History Film / TheOtherGuys

* BloodlessCarnage: To be expected in any comedy movie, but when [[spoiler:Danson and Highsmith fall jump thinking they will survive 20 stories and the only thing to crack is the pavement, you know a line has been crossed.]]

* AMFMCharacterization: While on their way to a crime scene near the beginning of the film, the more impulsive and outspoken Terry who is more interested in cop action outside the office, plays some heavy music to get them pumped, but his partner, Allen, who is nerdier and calmer, and happy to stick to less exciting work, switches to something lighter. [[UpToEleven And 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.]]

* AnalogyBackfire: Taken UpToEleven:

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

--> '''Hoitz:''' "[[BigShutUp SHUT UP!!]]"

* 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

* 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]].
to like.

* 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.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the unrated version, [[spoiler:Derek Jeter reappears and hands Gamble and Hoitz their next case.]]

** 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. It's likely intentional, as he's later seen asleep with his own service revolver against his own head.

* 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.

* AuthorTract: The end credits, which let you know all about the abundance of white-collar crime and malpractice without a shred of subtlety.

* BavarianFireDrill: "Ladies and gentlemen, guess who gave me the secret to making my first million... That guy there!"

* CreativeClosingCredits: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBfWz2bSOQ The end credits]] detail how [[spoiler: {{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]].

* DontExplainTheJoke: "'Cause 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--'" "[[BigShutUp SHUT UP!!]]"

* 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.

* 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... [[FridgeBrilliance maybe Allen created it?]]

* 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, so they're probably Yardies. And they're armed with ''machine guns''.

** Danson and Highsmith are archetypal [[CowboyCop Cowboy Cops]], but manage to subvert this trope when they are rightfully chewed out for their reckless, high collateral damage pursuit of some small time marijuana dealers. Double subverted, however, in that while the miniscule amount of weed the dealers were carrying in no way justified such a dangerous chase, the huge arsenal of military-grade weapons they were firing at the police ''did''.

* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: As a parody of the BuddyCop and CowboyCop genres, this trope is played with heavily. Some notable examples:
** Danson and Highsmith are archetypal CowboyCops, but manage to subvert this trope when they are rightfully chewed out for their reckless, high collateral damage pursuit of some small time marijuana dealers. Double subverted, however, in that while the miniscule amount of weed the dealers were carrying in no way justified such a dangerous chase, the huge arsenal of military-grade weapons they were firing at the police ''did''.

* 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 while confiscating the gun.

%%* JugglingLoadedGuns

*** Allen, in a case of StrangeMindsThinkAlike, 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'' which Gamble couldn't help but lampshade.

* BrickJoke: 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".

* 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 [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive leap to their deaths]] in pursuit of the jewel thieves ]], [[DisproportionateRetribution cause millions of dollars of property damage over a very small amount of marijuana]] and Mauch even notes that they weren't even good cops.
** To be fair to Danson and Highsmith in their EstablishingCharacterMoment, the marijuana dealers were heavily armed with automatic weapons and shooting at the two officers.

* DeathAsComedy: [[spoiler: Danson and Highsmith's "jump" is played as nothing short of utterly hilarious.]]

** Gamble's ex-girlfriend and her husband, ''who chase Gamble and Hoitz twenty miles.''

** Danson and Highsmith [[spoiler: jump off a building chasing a bunch of thieves]].
* DeskJockey: Gamble and Hoitz, for different reasons. Gamble is a forensic accountant, while Hoitz is stuck on desk duty after shooting Derek Jeter.

* DrugsAreBad: Subverted. [[spoiler: Hoitz keeps thinking that all the crimes/criminals are drug related when in fact they are white collar financial crimes.]] Also [[spoiler: Danson and Highsmith cause millions of dollars worth of damage chasing after some guys who only have a small amount of marijuana on them.]]
** However it's justified as they were heavily armed and shooting at them.

* EpicFail: With Danson and Highsmith: [[spoiler:[[LeapOfFaith "Aim for the bushes."]]]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:[[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. However, it isn't actually all that gory either.]]

* HiddenInPlainSight: Textbook example with Allen's car near the end. Also can be filed under CarFu (never heard of Car Ninjas?).

** Turns into a StrangeMindsThinkAlike moment after he performs a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIT_maneuver PIT manoeuvre]] -- this move is actually required to complete the driving school in ''San Andreas''.
** 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.
** 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''.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Hoitz can shoot down an overhead banner to take down motorcyclists pursuing him. [[spoiler:Wesley can pull off three nonfatal shots in rapid succession (at close range no doubt, but making them ''nonfatal'' at that rate is harder than you'd think).]]
** Well, the latter is not so improbable for a [[spoiler: ex-special forces professional bodyguard]].

* ItAmusedMe: "You mate, I'm gonna kill just for fun." - Wesley, to the bystander bank clerk who asks him whether or not he want the transfer approved.

** Danson and Highsmith got away with pretty much all their destructive hijinks. But, 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 a solid concrete sidewalk.

* LittleUselessGun: Literally. Gamble's real gun is replaced by a wooden prop and then [[spoiler: that's taken away and replaced with a rape whistle.]]

* 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.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers always show Mark Wahlberg's character playing the StraightMan to Will Ferrell's antics. The truth is Detective Hoitz is just as crazy as Gamble, if not crazier.
** Actually, it becomes apparent that [[spoiler: Hoitz is masking his gentle side with juvenile antics while Gamble's self-imposed control hides a borderline psychotic personality]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo Mark Wahlberg wasn't wearing a hat, that's why.]]

* NoodleIncident: "I thought I was gonna hafta shoot my way out... What are you gonna do, y'know, ''bar mitzvah''s..."

* ProductPlacement: The Toyota Prius and Bed Bath and Beyond, of course. There are others, like Cakesters and Vaio.
** In one scene Gamble is drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade. Another has Gamble and Hoitz practically shilling ''Jersey Boys''.
** "[[LyricalDissonance While their Harry Potter books were burned...]]"
** And VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto.

** Every computer is a Sony Vaio. [[DestroyTheProductPlacement Including the one Hoitz smashes onto the office floor in a rage]].

** Random attractive women being into Gamble. ([[AvertedTrope Except Terry's girlfriend.]])
*** Not merely 'attractive' but explictly 'hot' (ie. sexy) women; Terry's girlfriend is played by Creator/LindsaySloane who, though pretty, is more of an [[GirlNextDoor understated attractiveness]] than the obvious babes that seem to fall for Gamble.
*** At the end, Gamble says he lost his virginity to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Locklear Heather Locklear]].

* SeriousBusiness: What does Hoitz do, when he and Gamble are in shock after the the nearby explosion and Gamble shouts that the destruction of the Death Star was all but realistic? Warn him not to bad-mouth ''Star Wars'', of course.

* ShoutOut: The captain is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Mauch Gene Mauch]].

* SoundtrackDissonance: Music/FooFighters' "My Hero" just before [[spoiler:two heroic cops jump 20 stories straight into the sidewalk.]]

* 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 [[spoiler:''by jumping off of a 20-story building to chase the bad guys.'' It ends [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou just about as well as you'd expect.]]]]

* 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 provocative performance piece. [[invoked]]

* WhatWereYouThinking: Terry, Gamble ''[[LemonyNarrator and 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.

** And Highsmith and Danson are, of course, [[spoiler:not prepared to live outside a Bad Boys-esque action-thriller.]]

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Creator/SamuelLJackson and Wrestling/DwayneJohnson's supercop characters 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]].

* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Completely subverted]]. We get to watch Wrestling/DwayneJohnson and Creator/SamuelLJackson fall to their deaths, without any scene cut whatsoever, including when they hit the ground. However, it isn't actually all that gory either.]]

** This is also how The Rock's and Sam Jackson's characters died early in the movie. Turns out jumping off a building is quite frequently fatal.

* CreativeClosingCredits: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBfWz2bSOQ The end credits]] detail how [[spoiler: {{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.]] It's rendered HilariousInHindsight when director Adam [=McKay=] went on to direct ''Film/TheBigShort'', a movie about [[spoiler:what lead to the 2008 financial crisis]].

* 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 focus on the RuleOfCool [[spoiler:doesn't save them from the fact that long falls from a great height with no parachute or padding to land on are always fatal]].

* 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 NeverLiveItDown.

* ThereWasADoor: our heroes crash the Prius through the garage door rather than ''let Ershon open it first.''

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: ''Both''' Allen and Terry. It's probably easier to list the characters who aren't.

* CloudCuckooLander: '''Both''' Allen and Terry. It's probably easier to list the characters who aren't.

-->'''Gamble:''' Can you imagine where you'd be in your career if you hadn't shot Jeeter?

-->'''Gamble:''' Can you imagine where you'd be in your career if you hadn't shot Jetter?

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Hoitz is a quick-tempered {{Manchild}}, but can identify Australian Special Forces at a glance and defeat several thugs in close combat. A throwaway line indicates that he was originally a skilled cop with a lot of potential, and only got sidelined after shooting Derek Jeeter.