Season 3 Episode 3: Taylor Swift Celebrity Kickball Game

See you at the Frabble Shack

The brothers are back with more Hollywood Gossip! Balls get destroyed at the Taylor Swift Celebrity Kickball Game, the terrible truth about Yogi Bear and a great episode of LETHAL!

## Episode Summary

Another getting along episode! Tom needs to remember everything, as per usual. Nate’s studio/dungeon was being flooded during the recording, but that doesn’t stop him from reading another celeb gossip article. Fairly early, he introduces Latin Mass as a grand concept, but doesn't elaborate and never mentions it again. So, presumably that was about eating a lot of Tacos? Drew is Brie’s personal kickball trainer aka her BOYFRIEND!?? and he tries to meddle in American politics yet again.

### Recap

Den of Geek recap link. NOT by Keith, but after reading the following from DK, it appears he's just as amazing:

> Finally, it’s also rather ironic that this episode focuses so much on the bonds of family and Murtaugh’s *commitment to his job* that this would be the installment that airs after Damon Wayans’ announcement that he too would be leaving the show at the end of this season. That may seem like a valid reason to end the series, since both Riggs and Murtaugh will be gone, but it instead presents ***Lethal Weapon*** with a very interesting situation. Bring in well-known pitch hitter, Ashton Kutcher, as Wayans’ replacement and turn this into ***Dude Where’s My Car?: The Series.*** Just imagine that Jesse and Chester are all grown up.
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### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap

A plan to rig the lottery ends in few winners and one death. Trish's dad is in town, which Roger dreads because he keeps one-upping him. Cole has *bring his daughter to work day* and together with Murtaugh, they investigate this plot to steal millions. Bailey is back to doing all the work, and all leads point to the Frabble Shack!

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Starts in a kitchen, some cliché Italian mobster boss, a Mister Cusumano, gives a cook shit for a dirty fork, so he quits on the spot because he’s about to win the lottery. As he leaves the rest of the staff in the Kitchen cheers and claps.

But he gets shot outside.

Second scene, Murtaugh moment, in the kitchen with a nice surface 2-in-1 PC. Son of Roger is back. Roger served 30 years for the LAPD so he’s getting a commemorative plaque and a ceremony. But worse than that, Trish’s Dad is coming to LA! *Today*! In fact, right now! He’s at the door! Roger is worried because her dad keeps one-upping him, he’s a famous lawyer who rubs shoulders with RBG and the Dersh. But Trish is enamored by him.

In SWS Motel, he’s about to take care of his daughter for the first time again and his ex-wife Nat is scoping the place out as she drops off Maya.

Then Cole and Murtaugh meet at the crime scene, where Roger isn’t happy that Cole doesn’t have the same Banter him and Riggs had (although he never drops that Name – no one ever dares mention that man again). Cole instantly finds a sobriety pin, a clue leading to a halfway house, and finds out the victim had the winning lottery numbers written on his arm.

Back at the station Murtaugh whines to Avery about Don, Trish's dad, coming to his plaque ceremony and giving a speech to make him feel small, but KRahm assures Roger he’ll do what he can to organize a different speaker. Maybe the mayor?

In the Bullpen, Cole has brought Maya along to work. Then Bailey has found out about a possible lead in the form of a man who stayed at the same halfway house as our victim, and just recently won the lottery. SWS has to leave, but Maya say’s she’s 12 and in a police station so she’s not at all at risk.

So both Roger and Cole drive to the location, very disgruntled. They arrive in quite the fancy place (In real life this is the famous Bradbury Building, as seen in Blade Runner. Thanks to cdogcdl for the tip!). There, they find two guys in tracksuits abducting the very guy they’re there for.

Murtaugh chases after them, while SWS fights their ringleader. Lots of crazy cuts and filters. Eventually one of them has Murtaugh at gunpoint in the lobby downstairs, just then Cole wrestles the one guy over the railing and he falls on the guy about to shoot Murtaugh. Lucky!

In the Morgue, Cole quickly identifies the bodies as Armenian, because of the tattoos. Bailey is astounded at his knowledge, when all of a sudden Maya waltzes in! Where’s Scorsese!? She can just walk around, into the Morgue?! He tries to ground her but she isn’t having any of it.

Murtaugh interrogates the suspect. Where he tells him about some guy who was in AA with him and told him he could give him the winning lottery numbers. Called himself only the *guardian angel.* Then Trish’s Dad pops in since he was in the area. Yikes! He gives Murtaugh a book he wrote the groundbreaking foreword to. Oh and he calls Avery Brooks, which *is* his first name but it’s probably the first time in three seasons this has happened. GOAT.

Cole drives his daughter home but then he gets a text from Murtaugh, telling him about a lead at the world famous **Frabble Shack!** They drive over, and once again, Cole involves a child in his mission. Eerily similar to the first episode…Anyway, they get to the **Frabble Shack** where he makes Maya wait in the car.

Once there, Cole finds it deserted. Well not quite. He walks in and instantly remarks upon the young boy in the back. Very odd. Murtaugh shows up and they ask about the victim and the guy they saved, and the woman behind the counter, and mother of the boy, tells them those guys came in recently, to talk to one of her regulars, Mateo (Stephen Friedrich). When they approach him, he slams shut the laptop he was working on and runs out.

They chase him onto an overpass where he throws the laptop onto the highway below. Murtaugh goes after the Laptop, and SWS tries to talk Mateo out of jumping to his death. Mateo confesses to rigging the lottery, and accidentally killing someone when he was drunk driving – which is why he was in AA and tried to make up for it by rigging the lottery, but that only made things worse.

Unbeknownst to Cole, Maya has run after him and arrived just in time to hear him confessing to killing ‘too many people to count’ and that ‘not all of them deserved to die’. She screws it all up and Mateo falls, and she runs away. Luckily down below, Murtaugh, in a human frogger act has jumped through many lanes of highway traffic to grab the laptop. This causes a nice Volvo to stop and just as luck would have it, it’s got a big mattress strapped to its roof! So, Mateo survives.

They interrogate him, and Bailey eventually finds out who the partner is. No Bowman in this one, or any of the other episodes this season either, sadly! The partner is none other than a bad guy whose name they never really mention, but IMDB has him as Petros (Ronnie Gene Blevins). This guy is currently in Ronnie the Lottery commissioners house, with two Armenian henchmen called Levon and Serj. He orders him to deliver him his money, OR ELSE…

At the Safari Motel, Cole got Maya 4 different kinds of Pizza, since he didn’t know what her favorite was. She doesn’t appreciate this awesome gift and wants to know about the boy he killed. He hides deflects and hides in the bathroom, but eventually comes clean after having a flashback to the day of Hanni’s death.

Then he lets her go swimming and she cracks open her head! They go to the ER where Nat, his ex-wife, is not amused about the four stitches Maya had to get. She tells him to find out who he is or something but everything’s fine.

Trish talks to her dad and makes Roger carry a copy of the California Penal Code in his pocket, as this is the book her dad wrote the foreword to. Later at the Station again, he offers Brooks the book, but he declines because “his is signed”, so Rog conspicuously places it in his front pocket. Then, Sonya yet again has moved everything forward by finding out Mateo hacked into Rodney’s account (the lottery commissioner) to transfer everything to the waitress at the **Frabble Shack!!!**

We find out Mateo killed the waitress’s husband and that beautiful boy’s dad, so that’s why he was hanging out there every day? Anyway, she is shocked when she gets a notification on her phone saying she got 7 million bucks on her account. But her joy doesn’t last long as the big bad guy who they haven’t named yet comes in with Ronnie, Levon, Serj and a gun.

They make her transfer the money but because the cops put a hold on her account, instantly, it doesn’t work. Suddenly her son knocks something over in the back and she yells for him to run! Max dashes outside, into traffic and Serj chases after him. Murtaugh comes into the Frabble shack guns blazing, shoots some bad guys but spares Ronnie and the woman.

In the freezer the main bad guy tries to stab him but because he had the book in his pocket, he incapacitates him and survives.

Cole catches up to the bad guy chasing the boy, and expertly kills him. But now they’re up on a flimsy back-alley staircase, which is about to come crashing down! So, Cole uses his belt to make a sling, and grabs Max and they slide to safety on a long cable. Just as they slide across the street, Nat is driving Maya to the Frabble shack, and she sees her dad going by out of the rear window.

Murtaugh's big day goes great, Don doesn’t one-up him but in fact gives him fatherly advice bla bla bla. They go enjoy the party and Son of Roger (or as Drew calls him RJ the Pimp) asks Avery if he should pull an 'old' joke or a 'bald' joke. Wonderful.

SWS is there too and hands him a “Frabble”, consisting of strawberry ice cream, half and half from the break room and a buttload of schnapps. Aww. Murtaugh says he’s a lucky man and Cole agrees, telling him not to take it for granted.

Later that night, Murtaugh and Don play chess in their mansion, and are great friends. At Coles place aka the Safari Motel Nat shows up and reminisces about their date in the Kafta place in Tripoli. She feels so safe with him bla bla bla then Maya shows up and gets to spend another night since last time she technically spent it in the ER, and he owes her.

## Notable Quotes

### Tom

* “Just give me a reason!”
* "Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. HEY. We don't fight. There's one fucking thing we don't do on this podcast, and that's fight."
* “The show is *very* tedious.”
* "What hurts worse, the truth or her boot?"
* "You can't remember anything, so shut the fuck up"

### Drew, the creative Genius behind ClayneCast

* "Beat me in chest!"
* "We’re in this together! CCE!"
* "Oh, Hi Mark! Right? Right?"
* "Let me be me! Let me live my life!"
* "About."
* "A boot."
* "I'm recording?"
* "I’m not marrying my wife!"
* "Let’s go down to the crick"
* "I haven’t started recording Nate!"

### Nate

* “Oh, so it’s okay if *THEY* have national pride?” (someone’s been talking to Yogi...)
* “Tom? Tom? Tom? Tom? Tom?”
* "I am a man."
* "When they say Wakanda forever what does that mean?"
* "Take it easy Drew! No need to get amped up! Smiley-winky face." (Reading from the BuzzFeed celebrity gossip article)

## The Leftist Angle

Meal perp isn't leftist because you're hurting the restaurant workers.

A 'Kitchen' is apparently where they make your food. Interesting!

## AMPDates / CCUpdates

Brie’s not involved with the Paver. Lizzo absolutely is.

Mayhem's not dead despite previous reports stating so.

### JP: Wakanda

Nate's Idea, even though he probably couldn't even point to Wakanda on a map.

### SWEATY

Sweaty's basement will be turned into some kind of museum, maybe it will be moved to a secure location like the Unabomber cabin, and it will feature moulds of his iconic winky.

Cast suggestions made this episode:

* Johnny Depp - Jamie Sweaty
* Andy Serkis - Reagan (Jamie's dog)
* Margot Robbie - Lynn Sweaty
* Jared Leto - Sweaty's boss at the rock breaking factory

### Development Freeze:

*Catch that Alien* has been put on an indefinite hiatus after Nate's recent alien abduction.

## Get to know your host(s)

### Question of the day (QOTD)

> "What is a good gym?"
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**Tom:** People not being mad or laughing at him. And no scary kids.

**Nate:** Not a lot of people there, everyone’s there to work out.

**Drew:** Jim from the office.

## Trivia

In this episode, the hosts talk about an incident where a police officer caused the lethal weapon filming to be interrupted. Apparently, she didn't see all the cameras and crew, and walked right into the scene, and the director had to stop filming. To make matters worse, this cop also thought Clayne was Johnny Depp. L.A.'s finest! This isn't the first time they talked about it, at some point in the past they referred to the incident, but never read the article.

They play **The Room** in movie theaters all over New York, every day. Walk into any cinema downtown and they'll have a room (no pun intended) for viewing The Room! However, if you happen to live somewhere other than the Big Apple, you can check www.theroommovie.com to find screenings and events near you!

## Clayne Clandestine

The frequent Guillermo del Torro collaborator Drew mentioned this episode was likely Doug Jones.

## Clayne Fore-Casting

JGL is a very talented musician and will be performing live drums to give a nice backing beat on the episodes.

Drew will become the host of ET Canada.