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Episode #710: Lethal Weapon (W❤️M) (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-01 11:00:09
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2025-08-21 18:50:52
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2026-06
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“Just imagine like, to distract someone, you send a police car careening through your own house!” - Eric

On this month’s patrons-only W❤️M we’re talking about one of the all-time greats, the Christmas action comedy, Lethal Weapon! Has there been a movie duo with faster chemistry than Riggs and Murtaugh? Why are we giving Rodge a birthday cake while he’s in the tub? Did anyone else mishear that one APB and think the movie was saying Gary Busey was dating the daughter? And wow, Anthony Kiedis’s dad! PLUS: Mr. Joshua does not tolerate workplace discrimination!

Lethal Weapon stars Danny Glover, Mel Gibson, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins, Mary Ellen Trainer, Steve Kahan, Grand L. Bush, Ed O’Ross, Al Leong, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Traci Wolfe, Jackie Swanson, and Darlene Love as Trish Murtaugh; directed by Richard Donner.

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Frank Grimes

i am too old for this shit...it was always funny they aged up Glover in the film

Jason

Steve and Andrew’s opining for a Coke Bears Christmas special reminds me of the Cadillac of X-Mas advertisement specials: Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration AKA The California Raisins Christmas. I unironically love it . I watch it every Christmas season despite being called “dumb” or “moronic” or “drunk” by my spouse and kids when I commandeer the TV to watch it.

RJ Cunningham

Kinda crazy that M&M’s-Santa “I do exist…” commercial is still going strong. Is that even what he says? I actually never understood it

RJ Cunningham

Shaved-head 1985 Richard Harris would be a good Prof X. He’d have been in that right age range

Adam Lewis

The live wire that Mel is in this is a reminder of the alchemical effect of real star power, anti-semitism, racism and traffic stops notwithstanding.

We Hate Movies

Oh shit, you’re blowing my mind. I haven’t thought of that one in ages! To the YouTube! - Andrew

MarkNM

I first noticed this through the MAD Magazine parody, "Legal Wreckin'". This was on an HBO- ripped VHS tape on EP mode with ALIENS and RUNNING SCARED, and me and my dad watched that tape for years til it literally broke. Good times. Edit: KCOP Channel 13 is a legit LA station. Up through the 2000s it was an independent, showing kids cartoons, syndicated shows, and old movies.

MarkNM

I watched that, and Meet the Raisins. What a time to be alive.

Frank Grimes

Loaded weapon is a fantastic parody of LW/buddy cop films

David Denoyer

This makes for a great start to the weekend! :) And the December line up fucking rules!!! Very excited about both SNDN & Love Actually

Vicky I

Several years ago my mom confessed that she got my name from this movie, so now every year on my birthday I have to watch this movie just to do the Leo pointing meme.

Chris

Dumb question but can somebody explain "I got it by the way?" I think I missed the origin if it was on an episode and always thought it was a negative but then Andrew said it to give praise to Lethal Weapon 2

Cody Downs

For Eric: I'm rather astounded, him being a longtime Letterman viewer, he did not recall "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love, when Andrew brought it up. She sang it every year on his show before he & his staff went on Christmas hiatus from 1986-2014. And, yes: during both at his runs NBC & CBS.

Smaug

Great ep I loved it! I never clicked with the LW franchise as a kid, I don't know why. I loved Mel Gibson in Road Warrior and Danny Glover in Predator 2 at the same age. I think it's the quippy dialogue the whole movie

We Hate Movies

Only ever watched Letterman via random episodes on YouTube throughout the pandemic, guess I never hit those Christmas episodes! - ES

We Hate Movies

Scream 2 reference. It means a sequel that might be better than the original.

Chris

Nice, thanks!

HockeenightsCT

Hell yeah, I need an episode on Men At Work. And I wouldn’t say no to some Young Guns either.

Steven Avalos

Burst out laughing at Piggy the Pig so much that one of the ladies at the gym looked at me with an uncomfortable smile. Probably thinks I'm going crazy while I'm doing facepulls. Thanks boys 😄

Aaron

Coors is cold brewed and would turn bad before it could be shipped out too far. That's why Bandit had to bust ass to deliver it in the movie or whatever.

Adam Lewis

There was also a New York Times profile of Darlene Love some years ago: she had some rough years before the Lethal Weapon and Letterman opportunities.

RJ Cunningham

Ah that would mean you’ve never heard the Jay Thomas-Letterman-Lone Ranger story. Again, a Cheers-adjacent pop-culture tidbit is all I’m able to bring to the convo. Jay Thomas would tell it every year at Christmas time and then if I remember correctly he usually tried to knock a meatball off a Christmas tree. It is truly a fantastic story.

Jason

Piggy the Pig sounds like it’s time for a similar but legally distinct WHM t-shirt.

Z

Still remember this being a huge staple on TBS, along with Lethal Weapon 2.

MarkNM

Piggy the pig got me too.

Grimlockfly

Think I’d love to see you guys do the series!

John Armitage

Tig is not on the take. Trish is the primary bread winner with her romance novels

Beatrix

Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 and a bit of 3, all rule

Hard To Gwil

legit belly laughs over here. This is an all-timer of an episode. Thanks guys

Ed Harris

Love this one and the second film. Three is okay and the fourth is agreeable but a bit much.

Cody Downs

On the podcast JUNKFOOD CINEMA, Eric covered this with the hosts of that pod on 2018 -- the 30th anniversary of the film

Robert Walton

My Loaded Weapon 1 memory is a scene where they are investigating a crime scene and a CSI guy says "Watch your step, there's a lot of blood" and someone immediately goes ass-over-teakettle in the background. Incredibly dumb, but I can't watch a CSI-type scene without thinking of that.

Holt Rowley

Interesting. Good movie! I love 4 mainly cause of jet! There is going to be another one lol. Like really? How old can they be. I get Mel Gibsons character still doing it as that’s what he did but glover was already retiring in every other movie lol. The movie better be some nonsense that brings him out of retirement and not that he kept on doing it at 77

Lindsey

Which Lethal Weapon is it where Danny Glover can’t get off the toilet or the house will blow up? Cinema peaked right there

Matthew Lloyd

In number 4 its stated that Trish writes erotic novels and is successful enough to fund this lifestyle.

The Great Wheel

What I love is that Danny Glover is the lead in Operation: Dumbo Drop so whenever I watch this movie and Murtaugh talks about his time in Vietnam I imagine Atkins jumping on a grenade to save Murtaugh...and an elephant.

Aaron Rabiroff

I am late to this due to life stuff but KCOP is a real LA tv station, it was an independent station before becoming LA's UPN affiliate, and then MyTV, so it was all syndication in the 1980's along with Nightcrawler style local news

Chaz Keracher

Not only was this a fun episode, but it makes me what to hear WLM episodes for Smokey and the Bandit and Gross Pointe Blank.

Meggy

The boys talking about the proper way to hover hand had me in tears. I have the best group photo with them from when they toured in Detroit. Andrew’s respectful hover hand is legendary lol

Brandon

Andrew - KCOP is a channel in LA.

James C Harris

It's just not Christmas until Tom Atkins gets shot through to thecegg nog

We Hate Movies

Whoa, really! What an incredible coincidence. - Andrew

Kureigu

The tai chi most common is the health stuff but it is a proper martial art if trained that way.

Kureigu

Shame you didn't watch the extended version the scene with the hostage taker really adds to showing how little riggs cares about his own life while on the job.