LETHAL WRECKIN' TOO!

LETHAL WEAPON 2 (1989)
dir: Richard Donner

LETHAL WRECKIN' TOO!
MAD #293, March 1990
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Jack Davis

Continuing adventures of Los Angeles policemen Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) and Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson). Beginning right in the middle of a chase scene during their case investigating a case against some South African money launderers and after they catch it, they open the trunk and it's full of Krugerreands. Later at the station, in a scene never before used in a buddy cop movie, their captain lectures them on the damage they've done. Riggs is making a bet that he can escape a straitjacket, setting up a later scene and establishing his “crazy” character.

Grey Poupon mustard had and ad camapaign where two cars met in the middle of nowhere and the driver of one asked the other if they had any Grey Poupon.

Murtaugh and Riggs' next assignment is to guard a federal witness named Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) who they constantly have to tell to shut up. Pesci had small roles up to then but had not had his breakthrough with GoodFellas yet and so was not yet deemed worthy of caricature. A room service waiter turns out to be a murderer, leading to them falling out the window and into a pool to protect Leo. The cops find out the drug smuggling ring they're protecting Leo from is connected to the money launderers they were chasing earlier and go back to investigating it. They bring Leo to the case because he can find the drug kingpins.

Riggs and Murtaugh harass Rudd (Joss Ackland) a South American diplomat protecting the criminals who's also an Apartheidist and has diplomatic immunity, so there's not much they can do. Later, when Murtaugh is using the toilet in the consulate, he finds it has a bomb that will go off if he gets up and Riggs rescues him. Riggs also starts dating Rudd's secretary Rika van der Haas (Patsy Kensit). Riggs' dog Sam is kicked out so he doesn't interrupt them during sex but comes back to warn them of coming druglords.

There was a James Bond movie called License to Kill with Pierce Brosnan around then.

ILL-LEGAL WEAPONS
Cracked #251, January 1990
w: Vic Bianco (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan

The chase was in Murthaugh's wife's car.

The movie began with the first few bars of the Looney Tunes theme, so there is sort of a cartoon connection.