Poll Suggestion: Addiction!

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These characters are all struggling with substance addiction. Some appear in movies that make fun of addiction, while others portray the darker and more alarming realities of drug use and addiction. Which of these characters, struggling with addiction is the best, whether portrayed in a funny or serious way?

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The character of Jeff Spicolli (I probably spelled that wrong) and his friends from the 1982 film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" are all stoners/potheads. Jeff is played by Sean Penn and one of his friends is played by a very young Nicolas Cage and another by Eric Stoltz. The movie is a comedy, at least where the scenes with Spicolli are concerned. In one scene, they are famously seen crawling out of a van with smoke billowing out from it. Here is a picture from the movie of him and some of his friends: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/mediaviewer/rm3723150337/?ref_=ttmi_mi_45_2

In the film "Go Ask Alice" from 1973 (based on the hugely best selling book of the seventies and eighties of the same name), Alice is a teenage addict. She does die in the end from her addiction from an overdose. The movie became a cautionary tale that was shown repeatedly in anti-drug campaigns. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068644/mediaviewer/rm2003911937/?ref_=ttmi_mi_2_2

Wayne and Garth, from the "Wayne's World" films, are generally considered to be potheads/stoners, but are never actually shown with marijuana. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/mediaviewer/rm619855104/?ref_=tt_ph_3

Beavis and Butthead (from the television show by the same name) are generally considered to be potheads/stoners. I thought the one episode I saw to be incredibly stupid, but never watched more than the first ten minutes. In other words, I don't know if they were actual drug users. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105950/mediaviewer/rm3568772352/?ref_=ttmi_mi_2_2

Cheech and Chong are famous drug users in all of their movies. Just pick one.

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Thank you. Gave the last sug to Gemini:

Beavis and Butthead:

No. Despite looking like they could be, Mike Judge's animated duo are actually not stoners. They are simply dim-witted, hyperactive teenagers obsessed with heavy metal, junk food, and trying to score with girls. Their erratic, chaotic behavior comes from pure teenage absurdity and boredom rather than substance use. In fact, their creator has noted they are too simple-minded to even pull off being actual stoners.

Bill and Ted:

Unofficially/Archetypally, details: While the word "weed" or explicit drug use is never actually shown or mentioned in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), they are the ultimate cinematic embodiment of the "surfer/slacker stoner" archetype. Their speech patterns, laid-back worldview, perpetual optimism ("Be excellent to each other"), and spacey demeanor led audiences to strongly associate them with stoner culture, even though they are just famously ditzy music fans.

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Wayne and Garth:

No, Wayne and Garth are not depicted as stoners.

While Wayne's World is sometimes loosely grouped into the broader "slackerculture" or "comedy duo" genre alongside movies like Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar do not use drugs or smoke marijuana in the films or original Saturday Night Live sketches. In fact, their humor is notoriously clean, and their primary obsessions are heavy metal/rock music, television, and hanging out in Wayne's basement.

Their relaxed, eccentric speech patterns and enthusiasm sometimes lead people to compare them to stoner archetypes, but they are strictly portrayed as sober suburban music fans.

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Added half of them.

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