History Film / TheOtherGuys

** When they are chased by bad guys, Allen says that there is a shortcut at the Chelsea Pier. Eventually, [[spoiler: they and up on the fenced-off driving range]]. In GTA IV there is really a shortcut in this place.
** Hoitz having the mad skills to curbstomp a band of motorcycle hitmen singlehandedly may well have stemmed from the physical coordination derived from ''dance lessons''.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Some protagonists and antagonists seem to be star graduates.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Gamble's app, "Faceback." Though being able to construct the back of someone's head from photos of their face is an amazing technical achievement. [[spoiler:The fact that [[ChekhovsGun it also works in reverse]] subverts this somewhat.]]

* AnAesop: Just because corporations can get away with rampant greed legally doesn't make it okay. Arguably {{Anvilicious}}, but since this movie came out just after the CreditCrunch and resulting crisis, it's largely a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

** [[EverythingsBetterWithBob Bob.]] 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.]]

* 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]].

*** At the end, Gamble says he lost his virginity to HeatherLocklear.

* NoodleImplements: Apparently Gamble wants to do something to Eva Mendes involving a mannequin hand and a golf club with a shaving razor attached to it.

* BlackHelicopter: A very nice AS355 Twin Squirrel. Hoitz complains that because the gunmen have it, they're "cheating." The villains also use two unmarked (bu white) vans.

* BlackHelicopter (and two unmarked white vans)

** Well, the pregnancy thing was implied to be some kind of horrible Pavlovian response from his [[spoiler:college pimp days]], not that it makes it better.
** There is a little ray of hope at the end, when Allen goes through CharacterDevelopment and we're left to infer that the two reconciled and he isn't as much of a jerk anymore...but yeah this is CringeComedy at its best/worst.
** The abuse part ''was'' PlayedForLaughs, actually. The later explanation was not, to demonstrate CharacterDevelopment. And while Allen admits the reasons behind his behavior, he may well have meant that his insecurities were driving his behavior without realizing it until that point - it doesn't mean that his abuse was some deliberate, crafty, evil plan all along.
*** That's actually how emotional and physical abuse works in real life. Beat a person down enough (physically/emotionally) and isolate them enough, and they ''can't'' ever leave you.
*** Her reaction (or real lack thereof) seems to imply she's already figured this all out and takes the abuse because she knows he doesn't mean it and understands why his insecurities are doing this. When he snaps for real, she promptly kicks him out.
** She never actually seems to pay too much attention to his insults. It's treated more like he just mocks her for himself and never intends to actually hurt her.

''The Other Guys'' focuses on two New York City police detectives Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz (WillFerrell and MarkWahlberg) that have been office pencil pushers for years, while the station's two top cops Highsmith and Danson (SamuelLJackson and [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]) garner praise from not only the NYPD, but from the entire city for their cowboy, take-no-prisoners antics. 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.

A 2010 Adam [=McKay=] action comedy that satirizes the {{Buddy Cop|s}} picture.

''The Other Guys'' focuses on two New York City police detectives Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz (WillFerrell and MarkWahlberg) that have been office pencil pushers for years, while the station's two top cops Highsmith and Danson ([[SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Jackson]] and [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]) garner praise from not only the NYPD, but from the entire city for their cowboy, take-no-prisoners antics. 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.

* ActorAllusion:

** The ending of the unrated version is just [[AuthorFilibuster over the top]] though.

* BadassDriver: He learned it from GrandTheftAuto.

** To be fair, [[WeirdnessMagnet there's always something wrong with those women]].

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Pamela Boardman when she gets a bailout]].

** And GrandTheftAuto.

* RunningGag: Captain Mauch [[WaxingLyrical unwittingly quoting lyrics]] from the band {{TLC}} with Detective Hoitz and Gamble's disbelief that he's doing it by accident.

** Averted with Gamble, who still calls it a "dating service".

* 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.

Compare ''HotFuzz''.

--> ''How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them? There's NO WAY! I call bullshit on that!''

--> ''How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them? There's NO WAY!''

* 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 its crap. Then his genuine tirade is critiqued and cheered on as if it was provocative performance piece. [[invoked]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Sam Jackson, as expected. "Did someone call Nine-One-Holy-Shit?"

* GoodCopBadCop: OK, more like bad cop, psycho cop.
** Also parodied when they [[spoiler: interrogate Ershon in his office]].

--> '''Hoitz''': Did you shout 'America' back there?\\
'''Gamble''': [[BlatantLies No, of course not. Why would I shout 'America'?]]

* TooCoolToLive: Parodied, like so much else, as below.

--> "This isn't MiamiVice!"//

--> "This isn't MiamiVice!"\\

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Zigzagged. In the unrated version, they parody modern art with a coffee table with junk on it, then it turns out Hoitz understands the "artsy-fartsy" piece better than his artistically inclined ex does and still thinks its crap. Then his genuine tirade is critiqued and cheered on as if it was provocative performance piece. [[invoked]]

* DawsonCasting: Parodied. In a flashback to his college days, younger Gamble looks exactly like his older self. No attempts to hide his grey hair of wrinkles were made.

** When they are chased by bad guys, Allen says that there is a shortcut at the Chelsea Pier. Eventually, [[spoiler: they and up on the fenced-off mini-golf course]]. In GTA IV there is really a shortcut in this place.

** And done later on by Hoitz during a boardroom shoot-out.

* TheRealHeroes: The Aesop of the movie is that the real heroes are the ones who genuinly make the world a better place, instead of doing more harm than good and still getting in the paper for being big and flashy like Highsmith and Danson

** Subverted in that, [[spoiler: thought 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.]]

* AdamWesting: SamuelLJackson and DwayneJohnson taking their typecast roles BeyondTheImpossible.