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{{quote|''"I don't need drugs to watch this! Just to enhance it!"''|'''Otto,''' ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]],'' "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"}}
 
Also known as [[THC Theater]]. A movie about [[The Stoner]], made ''for'' the Stoner. Possibly made '''by''' Stoners, but [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|that can't be proven]], [[Word of God|unless the creators acknowledge that it was]].
 
Tend not to be especially plot-driven, and often contain long tangents relating to pop culture. Expect 90% of the humor to be either puerile jokes or humor about doing incredibly stupid stuff thanks to being intoxicated. Basically, [[Slice of Life]] genre for stoners.
 
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* The ''[[Cheech and Chong]]'' series
** ''[[Up in Smoke]]''
* ''[[Dude, Where's My Car?]]''
* ''The Stoned Age''
* ''[[Half Baked]]''
* ''[[Friday]]''
* The ''[[Harold and& Kumar Go to White Castle]]'' series
* ''[[How High]]''
* ''[[Fritz the Cat (Animationanimation)|Fritz the Cat]]''
** ''[[The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (Animation)|The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat]]''
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' is the television version. Due to its airing during prime time on a broadcast network, it's never explicitly stated what activity Eric and company are indulging in, but seriously - ''you'd'' have to be high off ''your'' ass (or perhaps living in a very tight pop-cultural bubble since the Second World War) not to figure it out.
* ''[[Film/Saving Grace|Saving Grace]]'', possibly the most intelligent stoner movie ever made.
* ''[[Reefer Madness (Film)|Reefer Madness]]'' (2005), the classic [[B -Movie|exploitation film]] remade as an over-the-top musical comedy.
* While ''[[Fear and Loathing Inin Las Vegas]]'' is about the drug culture of the late 60s and early 70s, it should be considered separately from such films as ''Dude, Where's My Car?'' ''Fear and Loathing'', like the book it adapts, does contain "stoner humor," but it also provides a criticism of both "mainstream" American culture and the hippie/drug cultures that opposed it. Of course, this doesn't mean that it ''isn't'' incredibly fun to watch while stoned.
* ''[[Bill and Ted|Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' (Possibly. Whether the pair are just stupid or actually stoned is debatable.)
** Either way though, their way of life, philosophy, and music, become the keystone of the entire utopian future of the human race.
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* ''Doggy Fizzle Televizzle'', Snoop Dogg's short-lived sketch comedy show, is a borderline example - despite his former status as a stoner god, Snoop Dogg had given up marijuana the year before the program aired, though it ''did'' contain a fair amount of cannabis-related humor.
* ''[[Pineapple Express]]''. The title refers to a strain of weed.
* ''[[Knocked Up]]'', the [[Two Lines, No Waiting|b-plot]] is Stoner comedy all the way.
* ''[[Super Troopers]]''
* ''Killer Bud''
* About half of [[Adult Swim]]'s original programming.
** Adult Swim is rarely seen without this trope. Shows like ''Superjail'' and ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' are textbook stoner shows. ''[[King of the Hill]]'' and ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' don't seem geared to a stoned audience, but both are totally compatible with one. There is arguably no show on the network, except perhaps ''[[Moral Orel]]'', that this trope does not apply to at least a little.
*** Even in its early days to some extent. You can't tell me the writers of ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'' weren't on ''something''...
*** They were Japanese [[Widget Series|and that's pretty much enough]].
** Even Cartoon Network's daytime programming is pretty popular with stoners, especially ''[[Regular Show]]'', which is based on a short film about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y894QNtX0VA two clerks dropping acid].
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* The FPS ''Celestial Impact'' was apparently created by a stoner.
** When I was in high school, someone put a Pac-Man style game with a drug theme on the computer lab machines. It was called "Happyweed."
* Another Video Game example- There's plenty of weed-related shenanigans to be had in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''.
** Though not by the player as the main plot has an anti-drug aesop.
* ''~[[J-Men Forever~!]]'' (1979). The villainous Lightning Bug schemes to conquer the Earth with [[Sex, Drugs and Rock Andand Roll]], and only the J-Men (an elite team of <s>tight-assed straights</s> straight-jawed men-in-tights) can stop him with a combination of [[Gag Dub|re-dubbed]] Republic [[Film Serial]] heroes, schmaltzy music, and an indiscriminate bombing campaign of all suspected marijuana stashes. Has a vast number of Stoner jokes, including the motto of the J-Men which is "[[Canis Latinicus|U Cannabis Smokem]]".
* ''[[Withnail and I]]''
* ''[[View Askewniverse|Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' — the other Kevin Smith movies have drug influence, but are much less focused on it.
* ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', a proto-example from 1968.
* ''[[Smiley Face]]'', stars Anna Faris as a stoner who had a few too many marijuana cupcakes
* ''[[Easy Rider]]''... kind of. Sort of. It's a bit heavy, but it's an early establisher of the trope anyway. Plus, the actors do smoke real marijuana.
* ''Grass'', though this one is documentary where everything else on this list tells a fictional story. Woody Harrelson provides the narration.
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] movie ''[[Help!]]'' All the band members were stoned off their asses during the making of it, and the ''non sequiturs'' and other ridiculous bits are far more entertaining when stoned.
* ''Super High Me''.
* ''[[Zardoz]]''. John Boorman himself was high when he made the thing and it ''shows.''
* ''[[The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle]]''
* ''[[Your Highness]]'', which is a textbook stoner flick crossed with ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Princess Bride]]''.
* ''[[Living Will]]'', in addition to being a romantic comedy, has plenty of stoner humor.
* ''[[Dazed and Confused]]'' was mismarketed as one of these. The actual product is a coming of age film and only one character is actually a stoner.
* ''[[Strange Brew]]'' could be seen like this. As [[Kevin Smith]] put it, it's basically like Jay and Silent Bob, only with beer instead of weed.
* ''The Beach Girls''
* ''[[DrugsandDrugs Kisses (Webcomic)|Drugsandand Kisses]]'' is the webcomic version of this
 
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