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Learn about the infuriating economy from The Other Guys end credits

By Dave Davis

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on November 21, 2023

If you haven’t caught THE OTHER GUYS yet, or didn’t sit through the closing credit sequence, you missed an insightful and maddening series of animated factoids about the depressing economical situation and the various ways that Wall Street has been sodomizing you with a jewel-encrusted shaft of solid gold.

The buddy cop comedy stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as hapless NYC detectives who take down a shifty investment banker. As Moviefone details, director Adam McKay wanted to follow the laughs with a sobering smack of reality. Success.

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