Here it is...motivation. I need to motivate myself to actually try to sleep. It has been nearly impossible the last few days. I have no clue what is going on. Part of it may be because of one of my cats. Once I turn off the lights she become the devil. A few nights she made her way to the top of my gun cabinet and pushed up the descended ceiling panel and got her head stuck. Now I have put stuff on top of the cabinet and last night she kept knocking it over onto herself. Then she claws under my bed. I looked underneath and she had her claws dug into the box spring and was walking on that. I yell and she runs to a window and starts to claw her way up the curtains. Then my alarm clock goes off she is right in my face. I watch her while I type this and she is laying in front of my amp. I want to turn it on and up to 11 and play a power chord in a power stance. Thankfully I have been getting naps...now that I think of it, I may be turning into a cat because I sleep 20 minutes here and there and can sleep anywhere. Ugh...time for motivation.
You had better be motivated now! One of these takes me back to my days of teaching...you think it is the booty one...no, its the Fuck one. I once was teaching a unit on World War I and I taught the students about Ferdinand Foch(don't know him? look him up). Well the test came and I made the students write essays on their test. This one kid who had spelling problems made me piss my pants, figuratively (hey I'm a teacher so don't expect none of this "literally" bullshit). He wrote about the great Ferdinand Fuck. The whole essay it was Fuck. My favorite line was the last line. "Fuck was good."
I am thinking it is time for the return of me talking with my cock. He's ready to unload...wisdom.
Chokin' and Tokin' was directed by Miguel Arteta and was written by Judd Apatow and Paul Feig.
Plot Summary: When Bill talks about being allergic to peanuts in class, Alan tries to prove he's lying but Bill ends up in the hospital after an allergic reaction. Lindsay smokes weed for the first time.
I don't know how many people would be willing to say they have experienced the Lindsay storyline but then again I'm not most people. So Lindsay wants to know what the big deal is with pot. I found a statistic from a government organization that said at least 69 million Americans have smoked marijuana AT LEAST once in their lifetime. People will probably say I am ignorant but I don't view it as being any worse than tobacco, especially with all the additives that Big Tobacco companies inject into the final product. I mean I have heard people use cigarettes for stimulants much like how some people use speed. I have smoked on an empty stomach and I felt wasted. So how about any of you? Have you smoked pot?
If you had read my posts, you would probably know that I went to two different high schools both of which were located far enough away from my parents home which meant at age 14 I moved out of the house. The first high school I attended closed after my freshman year. At that school I stayed in dorms. That school was so anti-smoking for students but not teachers. My academic counselor would smoke in his office. I had a meeting with him one day and he smoked. One of the tutors(adult supervisors) sniffed me as I walked into the dorm and gave me the third degree. "WHERE WERE YOU? WERE YOU SMOKING?" "No, I had a meeting with Professor(all our teachers were addressed as professor) So and So." "OK, go change your shirt." I kept myself in sports so I wasn't tempted but already in grade school I had indulged in unsavory activities. Anyway some of the best days of my life were at that school. We would go down to one of the train bridges that crossed the Mississippi, smoke a few joints and then dive into the river. Such a blast. My second high school wasn't as much fun because there weren't dorms. I stayed with two different families. The first was actually the principal and his wife but he died a week before school began so the school allowed his wife to continue living in the house until the end of the school year. Well she had no sense of smell so we(two other guys and myself) got away with murder in that house. Then I lived on a horse farm for my last two years of high school. The people there were a little hip to stuff because they had a college age daughter and a son that was two years younger than myself but we still got away with things.
I am just amazed how fast Nick "clears up". From what I gather in the series is that he is a serious pot smoker and then five days after he quits he is a regular jock. I love the trials and tribulations Lindsay faces when trying to roll her own joint. Then Lindsay has a freak out the likes of which I am thankful I have never experienced while smoking pot. Lindsay has to babysit and calls Millie who offers one of my favorite quotes of the series. I'll save that for the end. They have a discussion of theology which I find amusing.
The Bill storyline is great. They have dropped hints at Bill's allergies throughout the previous episodes but this time we go in-depth. I also like how we see how Bill develops a crush on the teacher, Leslie Mann the real-life wife of Judd Apatow. Bill also alienates his friends because of things he says about them in class. I really felt for Bill. The tension that is created in the geeks was supposed to be a storyline in the second season but thanks to NBC we may never know what would have happened. I also felt touched by Alan speaking to Bill in the hospital. Is it true that Alan is tormenting them because he is jealous and wants to be their friend? I doubt it because of the ending.
What to Watch For: Claudia Christian plays Bill's mom. She was somewhat of a object of nerd lust on the old Babylon 5 series. This is the first of her two appearances. We gather that she is a former stripper and that she was quite the partier while she was pregnant with Bill. Sam's mom makes the comment how that they didn't know much about pre-natal care when they were pregnant. It's amazing how health conscious expecting mothers are these days yet to me it seems like there are more food allergies. One school I taught at saw half the students in one class allergic to a variety of foods.
The boy who plays Ronnie, Alexander Gould, would go on to voice Nemo in Finding Nemo and currently he plays the son on ironically a show entitled Weeds.
Watch for the date opportunity for Sam and Neal. Well it wasn't intended that way. In a deleted scene it basically turns into a group outing.
Trivia: Lindsay looks up Marijuana in the encyclopedia at the Johnson's house and finds the entry located almost all the way at the back of the "M" volume. "Marijuana" should be very near the front since the second letter in the word is "A". (There's also only one "M" volume on the shelf so it's not likely that the rest of the M's are in another volume.)
Kate Jackson is seen in the brief clip from Charlie's Angels, and Harold expresses his appreciation for her. However, Jackson left the series after the 1978-79 season. I guess this doesn't really matter since Sam's favorite character is Bosley.
The show was cancelled the day after this episode aired. It was replaced with another episode of Dateline NBC which at the time meant that the show was on 3 times a week. Damn you, Chris Hansen! Paul Feig and Judd Apatow both have expressed their ideas as to why the series got canceled and both point to this episode. They think an NBC exec sat down to watch the episode with his family and there was the heavy drug story and they thought the entire series was like that.
Music: "Smokin'" by Boston; "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen; "Hi-De-Ho" by Blood, Sweat and Tears; "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull; "Little Green Bag" by George Baker; "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" by Mac Davis
Quotes: Nick: What do people do when they're not stoned? Ken: I dunno. Relate to one another?
Mr.Rosso: How dumb do I look? Ken: Do you really wanna know?
Millie: You're high! Lindsay: How could you tell? Millie: I know what high people look like. I went to a Seals and Crofts concert last summer.
Well, here's the episode. It's sad to think that we only have 5 more left so ENJOY!
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