Was "Harold and Kumar" really as good as it seemed at the time?

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No, I wasn't zonked, but I did see it in a full theater and I was also in need of a good laugh after a stressful few days.

I loved this movie when I saw it, but was it really as good as I remember?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

better. it was better. They rode a cheetah and there was a fat black man with two gay fathers!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. You're right.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

dont forget neil patrick harris, jamie kennedy, the asian party...

― big chaki (chaki), Monday, 27 September 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

its a new jersey film. how can it NOT be good?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the best part was when kumar envisioned his future life married to a bag of weed

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

while drinking this weekend we were trying to remember what type of animal they rode. it all sounds more fucked up when you talk about it than when you watch it.

cutty OTM.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

don't forget that the movie's low point -- "battleshits" -- would have been the top moment in any number of other movies, including "attack of the clones," "door in the floor," "casablanca," "intolerance," "l'atlante," "she's gotta have it," "crouching tiger, hidden dragon," and "romi and michelle's high school reunion."

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but you have to admit making them BRITISH was all the more roffleworthy

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

but couldn't they have paid for a dialect coach for those two girls, or at least used real british people?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

fake over-the-top british is funnier than the real deal

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean shit they rode a fuckin cheetah and you want the british accent used by minor characters to be authentic?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, yes. it annoyed me.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Stay away from Mary Poppins then.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

No, the "British" girls were bad. I have to spend all day listening to fake British accents as for some reason people seem happy to mimic the things I am saying in the style of a faux-Dickensian urchin. maybe I should start speaking in a hugely over-pronounced "southern" drawl?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Stay away from Mary Poppins then.

i have no plans to the contrary.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i read this as "harold and maude." which harold film was better?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

they are practically the same film.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but didn't Maude ride a snow leopard?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

GAH WHY DID I NOT SEE THIS MOVIE WHEN IT CAME OUT? AHGHHHHHHHH

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

dude this looks like the ultimate stoner rental, i wouldn't get too upset

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT THE CHEETAH WTF WTF OMG I NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE NOW.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

is it out on video yet?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

how about now?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oddly enough I haven't seen Up In Smoke for some reason and had numerous awesome-sounding scenes described to me last night. I suppose I could just rent that instead.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

ANTHONY YOU HAVE NOT SEEN UP IN SMOKE WHAT WORLD IS THIS?

i recommend NICE DREAMS as well.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I just keep missing it. I haven't intentionally been avoiding it. But last night was the first time someone actually described a scene to me and, damn, I need to see it.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It was better. Let's not about forget Wilson-Philips.

― Pup. E. Dawg (rocknrolldetox), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i kind of thought half baked was a cop out because he stopped smoking weed at the end... FOR A GIRL.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread title makes it sounds as though the film had come out in 1970 or something

― amateur!!st, Monday, 27 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, you should hear my parents imitate an english accent. It's terrible.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that said MY PANTS!!!!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG WHAT IF PANTS HAD AN ENGLISH ACCENT ROFFLE I ALSO HAVE A JOKE ABOUT SHORTS

― amateur!!st, Monday, 27 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahahaha! That post was the funniest film ever!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

This movie was so, so, so, so, SO GODDAMNED MUCH FUNNIER THAN I WOULD'VE EVER EXPECTED.

When they were in the cornfield and Neil Patrick Harris comes cruising by with the topless byatchiz all like getting thr freak on standing up in the sunroof and nobody was driving, a little part of me that still took anything seriously died a little bit inside.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

My roommate laughed a booger ONTO the screen when Kumar went down on the dopesack from like 10 feet away!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"You know the Holocaust? Picture the exact opposite of that."

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My 'settle down beavis' moment:

Kumar: Dad, come on.
Kumar's Father: Daddy is not coming on anything!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahah HELLS YEAH

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and when the guy at Burger Shack was going nuts - cracked me the fuck up

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Shameless pervertalism! Well done.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on Pookie! Let's BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i like neil patrick harris doing coke off an ass

― chakiii, Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

They rode the cheetah!

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Make yourselves at home...kick back, relax, fuck my wife...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Greatest movie ever.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

'am I going deaf or did he just say we could fuck his wife?'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the foursome thing made me throw up a little in my mouth, though

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The Kumar/Ryan Reynolds face-dabbing scene fills me with joy.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

'yeah it was a dick move, okay?'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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similarly, i hope they show that jewish potheads invented rock & roll, instead of chuck berry copping from a middle-class white conversative pin-up kid

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

just a couple, for the memories...

Harold: I want that.
Kumar: What? A Hot Dog Heaven super chili cheese dog?
Harold: No. I want that feeling. The feeling that comes over a man when he gets exactly what he desires.

Harold: Dude, what is the deal with Neil Patrick Harris? Why is he so horny?

ps. jewish potheads totally did invent rock and roll.

― scout (scout), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I finally watched this last night and... ummm... it was very average. I was beginning to think maybe the John Hughes love in it was deliberate, in that it's done very much to a formula with a couple of high spots but an awful lot of tedium, much like the majority of John Hughes' work. Then I thought maybe I was crediting the makers with too much intelligence.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

I had some teenage cousins in from TN the other day, who went with my sister & her fiance to a frat party, after which they shoutingly made their cab driver stop at White Castle, which they had never actually seen one of, but, this being one of their favorite movies, felt it was in their best interest to do so. Those poor boys probably didn't have the kinda morning they were hoping for.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

I got to see this again recently, right after watching Better Luck Tomorrow. Which is one of the first things the extreeeeeme kids yell at Harold! In any case, the unrated-type version of this film is pretty much exactly what the unrated version of any young film has been lately: more boobs. I guess more NPH craziness was too much to hope for.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I just bought the "extreme unrated" version because it was on sale. Haven't watched it yet. My girlfriend saw it and said "uhhhh...."

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

There was a fat black man with two gay fathers!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

They rode the cheetah!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but is it really as good as Ulysses?

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Of course.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I think so too. It really is the movie with everything.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

It's made its way to the movie channels now, it was on starz last night.

Harold and Kumar Go To Amsterdam

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 2 January 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

it was pretty funny the second time I saw it a few weeks ago

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

saw it yesterday. lmao'ed all the way through. the scene with the mental attendant at the burger shack drive in was almost too funny to be true.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

"shotgun anus" STILL makes me die laughing...

― something less threatening (heywood), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

xpost Did you see it on cable? I was at a friend's house (on the Jersey shore, no less) and it came on and we were talking about how stupid and great it is that they drive all the way to New Brunswick and then to Cherry Hill for a White Castle when they live in Hoboken and there's a White Castle in Jersey City (about a 5 minute drive, not to mention accessible by PATH train).

It's also pretty funny that around the "highway" to Cherry Hill there's nothing but woods, and that someone who gives them directions to White Castle says "Just take 33 West to the Turnpike South and you're right there." And also the fact that Maria, from Hoboken, is at a movie theater somewhere in South Central Jersey

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

And did you know that St. Elmo's Fire wasn't really shot in washington DC??? What will these geography hooligans pull next?

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Aw, don't be a party pooper.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

The depiction of Hoboken was spot-on though: parking is too hard to find and douchebags are too easy to find.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I couldn't resist. I noticed the geographical disparities on occasion too (like, yeah, wtf are they driving so far to get to a white castle?), but I mean you can't do coke off a stripper's ass in a moving convertible with the top down either, but I went with that so I figured ridiculous nonsense geography is fair game. Sort of like, yeah, the geography of the car chase in No Way Out makes utterly no sense (he leaves the Pentagon, drives all over the fucking place on highways and bridges that are nowhere near one another, dives into a metro station that doesn't exist, and then arrives at his final destination...Pentagon City???), but at the end of the film I'm expected to believe Kevin Fuckin Costner is a Soviet spy, which is really far more egregious a lie.

xpost haha no comment on Hoboken.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Hahah. My personal favorite geog stunt is in that freestyle/poetry slam movie in which the guy walks out of a slam AT FEZ UNDER TIME CAFE and jogs to the Washington Monument.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

xpost Yeah, I mean we were having a good laugh about it but I wasn't genuinely critical of the film for it -- it was part of the fun.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

whether or not Jewish potheads invented rock and roll would make a good thread.

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Gets better every time

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

OK guys watched it again and I repent.

This shit is hilarious.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Wise man.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I just saw this for the first time. No one quoted the best joke from the movie.

"I know, Super-Extreme Punk # 1... I know."

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

don't forget that the movie's low point -- "battleshits" -- would have been the top moment in any number of other movies, including "attack of the clones," "door in the floor," "casablanca," "intolerance," "l'atlante," "she's gotta have it," "crouching tiger, hidden dragon," and "romi and michelle's high school reunion."

Just thought I'd let that stand there by itself.

― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Still good.

― Jeff, Sunday, 29 July 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I just love the idea of Ingrid Bergman in a scene called "Battleshits"!

― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

ZOMFG, me and my girlfriend went to the New Beverly Cinema in HOLLYWOOD last night for the Ingmar Bergman double feature and after the first movie, my girlfriend was freaking out about some celebrity who was two rows in front of us but that I didn't recognize and then some guy said "excuse me ma'am" and walked over us to sit in the middle of the row and it was the guy who plays Harold from that movie. Then some girl came to sit next to him. That's not the good part though. The good part... is that he was dicking around on his iphone before the movie started.

― freewheel, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

So wait, Freewheel -- first, HI DERE, and second, yer an LA sort?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

raggett.xls

― kv_nol, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

thought it was interesting that for the first 50 mins or so everything that happens in this film is actually quite believable (generously including the Princeton scenes) before actually going nutso - can't remember the exact sequence of events but i think up until Kumar does that wizard surgery on the dying guy (this is before they meet Freakshow and his wife right?) who then chirpily tells them where the White Castle is i thought it was gonna be somewhat more grounded in reality at least at the level of Road Trip. after they leave the hospital and Harold sees that girl going to see Sixteen Candles i was convinced this was part of the same extended improbable dream sequence ha.

― blueski, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I used to go to college with Max, Mr. Raggett, sir. But graduated and am jettisoning to San Francisco soooon. xpost

― freewheel, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

DONT TRUST FREEWHEEL

― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

oh hey man

― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

btw i totally believe that harold is a huge bergman nut

― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Max and his Minions

raggett.xls

IT'S IN MY BRANE NOW

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

not that I like do his bidding stuff. I mean kind of. But not really.

― freewheel, Thursday, 2 August 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/01/25/News/Prof-Kumar.Calls.Class.Into.Session-3168711.shtml

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

hm never knew that "Kal Penn" was a stage name

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of him, House is back on tonight!

― robertwolf8080, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

he kind of looks like a douche teaching in that backwards cap. but, still, love.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

i watched "the namesake" last night on cable tvs. i thoroughly enjoyed it

― dell, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

penn isnt a great actor but i would kick it with him any day of the week

― max, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, that was a good film and he was adequate for the part. Irfan Khan is awesome though.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 14 July 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

I kinda don't think I can wait until this is on Comedy Central constantly.

this is a beautiful world to live in!!! except that they have to cut out kumar giving xtreme guys the finger and going "thank u come again"

― A B C, Sunday, 21 September 2008 02:00 (seventeen years ago)

kal penn is a q t too ~

― A B C, Sunday, 21 September 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

Found Harold & Kumar ADR sheets from when we had to dub for the tv version. 108 lines of profanity replaced. The movie is only 88 minutes 😂 pic.twitter.com/CiQ1N6XqEV
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) June 27, 2017

― j., Wednesday, 28 June 2017 03:17 (eight years ago)

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