Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with a Slate spoiler special on

Pineapple Express. Joining me is Tanner Colby. Hi, Tanner. Hi, how's it going? How should I identify

you? You are a comedy writer. You're the author of the recent Chris Farley show. The recent

biography of the Chris Farley Show. And yes, and we saw Pineapple Express together two nights ago. Because I'm losing my voice a little bit and hoping that it sounds beguiling and husky,

but I'm afraid it won't last.

I'm going to throw it over to you for the plot summer.

A little bit convoluted for this movie.

A little bit convoluted.

It is a action stoner comedy produced by Judd Apatow and starring Seth Rogen and James Franco,

and directed, strangely enough, by David Gordon Green,

who's known for thoughtful, pensive indie dramas like Snow Angels and all the pretty girls.

All the real girls.

All the real girls, yes.

They were pretty, too.

They were pretty, too.

Well, Zoe DeCinell, so that made me think, you know, pretty girls.

Anyway, basic plot of the movie is that Seth Rogen, who has just picked up some really sick weed from his dealer,

James Franco, called Pineapple Express, is the name of the bud.

While he's trying to serve a process, serve a subpoena to this drug lord, he witnesses a murder,

and the drugs, the weed that he leaves

at the scene allows the bad guys to trace him back to his dealer and they set out on the lamb.

And what makes this sort of unique and new in the realm of stoner comedies is that the heart

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