Season 2 Episode 11: Worst Episode Ever?

Get well soon Drew and your Parents

Following the highs of the last episode, the boys are faced with what they all agree may be the worst episode of Lethal Weapon ever.

PS. I have Covid and haven't been at home so there is no art or theme song for this episode. Its only because I'm sick not lazy.

## Episode Summary

Drew is sick, Nate sounds like he’s on the moon again and Tom is just an evil jokester. Seems like everyone got up on the wrong side of the bed this episode, things get very heated but luckily we have the great Lethal Weapon episode to cool everyone down.

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

**Season 2 Episode 11:** "Funny Money"

**Keith read-a-long:** Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 11: Funny Money Review - (keithlovesmovies.com)

> "Don’t be that guy who doesn’t understand the Cloud!"
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A Money counterfeiter gets killed and three kids filming a BMX video witness it. We’ve all been on the edge of our seats, waiting to see what comes of Riggs’ Dad – but get ready for a letdown or skip to the very end. Oh and Bowman is back!

Riggs brings a Puppy over to Molly’s place. Where is his other dog? ☹ C’mon Riggs. Fucking psycho. He wants to surprise Ben, the little kid, and calls the Dog Chuck Norris.

Roger checks on RJ at college but he’s “missing” and possibly skipping classes. His roommate Floyd (Trey Hall) has met Murtaugh 6 times but can still not remember him. Murtaugh tells him to go to class.

Hank Peterson (Ernie freakin' Hudson!), a living Legend from the secret service, joins the team for this case. He’s an expert in the counterfeiting world and is 2 weeks away from retirement. Surely, he won’t be involved with the crime. He tells them about some notorious counterfeiter known only as “Degas”. All the best agencies in the world are after him, but it’s up to two LAPD Detectives to find him.

Riggs meets Dr. Cahill and makes no progress, actively working against it in fact. He would rather talk about naming his puppy than talking about HIS DAD WHO IS ALIVE AND CALLED HIM! And he gets his way, they don’t even mention his dad until the very last scene. All this time we thought he was dead, Jake killed him, but no, he’s alive in a Texas prison and wants to talk to his boy.

They get a lead on Degas in a hotel, because fake bills were used there. Because ROGER informed several Hotels! Not a lucky break. Roger is so whiny this whole episode. Hank knows the hotel from when he protected a “silver haired matriarch” in it once. Roger storms off because he’s heard the story 3 times, Hank was talking about Barbara Bush, Code name ‘Snowbank’.

They go upstairs and find not one middle aged moneylaundering man, but two kids jumping on the bed in the middle of a pillow fight. A bunch of the counterfeit money is lying around too I think. Rog and Riggs are kind of amused but then the 3rd kid bikes past them out of the room, and Riggs chases after him.

It’s the best scene of the episode and that's saying a lot. They race through the hotel and into the subway, where Riggs almost gets him but when he grabs the kid, it turns out to be another person – he paid the kid 100 (fake) bucks to wear his hat, and as the subway leaves the kid is inside, with Riggs’ wallet!

Back at the station, Riggs finds out the kids name and address by bribing the other kid with fake money. 300 Bucks gets him a name and address – Ty Hill (Nathan Davis Jr.) currently living in a junkyard. Riggs finds him and brings him food, they bond. Suddenly, masked gunmen with Uzis show up and fire into the bus Riggs and the kid are in. He shoots back with a handgun once or twice and scares them off somehow. Absurd! When he checks on Ty, he sees he’s escaped through a trap door!

The kid with the Camcorder, Monroe (Dakota Love) said the video is on "the cloud". Murtaugh says "Bowman, get me the cloud!". Sometime later, Bowman plays the video from the other kids camcorder and they find some woman on it talking to the victim. Bowman follows up on the Van and gets an address. Murtaugh and Peterson check it out and find the woman and also that she’s in a Wheelchair! Nate knows her somehow, check out the Patreon to find out what that means.

Her name is Nina (Ali Stroker) and she is an artist of sorts that had some “plates” to print fake money, so whoever has them knows Mike Grecco, the victim. He was afraid of some Paul Mason, who wanted to buy the plates so he could print his own money.

Then we get some shitty family stuff with Molly and her kid. The kids’ dog (Chuck Norris) is missing.

RJ comes home to find his birthday bash only being Roger and Trish. He confronts RJ about him skipping classes, but he comes clean that he’s dropping out. He then storms out and it’s not addressed till later, when Rog and Trish “stipulate” that they got a F in raising a kid. By the way where are their other kids, the teen daughter and infant?

Back at the station, Riggs tries but fails to get any info out of Ty. He just wants to be let go. Molly calls and says Chuck Norris is dead. Yup. Dead on the side of the road. But she lied to the kid about its death. It was no mere traffic accident – the dogs neck was snapped. Now that’s messed up.

Ty escapes in the trunk of a car – but not just any car: Hank Peterson’s car! He’s got his backpack with the fake plates in it. The money forging plates he found on the victim from the start. When Peterson meets up with none other than Paul Mason! He’s been his contact in the criminal underworld, working with him the whole time to score big one last time before retirement. But just before he can get to the trunk, Ty escapes with the bag!

The criminals realize this and start looking for him. Peterson calls Riggs and Murtaugh and says Ty robbed him! Eventually they arrive and Riggs looks for Ty, while Roger talks to Hank.

Hank claims Ty stole his gun, phone and the bag of plates, but Murtaugh pretends to call RJ but actually calls Hank – and guess what, his phone rings! Both draw their guns, but Murtaugh is quicker, and he has Peterson at gunpoint.

Ty escapes with goons chasing him, and Riggs is in close pursuit. Both Murtaugh and Riggs kill multiple dudes but it’s fine. Just another day at the office. Until the main bad guy, Paul Mason show sup and starts shooting at Ty - only to miss. Riggs sees him and shoots the pipes next to his head, dazing him so he can pop him in the head in a totally badass Tom-Siege-move.

Then he saves Ty from an oncoming train and Ty moves in with the family from that other kid from the start, Nunes. Because why not!

Just as riggs is about to leave, he sees a package on his desk. Inside he finds…

The fucking collar of Chuck Norris! So it was a message!

Roger and Trish are debating what to do with Son of Roger. He comes in and bla bla bla comes up with some bs. As long as he’s gone it’s fine.

Molly is drinkin’ a beer on her porch alone at night, like one does. Riggs rolls up and says he’s gonna head out of town for a couple o’ days. Odd.

He visits his ALIVE dad in prison and says he will kill him when he gets out. Why is he in prison? What the fuck is even going on? Guess we won’t find out til next week, maybe.

Pretty bad episode. Was that the Bar outside from IASIP at the start? I hope it gets better next time. We need Katie Varney back! Ernie Hudson and Damon had a thing going on. Who owed who a favor?

Rating: a poorly counterfeited 8.5/10

## Quotes

### Drew

* “I’m investing in *M’lady* NFT’s”
* “It’s angry…it’s caustic…” (about Nate’s voice)
* “Don’t…say we’re gonna attack anyone.”
* “Chill Nate. Chill.”

### Nate

* “My body is fuckin’ sick as shit!”
* “Fuck you guys, I care about this stuff! Fuck you guys!”
* “Can you imagine Crash Bandicoot with Kevin Rahm’s new haircut, wearing a Mayhem suit?”
* “Where was Bailey in this episode!? Where was Scorsese!?”

### Tom

* “We’re professionals!”
* “Invest in NFT’s and Crypto right now everybody! It’s not gonna go any lower!”
* "But it's ok, I mean you guys don't care to ever take interest in anything I like. You're just so self obsessed. Self absorbed."
* “Edit this out: I don’t give a *fuck* that he’s dead!” (Talking smack about Mayhem, RIP)
* “Oh, well that’s interesting, cause usually you’re getting in trouble for full frontal…They confused your writing credits with your arrest record!”
* “Oh you don’t understand the cloud, oh this is bussin’, no cap!”

## Fun.2 in.format.ion

The three hosts, in oversized NBA draft suits, rolling by Mayhems funeral in a (rented) flatbed truck playing a sweet (yet respectful) Fun.2 Jam. The bill will be sent after a respectful waiting period of 3 months. This will entice the family to sign over the rights to Mayhems image for the Mayhem open world game.

Tom’s new side project: Bleachers.2

Partial rehearsal setlist for Fun.2 leaked:

* *Red, red wine remix – green, green weed*
* *Don’t worry be happy*
* *Bittersweet reggae (Bittersweet symphony)*

## Trivia

Drew was covid stricken and still uploaded this episode, so no new art this week. Get well soon Drew!

Nate talks about a person he met in his past in the big city of New York, “@theFatJewish”, a meme collector of some sort. He’s not being antisemitic!

Whenever anyone brings up ClayneCast on a Tom Stream he is disrespectful of the show, very sad!

Friend of ~~the Pod~~ of Tom and Nate JB has an open invitation to come on the pod! Now that would be something.

All of Canada looks down on Toronto.

## Freaky Figures

This is somehow not the first time internet funnyman FuckJerry was mentioned. Drew brought him up in episode 12 of season 1.

This is the second episode to not include the ClayneCast intro, the first being the CCE business meeting.

## The ClayneClandestine

The writer you love is Katie Varney from the last episode.

Of course, Tom would not know that Keith’s logo is a big KLM, because he doesn’t look at or listen to previous episodes! The art for season 1 episode 3 has a big KLM on it!

## Clayne Fore-Casting

@hitrecordjoemama will become a multinational copyright NDA harvesting scheme. The company headquarters, a skyscraper located in Calgary, will have its own Tetris shaped company pool.

**Big Euphoria Season Finale afterparty @ Nates house** (123 Fake Street, California, USA) gate password: tell the guard “winky”

Keep your eyes open for a new a24 Slasher/Drama Film by Nate, starring Olivia Rodrigo and Shia LeBeuf called “The Groomer” about a Dog groomer thirsty for fame, and possibly something else?

Second episode or something they will make it up to us for missing last week. They better.