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Kristen Bell, Christian Campbell, Neve Campbell, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer, John Kassir

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Erin Mileur

Reefer Madness The Musical began as a stage play premiering in 1998 in Los Angeles.

Tyler Explains It All

Fun fact: Ana Gasteyer played Elphaba in Wicked from 2005-2007. That is 100% her singing there.

Kimba

I’m so excited you’ve watched this. My cousin is in it!

Ben Gilbert

Christian Campbell who plays Jimmy is Neve Campbell’s brother.

Jonathan

Right after this Christian Campbell was in an NBC series I'm shocked got green lit even if it was good. The premise is Aidan Quinn is a drug addict priest who gets high and hallucinates Jesus played by Garrett Dillahunt. Christian and Allison Pill play 2 of his kids. It became an early streaming series after it got cancelled due to protests.

Kimba

It’s been a while since I saw this. I have the DVD for it. My cousin played Sally (Amy Spanger). First time I watched it I did not know she would be decapitated so that was something! It was fun watching your reaction!

Chemical Em

omg love this! its actually a true story under the devils lettuce i once ate an entire pizza and slept for 10 hours IM A MONSTER!

Allison O

She blew the roof off the place, too. Made those songs sound easy.

Allison O

She’s so great! I think I’ve seen her do some like Joe’s Pub or something concerts.

Allison O

Every time I see this movie I end up with “Listen to Jesus, Jimmy” stuck in my head for days. Fun fact, Green Grow the Lilacs (the play Alan Cumming mentions at the beginning) was a non-musical play from which the musical Oklahoma! was developed.

Actuarial Lurker

The original film is from 1936 and warns that using the "Devil's Lettuce" leads to unmarried cohabitation drug dealers who prey on teens who cause hit & run/manslaughter, murder, attempted r@pe and completed self-termination I am proud to be drug free- yes the math and science nerd who never used such substances...yet even I view this a silly propaganda

Youtalkingtome

I never would have put that together. Makes sense why she took such a minor role.

Youtalkingtome

It's fascinating that the original propaganda film became a popular cult classic.

Ben Gilbert

When I watch this I get Mary Jane/ Mary Lane stuck in my head. I took a puff from a joint once. I coughed for two days.

Neill Shaughness

This marks the first time I've watched a movie for the first time with you guys! I saw the original back in the day, but never this. I watch musicals every June as a "June Tunes" theme on Letterboxd so this is great timing.

Youtalkingtome

Thanks for watching with us! This was a great one to start with

Ben Gilbert

Also I went to a Willie Nelson concert once. I probably breathed in enough second hand smoke to show up on drug tests. 😊

Neill Shaughness

To be clear I've been watching movies with you guys. This is just the first time it was a movie I'd never seen before.

AdamPacio.art

Hey team, I was away for a bit and just getting back to my day to day and I missed the original debut of the reaction. I'm really glad you both liked this. It's definitely a campy romp but the end chorus as you said gives the whole thing a definite, contemporary statement to make which turns it into a most excellent form of satire. The Jimmy Orgy scene was a rush job according to the producers. They only had a single night left on the sound stage and there was a scheduling conflict with the dance troupe who had been booked originally. The producers couldn't afford to skip the scene, they only had the lot until dawn, and so they got very creative. They went next door to a Strip Club and hired all the dancers to come by and shoot the dance choreo after the club closed at 2am. So the dancers came over, got done in makeup and fitted in the costumes, taught the choreo, and from 3am until dawn the next morning they shot the scene together. Everyone was tired, but the cast agreed it was an absolute blast. When they decided to write the stage show that became the movie (and college theaters have done productions of this since) the motivation was because they were 'fans' of the original Reefer Madness movie in black and white. While this adaptation certainly did add quite a bit of dramatic satire in parodying the original, every single weird line, concept, quoted fact, and stereotype that was presented was taken DIRECTLY from the actual-factual propaganda circulated by William Randolph Hearst. He owned a newspaper and he wanted to shut down several of his smaller competitors who, as it turned out, were printing on hemp-based paper because they couldn't afford the newsprint at their scale. Hearst found the federal money his anti-drug programs was a bit addictive itself and even when his competitors closed shop as hemp was outlawed, he continued on with his bizarre blatant propaganda. Once again I'm glad that you enjoyed the film.