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Those Two Guys: Live-Action Films
  • A rather perfect example in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
    • Parodied with Harold and Kumar's semitic duo, Rosenberg and Goldstein.
  • The Pirates of the Caribbean series has two sets of these. One set are pirates (Pintel and Ragetti) who explain the convoluted plot to each other, and the other, less-used pair are a duo of Laurel and Hardy-inspired redcoats who are always debating things (Murtogg and Mullroy). Both pairs end up on Barbossa's crew at the end of the third movie.
  • “Manos”: The Hands of Fate has those two teenagers who are sitting in a car making out with each other. They have no relevance to the plot in any way. It also has a pair of policemen, whose presence at least makes sense, even if they are just as meaningless.
  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has the two guys who first argue over which is left and which is right, then try to rob Marian and Sarah in the woods.
  • Jay and Silent Bob in most Kevin Smith movies.
    • Additionally, Steve-Dave and Walt "The Fanboy" Flanagan fit this role from time to time as well, though obviously not to the same extent as Jay and Bob.
      • As Askewniverse movies tend to be extremely dialogue driven, any Two Guys can be up-graded and down-graded into a greek chorus.
    • Somewhat subverted in that although the other characters consider Jay and Silent Bob to be random, unimportant guys, Kevin Smith fans loved them so much that they actually gained importance as the Askewniverse movies went on. Not only did they end up with their own movie (which could still fall under the trope) but in Dogma they are major characters without whom the world would have ended.
  • Mean Girls has the the other two Plastics Karen and Gretchen who devotedly follow around first Regina and later Cady.
  • Hannah Montana: The Movie has Rico and Oliver as two regular school guys helping out at Lily's party and not having any importance to the plot. In the TV series, it's not quite like that as Oliver in particular does have some central roles.
  • Star Wars:
    • R2-D2 and C-3PO have been Those Two Droids for nearly 100 years, present for many turning points in the galaxy.
    • Later (non-canon)comics reveal that practically any pair of Stormtroopers, Imperial guards, Clone troopers, Sandtroopers, no-name jedi, etc., is likely to be Tag and Bink, a pair of screw-ups who fumble their way from the Jedi Academy to the Tantive IV to the Death Star (both times), etc. Literally, pretty much any time you see two anonymous stooges in the movies, that's them right there.
  • And the two characters who inspired them, Tahei and Matashichi from Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.
  • And two characters based off them, the two brownies (no, they are little people, not chocolate) Franjeen and Rool in Willow.
  • Mariah Carey's woeful "star vehicle" Glitter has Louise and Roxanne.
  • A very early film example are "Charters and Caldicott" from The Lady Vanishes (and a half dozen other movies of the early 40s) who spend their on screen time mostly obsessed with the current cricket scores.
    • They have their very own adventure in Charters and Caldicott by Stella Bingham. The pair are still obsessed by cricket and go from lunch at their club to Caldicott's flat to settle a point in dispute with his 'Wisden' a Cricket reference work. They discover the body of a young woman on Caldicott's bedroom floor. Her purse identifies her as the daughter of an old friend. But then another young woman appears claiming to be the * real* daughter and that her father has been murdered - then it starts getting complicated.
  • Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt in Desperate But Not Serious appear several times, discussing which Star Wars characters are gay.
  • In The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe (Peter Sellers' colleagues from The Goon Show) pop up in a largely non-speaking capacity several times after the opening scene of a show recording, symbolizing Peter's disconnect with his old friends and his first great success out of his ambition to become a film actor, and his eventual alienation of virtually everyone he was ever close to. (Peter was actually quite close to these two guys throughout his life, but it's the kind of movie that's not interested in the good times.)
  • In the independant vampire movie Cold Hearts, is peppered with a pair of officers (Fife and Felching) who quip back and forth.
  • Max and Thor from the George of the Jungle movie.
  • Andy and Andy from Hot Fuzz.
  • The two unnamed hearse drivers from Bubba Ho-Tep.
  • Despite going on to the movie Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle, John Cho's role in American Pie was in Milf Guy #2, one of Those Two Guys with Milf Guy #1 (Justin Isfeld).
  • The newspaper hounds from Max Keeble's Big Move.
  • Mia's maids in the second The Princess Diaries movie. One of the few funny bits in the movie is when Lilly lampshades this by calling them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. And then Lenny and Squiggy.
  • Jenny's friends Hattie and Tina in An Education. They hang on every detail of her unfolding love story, but either they dump her or she dumps them about midway through the plot, and they're never seen again.
  • Marty and Todd in Kick-Ass.
  • Darryll and Omar in The Return Of Swamp Thing.
  • The two random chanting monks in Laurence Olivier's Richard The Third. They're even credited at the end as 'Two Monks.'
  • The Barrys in Club Paradise.
  • Soderberghs Movie Kafka has the two childishly stupid assistants, two twin brothers who keep fighting constantly and are cause of some of the best comically kafkaesk scenes of the film, like when they try to open the writing desk in Kafkas office or play around with the typewriters. It is later revealed that they have been Evil All Along.
  • The two hillbillies that are seen watching the practices and the games in The Waterboy.
  • The two police officers in Friday After Next.
  • Harry and Animal from Stalag17; at one point they're referred to as the "Barrack Clowns".
  • Privates Grogan and Baker in The Bridge on the River Kwai.
  • From It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Dingy Bell and Benjy Benjamin. Also, the two gas station attendants, Ray and Irwin.
  • Domino and Little Dipper in 102 Dalmatians
  • Val and Earl from Tremors manage to be this trope despite also being the unlikely heroes of the film
  • The FBI agents Fitch and Wooly from The Rocketeer.
  • Fifield and Milburn from Prometheus.
  • Echo magazine reporters Max and Milton from S1m0ne.

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