4/20 on TV: A Viewing Guide

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Dazed and Confused" src="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2012/04/dazed_confused.jpg" /><br /><br /><h2 class="main_article_deck" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: 'Vonness Bold Compressed', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">Cable networks are offering plenty of pothead-friendly fare on the stoner high holiday.</h2><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">It’s April 20, or <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/420-meaning-origin-marijuana-314434" style="color: #e11a1f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">4/20, as the holiday is known to countless stoners</a> all over the world. It's a day to celebrate pot culture in all its forms. 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display: inline; float: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px;" /></a></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">Call it: the doob tube -- a full lineup of pothead flicks on an assortment of cable networks, proving that some programmers clearly know what time (and day) it is.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">So what's a couch potato to do on the high holiday of loafing? Starting at 4:50 p.m. EST on Saturday, the granddaddy of all marijuana movies, <em>Reefer Madness</em>, kicks off the evening’s viewing activities on Showtime's Sho 2. Though it was intended in 1936 as a scare movie, today you can’t help but howl with laughter when the zooted piano player id egged by the high-as-a-kite revelers to play “faster, faster.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">At 7 p.m., <em>Beavis and Butthead Do America</em> -- and peyote -- on VH1 Classics.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">At 8 p.m., you might have to fight for the remote when <em>Dazed and Confused</em> (Starz Comedy) and <em>The Big Lebowski</em> -- two of the most beloved stoner films of all-time -- face off. Set in Texas in 1976,<em>Dazed</em> introduced moviegoers to<strong> Matthew McConaughey</strong> and<strong>Ben Affleck</strong>;</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;"><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/420-pivotal-moments-pot-culture-marijuana-312918" style="color: #e11a1f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong>PHOTOS: Celebrating 4/20: 12 Pivotal Moments in Pot Culture</strong></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">McConaughey’s character Wooderson would likely say “it would be cooler if you did” watch the <strong>Richard Linklater</strong> classic rather than the Coen Brothers’ wacky tale of mistaken identity and bowling, featuring a pot-smoking, White Russian-drinking lead character known as “The Dude” (or “El Duderino” to his closest friends) played wonderfully by <strong>Jeff Bridges</strong>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">The 9:30 p.m. slot has some has some heavy competition as well, starting with <em>Bad Teacher</em> (Starz Edge) at 9:20. <strong>Cameron Diaz</strong>’s potty-mouthed Elizabeth Halsey is a role the comic actress was made for, especially when she exclaims, “Weed is awesome,” and tells one of her student who spies her hitting a pipe that it’s medical, 'natch.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">At 9:30 p.m., <em>Grandma’s Boy</em> (Comedy Central) aims for the funny bone when video game nerds, who also happen to blaze, battle for office supremacy. While <strong>Allen Covert</strong>, <strong>Nick Swardson</strong> and <strong>Jonah Hill</strong> take center stage, it’s a bud-toking monkey who practically drives off (literally) with the movie.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">You might just find yourself switching back to Starz Comedy at 9:45 p.m to catch <strong>Anna Faris</strong> stumble through <em>Smiley Face</em> baked on a full tray of loaded cupcakes. Her character Jane desperately wants to get to the pot rally on time, but keeps getting sidetracked by the likes of <strong>John Krasinski </strong>and <strong>John Cho</strong>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;"><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/snoop-dogg-career-photos-374027" style="color: #e11a1f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong>PHOTOS: Snoop Dogg: His Life and Career in Pictures</strong></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">Not to be outdone, Outer Max (a Cinemax channel) offers <em>A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas</em> at 10:30 p.m., which is an odd choice considering it’s spring. But still, the third H&K flick has its charms, such as a flying joint and baby covered in cocaine.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">What, no Cheech & Chong, you say indignantly and justifiably? You’d think at least one of the dopey duo’s comedy classics (<em>Up in Smoke</em> most notably) would have popped up on the Doob Tube on 4/20. Sadly, that’s not the case, but at last<strong> Tommy Chong</strong> fans can tune in to his Showtime special (8:30 p.m. and 11:45 p.m.), <a href="http://www.sho.com/sho/movies/titles/3357357/tommy-chong-presents-comedy-at-420#/index" style="color: #e11a1f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Tommy Chong Present Comedy at 420</em></a>, during which he’ll open with a monologue and then share the stage with several other comics (<strong>Edwin Sam Juan</strong>, <strong>Chris Porter</strong>, <strong>Jay Phillips</strong>,<strong>Eddie Ift</strong>), just like a live stand-up show. It’s a coup for Chong, whose latest film, <a href="http://cheechandchonganimated.com/movie.html" style="color: #e11a1f; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em>Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie</em></a>, will also be playing in theaters nationwide on 4/20.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">Here’s a rundown of stoner programming for 4/20 (check local listings):</div></div></div>

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