Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is a great movie. And I don't mean that in the sense that Transformers is a great piece of entertainment. I mean that, along with Super Troopers, it is one of the great comedy films of my generation much in the same way that Some Like it Hot or National Lampoon's: Vacation are considered 'great' comedic achievements of their era.
So, here's one of my favorite scenes from Harold and Kumar; a faux PSA decrying the dangers of marijuana use:
What's frightening is how close this obvious parady is to the level of ridicuousness in real-life anti-drug campaign commercials:
What's sad is that, while this particular PSA is from the early 90s, I can distinctly remember watching this very ad as a kid, and being under the assumption that 1) drug dealers will come and find you if you're not using their product, 2) they will intimidate you into doing things you otherwise have no interest in doing, and 3) calling an angered drug dealer a name and walking away (with obligatory shoulder bump) will humiliate them into submission.
God Bless America.
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