Post #627622 by woofmutt on Mon, Mar 5, 2012 12:26 AM

Pot smoking scenes in movies and TV shows.

By now even the casual viewer has seen almost every sort of character get stoned and the hilarity that can ensue. And of course there's the extra hilarity of someone accidentally getting high from a pot laced baked good.

But if it was already used years ago as a plot device on Friends or Frasier it's a fairly worn out idea.

Yeah yeah yeah, "nothing new under the sun" and all that. But watching characters getting stoned is about as interesting as watching them browse paint chip samples at the hardware store.

Pot scenes are lazy writing, an easy device to reach for when some wackiness or slapstick is desired.

Or maybe pot scenes aren't lazy writing, they're just an example of the writers following the old advice "write what you know." If that's the case it could also explain how movies like The Green Hornet get written and produced.