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3	''Bad Eggs'' is a "deadly serious comedy" about corrupt cops in Melbourne, Australia, released in 2003. It straddles the line between drama and comedy with the same deftness as ''Film/HotFuzz'', which in some respects it resembles. Stars Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Judith Lucy and a slew of other Australian comedians and veteran actors, and directed by Tony Martin; the same team would go on to make ''Film/{{Crackerjack}}'' and ''Film/{{Boytown}}'', which are much more overt comedies. Compare the Swedish film ''Film/{{Kopps}}''.
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6	!!This film contains the following tropes:
7	* AirVentEscape: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]], [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in one sentence.
8	* BlackComedy: Hence the tagline.
9	* BrickJoke: Several.
10	* TheCameo: Tony Martin, the director, as the game show host, and Jane Kennedy as another TV host.
11	* ChaseScene: The slowest, awkwardest and most inept one ever filmed. Quite deliberately:
12	-->'''Mike:''' Was that the most incompetent piece of driving in the history of high-speed pursuits or what?
13	* ChekhovsGun: Ben and Julie's system of coded moves, and the Ridgeway case.
14	* CloudCuckooLander: Mike.
15	-->'''Ben:''' Did you make your one phone call?
16	-->'''Mike:''' Yeah.
17	-->'''Ben:''' Who'd you call?
18	-->'''Mike:''' J. D. Salinger. I figure, if you only get one phone call...
19	* ClusterFBomb: True to life.
20	* DeadpanSnarker: [[WorldOfSnark The entire cast]], even the normally nervous Northey. Judith Lucy's Julie takes the cake however, given this is basically her entire shtick in anything she's in.
21	* DiggingYourselfDeeper: "And horrified shoppers."
22	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: More like Funny Background Dialogue, mostly satirising the Australian media.
23	* GilliganCut: Ben asks WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong if they attend Poulgrain's funeral. Cue a front-page story of them knocking over the coffin.
24	* IncomingHam: Ted Pratt. "YYYYEP, I smell fuckwits."
25	* LampshadeHanging: Mike, several times.
26	* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Mike falls into this while trying to recruit Northey to their scheme, talking about the very long brush that will apply sticky tar to the fence-sitters.
27	* NewscasterCameo
28	* NoBackwardsCompatibilityInTheFuture: Northey's database is "an old '70s system that no one's compatible with." Although when Ben accesses it, it's clearly running Windows 98.
29	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Premier Lionel Cray is former Premier Jeff Kennett. Cray's slogan, "the state on the go", echoes Kennett's, "Victoria - on the move".
30	* NoPartyGiven: The Premier only refers to "a family-first government". Australia now does have a Family First party, but it's made clear in one scene that it's his slogan, not his party.
31	* OhCrap: Doug Gillespie's last moments.
32	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: No matter what Mike does, all anyone knows him for is the time he was an extra on Australia's Most Wanted and fell off a prop ladder on a live broadcast.
33	* [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Our Premiers Are Different]]: This one is a clear Premier Corrupt.
34	* OutrunTheFireball: Mike and Ben flee after crashing their car into a tank of flammable gas... which then doesn't ignite.
35	* OverlyLongGag: Ted, interrupted by a passing train.
36	-->'''Ted:''' Where was I?
37	-->'''Mike:''' "Fuckknuckles."
38	* RevealingCoverup: Ben and Mike were investigating casino boss Marcus Ridgeway, and the Poulgrain disaster results in the case being given to another detective. Unfortunately for the plotters, though, it starts them looking into the Poulgrain case, which ends up being tied to Ridgeway and exposing enough corruption to bring down the government.
39	* RidingIntoTheSunset: Well, more Walking A Few Yards Up The Road Before Remembering We Have A Car.
40	* RuleOfThree: "Those three disasters have been taken completely out of context!"
41	* StuffBlowingUp: A few times, but the one you'll remember is the [[AvertedTrope Aversion]].
42	* TooMuchInformation: Mike can't seem to stop telling people about his sex life.
43	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The opening sequence of a driverless car rolling through suburban streets, narrowly missing drivers and pedestrians, even as it enters a mall, completely unnoticed and unremarked upon until seconds before it collides with stage.

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