Lethal Weapons - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to the movie Lethal Weapon and its sequels.

• Peter says brothers and sisters fighting is as natural as a white man's dialogue in a Spike Lee movie. The setting of the following cutaway scene is the pizza shop from Lee's 1989 film, Do the Right Thing.

• When Peter says about Lois, "She floats like a butterfly and stings like when I pee," it is a reference to boxer Muhammad Ali's famous phrase, "Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee."

• During Lois's bar fight when Peter says "Krypton sucks.", the three Krypton criminals, General Zod, Ursa, and Non from the movie Superman II are shown sitting at the bar then fly at Lois who easily defeats them and sends them into the Phantom Zone that they were put into in the first Superman movie.

• Lucy van Pelt from the comic strip Peanuts appears and pulls away a football as Lois tries to kick it (as she does to Charlie Brown). Lois then kicks her in the face and she cries.

• When Peter and Lois go to the Drunken Clam, Lois wishes they would go to a fancier restaurant, such as Olive Garden, where she can taste the breadsticks.

• Lois says she is cutting loose just like "Julie Andrews in that movie where she shows her breasts," leading to a cutaway of Mary Poppins in which Andrews inexplicably opens her blouse. In reality, the movie Lois is referring to is the 1981 film S.O.B..

• Peter calls Lois' tae-jitsu teacher Ralph Macchio. Ralph Macchio played the part of Daniel LaRusso, the kid from the 1984 movie The Karate Kid.

• Whilst fighting with her tae-jitsu teacher, Lois yells, "Spin the wheel, raggedy man." This is a reference to the Mad Max 3 film in which Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) calls Mad Max (Mel Gibson) the Raggedy Man.