Cultural influence - The Brownie The brownie was used in the 1968 film, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, in which a character portrayed by Peter Sellers becomes disillusioned with his mainstream life after falling in love with a free spirit, only to become just as disillusioned with the hippie subculture. Marijuana-spiked brownies are a key plot element. The brownie also plays a major role on That 70s Show, where the gang of kids enjoyed them as snacks and as a source of getting high. Especially in the episode Garage Sale, where Red (Kurtwood Smith) eats all of Hydes (Danny Masterson) special brownies and sells his son Erics (Topher Grace) car while under the influence. It has been featured as a plot device in numerous TV shows, including The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Skins, Hall Pass, Grounded for Life, (Henrys Working for the Drug Squad), Arrested Development (Afternoon Delight), Taxi, Laverne & Shirley, Barney Miller, Family Guy, American Dad!, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Glee, That 70s Show, Gilmore Girls, The Young And The Restless, Weeds, The L Word, Degrassi: The Next Generation, My Name is Earl, I Love Keith Allen, 90210, Swingtown, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Bates Motel and Frasier (High Holidays), as well as in movies such as Love and Other Disasters, EuroTrip, Next Friday, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Never Been Kissed, Adventureland, Grandmas Boy, Cant Hardly Wait, Life as We Know It, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Empire Records. The film Smiley Face is based entirely on a woman who consumes a large amount of cannabis cupcakes. In popular music, the most memorable lyric from the song The Mambo Craze by downtempo jazz group De-Phazz mentions Space Cake Break at the Titicaca Lake. Stand-up comedian Bill Bailey performs a riff in his Part Troll live show in which he asks members of the audience for suggestions for foods to place cannabis in. They include shepherds pie, beef stroganoff and just toast. Source: Wilkepedia
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