut food!"
189	* NoSympathy: PlayedForLaughs, when Hoitz has this response to the suicidal victim:
190	-->'''Hoitz:''' Listen. We all know you're a scumbag, and nobody cares about you.
191	* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Subverted. Highsmith and Danson die when they jump off a building.
192	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Terry once accidentally shot [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jeter Derek Jeter]].[[note]]He saw a dark figure coming down a set of stairs at the baseball stadium, and when the approaching shadow didn't stop and identify themself, Terry opened fire.[[/note]] This gets brought up so much that his nickname around the precinct is "Yankee Clipper".
193	* OnlySaneMan: The Captain is the only one who knows that no one should imitate Danson and Highsmith.
194	* ThePlotReaper: The two supercops die, so Hoitz and Gamble have a chance at being in the spotlight.
195	* PornStash: When Gamble and Hoitz first go to Ershon's office, he's watching {{Hentai}} on his laptop, and has trouble turning it off.
196	* PrisonRape: Alluded to when one of the jerkass detectives taunts Ershon- "I hope you like prison food." ({{beat}}) "...and penis." [[CallBack It's the "tips for staying out of jail" cop, too.]]
197	* ProductPlacement:
198	** It's everywhere in the movie with the most prominent being Gamble's Toyota Prius and Captain Mauch working at Bed Bath and Beyond, of course.
199	** In one scene Gamble is drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade. Another has Gamble and Hoitz practically shilling ''Theatre/JerseyBoys''.
200	** "[[LyricalDissonance While their]] ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[BookBurning books were burned...]]"
201	** "Your hair is ''really'' soft!" "[=V05=] Hot Oil!"
202	** Every computer is a [[Creator/{{Sony}} Sony Vaio]] ([[DestroyTheProductPlacement Including the one Hoitz smashes onto the office floor in a rage]]).
203	* RandomEventsPlot: Most of the movie would have never happened if Gamble didn't bump into Ershon in the restaurant kitchen, recognize him, and arrest him for building code violations.
204	* TheRealHeroes: The Aesop of the movie is that the real heroes are the ones who genuinely make the world a better place and work behind the scenes instead of doing more harm than good and still getting in the paper for being big and flashy like Highsmith and Danson.
205	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Despite being DaChief and frequently chastising Hoitz and Gamble for their antics, Captain Mauch is willing to hear them out and tries to keep them safe. Notably, even after he's reassigned them both, he's perfectly cordial when seeing them at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
206	* ReassignedToAntarctica: What happened to Hoitz after he accidentally shot Derek Jeter. Becomes an IronicEcho when it happens to both Hoitz and Gamble later on. While Hoitz learns to mellow out for the first time in his life, Gamble TookALevelInBadass.
207	* RunningGag:
208	** Captain Mauch [[WaxingLyrical unwittingly quoting lyrics]] from the band Music/{{TLC}} with Detective Hoitz and Gamble's disbelief that he's doing it by accident.
209	** Random attractive women being into Gamble ([[AvertedTrope Except Terry's girlfriend]]). So far, we had his current wife Sheila, whom Hoitz notes to be "smoking hot" and is smitten by, his ex-wife Christinith who is still [[{{Yandere}} both romantically and psychotically crazy]] for him, The Brazilian Woman, Creator/BrookeShields and at the end, Gamble says he lost his virginity to ''Creator/HeatherLocklear''.
210	** Wesley and his fellow thugs taking Hoitz's shoes and Gamble's wooden gun.
211	** Gamble's Prius being used for {{hobo}} orgies.
212	** Hoitz's fascination with Sheila that causes him to repeat everything concerning her a few times. During a conversation with her husband, nonetheless.
213	** Ershon's insistence that everything he offers Gamble and Hoitz to let him go is most definitely ''not'' a bribe.
214	* ScareEmStraight: Happened to Gamble after he almost died of a drug overdose, which frightened him enough to make him step away from his life as a pimp and become as straight-laced as possible.
215	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Mild-mannered, hard-working and gentle Gamble and rude, hot-headed tough guy Hoitz.
216	* SeriousBusiness: What does Hoitz do, when he and Gamble are in shock after the nearby explosion and Gamble shouts that the destruction of the Death Star was all but realistic? Warn him not to bad-mouth ''Franchise/StarWars'', of course.
217	* ShootTheHostage: Wesley to Ershon.
218	* ShoutOut:
219	** The captain is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Mauch Gene Mauch]].
220	** The final CarChase has a huge nod to VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto which Gamble namedrops when Hoitz asked when did he learn to drive like that.
221	*** Allen then performs a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIT_maneuver PIT manoeuvre]] -- this move is actually required to complete the driving school in ''San Andreas''.
222	*** When they are chased by bad guys, Allen says that there is a shortcut at the Chelsea Pier. Eventually, [[spoiler: they end up on the fenced-off driving range]]. In GTA IV there is really a shortcut in this place.
223	* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: Allen does this frequently, most notably Hoitz' rant about how much he hates Allen gets sidetracked into a scenario wherein tuna construct robotic land walking devices and begin hunting down and eating lions.
224	* SmokescreenCrime: A heavily-armed crew robs a jewelry store in a heist that involves the use of a wrecking ball. [[spoiler:However, the perpetrators' true target is an adjoining accounting firm which they snuck into and altered the books.]]
225	* SoundtrackDissonance: Music/FooFighters' "My Hero" just before two "heroic" cops jump 20 stories straight into the sidewalk to their deaths.
226	** Then there's the Grand Theft Auto style chase in the final act, set to "Monday, Monday" by The Mamas and the Papas.
227	* StuffBlowingUp: It starts with a Chevy Nova incinerating the lobby of Trump Tower. And it doesn't stop.
228	* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Gator for [[spoiler: Allen]].
229	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
230	** This is how Danson and Highsmith die early in the movie. You'd think that surely the two badass supercops played by Creator/SamuelLJackson and Creator/DwayneJohnson can survive jumping off a building, especially with epic rock music backing them up. Instead they slam into the ground and are killed instantly.
231	** The UnflinchingWalk doesn't work here. A single explosion leaves Gamble and Holtz knocked right back on their asses and with temporary hearing loss from the impact. Gamble even calls bullcrap on the whole "people can be unaffected by explosions two feet behind them" thing as a result.
232	** After convincing the Captain to put them back on the case, one of the first things he tells Hoitz and Gamble is to stop trying to act "badass", saying that just because Highsmith and Danson did it, doesn't mean that's how you should act as a cop, going as far to call the postmortem duo "terrible cops"; case in point, Highsmith and Danson's destructive high-speed chase after the weed dealers, lead to millions of dollars worth of damages in contrast to the amount of weed the dealers had on them, which would've been considered ''legal'' in several other states. Martin and Fosse's attempt the emulate the duo only cements it [[spoiler:as they were so focused on being badass that they didn't bother doing a thorough police investigation and missed evidence that implicated Wesley in Ershon's lawyer's murder.]]
233	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: From the IKnowMortalKombat example above when Allen performs [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas the PIT Maneuver]].
234	-->'''Wesley:''' Someone's been playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.
235	* TakeThat: Hoitz is told by a fellow cop that he should have shot Alex Rodriguez instead of Jeter.
236	* TakeUpMySword: The entire plot of the movie revolves around cops who feel that it is their time to step up and prove themselves in order to [[spoiler:replace the two heroes of the setting when they die in the line of duty]].
237	** Subverted in that, [[spoiler: though Hoitz and Gamble ended up becoming heroes for exposing the white collar crime that was going to bankrupt the police pension fund, they don't become the heroic replacement super cops. They stay the Other Guys, who the film makes out to be the real heroes: the guys who don't look spectacular saving the day, but do it nonetheless.]]
238	* TemptingFate: D&H get themselves killed because they thought they could survive anything.
239	* TestosteronePoisoning: The two supercops.
240	* ThereWasADoor: Our heroes crash the Prius through the garage door rather than ''let Ershon open it first.''
241	* ThoseTwoGuys: Practically the movie's premise (if the title didn't tip you off). Ironically, it's the JerkJock pair, Martin and Fosse, who get this role.
242	* TooDumbToLive: Danson and Highsmith. Badasses? Indeed. So much so, that cheating death seems to be their calling card. And so, they decide to test just how badass they are ''by jumping off of a 20-story building to chase the bad guys.'' It ends [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou just about as well as you'd expect]].
243	** TooCoolToLive is parodied in the same manner, and at their funeral.
244	* TookALevelInKindness: Hoitz cools down considerably after spending an unspecified but implied to be quite long period of time stuck on traffic duty, which helps him reconcile with Francine. [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with Gamble, who becomes more aggressive over time but also becomes more honest with himself about his relationship with his wife, which lets him eventually admit to her [[spoiler:that he dismissed her as plain because he didn't want to confront the possibility that she was out of his league.]]
245	* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Zigzagged. In the unrated version, they parody modern art with a coffee table with junk on it (with a sale price of $500,000), then it turns out Hoitz understands the "artsy-fartsy" piece better than his artistically-inclined ex does and still thinks it's crap. Then his genuine tirade is critiqued and cheered on as if it was a provocative performance piece. [[invoked]]
246	* UglyGuyHotWife: Allen and Sheila. No, really.
247	--> '''Terry:''' Seriously, who ''is'' she?
248	* UnflinchingWalk: Averted, then immediately lampshaded.
249	--> "How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them? There's NO WAY! I call bullshit on that!"
250	* UnusualEuphemism: "Soup kitchen"
251	** Averted with Gamble, who still calls it a "dating service".
252	--->"That was no pimp... [[OverlyLongGag Pimps don't cry.]]"
253	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Everyone in the precinct pretty much ignores every conversation that Gamble and Hoitz have with each other. Though one person reacts when Hoitz smashes his computer to the ground.
254	** Also, when Hoitz forces Gamble at gunpoint in the hall to pursue Ershon, [[LampshadeHanging Gamble calls out to bystanders that no one is doing anything about it]].
255	* VillainousGoldTooth: [[spoiler: Allen]] had an ''[[ExaggeratedTrope entire golden denture]]'' during his days as a pimp.
256	* VisualPun: Hoitz and Gamble may have given the term "Driving Range" a new meaning.
257	* VomitDiscretionShot: Allen. "Is that a wastebasket?"
258	* WatchThePaintJob: Boy, does that Prius suffer.
259	* WaxingLyrical: Captain Mauch swears he doesn't know he's quoting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-6v5YakbU&feature=related TLC.]]
260	* WhatWereYouThinking: Terry, Gamble and ''[[LemonyNarrator the narrator]]'' can't believe that Danson and Highsmith were crazy and/or stupid enough to just jump off a building when there was absolutely nothing to cushion their fall.
261	* WhiteCollarCrime: The credits detail not only some of the legit (but often greedy or stupid) finances that got us into the credit crunch but also some of the now blatant criminality of some financial practices, such as a {{Ponzi}} scheme.
262	* WimpFight: Martin and Hoitz's fight at Danson and Highsmith's funeral was nothing to brag about, consisting mostly of wrestling on the floor. {{Justified\|Trope}}, as they had to keep quiet at the funeral.
263	* WouldHitAGirl: Of the hero being willing to hit a villainess kind. We don't actually ''see'' Hoitz hit the Brazilian DarkActionGirl but he does so hard enough that she's still unconscious several minutes later.
264	* WrongGenreSavvy:
265	** Wahlberg's character seems to be forcibly trying to turn his life into a [[BuddyCopShow buddy cop action movie]], and for the most part, he kind of succeeds, except for his insistence that the bad guys must be connected to [[DrugsAreBad drugs]] somehow.
266	--->"This isn't Series/MiamiVice!"
267	** And Highsmith and Danson are, of course, not prepared to live outside a Bad Boys-esque action-thriller as evidenced by their infamous LeapOfFaith to their deaths.
268	* TheYardies: The drug dealers who Highsmith and Danson are tracking down at the start of the film are black men with dreadlocks, Jamaican accents, and Rasta caps. And they're armed with ''machine guns''.

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