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• While the Murtaugh family waits for the commercial, they watch "Tales from the Crypt" (1989), specifically episode #1.2, "Tales from the Crypt: And All Through the House (#1.2)" (1989) (the psycho Santa episode), which aired on 10 June 1989, starring Mary Ellen Trainor, who plays police psychiatrist Dr. Stephanie Woods in this movie. Some episodes in the series were produced by the film's director, Richard Donner.
  
  
• The carpenter is named McGee. This is the actual surname of the actor portraying him, Jack McGee.
  
  
• The bottle of cologne that is shot during the destruction of Riggs' trailer is "Hero." The first time we see Riggs going into his trailer, there is an ad for that same cologne on TV.
  
  
• In the scene in which Leo is cleaning Martin Riggs' house, you can hear the song "I'm Not Scared", by the short-lived British pop group Eighth Wonder, of which Patsy Kensit was the lead singer.
  
  
• Leo's "okay-okay-okay" schtick was based on Disneyland employees giving directions to Fantasyland. Originally, Leo was going to be an oily, effeminate character, but Joe Pesci didn't want to play him that way. He pitched the idea of making Leo all-too-eager to please, complete with "okay-okay-okay" ad libs, to Richard Donner. Donner laughed and said, "Do that! Do that!"
  
  
• On the side of Riggs' refrigerator is a U.S. Army Military Police School diploma.
  
  
• Riggs was originally to die on the boat, but the producer decided to make more movies, hence his survival, after being shot three times.
  
  
• The scene where Mel Gibson attaches cables to the stilts of a mountain-top home and pulls it down cost over $500,000.
  
  
• The body count is 33, the highest of the 'Lethal Weapon' series.
  
  
• The "bomb in the toilet" sequence was used as an early teaser trailer for the movie. The trailer ended with the toilet landing on Murtaugh's car and the voice-over announcer saying "They're not taking any more crap!"
  
  
• Main cinematography took place in the spring of 1989.
  
  
• The films' writer, Shane Black, walked away from this sequel after he decided to kill off the character of Martin Riggs. Warner Brothers disagreed with that decision, and he left the project.
  
  
• Keith Haring's "Free South Africa" poster is seen in a few background shots as it is in Scrooged (1988), also directed by Richard Donner.
  
  

• SPOILERS: Riggs intentionally dislocates his shoulder in this film in order to get out of a straitjacket, then has to slam his shoulder back into place. This becomes a running gag throughout the series, where he slams his shoulder back into place after riding a motorcycle off a bridge in Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) and Ku (Jet Li's character) dislocates both of Rigg's shoulders in a fight scene in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
  
  
• SPOILER: An alternate ending to the movie featured a Thanksgiving dinner at the Murtaugh house which is attended by both Riggs and Rika Van Dan Haas. Director Richard Donner later decided that Rika should be killed to further fuel Riggs' hatred of the South African diplomats. With Rika dead, the Thanksgiving dinner scene had to be scrapped.
  
  

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