Last night on the MTV movie awards, Seth Rogen and James Franco, the stars of the upcoming classic stoner's movie,"Pineapple Express", presented a funny award skit. Rogen held up a bag of weed and Franco lit up a joint. Suddenly, the camera view faded out and they started showing people in the crowd, instead of the Mary Jane duo puffing on the spliff.
Predictably, I blamed MTV and Viacom for wussing out and figured Franco/Rogen were in deep trouble. Well, it turns out that it was MTV's idea and they tried to pull the plug at the last minute.
Backstage, Franco told The Associated Press that MTV put them up to the joke, even supplying the script, the fake marijuana and the fake joint — then had a last-second change of heart about the bit.
"MTV wrote it! ... Then backstage there was this big commotion: 'You guys can't say that,'" Franco said. "It says right in the script: 'Lights fake joint.'"
He liked the bit, saying: "that was the joke, because the No. 1 question we get about 'Pineapple Express' is, 'What kind of research did you guys do?'"
Franco said he was disappointed that the cameras went wide.
"I think they killed the joke," he said.
So what was really in the bag?
"I don't know! MTV gave it to us."
When your demographic is 10-16 year olds, I am sure advertisers do not like MTV promoting the ganja but I guess it is OK to promote drunkenness and sex to preteens? So Freaking Lame.
Here is the only video that I could find of the encounter and it is very poor quality.
I would watch it quickly before the evil suits at Viabitch take it down from Youtube.
Here is the extra sticky Pineapple Express trailer.
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