What’s Aged the Best?
Rubber-plant condom joke; young Dean Norris and Nestor Serrano; blond Hitler-haired henchman; South African accents; Joss Ackland; Patsy Kensit; Eric Clapton soundtrack; decision not to kill Riggs; Pesci's introduction; nail guns
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- The condom material with the daughter paying off in the rubber-plant joke is classic cop humor.
- Seen on cable as a kid, a dad laughed with his entire soul at the condom scene; the joke only made sense years later; a room full of cops is the right setting.
- Young Dean Norris, with a little hair, and Nestor Serrano cruising around.
- The bad guy with the blond Hitler hair; a wispy mustache would have been too on the nose.
- The South African accents get special applause ('who is the dickhead now, eh?').
- Asked why no South African accent was attempted, the reply is that South African is hard to do. — Chris Ryan
- Joss Ackland, the Russian diplomat in Hunt for Red October, is good with a variety of accents.
- Patsy Kensit does a great job, though notes follow about her character having no apparent culpability for working there; she looks great.
- She faced a tough crowd in Michelle Pfeiffer's golden age, with Greta Scotchy and Meg Ryan also around; a high-school argument over Scotchy versus Kensit is recalled.
- Kensit married Liam Gallagher and was originally a singer in a band.
- The soundtrack: Eric Clapton does the guitar work and there is a George Harrison song.
- The decision not to have Riggs die, financially.
- The introduction of Pesci, like a microwave scorer off the bench, injects adrenaline and breaks into the Riggs-Murtaugh chemistry.
- Nail guns: this was the first time seeing one, and with Snoop in The Wire nail guns aged really well.