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[distracting Michael with a chunky monkey] Hey biggun. Playtimes over. — Hot Fuzz

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"[distracting Michael with a chunky monkey] Hey biggun. Playtimes over."
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Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British buddy cop action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, who co-wrote the film with Simon Pegg. Pegg stars as Nicholas Angel, an elite London police officer, whose proficiency makes the rest of his team look bad, causing him to be reassigned to a West Country village where a series of gruesome deaths takes place. Nick Frost stars alongside him as Police Constable Danny But

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