Watching a Pineapple Express commercial the other night with friends, I wondered out loud, "Am I stoned, or is this movie opening on a Wednesday?" At least one of those options was true. Express and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 both open today, mostly to avoid conflict with the Summer Olympics. (They don’t allow weed in there.) Owen Gleiberman’s Pineapple Express review is already up; he claims that while the movie never loses its goofy stoner vibe, the adventures of Seth Rogen and James Franco (pictured, right) eventually become Judd Apatow’s "hash-bar version of a cynical action joyride."
I’m so easily amused that I’ve actually bothered to rewind the part in the Pineapple Express trailer where Franco reasons that he should stay in the dumpster because he’s in there already…for no reason! This type of sublime stoner logic is my absolute favorite strain of logic in all the land. In fact, my favorite stoned-person-in-a-movie line is from Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead: "The dishes are DONE, man," uttered by Kenny (Keith Coogan, the unfamiliar-looking guy pictured, left) after he decided that a good way to accomplish the dreaded household chore was to stand on the roof and destroy plates with a skeet shooter.
What’s your favorite stoner movie moment? And for a bonus image of how I feel about Pineapple Express coming out today, click on "Continue Reading." I’ll send an ice cream sandwich to the first commenter to identify it…unless I eat it first.
Road Trip. The scenes with Barry’s grandfather and his dog.
I’ve got the f-ing munchies real bad”
“Tell that B-ch to make me some blueberry pancakes!”
that’s the package label from the “Afternoon Delight” weed Oscar Bluth bakes in to brownies which he feeds to Lucille. Which, in turn, result in her running over Tobias at the Banana Stand Christmas Party. Arrested Development, natch.
Dazed and Confused. It’s hard to pick just one moment that sticks out, but maybe the moment at the beginning with Slater where he’s talking to another character and cannot figure out what words he wants to use and when he turns around you hear “oh man I’m f&*%ed up.”
not a stoner movie moment, but not a week goes by that i don’t quote rob schneider’s, “you put your WEED IN THERE!” from snl.
Um, how about every last scene in Big Lebowski?
(And great Arrested Development shoutout, Annie. Oscar’s gonna put it in her brownie….I didn’t need to know that.)
This is not from a movie, but there was an episode of “Desperate Housewives” when Lynnette was too nauseous to eat after going through chemo, so her mother made her some pot brownies and got her son to trick her into eating them. She then shows up at a charades party and had the funniest moment EVER on the show – acting out the film title “Hang ‘Em High” by pointing to Edie who had tried to commit suicide by hanging herself. Truly great TV moment!
Anything involving Slater (Rory Cochran) from Dazed and Confused
It’s a throwaway line (and he’s not really a stoner), but the moment in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” where Steve Carrell’s Andy is stoned out of his mind and is being seduced by Elizabeth Banks and she asks him what part of her body he’d like to shave, and he responds with “I wanna shave your head!” completely cracks me up every single time.
I think one of the more underrated stoner movies from recent years is “Dude, Where”s My Car?”
Personal favorite line(s): “Trained dolphins could do a better job of delivering pizzas.”
“Yeah, but then the pizzas’d get all wet.”
Annie, you forgot to say that the Kenny/Keith Coogan moment is from “Don’t Tell Mom, The Babysitter’s Dead” (in case anyone out there was wondering). I loved “Dude, Where’s My Car”, esp. when the two guys are reading each other’s tatoos. “Dude” … “Sweet”… “Dude!” … “Sweet!”… “Dude!!!” … “Sweet!!!”. I also liked the relentless “And then…?” coming from the drive-thru speaker.
From Robocop, when he’s walking (very dramatically) through the station, and you hear in the background, “I am a repeat offender! I repeat – I will offend again!”
Seriously, no love yet for Harold and Kumar (the original, clearly)? As many others have observed, it’s hard to pick a single moment… but I guess the moment that best epitomizes the genre is, “Dude, we’re so high right now.” “We’re not low!” AWESOME.
Harold and Kumar 1: They are getting stoned, and a famous anti-drug ad comes on. You know, there one where the stoned kid kills himself by mistake with a shotgun and the ad says “MARIJUANA KILLS”. The two guys see it and start laughing like hyenas and Kumar says “I love that sh-t!”.
100% agreed since it was the lies perpetrated in anti-drug ads that got me to smoke my first joint. Seriously, if not for Nancy Reagan and the National Office for Drug Policy (oh and Ad Council), I probably would NEVER have discovered marijuana. Thanks guys!
Oh, almost forgot! Also the scene in Dogma where they’re all sitting in the woods and Rufus (Chris Rock) has just explained that Bethany (Linda Fiorentino) is a distant relation to Jesus. Jay (of Jay and Silent Bob) has just taken a drag off a joint, and as he lets it out, he says “So Bethany’s part black?”
I don’t know if it’s some weird predilection I have, but I think James Franco is about 5x hotter with long hair and a goofy stoner grin. Why is that?!