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• Seth Rogen told the April 25 issue of Rolling Stone that the filmmakers originally wanted a budget of $50 million but was only able to secure $25 million due to the drug-heavy subject matter.
  
  
• Seth Rogen originally wrote the part of Saul Silver for himself to play, it wasn't until the table read that he realized James Franco would be funnier in the role of Saul.
  
  
• During a July 2008 interview with the Orange County Register about Pineapple Express, the interviewer told Seth Rogen and James Franco that he prepared for the interview by watching the classic stoner comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) the night before. When he asked Rogen and Franco if they prepared likewise before making this film, Franco said he prepared by making out with Spicoli (a reference to his having shot Milk (2008/I), in which he and Sean Penn play lovers).
  
  
• The red slurpee Saul spills over the windshield of the cop car was darkened in the trailer after it was discovered that audiences were mistaking it for blood.
  
  
• Seth Rogen was a guest on "The Howard Stern Show" (1990) on August 11, 2008 and he told Howard Stern that he wrote the script in 2001. However since he was still relatively new it wasn't until his performances in The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) and Knocked Up (2007) that the script was approved.
  
  
• Saul's grandmother was not part of the original script. James Franco came up with the part, suggesting that it would be funny for his drug dealer character to have a Bubbie.
  
  
• While filming the scene in which Saul runs into a tree, James Franco became overzealous and actually ran into the tree causing him to get three stitches.
  
  
• Rosie Perez convinced the director, David Gordon Green to cut most of her dialogue out, telling him it would make her character's crooked side more effective.
  
  
• The word "fuck" and its derivatives are said 180 times.
  
  
• Shipped to some theaters under the title "Easy Job".
  
  
• Writer's Trademark: Clark County.
  
  
• The first marijuana-themed comedy to gross over $100 million worldwide.
  
  
• When James Franco smashes the bong over Danny McBride's head, it was supposed to be a fake, break-away bong so Danny McBride could take part in the stunt. However, it was filled with some water and when James Franco actually smashed it, Danny McBride was actually mildly hurt.
  
  
• James Franco's line "It smells like God's Vagina," was actually originally improvised by Seth Rogen. James Franco told him it wasn't funny, then used the line in the next take.
  
  
• When the police liaison looks up Dale's information his birthday is April 14th, 1982 while Seth Rogen's actual birthday is April 15th 1982.
  
  
• The diner scene near the end of the film was not in the script. It was improvised on the spot by Seth Rogen, James Franco and Danny McBride.
  
  
• During filming breaks, James Franco read 17th-century Jacobean dramas.
  
  
• Ted's illegal, subterranean pot-grow house is, ironically enough, the very underground silo from the film's prologue where marijuana was first declared criminal.
  
  
• Producer/writer Judd Apatow says that the inspiration for this film came from watching Brad Pitt's drugged-out character Floyd in True Romance (1993). Kevin Corrigan appears in both films.
  
  
• The Asians depicted in the movie are actually Koreans.
  
  
• At one portion of the movie, while Dale and Saul are driving, Dale asks "Where should we go?", Saul answers "I dunno, hotel, motel, holiday inn?". These words are part of the 1970s hip-hop song Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang.
  
  
• Saul ('James Franco') refers to his "Bubbie" throughout the movie. Bubbie is a Yiddish term of affection meaning "grandmother."
  
  
• As he is handing Dale some guns, Red (Danny McBride says, "Ted Jones messed with the wrong melon farmers." This is a reference to the common network television practice of dubbing over "swear" words with less "objectionable" words or terms that have a similar sound and length - even if the replacement words don't really make sense in the context of the movie. "Melon Farmers" was used most famously as the dub for "Mother F***ers" in the network television version of the Die Hard series of movies (in which lead character John McClane's famous catchphrase, "Yippie-kai-yay, Mother F***ers!," became "Yippie-kai-yay, Melon Farmers!").
  
  
• The photo of the Asian hitman killed by Ted is stuntman Simon Rhee.
  
  
• The police information states that Dale Denton is 5'9, though Seth Rogen himself stands at 5'11.
  
  

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