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''[[Pineapple Express]]'' (2008) is an American 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 (Rogen) is a 25-year-old process server who, in delivering a subpoena to drug lord Ted Jones, witnesses a murder perpetrated by Jones and his girlfriend, a corrupt cop. Dale panics and flees the scene, in his haste dropping a roach containing a rare strain of marijuana known as [[Title Drop|Pineapple Express]] - a strain that Ted knows he has sold only to Dale's dealer. Now, on the run from Ted's people and the cops alike, Dale and his dealer know all too well that this is more than weed-induced paranoia - everyone apparently is out to get them both.

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* [[Alliterative Name]]: The two main characters? Dale Denton and Saul Silver.

* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: "He's in a big war with the Asians." "Asians? What kind of Asians? ''Indians'' are technically Asian." "I don't know, man! Asians!"

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Subverted. Saul manages to get in the vent but can't pull Dale up with him.

* [[Brick Joke]]: Dale finally ends up serving {{spoiler|Ted}} his subpoena ([[Bond One-Liner|to his mangled corpse]]), which was the whole reason Dale ended up outside Ted's house in the first place.

* [[The Chew Toy]]: Red.

* [[Coming of Age Story]]

** The trailers essentially propelled the song and M.I.A. herself to new popularity heights in the United States.

* [[Die Hard on an X|Die Hard if Everyone got Stoned]]

* [[Indecisive Parody]]

* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]:

* [[Lock and Load Montage]]: Two near the end. One in Red's house when he decides to help Dale ("Thug life!") and a second in the underground grow farm after they escape the room and find some guns.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Red, all the way

* [[Magic Bullets]]

* [[Mistaken for Badass]]: Everything Dale and Saul do after escaping the murder scene is interpreted by Ted as the actions of top-shelf agents working for the Triads. They really aren't.

'''Carol:''' "Who is this Dale Denton?" }}

* [[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.

* [[Master of Disguise]]: Dale uses a bunch of these to serve his subpoenas.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Budlofsky keeps talking about needing to get home to eat dinner with his wife {{spoiler|and is eventually shot by Matheson for choosing to go home instead of shooting Saul.}}

* [[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.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''Superbad''.

* [[Stoner Flick]]: Subverted - After a certain point Dale says he has to stop smoking weed due to the fact everything that went wrong in the movie is because of him smoking weed. The movie itself is almost a mix of pro- and anti-pot film.

* [[Stoners Are Funny]]

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Budlofsky & Matheson.

* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:

'''Saul:''' Pandora can't go back into the box - he only comes out. }}

* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]:

* [[Wall of Weapons]]: Red has a literal wall of weapons.

* [[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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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]