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Pineapple Express
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Pineapple Express (2008) is an American action comedy film directed by David Gordon Green, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and starring Rogen and James Franco with cameo appearances by Bill Hader, Ed Begley Jr. and James Remar. Producer Judd Apatow, who previously worked with Rogen and Goldberg on Knocked Up and Superbad, assisted in developing the story, which was partially inspired by the buddy comedy subgenre.Dale Denton (Rogen) is a 25-year-old process server who, in delivering a subpoena to drug lord Ted Jones (Gary Cole), witnesses a murder perpetrated by Jones and his girlfriend Carol Brazier (Rosie Perez), a corrupt cop. Dale panics and flees the scene, in his haste dropping a roach containing a rare strain of marijuana known as Pineapple Express — a strain that Ted knows he has sold only to Dale's dealer, Saul Silver (Franco). Now, on the run from Ted's people and the cops alike, Dale and Saul know all too well that this is more than weed-induced paranoia — everyone apparently is out to get them both. | |
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Fair Cop | |
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Fair Cop: Carol is played by Rosie Perez, and when he first sees her Dale comments on her being quite an attractive woman. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Ted vs the Triads. | |
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Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? | |
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Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Immediately after the action spectacular climax, the heroes go to a diner and talk about all the amazing things they just did. | |
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Mutual Kill | |
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Mutual Kill: In the climactic shootout, Ted's goons and the Triads attacking them frequently kill each other at the same time. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: In a rare threesome, Dale, Saul, and Red. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Most of the villains succumb to this. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: This is Carol's reaction to Ted turning a phone call with the leader of the Triads (a phone call where he was supposed to be negotiating a truce between the two syndicates), into a declaration of war and telling the Triads to Bring It. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Budlofsky keeps complaining he wants to go home to eat dinner with his wife and is eventually shot by Matheson for choosing to go home instead of shooting Saul. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Saul assumes Ted and his minions have a Rancor waiting for him, but it turns out to be the same military lab from the prologue now converted into a weed growing farm. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Carol is this for Ted's organization, being the only one who isn't incompetent, caught up in comedic squabbles, or getting too high to function. Dale tries to be this among the protagonists, but it really just means he's slightly less crazy and hapless compared to Saul and Red. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: The three protagonists by the end. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To Superbad. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Both Saul's name and the fact he calls his grandmother "Bubbie" point to this. Red even mentions to Budlovsky and Matheson that Dale "might have been a Jew." | |
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Psycho for Hire | |
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Psycho for Hire: Matheson is definitely crazier than fellow hitman Budlofsky, to the point that he shoots the latter when he says he's done killing people and all he wants to do is go to his home and have dinner with his family, and then calls him out for "having gone soft". Carol is a Killer Cop and is Ted's Dragon and girlfriend. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Subverted by Matheson who is very much in touch with his feelings and his actor's penchant for comedy makes him a Laughably Evil parody of this trope. It doesn't stop him from being a psychopath, though. | |
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Stoners Are Funny | |
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Stoners Are Funny: The two main characters are bumbling stoners. | |
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"Die Hard" on an X | |
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Die Hard If Everyone Got Stoned: But of course! | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: It's a given for a Seth Rogen film. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Dale may seem like he thinks people are out to get him and he can't be trusted because he's high off his ass. Problem is, he's right. | |
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Killer Cop | |
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Carol is a Killer Cop and is Ted's Dragon and girlfriend. | |
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Two-Faced | |
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Two-Faced: Matheson after Saul hits him in the face with a coffee pot that was half full of hot coffee. | |
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Greasy Spoon | |
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Greasy Spoon: The protagonists go here after the story concludes to recap everything that has happened to them up to then. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Matheson becomes one in the latter half of the movie, starting with the coffee burn. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: An ashtray, a dust-buster, a water pipe. In the climax, flourescent lights turn out to be useless as weapons. | |
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Sassy Black Woman | |
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Sassy Black Woman: The cop who briefly arrests Dale. | |
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Slo-Mo Big Air | |
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Slo-Mo Big Air: Dale and Saul in a stolen police car with a windscreen covered in red Slushee. | |
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure | |
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Following the car chase, Dale and Saul get into a heated argument over whether they truly are friends or just dealer and buyer. After Dale coldly tells Saul that they're not really friends, accuses him of being a liability and the reason they're in the mess to begin with, and insults his grandmother by saying she must be so proud of her grandson for selling weed to put her in a nice retirement home, an upset Saul angrily walks away as Dale tries to apologize. It isn't until just before the climax when they make up. | |
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BlackAndGreyMorality | |
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Black-and-Grey Morality: None of the three protagonists are saints, but the villains are definitely evil. | |
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No Honor Among Thieves | |
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No Honor Among Thieves: When Dale takes a member of Ted's cartel named Pete hostage, Budlofsky quickly shoots and kills Pete himself to save time. | |
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Eviler than Thou | |
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Eviler than Thou: Matheson and Budlofsky are two of the top soldiers of Ted's cartel and spend most of the movie taking turns being the eviller one or the one with more standards. At the climax Matheson definitively claims the spot of being the more evil one. Budlofsky, who is a family man and hates how little time he gets to spend with his family due to the demands of his job, has finally had enough and when he sees that Ted's empire is collapsing, Budlofsky refuses to shoot Saul, saying that he is going to go home and finally have dinner with his family. Matheson responds by instantly shooting his old friend dead and saying that Budlofsky had gotten too soft. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: Subverted. Saul manages to get in the vent but can't pull Dale up with him. | |
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Mistaken for Badass | |
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Mistaken for Badass: In part due to Ted's lack of attention to detail and implied drug use, everything Dale does after escaping the murder scene is interpreted by Ted as the actions of a top-shelf agent working for the Triads. | |
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Distracted from Death | |
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Distracted from Death: Subverted in the film's final scene. Red, who has been wounded multiple times and should by all rights either be dead or dying, suddenly closes his eyes and goes limp while Saul and Dale are talking and they don't notice at first. When they do notice, they try to get him to wake up... and he does. Apparently sheer exhaustion momentarily made him pass out. | |
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Shoot the Hostage | |
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Shoot the Hostage: When Dale takes one of Ted's goons hostage, Budlofsky shoots him (to Matheson's anger) and then tells Ted that Dale did it. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: When Dale is being arrested by a liaison officer for selling weed to underage kids, she brings up his record and it contains a hit-and-run committed a couple of days ago. That was when Dale accidentally hit Carol's cop car while trying to flee after witnessing her and Ted murder one of the Asians. How the hell did that end up being on his record despite him not getting reported and arrested for it?This could be explained in that the cop was looking for any excuse possible to arrest him because her car was the one Dale hit. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Ted and Carol are murderous criminals, but they also genuinely care about each other. Budlofsky is ruthless killer, but he has a family that he cares deeply about, and he's becoming increasingly resentful of his work life keeping him from seeing or spending time with his family. The Triad that Dale sees Ted kill has a brother who is part of the same criminal organization. When Cheung, the leader of the Triads decides that it's time to attack Ted's organization, he reassures the surviving brother that "Your brother's death will not be in vain." | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: A plot centered around weed? In a Seth Rogen movie? | |
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Wimp Fight | |
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Wimp Fight: Zig-zagged when Dale and Saul fight Red. All three are seriously trying to hurt each other, but have absolutely no fighting skills, are high off their minds, and are still somewhat friendly throughout. | |
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One Last Job | |
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One Last Job: Carol tells Ted that after the final confrontation with Ted's Asian competitors, she's moving on and leaving the business. It turns out that even a Dirty Cop is susceptible to Retirony. | |
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Line-of-Sight Alias | |
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Line-of-Sight Alias: | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show | |
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Subverted. Ted initially seems like the sort of serious, murderous, and competent villain that serves as a contrast with hapless, comedic heroes... but after his first scene the film shows that he's not nearly as competent or in control as he seems. | |
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Sex Is Interesting | |
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Sex Is Interesting: Dale's girlfriend seems to be under the impression that she's a mature, interesting person because she's had sex with seventeen different guys (Director's Cut only). Any idea the audience may have had that this could be true evaporates when she actually tries to use this as an argument. | |
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Fun T-Shirt | |
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Fun T-Shirt: A shirt featuring a picture of a shark eating a kitten. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity: When Matheson has Saul dead to rights at the climax, instead of shooting Saul immediately, he takes way too long savoring the moment, which leads to him being killed by Red. | |
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Laughably Evil | |
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Laughably Evil: While Ted, Carol and the rival Asian mob have their moments, the Co-Dragons Matheson and Budlofsky both take the cake, especially Matheson, thanks to his portrayer Craig Robinson's performance. | |
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Getting High on Their Own Supply | |
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Getting High on Their Own Supply: It's implied that Ted tends to use a little too much of his own product, and that it's undermining his ability to function and keep a grip on his criminal empire. | |
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Wall of Weapons | |
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Wall of Weapons: Red has a literal wall of weapons. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Inverted. Dale complains Saul invoked this trope by stealing the police car from Officer Barber who could have exposed Carol as a murderer and drug dealer. Though Saul did more good than harm since Carol knew she was about to be exposed and went to go kill both Dale and Barber. | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: All three of them. Red and Saul moreso. | |
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Straight Man | |
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Straight Man: Dale is a little less stoned and a bit sharper than Saul and Red. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The cop who arrests Dale, listens to Dale's entire tirade about Carol, and says that she had been suspicious of Carol for some time now and swears she will look into this (and then is knocked out by Saul) is never seen again. | |
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GPS Evidence | |
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GPS Evidence: The Title Drop is a rare kind of marihuana that Ted has only sold to one dealer in the entire town — Saul. As a result, from a single roach Dale leaves behind, he is able to trace the protagonists within an hour. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: During Red's interrogation, he mentions Ted Jones having a hideout and that it's pretty awesome. Said hideout turns out to be a barn with a hole that leads into a weed farm that was once the military lab from the prologue. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Red, all the way. A significant chunk of the epilogue's Seinfeldian Conversation is the lampshading that he's hurt pretty bad, maybe he should be taken to a hospital, and it's hard to believe he's not dead yet. | |
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New-Age Retro Hippie | |
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New-Age Retro Hippie: Saul is a stoner with long hair, a headband and long sleeve t-shirt, and has a very laid-back demeanor. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Coming of Age Story: Dale finally accepts that he can't go through life just being a childish stoner and mans up. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: Saul tries to shoot Carol with a machine gun and a "Fuck the Police!" line, but doesn’t lay a single bullet into her since he fired it wrong. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: Matheson's reaction to a car smashing through a wall and barreling right towards him? Scream at it until it hits and kills him instead of ducking or screaming AND ducking. Even screaming, THEN ducking has a chance. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Subverted and lampshaded. During the movie, Dale talks about how he would like to be on the radio. After the climax, we hear Dale, off-screen, doing a very radio-esque announcer-voice. Which turns out to be in a diner, shortly after the climax, where the guys are having a celebratory breakfast, while Dale is demonstrating his radio-voice. | |
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Distant Prologue | |
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Distant Prologue: The movie begins in the year 1937 where the military conducts a secret experiment on "Item 9" also known as the smoking pot before declaring it ‘Illegal’. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: The two main characters are Dale Denton and Saul Silver. Dale's girlfriend is named Angie Anderson. | |
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Unwanted Rescue | |
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Unwanted Rescue: Saul hijacking the car of a policewoman who arrested Dale. Problem is, Dale had already explained his situation to her and was trying to enlist her help to take down Ted and Carol. | |
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Car Fu | |
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Car Fu: Red, after initially opting not to take part in the big final confrontation, returns to the scene after all and runs over Matheson just before Matheson can kill Saul. | |
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Informed Attribute | |
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Informed Attribute: Budlofsky and Matheson are said to be the best men Ted has, yet when they burst into Saul's apartment and find a still-smoking joint, Matheson chooses to sit down and smoke it and Budlofsky calls his wife instead of the both of them going after Saul and Dale even though a still-smoking joint would indicate they're pretty close by. Heck, they only catch Saul through dumb luck because he just so happened to show up at the same place they were. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Dale lists becoming a fan of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Shins as one of the many ways Angie will change in college. | |
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Co-Dragons | |
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Co-Dragons: Carol, Budlofsky and Matheson all seem to be share the role as Ted's 2nd in command, though Carol is the one who he interacts with the most. | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! | |
| Pineapple Express / int_cec8b87a | comment |
This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Saul, several times. When parting from Dale (here). When he's finally kidnapped by the bad guys. | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: "He's in a big war with the Asians." "Asians? What kind of Asians? Indians are technically Asian." "I don't know, man! Asians!" (Chinese Triads, by the way). | |
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Indecisive Parody | |
| Pineapple Express / int_d7a92919 | comment |
Indecisive Parody: A lot of the beats of the film, both funny and dramatic, come down to the fact that the heroes are a bunch of barely-functional stoners and have no damn place in the plot. Dale even lampshades it at one point, as well as berates Saul at another because they could have handed this whole mess off to a more competent cop who was already suspicious of Carol if not for Saul inserting himself in the situation. At the climax, it's even more about Dale saving Saul while they are in the crossfire of Ted's climactic confrontation with the Triads. All of the action is played straight, though, and they bring about Ted's downfall. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the climax, Budlofsky, wounded during the big firefight, tiredly decides not to shoot Saul and just go home... and then Matheson shoots him for going soft. | |
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MagicBullets | |
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Magic Bullets | |
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Changed My Mind, Kid | |
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Changed My Mind, Kid: Red goes along with Dale to rescue Saul from Ted, but chickens out and leaves, only to come back just in time to save Saul from Matheson. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Matheson. While he’s very much a dangerous thug, he has moments of effeminacy and seems to find Saul attractive if telling him to sit his “sexy ass� down is any indication. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
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The Chew Toy: Red is constantly being injured and embarrassed. | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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Only a Flesh Wound: Red gets shot multiple times throughout the movie and barely manages to make it out of an exploding farm and yet is only slightly tired by the end. The other characters note the damage he's suffered so far and decide to drop him off at a hospital at the end. | |
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Disappearing Bullets | |
| Pineapple Express / int_e7bf8b4d | comment |
Disappearing Bullets: When Ted executes the Triad member in his living room. The Triad's brains get blown out right against a large glass window, but there's no sign of the bullets doing damage to the windows themselves. | |
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Groin Attack | |
| Pineapple Express / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: A rare female variant. Saul kicks Carol between the legs at one point during their fight, and while it does hurt her, it's not incapacitating until Saul immediately uppercuts her. Ted whacks Dale in the crotch with a fire extinguisher. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: Carol. Also a Killer Cop, as The Dragon to Ted. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Working as a process server for courts is often seen as one of the bigger asshole jobs in America — as the second opening scene very much shows. And yet, Dale enjoys it just a bit too much. Almost to the point where he gets off on other people's misery when they hear the word "SUBPOENA." | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: Saul not understanding Dale's sarcasm (here). | |
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Styrofoam Rocks | |
| Pineapple Express / int_fc0e4e49 | comment |
Styrofoam Rocks: Probably the part of the intro sequence that was the least played for laughs. | |
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Master of Disguise | |
| Pineapple Express / int_fd7267dd | comment |
Master of Disguise: Dale uses a bunch of these to serve his subpoenas. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Pineapple Express / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Dale finally ends up serving Ted his subpoena (to his mangled corpse), which was the whole reason Dale ended up outside Ted's house in the first place. | |
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