BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
(FOUR) DALE DENTON AND SAUL
They’ve only had one movie in Pineapple Express, but it is still an outstanding stoner movie and duo. Seth Rogen plays a slacker trying to do the 9 to 5 thing who smokes weed to make time pass. His dealer, Saul is a prototype modern hippie type. They join forces in a great story that involves a lot of paranoia, machine guns, and Rosie Perez. It’s a modern classic already.
(THREE) METHOD MAN AND REDMAN
The movie How High is really underrated. It’s from 2001, so it’s over ten years old now. That’s insane to think about. This movie balanced over the top comedy, a college movie, a romcom, and more at once. It’s just a weird movie. Two stoners smoke magic weed that brings back one of their recently departed smart friends who gives them the answers on their SATs. They then get into Harvard and aw-hecky-nah breaks loose on the Def Jam circa 1992 “white guy voice” comes to life in the heels and villains of the movie. Why the hell haven’t they made a sequel of some sorts by now?
(TWO) HAROLD AND KUMAR
I think it’s safe to compare Harold and Kumar and Cheech and Chong. It’s non-white stoners having a good time in their environment. For the old dudes, it was the hippie “love and peace” days. On the Harold and Kumar side of it, it’s younger, more snarky, more white collar, and more 90’s hip hop induced Nintendo generation. They rocked it perfectly in “Go to White Castle”. They showcased an epic stoner journey that anyone who has ever toked can relate to. The characters are likeable and relatable and the jokes are a plenty. They’ve made THREE movies so far and I really don’t think there is a reason for them NOT to make three more. In all seriousness, why the hell isn’t Harold and Kumar a cartoon by now?
(ONE) JAY AND SILENT BOB
Cheech and Chong were for my dad’s generation. I tend to adopt to the drug use of the Jay and Silent Bob variety over the white collar-snarky-modern slackerness that is Harold and Kumar. With Jay and Bob you have a great physical comedy act, some of the best stoner one-liners ever, a large body of work that consist of movies, cartoons, action figures, comic books, etc. Hell, they’re even stoner superheroes named “Bluntman and Chronic”. I am a fan of everyone on this list, but I can’t hear the words “fifteen dollars” without breaking into song.
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