Daily Dabble: The Stoner’s Holy Trinity of Movies – Half Baked, The Wall, and Friday

“When your weed playlist accidentally summons Craig, Smokey, and Roger Waters to the same smoke session.” 😵‍💨💨 — Half Baked on Friday… behind The Wall.

Let’s be clear about something up front: not every movie is a stoner movie. Just because you’re high while watching doesn’t mean it becomes sacred. A real stoner movie isn’t just about vibes — it’s about truth, absurdity, mind expansion, and sometimes watching a guy quit his job mid-shift by cussing out everyone in the fast-food drive-thru.

So today, I bring you the Holy Trinity. The sacred three. The baked Mount Rushmore of cinema — except with more weed and less patriarchy. I’m talking about Half Baked, The Wall, and Friday. Three radically different films that hit harder than a gravity bong and linger in your head like the last puff of that perfect J. Whether you're couch-locked on a Wednesday night or melting into your beanbag on a Saturday morning, these are the films that guide, enlighten, and entertain the highest among us.

Half Baked — The Gospel According to Thurgood

There are stoner movies, and then there’s Half Baked. If Citizen Kane is cinema’s gold standard, then Half Baked is the gold-plated blunt you smoke while watching it ironically. It’s the weed comedy that somehow made being broke, irresponsible, and high 24/7 look both tragic and absolutely legendary.

Let’s start with the squad: Thurgood, Scarface, Brian, and poor Kenny — the man arrested for killing a diabetic police horse. These guys aren’t just characters — they’re archetypes. They represent every type of stoner in your friend group.

From the second Thurgood starts narrating like he’s reading out of a Holy Book of Blunts, you know you’re in for something different. The jokes are dumb. The plot is thinner than rolling paper. But somehow, it works. Deep inside the goofball gags is a sincere love letter to weed, friendship, and loyalty.

Sir Smokes-a-Lot. The quitting-your-job fantasy. The Mr. Nice Guy weed delivery montage. Half Baked is the first time I saw my inner weedhead reflected back at me — not as a joke, but as a lovable idiot with a heart.

It taught me that you can blaze and still care deeply about your people. That it’s okay to dream high and aim low — as long as you’re laughing the whole damn way.

Pink Floyd – The Wall — A Psychedelic Brain Melt

If Half Baked is the party, The Wall is what happens after the party when you're alone, spinning, and every lyric sounds like it’s talking directly to your soul.

The Wall isn’t a movie. It’s an experience. A cosmic, gut-punching, reality-bending sensory trip wrapped in animation, trauma, and guitar solos that could break your consciousness. You don’t watch The Wall. You survive it.

No dialogue. No traditional characters. Just Roger Waters' emotional exorcism rendered in haunting visuals. School systems literally chew up children. Animated flowers do unspeakable things to each other. Your sense of time slips like ash off the end of a joint.

The first time I watched it, I had to pause midway through and stare at a lava lamp for 25 minutes just to reset my emotional RAM. I came out the other side cracked open but somehow healed. Like my brain went through TSA, got flagged, and came back lighter.

The Wall is mandatory viewing for stoners who crave something deeper than giggles — the ones who want to go full soul spelunking. You watch it once and never forget it. Even if you kinda wish you could.

Friday — Weed, Wisdom, and Neighborhood Shenanigans

Now let’s get back to Earth. Friday is the chillest masterpiece ever filmed on a front porch. Ice Cube and Chris Tucker are the duo we didn’t deserve but desperately needed. And Smokey? Smokey is chaos wrapped in cotton candy and laced with loud.

This movie is more than just stoner comedy. It’s broke-life brilliance. Real neighborhood energy. Weed isn't the plot — it’s just woven into the fabric of real life. That’s what makes it so legendary.

From “You got knocked the f*ck out!” to “How you get fired on your day off?” Friday delivers quote after quote, scene after scene, but always underpinned by something real: loyalty, pride, struggle, joy.

Smokey’s high. Craig’s stressed. Deebo’s lurking. But through it all, there's community, humor, and the kind of backyard wisdom that hits harder than anything in a TED Talk.

It’s about holding down your block, checking your pride, and fighting for your peace — all while passing the joint.

Final Puff — Crowning the Ultimate Stoner Movie Champion

So why these three? Why Half Baked, The Wall, and Friday? Because together, they form the ultimate trifecta of the stoner experience:

Half Baked gives you the joy, the stupidity, and the spiritual glow of friendship baked to perfection.
The Wall breaks your brain open, pours glitter into your soul, and demands introspection.
Friday keeps it grounded. It’s funny, real, and as wise as it is weed-soaked.

But if we’re handing out trophies here… only one can walk away with the golden lighter.

And it’s gotta be Half Baked.

Because no other movie captured the spirit of being broke, high, weirdly optimistic, and deeply loyal quite like it. It didn’t just make weed funny — it made it relatable. Iconic. Mythical. It gave us Sir Smokes-a-Lot, Mr. Nice Guy, the most legendary quitting scene in cinema, and a talking dog named Killer. Come on.

Half Baked walked so every stoner film that followed could roll with it.

All hail the king. Long live the blunt. And may your microwave never judge you again.

—Bud D. Lite 🛋️🎬💨