Dale buying and smoking Pineapple Express with Saul wins narrowly over the diner recap, while the 1937 test, high school, phone smashing, cop chase, wounded Red, children buying weed, and warehouse battle remain major candidates.
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- Bill Hader’s black-and-white Item 9 test parodies Reefer Madness and builds a complete stoner vocabulary in minutes.
- The high-school visit exposes Dale’s inappropriate age gap and supplies the Goldblum impression, “time to suck today’s dick,” and an outsider correctly challenging the relationship.
- Saul’s apartment scene captures the awkward transition from buying drugs to hanging out, adds 227, red wine, career talk, and the cross joint.
- Smashing and losing the phones turns a simple anti-tracking plan into escalating incompetence, including the belief it is how authorities found Saddam.
- The cop chase and foot through the windshield produce the movie’s most iconic action image.
- Red calmly awaits death beside noodles and blood, discusses reincarnation, then supplies an improvised gun-up montage.
- The long farm battle is divisive for its hard pivot and graphic violence but preserves funny gun conventions and Gary Cole’s villain.
- The diner characters rewatch their own adventure aloud, accurately recreating the pleasure of hungover friends rebuilding the previous night.
- The middle-school dealers’ hostility, fireworks, and adult vocabulary make another favorite scene.
Single-outfit continuity, music, McBride and Robinson, marijuana legalization, restrained vomit, Rogen’s career, the diner, immortal Red, fight timeouts, volatile phone calls, and Saul’s Bubby age best.
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- Wearing the same clothes through a chaotic day preserves the adventure’s continuity and familiar dishevelment.
- Electric Avenue, Bob Marley, and the trailer’s Paper Planes give the comedy unusual musical identity.
- McBride’s points-per-minute performance announces the persona that leads to Kenny Powers, while Robinson earns near-universal affection.
- Legalization across most states vindicates the movie’s anti-criminalization argument.
- Small mouthfuls of vomit are defended as funnier than effects-driven projectile vomiting.
- Rogen became a versatile actor, producer, marijuana entrepreneur, pottery maker, and architecture enthusiast.
- Red surviving repeated gunshots and an explosion turns him into a comedy Michael Myers.
- Calling timeout during a fight works first and then fails when Saul tries it later.
- Dale and Angie’s calls flip instantly between hate, love, marriage, and regret in a way one host finds accurate to immature relationships.
- Saul’s grandmother and her borrowed family name make his bizarre personal life specific.
The foot through the windshield wins over Franco’s worm, the wide drug sale, and Rogen’s wired “death from above.”
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- The foot through the windshield wins over Franco’s worm, the wide drug sale, and Rogen’s wired “death from above.”
The cross-joint scene is boring, the trailer promises a better movie, the heroes’ decisions mostly make sense, and Dale should abandon Saul are competing takes.
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- The anti-cross-joint host accepts that disinterest in marijuana may explain why the movie’s signature bonding scene feels slow.
- Missing Paper Planes from the film drives the trailer-better disappointment.
- Hiding, consulting Red, fleeing, and even hijacking the police car are defended as rational under the circumstances.
- Dale’s return for a dealer he barely knows is challenged, with the near-death friendship acceleration offered as defense.
The unnecessary high-school-girlfriend plot, Franco and Heard’s later controversies, racial naming of the rival dealers, and naive phone-tracking debate age worst.
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- Removing Angie would improve structure, though dinner with her parents and the volatile calls are defended.
- Referring to the rival organization only as “the Asians” is rejected.
- The characters wonder whether phones can be traced in an era before routine app location tracking.
No alternate beats Pineapple Express; the weather-term title was reportedly Goldberg’s first idea.
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- You’ve Been Served, Cross Joint, I Love You Bud, Bros Before Hoes, and High as a Kite are intentionally weak alternatives.
- Easy Job was the shipping title rather than a serious creative candidate.
Rosie Perez wins, with Craig Robinson and the aggressive middle-school dealer offered as alternatives whose excess is praised rather than criticized.
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- Rosie Perez wins, with Craig Robinson and the aggressive middle-school dealer offered as alternatives whose excess is praised rather than criticized.
Angie’s thin, reworked girlfriend plot wins, despite a defense of Heard’s phone performances.
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- Angie’s thin, reworked girlfriend plot wins, despite a defense of Heard’s phone performances.
Gary Cole wins under a broader audience standard; Joe Lo Truglio and Kevin Corrigan receive individual votes.
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- The hosts explicitly object that regular Rewatchables panelists know so many character actors that they deny ordinary viewers’ That Guy experience.
Ed Begley Jr. wins over Hader, the high-school jock, and the child dealer for his meal deadline, gunfire, threats, and accurate suspicion of Dale.
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- The jock’s Goldblum-impression praise and “suck today’s dick” exit are a major alternate.
- Begley’s father threatens to take the intruders into the street and have sex with them, then immediately fetches and fires a gun.
The movie is not the people’s apex, but it has cases for Uggs in 2008, weed itself, comic gun-cocking montages, and the Daewoo Lanos.
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- Franco’s Golden Globe nomination does not outweigh later Oscar attention; McBride’s Eastbound & Down and Cole’s other roles are stronger peaks.
- The named strain, plot McGuffin, and extensive smoking make a strong case for weed’s movie apex.
- Ford reportedly refused a murder-by-Fiesta, producing the more memorable Lanos line.
This Is the End already contains Pineapple Express 2: Blood Red; further options include a Red spinoff or prestige Ted Jones rise-to-power series.
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- The mock sequel sends Dale and Saul to assassinate Woody Harrelson to stop legalization from destroying Red’s business.
- A Ted and Rosie Perez prequel could explore their chemistry, Red’s recruitment, and the drug organization.
Danny Trejo fits perfectly as Ted’s rival or partner; Kathryn Hahn and Samuel L. Jackson also receive support.
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- Danny Trejo fits perfectly as Ted’s rival or partner; Kathryn Hahn and Samuel L. Jackson also receive support.
Danny McBride gets the one Oscar for supporting actor, with Franco as the only hesitation.
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- Danny McBride gets the one Oscar for supporting actor, with Franco as the only hesitation.
Do not let your drug dealer upsell you; the claim that bongs filter addiction is exposed as false within Saul’s own joint-heavy behavior.
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- Do not let your drug dealer upsell you; the claim that bongs filter addiction is exposed as false within Saul’s own joint-heavy behavior.
A preserved cross joint wins over the prostitute pistol and Red’s kimono.
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- A preserved cross joint wins over the prostitute pistol and Red’s kimono.
Danny McBride wins both audible choices for a breakthrough that leads toward Kenny Powers; Rogen’s future cannabis-business legacy is the alternative case.
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- One speaker chooses McBride and another audibly agrees; the third speaker names two possible answers without casting a final candidate ballot.
- Rogen may eventually be remembered by later generations as a cannabis entrepreneur more than as an actor, strengthening but not winning his case.
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