![]() What follows for the next 15 minutes are some of TV’s most quoted stoned character quotes: “I just got promoted and it’s all thanks to yes-I-cannabis,” “That saxophone would make a great pipe,” and “Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?” Plus, Phish performing “Run Like an Antelope.” In a typically preposterous set-up involving crows and genetically modified food, Homer begins smoking medicinal marijuana to help heal his eyes. It wouldn’t be a comedy list without a Simpsons mention, but unlike most other lists, this selection actually comes from a post-Golden Era episode, all the way in season 13. Drugs ruin lives, divide families, and lead to heavy-handed sitcom episodes like this one.” But there isn’t any, “just seeds and stems.” The message is a little tangled, but the episode does have a fantastic ending, one that skews Blossom-esque “Special Message” episodes: Robbie breaks the fourth wall and starts talking to us, the audience, saying, “Drugs are a major problem in our society. After an evening spent by the Sinclair family spent eating the happy plant, they’re in withdrawal the next morning, so they look for more. “Wait a minute, are you telling me that this plant made you happy?” As a child, I had no idea what that meant, but after re-watching this episode many years later, I understood that it wasn’t just any magical plant that caused Robbie and Earl to sing “It’s a Most Unusual Day,” it was marijuana. Their defense: although it seems like they’re high, due to all the inappropriate laughing, they’re actually, according to Fred, “just stupid.” The two get busted for possession and after spending a night in prison, where the “meddling kids” share a cell with a few of the bad guys they’ve previously caught, go to court, with Harvey as their lawyer. It only took Harvey Birdman three episodes to make fun of one of Hanna-Barbera’s biggest in-jokes: that Scooby and Shaggy were constantly smoking weed in the Mystery Machine. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, “Shaggy Busted” Occasionally, though, you remember the show’s just a very, very, very long reminiscence, like in “How I Met Everyone Else,” where Bob Saget Ted tells about how he and Marshall originally bonded over Guided by Voices and weed, referred to as “sandwiches” for the sake of his impressionable children. It’s easy to forget that How I Met Your Mother is the only current primetime sitcom told almost primarily through flashbacks, mostly because you never actually see Present Ted, voiced by Bob Saget, just his two kids (I’ve always wondered if they get paid by the episode, and whether it’s the same footage used over and over again?). How I Met Your Mother, “How I Met Everyone Else” But even outside of specific episodes, Weeds has done more than any other comedy in showcasing both the highs and lows of marijuana and how even the Good Guys can be dealers, too. In “MILF Money,” Nancy and Conrad bring their new strain to Snoop Dogg, who immediately falls in love, calling it “MILF Weed.” He even records a song about it. ![]() It’s just me and my ganja.”Īlthough Weeds has left and returned to (and left and returned to) to its original story of a bored, recently-widowed suburban housewife selling drugs to make money for her family, leading to some awfully subpar middle seasons, it knew exactly what it was doing in its sophomore year. No boyfriend, no meaningful job, no husband, no family. What starts out as a great time reminiscing about the past and not caring about their current adult responsibilities quickly turns dark when Jackie says, “Look at me, I’ve got nothin’. So, they, along with Jackie, head to the bathroom and start lighting up. Roseanne took this sitcom cliché and made it her own: after finding a bag of weed in Darlene and Becky’s bedroom, Roseanne and Dan blame the kids until they realize…it’s actually their pot, from over 20 years ago. TV parents from the 1970s and 1980s usually scolded their children when they found them smoking weed, teaching them a lesson about how “grass” will literally kill you. Below is a list of both anti- and pro-pot sitcom episodes, all memorable. And if pot was ever mentioned, it was used to serve a message on how dangerous it was.īut as marijuana has become a more and more socially acceptable topic, sitcoms have begun working it into plots that didn’t revolve around parents finding a joint and teaching their kids a lesson. Of course marijuana has played a major role in the creation in some of TV’s funniest shows, like Saturday Night Live, but its importance was downplayed due to censorship fears. It wasn’t until relatively recently, the mid 1990s specifically, that weed was a topic that could be discussed in network comedies.
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