The two get busted for possession and after spending a night in prison, where the “meddling kids” share a cell with a few of the bad guys they’ve previously caught, go to court, with Harvey as their lawyer. It only took Harvey Birdman three episodes to make fun of one of Hanna-Barbera’s biggest in-jokes: that Scooby and Shaggy were constantly smoking weed in the Mystery Machine. Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, “Shaggy Busted” Occasionally, though, you remember the show’s just a very, very, very long reminiscence, like in “How I Met Everyone Else,” where Bob Saget Ted tells about how he and Marshall originally bonded over Guided by Voices and weed, referred to as “sandwiches” for the sake of his impressionable children. It’s easy to forget that How I Met Your Mother is the only current primetime sitcom told almost primarily through flashbacks, mostly because you never actually see Present Ted, voiced by Bob Saget, just his two kids (I’ve always wondered if they get paid by the episode, and whether it’s the same footage used over and over again?). How I Met Your Mother, “How I Met Everyone Else” But even outside of specific episodes, Weeds has done more than any other comedy in showcasing both the highs and lows of marijuana and how even the Good Guys can be dealers, too. In “MILF Money,” Nancy and Conrad bring their new strain to Snoop Dogg, who immediately falls in love, calling it “MILF Weed.” He even records a song about it. It’s just me and my ganja.”Īlthough Weeds has left and returned to (and left and returned to) to its original story of a bored, recently-widowed suburban housewife selling drugs to make money for her family, leading to some awfully subpar middle seasons, it knew exactly what it was doing in its sophomore year. No boyfriend, no meaningful job, no husband, no family. What starts out as a great time reminiscing about the past and not caring about their current adult responsibilities quickly turns dark when Jackie says, “Look at me, I’ve got nothin’. So, they, along with Jackie, head to the bathroom and start lighting up. Roseanne took this sitcom cliché and made it her own: after finding a bag of weed in Darlene and Becky’s bedroom, Roseanne and Dan blame the kids until they realize…it’s actually their pot, from over 20 years ago. TV parents from the 1970s and 1980s usually scolded their children when they found them smoking weed, teaching them a lesson about how “grass” will literally kill you. Below is a list of both anti- and pro-pot sitcom episodes, all memorable. And if pot was ever mentioned, it was used to serve a message on how dangerous it was.īut as marijuana has become a more and more socially acceptable topic, sitcoms have begun working it into plots that didn’t revolve around parents finding a joint and teaching their kids a lesson. Of course marijuana has played a major role in the creation in some of TV’s funniest shows, like Saturday Night Live, but its importance was downplayed due to censorship fears. It wasn’t until relatively recently, the mid 1990s specifically, that weed was a topic that could be discussed in network comedies.
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