Not too long ago we read an excellent graphic novel by Hannah Berry entitled Britten and Brülightly that’s like a traditional detective novel except the private investigator Britten’s partner, Brülightly, is a talking tea bag. Awesome, right? (It is.) Well until that work is adapted for the big screen, our quirkiest police pairs in film are featured in mental_floss’s listicle of 9 Weird Buddy-Cop Movie Partners. The best duo on the squad? Well, we noticed a surprising omission (included after the jump), but we liked James Woods’ grumpy detective and Michael J. Fox’s movie star in The Hard Way (plus all the 80s New York backdrops are cool).

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman in Double Team

Any excuse to watch that trailer again.