Freaks and Geeks was a stoner comedy-drama television series developed by Paul Feig and Judd Apatow, it launched several of its young actors into successful careers.
The show’s starting point is Lindsay Weir’s transition from her life as a hard working student, star “mathlete”, and proper young girl to an Army-jacket-wearing teenager who hangs out with stoners.
Her relationships with her new friends, and the friction they cause with her parents and with her own self-image, form one central strand of the show; the other follows her brother Sam and his group of geeky friends as they navigate a different part of the social universe, and try to fit in.
Dazed
The Source
Bill Murray
Love, Mom
We Don’t Need No Education
Do They?
Stoner Plays Dungeons and Dragons
Yearbook
Don’t Slip
Ghost in the Shell
You Don’t Know Me
Keep it cool, playa
You’re Perfect
You’re Gonna Die
Reunion
Whenever I see an opportunity to use any of the people from Freaks and Geeks, I do it. It’s a way of refusing to accept that the show was canceled.
In my head, I can look at Knocked Up as just an episode of Seth’s character getting a girl pregnant.
All of the movies relate in my mind in that way, as the continuous adventures of those characters. – Judd Apatow
From Rod Serling’s smoke-filled introductions, to the inevitable twist ending, the Twilight Zone is a classic series for stoners. Smoke a bowl and imagine watching these broadcasts in the 60s on an old black and white set, and you might just get a feel for how revolutionary the Twilight Zone was.
Five Characters In Search Of An Exit
Five people awake in a giant metal cylinder, none of them able to remember how they got there. A soldier, ballet dancer, hobo, bagpiper and clown. No, it’s not a weird predecessor to Cube, though it certainly seems like it.
The five are stuck in this room, with no exits whatsoever, occasionally blasted by a huge noise, an enormous clanging that shakes them to the core. They need no food, no water, and have no feelings at all. The soldier is determined to escape, even though the others are despondent. Creating a tower, one one top of the other, the army major escapes, tumbling into the light of day. Where a small girl picks up a doll in army uniform, puts it back in the barrel, and a lady rings a bell asking for donations for an orphans’ home.
The Eye of the Beholder
A lady is in hospital after massive facial surgery to try and make her look like everyone else. For most of the episode she’s bandaged up like a bondage mummy, and all the other people in the hospital’s faces are kept in the shadows.
The twist is that she’s beautiful, and everyone else is terrifying looking! And then she runs away to live on an island of ugly/beautiful people, and lives happily ever after.
The Invaders
The entire sketch is shot almost without dialogue, with the only speech occurring in the closing minutes. There’s an old lady who lives in a sparse and poor country cabin, who is encounters two tiny aliens and a flying saucer. She manages to kill one and chases the other back to his spaceship. Just as she attacks it with an axe, we hear the alien broadcasting in American-English, warning of a planet inhabited by giants, who would be very difficult to defeat. As the ship is smashed by the giantess, we see the writing on its side: U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1.
The Midnight Sun
The Earth is careening into the Sun, and the only two people left in an apartment building are Norma — a painter, and Mrs. Bronson — the landlady, everyone else has run for cooler climes. With looters roaming the streets, the power all but disconnected, water strictly rationed, and the heat ever increasing, the two ladies struggle with the mounting temperature.
Just as things get get unbearable, the scene shifts to the apartment at night time, now bitterly cold. The thermometer sits at -10°, and Norma is in bed, with a fever dream, imagining her impending fiery doom. The Earth is in fact hurtling away from the Sun, promising an icy death to all its inhabitants.
To Serve Man
Super smart aliens visit our planet, and fix everything. No more war, no more poverty, no more hunger. They just want what’s best for us! Government codebreakers frantically rush to translate a single piece of Kanamitian literature — a book called “To Serve Man”. Then, shock, horror! It’s a cookbook! They’re making us fat and complacent, and there’s nothing we can do now!
A selection of the top 100 quotes from The Wire, the greatest TV show ever made. Note: Video contains spoilers from all 5 seasons.
Fans of the Wire know that the writing is outstanding. The stories are sprawling, epic, Greek-tragic ruminations on the nature of American conquest and the sacrifices made by the people at the bottom of the ladder on behalf of the ineptitude of those at the top. What’s more, the dialogue is this thick gun-blast of hardened profanity, street slang, police argot, and the undeniably Shakespearean pleasures of hearing gifted orators hold forth on the tilted battle between good and evil.
Enjoy this outstanding compilation of 100 of the greatest quotes from “The Wire”, it’s a jaw-dropping reminder of how many amazing moments this show had. For those of you who still haven’t seen “The Wire”: you owe it to yourself to pack a bowl and watch it. It gets old telling people “Yes, it really is that good” all the time.
Bonus: The Wire – Other 100 Greatest Quotes
So many fans complained about their favorite lines not being included in the first video. The creator happily obliged by creating a second video of the greatest wire quotes.
