50 Fun Facts About Stoner Movie

Which 1978 film, Cheech & Chong's big-screen debut, is credited with establishing the stoner comedy genre?

Panned on release, it grossed over $104 million and was added to the National Film Registry in 2024.

In Cheech & Chong's first film, the duo unknowingly smuggle a van made entirely of what?

A play on fiberglass; a motorcycle cop gets high off the fumes and lets them go.

Who directed Cheech & Chong's 1978 debut film, his first directing job after producing records?

Chong himself directed the follow-ups, starting with Cheech and Chong's Next Movie in 1980.

In which Canadian city did Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong first meet and form their duo in 1969?

Marin is American and Chong is Canadian; they released their first comedy album in 1971.

In Nice Dreams (1981), Cheech & Chong get rich selling marijuana out of what kind of vehicle?

Their product, "Happy Herb's Nice Dreams", also turns people into lizards, including the DEA sergeant chasing them.

By what title is the 1936 anti-drug film, later an ironic midnight-movie comedy, best known?

It was originally titled Tell Your Children and financed by a church group; a musical remake followed in 2005.

Which magazine, founded in 1974, began handing out the Stony Awards for stoner films and TV in 2000?

The awards recognized a broad range of cannabis media, from Half Baked to That '70s Show.

Which actor plays Jeff Spicoli, the perpetually stoned surfer, in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

Cameron Crowe wrote the film after going undercover as a student at a San Diego high school for his book.

Dazed and Confused follows a group of Texas teenagers on the last day of school in what year?

Richard Linklater shot it around Austin and never names the town; Matthew McConaughey was the breakout of a cast of unknowns.

In Friday (1995), what is the name of Craig's weed-dealing best friend played by Chris Tucker?

Made for $3.5 million, the film grossed over $27 million and was one of the few Hollywood films with an all-Black principal cast and crew.

Next Friday (2000) was the first film produced by which company, its star's own production house?

Cube also wrote it himself; Craig moves to Rancho Cucamonga after Deebo breaks out of prison.

In Half Baked, Kenny is jailed for accidentally killing a diabetic police horse named what?

He fed it junk food on a munchie run; his friends have to raise $100,000 in bail.

Which comedian co-wrote Half Baked with Dave Chappelle and later co-created Chappelle's Show?

Tamra Davis directed; the film got bad reviews, made $17.5 million and became a video-store classic.

In Half Baked's cameo montage of smoker types, who plays the "historian smoker"?

Snoop is the scavenger smoker, Jon Stewart the enhancement smoker and Stephen Baldwin the MacGyver smoker.

Which Hollywood star did Dave Chappelle ask to cameo in Half Baked, only to be turned down?

Steven Wright and Bob Saget did turn up, the latter with a memorably filthy line about crack.

The Big Lebowski's "The Dude" was loosely inspired by which real member of the Seattle Seven?

Dowd, a film producer, really did like to drink White Russians and really was called "The Dude".

The Big Lebowski is loosely modeled on the detective novels of which author?

Joel Coen wanted a Chandler-style story with "a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant".

How High (2001) stars which two rappers as stoners who get into Harvard with help from a friend's ghost?

The friend, Ivory, was cremated and his ashes used to fertilize the weed; smoking it summons him.

In Dude, Where's My Car?, what extraterrestrial device did Jesse and Chester unknowingly acquire?

Both a group of five beautiful alien women and two Norwegian men are hunting for it; Zoltan's cultists are after it too.

Which director made both Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)?

Two very different stoner duos, one director; the Harold & Kumar sequels were directed by their writers.

Which actor plays a debauched, fictionalized version of himself in the Harold & Kumar films?

He and John Cho were cast early; Kal Penn had to audition seven times.

Under what alternate title was the first Harold & Kumar film released in some international markets?

White Castle sliders don't mean much abroad; the chain itself helped market the film in the US.

In the 2008 sequel, Harold and Kumar are wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay en route to which city?

Amnesty International campaigned around the release to highlight real detainees' testimonies of abuse.

Kal Penn left what job to return for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?

He served in the Obama administration between the second and third films.

In Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen's Dale Denton works in what job when he witnesses a murder?

He drops a roach of the rare Pineapple Express strain at the scene, which leads the killers straight to his dealer Saul.

Which Pineapple Express star earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing dealer Saul Silver?

He had played the brooding one in Freaks and Geeks; this was the role that made him a comedy lead.

Which director made Pineapple Express and then the medieval stoner fantasy Your Highness?

Your Highness, starring Danny McBride and Natalie Portman, bombed with $28 million against a $50 million budget.

This Is the End (2013) was the directorial debut of which duo?

It grew out of their 2007 short Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse and ends with the Backstreet Boys performing in heaven.

In Ted, the talking teddy bear and his best friend John live in which US city?

Seth MacFarlane's directorial debut made $549 million and was the highest-grossing comedy of 2012.

John and Ted's favorite movie, whose star Sam J. Jones shows up to party with them, is what?

MacFarlane provided Ted's voice and motion capture himself.

Super Troopers follows four bored state troopers in a fictional town in which state?

Fox Searchlight paid $3.25 million for the Broken Lizard film, which grossed $23 million and spawned two sequels.

What is the job of Allen Covert's 36-year-old character in Grandma's Boy?

Written by Covert, Nick Swardson and Barry Wernick, it made just $6.6 million on release before becoming a cult DVD hit.

What are Jay and Silent Bob's comic-book alter egos, whose movie they try to sabotage in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?

Kevin Smith's fifth View Askewniverse film was meant to be the last; the title riffs on The Empire Strikes Back.

In Smiley Face (2007), Anna Faris's character spends the day stoned after eating what?

Gregg Araki directed; the cupcakes were meant for a science fiction convention.

In Saving Grace (2000), a widow grows cannabis in her greenhouse to save her house in which county?

Craig Ferguson co-wrote it and co-stars as her gardener; it won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance.

Which comedian smokes cannabis every day for 30 days in the 2007 documentary Super High Me?

His doctor concluded the health effects were mostly inconsequential; the DVD came out, naturally, on April 20.

Which rappers play the title roles in the 2012 film Mac & Devin Go to High School?

Its soundtrack produced the Bruno Mars-assisted hit "Young, Wild & Free".

In We're the Millers, the fake family smuggles marijuana into the US from where?

Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston's road comedy grossed $270 million on a $37 million budget.

In Idle Hands (1999), what happens to lazy stoner teenager Anton Tobias?

The hand keeps killing even after it's cut off; the film bombed with $4.2 million but found a cult following.

Which director adapted Pynchon's Inherent Vice, about stoner private eye Doc Sportello?

It was the first Pynchon novel ever adapted for the screen, with Joaquin Phoenix as Doc.

In The Beach Bum (2019), Matthew McConaughey plays a stoner poet named what?

Harmony Korine's film features Jimmy Buffett in his final feature and Snoop Dogg as Moondog's pal.

Kid Cannabis (2014) is based on the true story of an Idaho teen who smuggled weed across which border?

Nate Norman dropped out of high school and read about Canadian weed's potency in a magazine before building his ring.

In The Wackness (2008), teenage dealer Luke Shapiro trades marijuana for what?

Ben Kingsley plays the drug-addled shrink; the film won the Audience Award at Sundance.

Which 1969 counterculture road movie, with real drugs in its marijuana scenes, helped launch New Hollywood?

Made for $400,000, it earned $60 million and made a star of Jack Nicholson.

Which Brad Pitt character did Judd Apatow cite as the inspiration for Pineapple Express?

The couch-bound stoner's few minutes of screen time spawned a whole feature.

Which role was Seth Rogen first set to play in Pineapple Express before a swap?

After a table read Rogen agreed to play Dale Denton instead, and James Franco's Saul earned a Golden Globe nomination.

Which 1980s hitmaker did Rogen recruit to write and perform the Pineapple Express theme song?

The track sits on the soundtrack next to Eddy Grant's 'Electric Avenue'.

Which Led Zeppelin member refused to let 'Rock and Roll' play over Dazed and Confused's ending?

Linklater had 'bribed' Jimmy Page with LaserDiscs and a personal plea, and Page agreed, but it took both.

Three Huntsville classmates sued Linklater in 2004 over the film. What were their surnames?

They filed in New Mexico because its statute of limitations was longer than Texas's.

Which 2016 Linklater film did he describe as a 'spiritual sequel' to Dazed and Confused?

Quentin Tarantino has called Dazed and Confused his favourite film of the 1990s.