YMMV / Loaded Weapon 1

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: About 2/3 through the film, Colt heads to Luger's house because he's checking to see if he's in trouble. As Colt quietly and slowly ascends the staircase, a shadow of a guy's hand can be seen creeping towards Colt, but pulls back when Colt turns around. This shadowy figure is never heard from again.
• Cliché Storm: Parodied with this exchange:
  Gen. Morters: Where's the microfilm, Mike?
  Mike McCracken: I don't know, I gave it to York. I thought she was one of your men.
  Gen. Morters: Act in haste, repent in leisure.
  Mike McCracken: But he who hesitates is lost.
  Gen. Morters: Never judge a book by its cover.
  Mike McCracken: What you see is what you get.
  Gen. Morters: Loose lips, sink ships...
  Mike McCracken: Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing or fighting, my friend.
  [Gen. Morters, cornered, looks to Mr. Jigsaw]
  [Mr. Jigsaw consults Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, shakes his head]
  Gen. Morters: Sorry Mike, no good.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Luger and Frozone both use Hai Karate and are both played by Samuel L. Jackson.
  • Colt and Luger at one point commandeer a couple of kids bicycles. A few years later, in Lethal Weapon 4 Murtuagh does the same thing.
  • A villain named "Jigsaw?" Why does that sound familiar?
• Ho Yay: During the Silence of the Lambs parody:
  Leacher: Look to a man with whom you were involved.
  [Colt reminisces holding hands with a biker and skipping on a beach]
  Leacher: No, not him. It was in Vietnam.
  [Colt reminisces holding hands with a Vietnamese man and skipping on a beach]
  Leacher: No, you disappoint me, Mr. Colt. It was Mortars. General Mortars.
  [Colt starts to reminisce, then looks disgusted]
  Colt: Wait a minute! I never-
  Leacher: I didn't mean that kind of involvement.
• Redundant Parody: Brought up by Roger Ebert in his negative review of the movie; he says the movie is a satire of the Lethal Weapon movies, which it is, but he argues that the Lethal Weapon series itself is a satire, what with the main character jumping off a building handcuffed to another character, and another person sitting on a toilet rigged with a bomb while the news media films it live, etc.
• Retroactive Recognition: Denise Richards appears as an extra in one scene.
• Spiritual Successor: To the ZAZ spoofs.

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