LETHAL WEAPON DRUG BUST DEAL ACTION SPOOF AT ITS MOST HILARIOUS

YouTube - Lethal Weapon 1--Drug Deal Bust


If you want the ultimate mixture of spoof, action and pisstake from just
one movie sequence, then the opening classic drug bust scene in the
first Lethal Weapon movie would have to be up there with the best
of them. Mel Gibson has turned out to be a bit crazy in real life,
like the character Martin Riggs whom he brought to life in Lethal
Weapon and three further sequels which followed this brilliantly
witty and engaging debut. Have a look at some of the comments to
the You Tube video and it`s obvious that a lot of people out there
dont think Mel was ever acting in his movies. Was he just being
himself on film like Jack Nicholson or someone like Jim Carrey is
famous for? Watching this scene in Lethal Weapon always cracks
me up, i think it has got to be the most unintentionally funny scene
in any action movie ever. The sort of spoof which you would have ex-
pected from Eddie Murphy in Beverley Hills Cop but a whole lot more
sinister. Instead of sticking bananas up tailpipes to get even with
the baddies like Axel Foley did, Riggs AKA Mel Gibson meets up with
three drug dealers with a hundred bucks, not a hundred thousand, in
his wallet. After the white powder taste test which is all good to
the tip of Rigg`s tongue, the baddies tell him what`s owed for the
drugs, which is `a hundred`. Thinking Riggs is a druggie himself &
not a crazy son of a bitch cop, they assume he knows the lingo of
the drug biz and that `a hundred` means `a hundred thousand`.
As Riggs starts counting a hundred out on the table right in front
of the three crooks, a face-off ensues between the ringleader and
Riggs and a couple of expletives are used by the ringleader to de-
scribe how dumb Riggs must be to think 100 bucks will buy him the
whole shipment of drugs as agreed upon. By which time Riggs is in
full swing in crazy mode and he starts slapping his face and then
he mockingly eye gouges the three crooks who are standing side by
side, quickly enough to distract them for long enough to pull his
revolver on them. I`ll let you work out the rest, be warned that
there is a lot of expletives used in this movie clip, so if you
dont want to hear swearing dont listen to it. If you can handle
some swearing in the name of getting a laugh, then i would say
look no further than what Martin Riggs done best - go bananas.