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Lizards in Movies   Starsky & Hutch (2004)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is a buddy cop action comedy based on the 1970s TV series of the same name, set in the 1970s. Ben Stiller is Bay City police detective Starsky, Owen Wilson is his new partner detective Hutch. Their job is difficult and dangerous, from interviewing naked cheerleaders, to going undercover as mimes. Snoop Dogg plays Huggy Bear, Hutch's informer, who calls himself an "urban informer," not a snitch. The iguana shows up in a comic scene with a parody of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction tough guy non-sequitor dialogue. After the two men become partners, Hutch takes Starsky to meet Huggy Bear for the first time in his office at his bar. Huggy Bear has a pet Green Iguana named Corky that roams the office and climbs on a large dead tree behind Huggy Bear's chair. Starsky is an uptight by-the-book cop who is nervous being in a room with a criminal and his bodyguards who carry unlicensed guns. When the iguana knocks something over, Starsky panics and shoots off the iguana's tail. He tells Huggy Bear that the iguana should be kept in a terrarium, which starts a dialogue about terrariums. When the bodyguards learn that Starsky shot the lizard's tail off they want to shoot Starsky in the ass for revenge - an eye for an eye. But Huggy Bear tells them that an iguana can grow back its tail, so shooting Starsky in the ass would not be fair because Starsky can't grow a new ass, so the punishment don't fit the crime, and besides that, it was an accident. Then everybody calms down and lowers their weapons. We see Snoop Dogg holding the iguana again during the ending credits. The lizards's tail is wrapped in blue tape, which shows that blue screen technology was used to make it look like the tail was missing, just in case we thought the iguana was actually harmed during the making of the movie.