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Witness the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is sweeping America [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236 online.] Don't do drugs, kids!
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* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]]
* [[An Aesop]]: [[Drugs Are Bad]].
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** Hell, this had a gag ''colorization'': Clown color pot smoke.
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: "We educators can't do anything until the public is sufficiently '''aroused'''."
* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: {{spoiler|Even though none of the characters are medically qualified, they all know that Mary is dead right away.}}
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in
* [[Irony]]: It's a good stoner flick.
* [[The Judge]]: Of the gruff older white man sort.
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* [[Nerf Arm]]: seriously, someone was killed with a ''curtain rod''?
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: The District Attorney.
* [[
* [[Shout Out]]: The newspaper showing Bill's verdict also has a headline about [[Dick Tracy]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: ''Very much'' on the shiny side, especially considering the producers' intent. The aforementioned nicest drug hangout in cinematic history and new car and all the young drug users are well- (and one would presume by 1936 standards fashionably-) dressed.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Averted. This was one of the first attempts (if not ''the'' first) at making smoking look ''uncool'', and viewers might have a hard time believing they didn't set the studio on fire... Using "joints" which look ''exactly'' like factory-produced cigarettes is a contributing factor.
** The message is [[Broken Aesop|slightly warped]], however, when we see an actual cigarette ad in the background, probably not for purposes of dramatic irony so much as [[No Budget|the use of unaltered locations as sets]].
*
* [[The Stoner]]: Averted - ''No one'' in this movie behaves like a real-life stoner.
** Whatever they're smoking is some kind of powerful stimulant. [[You Fail Biology Forever|It certainly isn't pot.]]
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: In the stage show, {{spoiler|Mae's}} summoning of FDR is laughed off under [[Rule of Funny]] as 'It's a funny story,' and dropped. In the movie, FDR is established as being in town earlier and even contains a sequence of her fighting through his guards to talk to him.
* [[An Aesop]]: Lampshaded in the anti-marijuana aesop, but played straight with the musical's actual point about censorship.
* [[Arson, Murder and Jaywalking]]: "''My innocence ravaged! / My virtue devoured! / I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!''"
* [[Bastard Girlfriend]]: {{spoiler|Mary}}, under the influence of reefer.
* [[Black Comedy]]: A lot of humor is gotten out of drug addiction, infedelity, rape, murder, and cannibalism.
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* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: "The Brownie Song" in the film.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]: Mary seems to be singing about something else during "Lonely Pew."
* [[Double Standard Rape Female On Male]]: Averted. While it's played as comedy, it's shown to be clearly not "okay," although to be fair if it WAS reversed, it would be a huge case of [[Dude, Not Funny]]. Also, the scene role reverses that of the original 1936 version; in the musical, Mary tries to rape Ralph when she gets stoned, instead of the other way around.
** It's really more like he was trying to take advantage of her and got way more than he bargained for. You might say they tried to rape each other.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Jimmy and {{spoiler|Mary}}...after one puff of marijuana.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Jimmy during the final song.}}
* [[Hey,
** And Mary is [[Veronica Mars]]
** Not to mention the fact that Ralph is ''[[Tales
* [[Humble Goal]]:
{{quote| I've taken a life,<br />
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** The Chinese in the movie are also suggested to be this.
* [[Jesus Was Way Cool]]: Even though he supports the anti-marijuana stance that the musical parodies, Jesus makes up for it with an awesome song, a [[Walking Shirtless Scene]], and a troupe of sexy, angelic backup singers.
* [[Leaning
{{quote| Mary Lane, Oh, Mary Lane<br />
Will help you sing a new refrain. }}
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* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: A most triumphant example, as some changes made for the movie, like Dead Old Man being replaced by Mary Jane/Mary Lane and The Truth replacing the reprise of Reefer Madness, were so popular that most stage productions now include those changes.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]
* [[Shout Out]]: [[Annie
* [[Triumphant Reprise]]: May's reprise of "The Stuff."
** In the stage version Jesus reprises "Listen to Jesus, Jimmy" at {{spoiler|Jimmy's execution}} to mock him for not listening to him.
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