Fridge / Blue Thunder

• The rather extraordinary aversion of cars and helicopters blowing up when shot by Blue Thunder was almost certainly a necessity to preserve Murphy's status as a heroic character. Despite loosing thousands of rounds of ammunition, he doesn't kill anyone on screen except Cochrane. On the flipside, the idea that anyone would ever give Air Force interceptors the go-ahead to fire heat-seeking missiles over a major city is ludicrous, absent a 9/11 style threat.
  • The bad guys were hyping Murphy as a "mad sniper," and assured the mayor that the F-16s would take him out "like a cancer". Hopefully he wouldn't crash on anyone important...