Loaded Weapon 1

Episode 71: National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)

Theme: Guilty Pleasures
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis strap on their most 90s bulletproof vests and dive into National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 — the only spoof brave enough to take Lethal Weapon, run it through a Police Academy 4 filter, sprinkle in Troop Beverly Hills, and still come out looking like the most beautifully stupid comedy ever dumped into theaters in February 1993. Curtis brings a movie marriage so deranged it should come with a warning label, and Oz proudly claims this as one of his top-tier guilty pleasures — the kind of movie you finish by accident every time you stumble across it.

Join your two favorite members of the Let’s Talk About Flix-verse as they unpack:

• How Emilio Estevez plays Jack Colt with the intensity of a man who lives in a beach trailer the size of Caesar’s Palace.

• Why Samuel L. Jackson’s Wes Luger is the most by-the-book cop ever to be cheated on by his wife in front of a fondue fountain.

• How Tim Curry as Jigsaw is both terrifying and the world’s most committed Wilderness Girl.

• Why Kathy Ireland shows up, switches actresses mid-scene, and still somehow delivers peak 90s supermodel energy.

• How John Lovitz gives exactly the right amount of “Joe Pesci slime” without dissolving into pure nasal whine.

• Why every background gag hits so hard you need a second viewing just to catch the Larry Bird cardboard cutout photo shoot.

• How Bruce Willis shows up solely to be blown out of the wrong beach trailer — and it makes perfect sense.

• Why Sam Jackson screaming “SHOOT HIM! SHOOT HIM! SHOOT HIM!” deserves a place in the Spoof Movie Hall of Fame.

• How Claire, the dead partner Colt can’t get over, is — of course — a dog.

• Why this movie contains not one single “loaded weapon,” but more tubas, hot dog carts, and explosive cigarettes than any sane person asked for.

From the head-and-shoulders crime-scene detective to the Garfield sticker on the Hannibal Lecter glass, from the gratuitous butt-in-the-moonbeam walk to the Wayne’s World Bohemian Rhapsody ending, Oz and Curtis walk through a parody so committed to the bit it accidentally becomes… kind of brilliant?

Final Verdict

Oz — 9 Pieces of Microfilm
Curtis — 100 Gratuitous Stuffed Beavers
Both — Still furious there was never a Loaded Weapon 2.