Rewatchables Reference

• The opening 1937 black-and-white scene with Bill Hader ('Item Nine').
• Buying weed from Saul / the cross joint scene.
• Witnessing the Ted Jones murder and fleeing to the woods.
• The cop scene and car chase with foot through the windshield.
• Finding Red wedged between the toilet.
• The hideout/warehouse shootout.
• The final diner scene – completely improvised, recapping the movie's events.

• The country's acceptance/legalization of marijuana – only 4 states still have it illegal.
• Craig Robinson – 100% approval rate, always great in everything.
• Danny McBride's performance – you can see him finding Kenny Powers.
• Franco's aesthetic as Saul – headband, pajamas, perfectly captures a drug dealer.
• The diner scene – perfectly captures the universal experience of recapping a crazy night at breakfast.
• Red getting shot seven times and surviving.

• The Amber Heard subplot – could remove entire plotline and movie would be better.
• A 25-year-old dating a high schooler.
• Referring to the drug dealers as just 'the Asians' throughout the movie.
• James Franco's off-screen misconduct allegations.

• Electric Avenue to start the movie – sets the tone.
• Paper Planes by M.I.A. – from the trailer, the most iconic sound associated with the film.
• Time Will Tell by Bob Marley – plays when Franco cries on the swing set.

• The foot through the windshield – wide angle from outside the car, most iconic shot of the film.
• James Franco doing the worm while selling weed to kids.

The Angie/Amber Heard subplot – her character and the high school girlfriend plotline feel unnecessary.

• The cross joint scene is boring and could be cut.
• The movie would be better based on the trailer – disappointed Paper Planes isn't in the actual movie.

• Rogen was originally Saul and Franco was Dale – they swapped.
• Olivia Thirlby was supposed to play Angie before being swapped after rehearsals.
• Brian Cranston read for Ted Jones but Apatow felt he wasn't scary enough – ironic given Breaking Bad.

• Rosie Perez – really stepping on the gas.
• Craig Robinson – lots of over-the-top delivery.

• Gary Cole as Ted Jones – 'the boss from Office Space.'
• Kevin Corrigan as Budlowski.

• Ed Begley Jr. as Angie's dad – 'I will take you outside and fuck you in the street.'
• Bill Hader in the 1937 opening scene.
• The mean high school jock kid – 'Time to suck today's dick.'

• Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson suggested for Budlowski and Matheson.
• Dave Franco suggested as a stand-in for James Franco.

• 'Pineapple Express' was coined in the late 1960s by weather casters for tropical moisture funneled into storms.
• Saul's civil engineers (Shaughnessy and Bandell) are real people who built what he says.
• About 180 F-bombs in the movie.
• Ford refused to let their car be used in a movie murder – changed to Daewoo Lanos.
• The movie was shipped to theaters under the code name 'Easy Job.'
• Bubby's actress is the gold lady on a motorized cart in 'Dumb and Dumber'.

• Daewoo Lanos: Definitely yes.
• Weed in movies: Argument for yes – the title is the strain and 20 minutes is just smoking.
• Gary Cole: Close but probably peaked with Office Space.
• Danny McBride: No, Eastbound and Down is his apex.

• What time period is this movie set in? Modern cell phones but mullets, rat tails, British Knights, '80s cars.
• After the car chase, there would be a thousand cop cars – no way they just run away.
• No one actually looks high despite constant smoking (no bloodshot eyes).
• The dad at dinner is drinking both a Newcastle beer and a glass of milk.

• Is there a 'Dumb and Dumber' homage?
• Is pineapple express (the strain) sativa or indica?

• 'This Is the End' – pseudo-sequel, same cast playing themselves.
• Tropic Thunder – hosts always confuse the two titles.

• The prostitute pistol (tiny gun Red pulls from the wall).
• One of the 100 cross joints Rogen and Goldberg rolled.
• Red's kimono with the Uggs combo.

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• A prestige TV series about Ted Jones's ascension to drug kingpin.
• Red as a standalone spinoff show.

• Danny McBride – no serious career before this; gets Kenny Powers because of this role.
• Seth Rogen as an alternative – this may be guerrilla marketing for his future marijuana company.