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.
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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?!
This will date me, but does anyone remember in one of the Revenge of the Nerds movies, the nerds are all stuck on a beach, stoned, and the token “tough-but-stupid” guy says, “What if dog was really spelled C-A-T?” and all the nerds think for a moment and respond, “WHOAAAAAAAAAA” always cracks me up!
FRIDAY – the best stoner movie ever. how could one scene or line be picked out of it. smokey (chris tucker) in debbo’s chicken coop after he smoked angel dust with the mexicans. smokey replying to ice cube’s question of do you want some kool-aide – “maaaaan, you KNOW i want some kool-aide.” everything in that movie is stoner to the genius degree. for a serious stoner movie (but still funny as hell), Pulp Fiction.
Or, how about Half Baked? I don’t know why, but the line “They killed Killer, B!” gets me every time.
The scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High when the guys tumble out of the smoke-spewing van brings back so many memories….er,um, I think they are memories….can’t remember, man…
My favorite moment has to be when they trick Sean Penn’s Spicolli to coming to class and he gets into class and says “Wait a minute, there’s no birthday party for me here!” Gets me every time. But “Dishes are done man!” is classic!
“I get older, and they stay the same age.”
Dude Where’s My Car
THE WHOLE MOVIE but especially the Chinese Food scene.
I’m sorry that movie is so dumb but SOOOOOOO FUNNY
David Spade and Chris Farley in Black Sheep, when the nitrous oxide in the trunk of the cop car starts leaking, and everything becomes very profound. Including the very weird word “road”. And getting pulled over not for speeding, but for going “Seven. You were going seven miles an hour!” Classic!
I’ll second all the comments made so far, and add the following classic exchange from “Ferris Bueller’s Day off”:
“Drugs?”
“No thanks, I’m straight.”
“No…are you in here for drugs?”
“No. Why are you here?”
“Drugs.”
Awesome. Possibly my favorite Charlie Sheen moment ever.
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When Franco’s character can’t see where he’s driving during the car chase and decides to kick out the windshield since he has seen that in action movies. His leg gets stuck right there and he’s still trying to drive with one foot. I.CRIED! Too funny!
Definitely 9 to 5. They decide to smoke a joint that Lily Taylor’s character got from her son. I loved the movie when I was little and I never understood why they were laughing so hard at nothing and talking about how delicious all the food was. Now I get it.
Do TV stoner moments count? There was an episode of Roseanne where they found and smoked an old joint. They got completely paranoid and couldn’t remember why they ever liked that stuff back in the day. For film, it’s when Spicoli looks completely confused when Mr. Hand distributes the pizza he ordered to the rest of the class.
I don’t generally like stoner movies, but Harold and Kumar is CLASSIC. And the scene in the stolen car when they put in the poser white boys’ mix tape and end up singing along to “Hold On” by Wilson Phillips. That’s classic. Totally classic.
Another reason I love EW and Annie Barrett-for keeping Arrested Development alive! That episode when Buster wanted George Michael to score weed for Lucille’s nausea had a million funny moments. And anything from Dazed and Confused.
OK, kinda different from the rest, but the scene in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels where that stoned chick gets ahold of the machine gun.
Awesome.