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Just putting it out there - I don't consider the New LA Cast Recording version of The Stuff to be canon

Yes, this means I'll have to change my header

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"Well, you heard wrong!"

It would have been more believable had she not been gingerly holding the side of her face, Jack having just stormed out of the house as though Mae was the one at fault. She supposed she was.

Despite how frequently it happened, she still found herself being surprised when Jack hit her. Currently she was more shocked that she had angered her boyfriend enough to the point of him not caring who overheard their lovers' scuffle. Usually Jack kept up the charming façade (and made sure Mae kept her mouth shut) around prospective clientele.

Not that Mae would let Austin anywhere near a reefer stick.

She and Jack had already made a college kid rely on the unspeakable scourge of the stuff, she didn't need a high school student following in Ralph's footsteps.

She didn't need to repeat her own history.

"Of course, it's a small town and... people talk..."

Mae glanced away then turned her attention back to her guest. Her sober guest, who would surely ask far more questions than any reefer smoker. She forced a wide grin onto her face.

"Just fell, that's all!"

She'd said that phrase frequently enough for it to almost ring true.

OPEN.

he pauses, quickly realizing that he wasn’t supposed to hear that. they had been talking at a normal volume in the other room when they mentioned it. shit. “uh…. just… heard it through the grape vine?”

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A really good Mae +

A really good Mae and Sally, drawn by the wonderful @hark-art

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I thought the Madame Bovary character was made up and purely put in there to rhyme with "ovary" until I Googled

Well done, Dan and Kevin

AND THE KEY CHANGE

so glad I'm not the only one that's like du nu nu du nu nu nu nu du nu nu nu nu du nu nu nu nu

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Aggressively signing THE WEED MADE HIM HUNGRY FOR HUMAN FLESH

One of the best things I ever saw was Reefer Madness: The Musical, put on by a theater group in Berkeley, and what made it truly amazing was the interpreter for the deaf.

If you haven't seen a sign interpreter doing their thing to music, you have missed out. I don't remember much about the musical, but I will never forget the interpreter.

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AND THE KEY CHANGE

so glad I'm not the only one that's like du nu nu du nu nu nu nu du nu nu nu nu du nu nu nu nu

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I had to Google what that meant but you are 100% right

Also Alan Cumming

People like to add an 's' for some reason

He produced Adelaide's Cabaret Festival last year (when I was busy with school so I couldn't have seen his performance [if he had one, I don't know]), they had a giant portrait of him in the hallway

He didn't produce it this year though 😔

Ok so so so so guessing reefer madness is brechtian right? Singing, dancing, forth wall broken by Mae and the guy played by Alan Cummings or whatever his name is, plus in the stage versions they use placards. Am I right? If I'm right can I have a gold star cos like I take drama and my grades are slipping so if I'm right about this I'll be happy with myself.

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♪ Reefer Madness • Tell ‘Em The Truth ♪

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Tonight, Jimmy “The Cannabis Killer” Harper walks the last mile to the electric chair, convicted of murder while under the influence of the new drug menace: marijuana!

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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)

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Ah, yes. Friends.

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I think about this a lot too.

Putting my thoughts under a read more, since there will be mentions of triggering topics and real-life implications.

There's a comical aspect to Mae's very clear distress being taken as more of an inconvenience, but it's also incredibly sad and kind of disturbing that society hasn't changed that much when it comes to things like this.

First up, you have to know that someone's in an abusive relationship and/or that they've been sexually assaulted, and that's not the kind of thing that comes up in everyday conversation.

And even if you really want to help people in abusive relationships and people who've experienced sexual assault, it's a bit unclear as to how this can be done. And then there's all the emotional factors that come with trauma - there's a possibility of the person who has been or is being abused believing that (for whatever reasons) things weren't/aren't that bad, it was an act of love, they were/are being treated poorly for a reason, they'd be in more danger of they were single or if they admitted to how bad things were/are, etc.

Mae would be very upset to know that sexual assault and domestic abuse is still happening in "the future".

We also have to consider that Reefer Madness: The Movie-Musical is set in the 1930s, and (while I'm not certain about boyfriend/girlfriend relationships) back then, people kind of assumed that a married woman would provide her husband with sex regardless of whether she actually wanted. So, I don't know if sexual assault was properly acknowledged as a horrific act, if people even acknowledged it at all.

So yeah, the people outside Mae's house are ignorant, understandably stunned, and maybe believing that she's suffering from "female hysteria" or that she's simply being dramatic.

I mean, I probably wouldn't know how to react if I heard some woman sing-scream "rapes me" out her window. And afterwards, Mae gets embarrassed and returns to singing softly as though nothing happened. Like, by the time the people outside had the chance to fully register what just happened, Mae was gone.

But you're right, something could have and should have been done. Especially by the cop sitting on the car bumper right next to the reefer den. I think about him a lot.

So here's something I think about a lot (quick tw for mention of SA).

In reefer madness, mae literally screams that jack rapes her out the window and CLEARLY everyone hears cos they all stare at her yet nobody actually goes to the house or offers her help. Are people just that ignorant?

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As a Mae Coleman roleplayer, I'd like to add:

You'll actually understand wtf I'm on about

here’s some reasons to watch the reefer madness musical film

it takes the piss out of an actual anti-drug propaganda film so the overall plot and several scenes are pretty much no exaggeration and that’s HILARIOUS

ALAN CUMMING! AS OUR OMNIPRESENT NARRATOR! WARNING US AWAY FROM WEED WHILE ALSO PLAYING A SAYTR IN A SONG ABOUT IT

animated love song to a brownie

joan of arc introducing buff jesus’s musical number

don’t do a weed or you’ll hallucinate orgies and turn into a dominatrix???

actually great music? very catchy. Well performed. Kevin Murphy wrote it so if you like the sense of humour in Heathers you’ll like this! (also take this as a content warning lyrically)

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Dancing in Film: The kaleidoscopic top shot (made popular by Busby Berkeley)

42nd Street (1933) dir. Lloyd Bacon Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen Beauty and the Beast (1991) dir. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise The Lion King (1994) dir. Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Reefer Madness (2005) dir. Andy Flickman Mamma Mia! (2008) dir. Phyllida Lloyd Hail, Caesar! (2015) dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Paddington 2 (2017) dir. Paul King Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) dir. Ol Parker

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I feel like we don't appreciate how Sally's severed head was done in the film (in this screencap, there are quite a few variations of Sally's severed head)

And maybe that's 'cause few people know (and also because you're not meant to think about it)

Because I didn't know until I read the IMDB Trivia page ages ago, and it makes me appreciate the entire movie-musical cast and crew so much more

Putting this under a read-more because it's LONG

The house where they filmed the reefer den (or maybe just the outside of the reefer den, there's probably like four different shooting locations [pun unintended] for the reefer den) had a swimming pool

They covered the swimming pool with dirt, made it look like a garden, and that's how the zombies come out of the ground AND (IMDB didn't confirm but I'm fairly confident that's how they did this) how Sally's severed head is able to move and talk in this scene

So, kudos to Amy Spanger for standing in an empty swimming pool and being buried up to her neck in dirt

ALSO kudos to Amy Spanger for having to do take after take tilting her head Like That

(Erin Matthews didn't do it when she was Sally [no hate, ily Erin, just making an observation], so I'm guessing it wasn't a requirement, Amy just Did That for us... And, y'know, to make the scene more realistic and funny... But mostly for us)

Whenever I watch Murder, my neck hurts just looking at the way Amy has to walk as Sally holding her severed head in place

FINAL KUDOS to all the actors who played the zombies

Every single one of you was brilliant, and Murder and Reefer Madness wouldn't have been the same without you lot in the background

I hope y'all had as much fun playing your characters as I have watching your characters and wondering how their life was before they became addicted to the violent narcotic

Idk how much of those actors were covered in dirt, but I think being covered in any amount of dirt on any part of your body would feel pretty icky

When I wear thongs - sorry, flip-flops for you Americans - I get a small amount of dirt on my foot and am like:

GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME

I lied, kudos to everyone in Reefer Madness: The Movie-Musical who had to be covered in dirt

And fake blood, I imagine that (depending on type) some fake bloods would feel pretty icky as well

And kudos to actors in general, you guys are amazing, idk how you do your job, but

(Gordon Ramsay voice)

You amaze me every time

“Eraserhead” David Lynch - 1977 

“The Amazing Maleen" The X-Files Thomas J. Wright - 2000

“Reefer Madness” Andy Fickman- 2005