Half Baked
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Half Baked is a 1998 comedy film starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams and Guillermo Diaz. The movie was directed by Tamra Davis, and co-written by star Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan. (Brennan was later a writer on Chappelle's Comedy Central show Chappelle's Show.) Cameo appearances include Steven Wright, Tommy Chong, Janeane Garofalo, Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Jon Stewart, Stephen Baldwin and Bob Saget.
The film became a cult classic, heralded by many as Dave Chappelle's first comic breakthrough. Chappelle's quote from the film ("I wanna talk to !") has created a popular slang term for smoking marijuana.
Half Baked hit US theaters on January 16, 1998, grossing $7,722,540 in its opening weekend (#6; #1 at that weekend was Titanic), and grossed in total over $17,000,000. Given the movie's $8,000,000 budget, it can be considered a commercial success as well as a cult favorite.
The film was released on DVD in 1998.
This film is number 81 on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies.
Plot
Thurgood (Chappelle) and his friends Brian (Breuer) and Scarface (Diaz) are forced into selling marijuana under the name "Mr. Nice Guy," in order to bail their friend Kenny (Williams) out of jail. Mr. Nice Guy becomes immensely popular, even attracting famous clientele. However, Thurgood's personal life is ruined once his adamantly anti-drug girlfriend, Mary Jane, discovers who Mr. Nice Guy really is. Soon, all of their lives are in danger once Samson, a local drug dealer, learns that Mr. Nice Guy is costing him business.
Trivia
- On Inside the Actors Studio in 2006, Chappelle lamented that his original Half Baked script was actually much better than the film turned out to be, specifically that he had intended for the film to be more adult-oriented. In his words "They made a weed movie for kids!"
- Much of the movie was shot in Toronto, Canada. Some shooting locations included the R.C. Harris Filtration Plant and Yonge Street.
- Despite the movie's positive success at the American Box-Office, Half-baked was never shown in Australian cinemas, most likely because of the movie's indiscreet drug topic. The film however did make it to video, and then eventually to television.
- In the scene where Kenny is in jail talking to his reflection on a mirror so as to calm himself down and remind himself that he is neither a homosexual nor a fish, he calls himself a "Homo Erectus," when he is actually a Homo Sapiens.
- Jon Stewart's role as the enhancement smoker pre-dated his success on The Daily Show and offers a comic contrast to his television newspersonality.
- Likewise, Bob Saget has a cameo as a reformed cocaine user where he shocked many fans of Full House with his infamous "I used to suck dick for coke" line. Most fans of his sitcom work were not aware that Saget's standup act was just as raunchy, if not moreso.
- The soap gag is parodied in the controversial series The Boondocks.
Memorable Lines
Coke Addict - "I used to suck dick for coke!"Black Addict - "I seen him!"
Coke Addict - "You ever suck some dick for marijuana?"
Black Addict - "Huh?"
Thurgood - "Uh, no... no, I haven't."
Coke Addict - "I didn't think so."
Black Addict - "Boo this man! BOOOOOO!"
Scarface - "Hey yo, I'm Cuban, B!"
Samson - "Yes Cuban-B"
Thurgood - "Hello?"
Samson - "Well did you get my message?"
Thurgood (in disguised voice) - "Operator, emergency breakthrough from your sister. (different voice) Samson, it's Sheela, Momma fell . . . "
Samson - "Shut up bitch!"
Scarface - "You son of a bitch I'm right behind you! Turn around and ask me for a heffer with cheese, yo! Why you gotta make me feel inferior 'cause I'm on the grill, B?"
Thurgood - "Four years just fo' weed? DAMN!"
Thurgood - "I never thought I'd say this to anyone, but you two smoke ENTIRELY too much reefer."
Thurgood - "So what are you here for?"
Mary Jane - "Possession of narcotics. My father's a drug dealer."
Thurgood - "That must've been the shit!"
Mary Jane - "Drugs ruined his life."
Thurgood - "That must've been shitty."
Enhancement Smoker - "Did you ever see the back of a twenty dollar bill, man?"
Scarface - "Man, I don't know, yo"
Enhancement Smoker - "Did you ever see the back of a twenty dollar bill . . . on weed? Oh, there's some weird shit in there, man. There's a dude sittin' in the bushes, man, does he have a gun? I DON'T KNOW, MAN, I DON'T KNOW! What, what? Red team, go, red team, go! It's just some weird shit, man!"
Scarface - "Man, you're fuckin' crazy, yo"
Kenny (to horse) - "Hey girl, you hungry?"
Overweight Woman - "Fuck you, nigga!"
Cop - "This horse is a diabetic!"
Brian - "Well how hard can it be, I mean there's gotta be forms layin' around. I mean they are scientists"
Thurgood (with a mouthfull of food) - What the fuck are you talking about?
Kenny - "You guys believe in angels, er . . .?"
Nasty Nate - "Man give me your fruit cocktail."
Kenny - ". . . Well I can't 'cause then I'd have to give it to you every day, and I wouldn't get my vitamins."
Nasty Nate (standing up) - "Do you know who you're dealing with?"
Squirrel Master (out of nowhere) - "Chill Nasty Nate, he's my bitch. Anybodys' gonna stab him, it's gonna be me. You got a problem with that? (karate stance)"
Nasty Nate - "You better watch your back Fish, 'cause Squirrel Master ain't gonna be there for you all the time. And the next time I come for you, I'm gonna want some cocktail, FRUIT"
Kenny - "Take it! . . . (walks away) . . . I'm somebody's bitch!"
Recovering Drug Addict 1 - "You in here for some marijuana? Marijuana? Man, this is some bullshit!
Recovering Drug Addict 2 (Bob Saget) - "Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke.
Recovering Drug Addict 1 - "I seen him!"
Recovering Drug Addict 2 - "Now that's an addiction, man. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?"
Scarface (pointing at people in succession)- "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you. I'm out."
Kenny - "No. NO. NO! Devil man! Devil 6-6-6, the mark of the beast! No! Naughty! Naughty jungle of love!"
Kenny (singing into his soap in prison shower) - "I never needed anyone, making love was just for fun, those days are gone, boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, all byyyyy myyyyyyyyyyyyyseeeeelf"
(soap slips out of his hands, Nasty Nate creeps up behind him while bending over to pick it up)
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Squirrel Master - "What did I tell you Nate, hmm? Come on, come on, come on, come on Nate"
(Squirrel Master and Nasty Nate clash)
Thurgood - (narrating) "We had to stay vigilant, Kenny's butthole was in constant jeopardy"
Brian (after being fired from the record store) - "Don't worry, don't worry! I'm not gonna do what everyone thinks I'm gonna do and FLIP OUT man! All I wanna know is, who's comin' with me? Who's comin' with me, man?"
Jan - "I will"
Brian - "Jan, thank you, Jan! Yeah"
Jan - "Ah ha"
Brian - "Jan, will you be my girlfriend?"
Jan - "I would, but I'm gay, yeah, I'm a big dyke"
Brian - "Really, what's that like?"
Mechanic - "Hey man, we're out of papers"
MacGuyver Smoker - "Alright then, get me a toilet paper roll, a corkscrew and some tin foil"
Mechanic - "We don't have a corkscrew"
MacGuyver Smoker - "Alright, then get me an avocado, an icepick and my snorkel, trust me bro, I've made bongs with less, hurry up!"
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