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Acceptable Inevitable Targets: Gamble's cop car is a Prius.
Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Pimps don't cry.
- Doubles as a Brick Joke when you hear the full version at the end.
Crowning Music of Awesome: Okay... Monday, Monday in a scene of a Prius literally destroying a van. Don't know how that worked but it did.
- The end theme, co-written by Will Ferrell, doubles as an Ear Worm.
Hilarious in Hindsight: in this movie, Will Ferrell is a software expert and The Smart Guy of the pair; in his next movie, he's Megamind.
- This clip from the Oscars a few years back, when Will Ferrell addresses Mark Wahlberg.
- Mark Wahlberg as a police officer Dignam in The Departed says "I'm the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy".
Mondegreen: Non-lyrical version: some people have misheard Gamble saying "I've always got Little River Band loaded" as "I've always got a little rubber band loaded", especially as he was showing how he could still cause pain with a wooden gun. "Six discs" after than sounds more like ammo than CDs.
- For a more direct version, look no further than ~~Monday Morning~~ "Monday, Monday" by the Mamas and the Papas.
Never Live It Down: Terry once accidentally shot Derek Jeter. This gets brought up a lot.
- This could possibly be Fridge Brilliance. Mark Wahlberg is from Boston, Jeter is basically Mr. Yankee. Connect the dots.
Shocking Swerve: The death of Johnson's and Jackson's characters. In a movie that's gratuitously over the top, including shooting down an attack chopper with golf balls, the biggest Shyamalanian twist comes when you expect something impossible to happen and it doesn't happen.
Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped:
- The Real Heroes are not the ones who show off and get all the credit. It's every morally upstanding citizen who does their job and tries the make the world a better place tomorrow than it was yesterday.
- The end credits. What banks are doing to the average consumer in the name of greed and profit is borderline criminal.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: So you got The Rock and Sam Jackson as partners. What do you do? You killed them in the first 20 minutes in a blatant Dropped a Bridge on Him manner. Of course, that was the entire point.
Values Resonance: Everything the film damns the big banks - the price gouging, the scapegoating, the federal bailouts - for is still applicable.

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