By Robert Scucci | Published
Bill and Ted, Cheech and Chong, Beavis and Butthead, Harold and Kumar, and any character played by Seth Rogen generally defines the comedy of Stoner, but the story of the funniest Stoner of all time could really belong to Brewing. The “high holidays” of season 11 are an unexpected masterclass to obtain a corrugated sauce, and it is fueled by chemistry on a flawless screen between Niles Crane by David Hyde Pierce and Marty Crane by John Mahoney. This hidden gem of an episode walks gloriously in weeds while keeping a foot planted in reality, and has not been reproduced since.
It’s true, the funniest duo Stoner that I have never had the pleasure of seeing in all the media is Niles and Marty Crane.
High Holidays has the perfect configuration
“High Holidays” has a simple premise which is executed to perfection: Niles, stung by the claim of his father according to which he has always been the “good child”, decides that it is time to rebel. His plan? Buy a pot in a pot in Roz and ingest “Ganja in its purest form” during a quiet evening with Marty at Frasier.
When the temptation strikes, Marty – a retired cop who has never touched marijuana in his life – caves on her diet, eats brownie and exchange with a stand -in Nervosa coffee. An insioning of the switch, Niles takes small “doses” measured from the replacement, convinced that he is about to modify his mind. Meanwhile, Frasier finds himself the only sober observer (if Sherry does not count) of the chaos which is about to take place in his apartment.
I guess Niles is actually sober too, but the placebo effect is in full swing. If not, why would he get so dangerously closer to the top of his Bette to the card?
Why the comedy Stoner works to brew
By connecting classic stoner comedy tropes in the world of Sink“High Holidays” returns the script. We do not look at a pair of adorable bullets that wake up and cook every day go through movements; We look at Niles, a man who takes meticulous notes on what to do if it becomes “too crisp”. Preparing for the cravings with a Chilean bar associated with an aggressive zinfandel, he has no idea that Marty is about to burst after the Reefer has already seized.
Marty, perfectly unconscious, it is he who is actually too crisp, stumbling in the browning apartment, unleashing on the way he would like to be a giant for a day because his long walk at home had too many turns, and the giants can pass on the buildings.
Niles confuse the marty buffoonery for his own state probably modified, while Marty is far too distracted to notice that he is soaking barbecue shavings in a chocolate pudding bathtub.
While the night takes place in “High Holidays”, breasting finally rejoices him after spotting his father without a pants and asked where his pants are. Marty responds calmly: “The refrigerator”, then releases a notepad to explain himself with total sincerity to prasier pants: refrigerator.
A comedy based on realistic errors
Enracing his humor in the inherent eccentricities of his characters, Spruce “High holidays” is far from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle’s The culminating point surrealist, with CGI cheeseburgers dancing in a cartoon backdrop which suggests that the use of cannabis launches you in a technical country of Kaleidoscopic confusion. By adopting a more anchored approach, Sink draws his laughs from the way in which an ordinary day takes place through the feeling of erroneous rebellion of Niles and the communication errors that follow.
