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1* The exploding toilet in the second film.
2* Most of the time that the "1, 2, 3, then go" issue comes up, which becomes a joint SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}} and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome]] the last time it occurs during the fourth movie.
3* Leo Getz' "They fuck you" rants and his catchphrase "Okay, okay!".
4* Both the opening scene and TheStinger of ''3''. Especially the latter, where Riggs and Murtaugh show up ''just'' before the bomb goes off - and they take off like a bat outta hell. As they drive away and the building falls apart, they complain about their inevitable second demotion before the scene ends on a black screen and both of them saying [[CatchPhrase "I'm too old for this shit"]] in unison.
5* From the first film: "My mom says policemen shoot black people!" Riggs busts up laughing, and it looked like Creator/MelGibson was ''genuinely'' laughing, too.
6** Nowadays, may be HarsherInHindsight.
7* The look on Murtaugh's face when he realizes the commercial Rianne was in is a condom commercial.
8** Followed by the construction worker who was building Murtaugh's hobby room commenting about how she was so good in the commercial, it made him want to go out and buy rubbers right then. Murtaugh shoots him a DeathGlare, while Riggs can barely contain his laughter.
9** Murtaugh ends up receiving a [[VisualPun "rubber tree"]] from his collegues.
10*** [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Even Murtaugh eventually starts laughing about it.]]
11** Much later, Leo is watching TV and sees the commercial and Murtaugh quickly tries to cover up the TV.
12* Riggs ramming his dislocated shoulder into a wall to re-set it with a massive grimace of pain--six inches in front of his psychologist's face. She just gives him a resigned look.
13* In ''2'', when Riggs looks under Murtaugh's toilet to find it strapped to a bomb. It's a serious moment, but the lines after are worth a chuckle.
14-->'''Murtaugh:''' Tell me I'm not fucked.
15-->'''Riggs:''' (''under breath'') He's fucked.
16* Riggs and Murtaugh's first meeting with Leo Getz.
17-->'''Leo:''' How do I know you're the police?
18-->'''Riggs:''' After I shoot you through the door, you can examine the bullet. Open up!
19* In ''3'', after Riggs and Murtaugh are demoted to beat cops, they confront a jaywalker. Said jaywalker turns out to be a little obnoxious, so Riggs deals with the problem by pretending that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A3iNVaLod4 they're just gonna kill him]].
20* In ''4'', Riggs keeps hanging the picture of Murtaugh in his underwear (with backup copies to replace it if it gets taken down.) Murtaugh is getting more than furious.
21-->'''Murtaugh:''' It's been a ''year'' almost already, okay?! ''This shit ain't funny no more!''
22** After the two are promoted to Captain, they see it again.
23--->'''Riggs:''' Look, can we knock this shit off please? This is your captain speaking.
24*** He then puts it back up immediately after Murtaugh walks away.
25* Also in ''4'', Butters arrests a waiter from the restaurant who's at the wrong place at the wrong time.
26-->'''Butters:''' You got the right to remain silent, so shut the fuck up, okay?! You got the right to an attorney. If you can't afford an attorney, we will provide you with the dumbest fuckin' laywer on Earth. If you get Johnnie Cochran, I'll kill you!
27** Then, after the guy turns out to be a waiter, he promises to sue Butters for the arrest, saying "Johnnie Cochran! He fight for me!"
28** Before that, when Butters is chasing the guy, he yells at him to stop, then yells "'STOP' IN CHINESE, MOTHERFUCKER!"
29* The opening car chase from ''Lethal Weapon 2'':
30-->(''Riggs is about to drive up onto the center divider of an overpass in Trish's new car during a pursuit'')
31-->'''Murtaugh''': You're not going to make it!
32-->'''Riggs''': Yes, I will.
33-->'''Murtaugh''': (''anxiously'') No, there's not enough room!
34-->'''Riggs''': There's plenty of room, sure I'll make it!
35-->(''Riggs runs the car up onto the divider, scraping it along a metal guard-rail'')
36-->'''Murtaugh''': (''screaming as sparks fly'') Ah, my side panel!
37-->'''Riggs''': (''laughs'') Goddamn it, you were right, ya know. There wasn't enough room.
38-->'''Murtaugh''': (''shoots Riggs a DeathGlare'')
39* Lorna takes Riggs back to her place after a mission. While Riggs jokingly fiddles around with Lorna's stuff after she told him not to, he happens to find a Film/TheThreeStooges video game on her computer, much to Riggs' amazement since he too is a fan.
40* Even one for the bad guys as in the climax of part 1, when Joshua heads for Murtagh's home in revenge for foiling his scheme. Thankfully no one's home but he gets spooked by the TV playing ''Film/Scrooge1951''.
41--> '''Scrooge''' ''[on TV]'': You boy? What day is it today?\
42'''Boy''': What day? Why it's-\
43'''Joshua''': ''[shoots the TV]'' '''IT'S GODDAMN CHRISTMAS!'''
44* During the scene on the yacht in the third movie where Riggs talks to a [[DrowningMySorrows drunken]] [[HeroicBSOD Murtaugh]], Riggs tells Murtaugh that he might have slept with someone he shouldn't have, [[spoiler: which was Lorna.]] Murtaugh punches Riggs off the boat [[PapaWolf assuming that he had slept with Rianne]].
45** It should be noted this was [[Heartwarming/LethalWeapon right after Riggs had gotten finished saying]] [[FamilyOfChoice Murtaugh's family was his family]], including referring to his children as like his own children. Which would include Rianne. But then again, Murtaugh was also drunk.
46** And then, when Riggs says it was "Sgt. Cole" he had slept with, Murtaugh says "Sgt. Cole from Traffic?!" Adding to the humor, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant the drunken Murtaugh thought Riggs was referring not to Lorna, but to]] ''[[HoYay Lorna's uncle]]!''
47* Also in the third movie, Riggs teaches Murtaugh how to do a back spin kick. When Murtaugh attempts it, he ends up kicking a water cooler behind him because Riggs intentionally backed him into it. Made even ''more'' priceless when the precinct's shrink is right there to witness it, and mistakenly assumes it's Murtaugh acting out over the Daryl shooting.
48* Riggs and Murtaugh [[SpannerInTheWorks crashing]] the Corrupt General - Triad deal simply by telling him that the money he's getting are fake and providing evidence. The General was ''not'' amused at the Triad's antics.
49-->'''Riggs:''' Huh? No applause?
50-->[=*Cue the General grabbing his gun towards the Triad while shouting angrily*=]
51-->'''Riggs:''' [[EvilVersusEvil Oh, here it comes!]]
52* Riggs, Murtaugh, and Butters spend a long time chasing down someone they think is a Triad, but turns out to just be a waiter at one of the local Chinese restaurants. To prove it, they demand to know what the day's special is.
53-->'''Waiter (thinking):''' ...What's today?
54-->'''Butters:''' Uh, Wednesday!
55-->'''Riggs and Murtaugh:''' Yea, Wednesday!
56-->'''Waiter:''' Uh, Chicken and Sweet n' Sour Pork, Barbeque Spare Rib with Special Fried Rice...
57* This out-of-nowhere exchange during the FinalBattle in ''4''.
58-->'''Riggs:''' Hey, Rog?!
59-->'''Murtaugh:''' Yeah?!
60-->'''Riggs:''' What the hell's going on?! Why are you lying to me?! I.A. says you're on the take!
61-->'''Murtaugh:''' Hey, I'm on the take?!
62-->'''Riggs:''' Yeah! I think it's crazy too, but you've been spending a lot of money, and...
63-->'''Murtaugh:''' You ever hear of Ebony Clark?!
64-->'''Riggs:''' Yeah! She writes those cheesy sex novels!
65-->'''Murtaugh:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, her!
66-->'''Riggs:''' Are you boinking her?!
67-->'''Murtaugh:''' Ah, no, [[BlatantLies I'm not boinking Ebony Clark]], Riggs, shit! Trish is Ebony Clark!
68-->'''Riggs:''' [[FridgeBrilliance Trish is Ebony-- You ARE boinking her!]]
69-->'''Murtaugh:''' [thinks about it, then gets a big grin on his face] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm boinking her!
70* The entire laughing gas scene in the fourth movie. Riggs, Murtaugh and Butters confront Uncle Benny during a dentist appointment to interrogate him on the whereabouts of the Hong family. When he refuses to say anything, they give him some laughing gas in hopes to get him talking. It works, a little too much. The gas eventually leaks through the mask, causing Riggs, Murtaugh and Butters to start laughing too. But they still take some for good measure. It's actually a rare moment to see them actually getting along with a villain character like Uncle Benny and having a good laugh with him.
71** This is also the moment where Riggs accidently reveals Butters is actually Murtaugh's son-in-law. The exchange between Murtaugh and Butters is funny, with Butters saying "Your baby is having my baby."
72** Uncle Benny gets points here too for being funny. When he says "I'm sleeping with my wife's two sisters", the other characters lose it while Riggs praises him for it. Uncle Benny then says "Not so good when my wife finds out."
73** While all this is happening, Leo is in the other room getting his teeth worked on which is a total nightmare to him.
74* Something of a Dark Humor moment in ''2''. Arjen Rudd had earlier killed a man [[YouHaveFailedMe who had lost a shipment of Kruegerrands]]. He'd had his office floor covered in plastic wrap, ostensibly because of a remodel, but actually to prevent forensic transfer. Later in the film, he's berating Vorstedt, who had carried out the earlier execution, for a string of recent failures. Vorstet begins looking around casually, and his boss demands to know what he's doing. Vorstedt states that he's making sure he's not standing in plastic with a smarmy look on his face.
75* In the first film, after the jumper scene, Murtaugh yells for Riggs to come with him to an abandoned storefront. Murtaugh goes to slam the door shut, only for the door to slam past the threshold, making for a FunnyBackgroundEvent.
76* In the third film's climax, Murtaugh is ambushed by a goon in the burning construction site. He throws a hammer at the mook, killing him. Murtaugh mutters, "Hold that. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHxSnEZ7bUw&t=2m0s Son of a bitch."]]
77* The hospital scene at the end of the fourth film is just utter chaos.
78* In the fourth film, we see a newspaper headline reading "Bird Man Fowls Human Tank". People are already making fun of Murtaugh and his [[GoofyPrintUnderwear heart boxer shorts]].
79** It also turns out that someone in the precinct has a bunch of copies of that same article - after Murtaugh takes a copy of it down, Riggs has someone give him another copy while Murtaugh's back is turned. Later, after both men are made Captains, Riggs pretends to order them to knock it off, before putting the same copy back up again.
80* Also in the fourth film, after the car chase ends with Riggs and Murtaugh crashing their car into a nearby truck when the last Triad gets killed in the process, Murtaugh sees a bumper sticker on the back of the truck reading, "If you can read this, you're TOO close!" Murtaugh says, "Maybe a little ''too'' close."
81* The ending of the second movie is a bit of a TearJerker when Murtaugh cradles a severely wounded Riggs and tells him not to die until he tells him to, and Riggs weakly tells Murtaugh to reach into his pocket for his pack of cigarettes implying a OneLastSmoke before he passes on... [[MoodWhiplash until Riggs tells him to throw it away, since those things will kill you]]. Riggs tells Murtaugh that he didn't die in his toilet, and why exactly would he be dying in Murtaugh's arms? The two share a laugh and when Riggs asks him if all the South Africans are dead, Murtaugh responds, [[BondOneLiner "They've been de-kaffir-nated."]]

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