About this episode

The episode revisits the comedy film National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 and discusses its impact and humor.

Continuing the spoof theme from our recent Patreon episode on Airplane, we re-watched an old favorite, National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1! How great is Whoopi in this? How is this such a keystone to our goofy jokes? Wilderness girls! The Movie! All this and more! Want more Dissecting the 80s? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to unlock dozens of bonus episodes right away! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Spoof, 90s, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

People in this episode

Hosts: Tripp Laino, Andrew Laino

Topics covered

• spoof
• comedy
• film review
• 80s movies
• National Lampoon

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1, Airplane

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