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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:~~Reefer_Madness_3778~~Reefer Madness (1936).jpg\|~~frame~~thumb]] Originally called ''Tell Your Children'', this anti-[[Antiquated Linguistics\|marihuana]] film from [[The Thirties\|1936]], was directed by Louis Gasnier and originally financed by a church group and intended for parents, but was picked up by producer Dwain Esper who recut it as an [[Exploitation Film]]. Today, it's in the public domain and considered ~[[So Bad It's Good~]], and has even inspired a 1998 musical satire which itself was adapted into a well received TV movie. Witness the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is sweeping America [~~http~~[Commons:~~//video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236~~ File:Reefer Madness.webm\|online.]] Don't do drugs, kids! {{tropelist}} Line 25: * [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Well, ''duh''. Or at least, that's what it tries to say. ** Well just reefer, anyway. [[Values Dissonance\|Tobacco and alcohol are A-OK!]] * ~Everything's Better On Drugs~: What it actually is saying. * [[Frame Up]]: {{spoiler\|They try to frame Bill for Mary's death.}} * [[Fridge Logic]] / [[Plot Hole]]: Related to [[Karma Houdini]] below. The entire film is told in flashback by the principal... but how did he know about Jimmy running the old man over if he was never charged? Line 64 ⟶ 63: * [[Adaptation Expansion]]: In the stage show, {{spoiler\|Mae's}} summoning of FDR is laughed off under [[Rule of Funny]] as 'It's a funny story,' and dropped. In the movie, FDR is established as being in town earlier and even contains a sequence of her fighting through his guards to talk to him. * [[An Aesop]]: Lampshaded in the anti-marijuana aesop, but played straight with the musical's actual point about censorship. * [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "''My innocence ravaged! / My virtue devoured! / I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!''" * [[Bastard Girlfriend]]: {{spoiler\|Mary}}, under the influence of reefer. * [[Black Comedy]]: A lot of humor is gotten out of drug addiction, infedelity, rape, murder, and cannibalism. Line 79 ⟶ 78: * [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: "The Brownie Song" in the film. * [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]: Mary seems to be singing about something else during "Lonely Pew." * [[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)]]: Averted. While it's played as comedy, it's shown to be clearly not "okay," although to be fair if it WAS reversed, it would be a huge case of [[Dude, Not Funny]]. Also, the scene role reverses that of the original 1936 version; in the musical, Mary tries to rape Ralph when she gets stoned, instead of the other way around. ** It's really more like he was trying to take advantage of her and got way more than he bargained for. You might say they tried to rape each other. * [[Face Heel Turn]]: Jimmy and {{spoiler\|Mary}}...after one puff of marijuana. Line 112 ⟶ 111: [[Category:Reefer Madness]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Theatrical Productions]] [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] [[Category:Cult Classic]]