History Film / PineappleExpress

** This could be explained in that the cop was looking for any excuse possible to arrest him because her car was the one Dale hit.

* PlotHole: When Dale is being arrested by a liaison officer for selling weed to underage kids, she brings up his record and it contains a hit-and-run committed a couple of days ago. That was when Dale accidentally hit Carol's car while trying to flee after witnessing her and Ted murder one of the Asians. How the hell did that end up being on his record despite him not getting reported and arrested for it?

Dale Denton (Rogen) is a 25-year-old [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts process server]] who, in delivering a subpoena to drug lord Ted Jones (Creator/GaryCole), witnesses a murder perpetrated by Jones and his girlfriend Carol Brazier (Creator/RosiePerez), a corrupt cop. Dale panics and flees the scene, in his haste dropping a roach containing a rare strain of marijuana known as [[TitleDrop Pineapple Express]] -- a strain that Ted knows he has sold only to Dale's dealer. Now, on the run from Ted's people and the cops alike, Dale and his dealer, Saul Silver (Franco), know all too well that this is more than weed-induced paranoia -- everyone apparently is out to get them both.

Dale (Rogen) is a 25-year-old [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts process server]] who, in delivering a subpoena to drug lord Ted Jones (Creator/GaryCole), witnesses a murder perpetrated by Jones and his girlfriend Carol Brazier (Creator/RosiePerez), a corrupt cop. Dale panics and flees the scene, in his haste dropping a roach containing a rare strain of marijuana known as [[TitleDrop Pineapple Express]] -- a strain that Ted knows he has sold only to Dale's dealer. Now, on the run from Ted's people and the cops alike, Dale and his dealer know all too well that this is more than weed-induced paranoia -- everyone apparently is out to get them both.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Both Saul's name and the fact he calls his grandmother "Bubbie" point to this. Red even mentions to Budlovsky and Matheson that Denton "might have been a Jew."

* UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts: Dale's girlfriend Angie has her motel television tuned to a UFC fight in the foreground as they discuss their relationship over the phone.
** Possibly a CallBack of sorts to Amber Heard's role in an earlier film, ''Film/NeverBackDown'', where she plays the love interest of two high school-age (yet [[DawsonCasting much older in real life]]) MMA fighters.

** Though to be fair, Dale just shouting "No, no, no! What are you doing?!" instead of explaining that the cop arresting him wasn't Ted's DirtyCop and was actually going to help them didn't help either.

* MistakenForBadass: In part due to Ted's lack of attention to detail and implied drug use, everything Dale does do after escaping the murder scene is interpreted by Ted as the actions of a top-shelf agent working for the Triads.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: When [[spoiler: Dale takes Pete hostage, Budlofsky shoots Pete himself to save time]].

** Matheson is definitely crazier than Budlofsky, [[spoiler:to the point that he shoots the latter when he says he's done killing people and all he wants to do is go to his home and have dinner with his family]], and then calling him "having gone soft".

-->'''Saul''': Why don't you supersize it, bitch?

-->'''Saul''': Professional on this, bitch!

* UnwantedRescue: Saul hijacking the car of a policewoman who arrested Dale. Problem is, Dale had already explained his situation and Saul won't listen to the fact that she was trying to help Dale.

* AuthorAppeal: A plot centered around weed? In ''this'' Seth Rogen movie?

* AluminumChristmasTrees: There does exist an actual marijuana strain called Pineapple Express.