When did it become acceptable to glorify cocaine on cable television? In the past 2 weeks, I've watched Comedy Central and on The Kroll Show and Workaholics, they both have shown realistic cocaine scenes with laid out powder lines, straws, mirrors and all. I can't even really think of Weed being as overtly glorified on cable tv, I know shows like That 70's show and others have made innuendos about weed and other drugs but I don't recall any cable shows with such graphic depictions from what I've seen these past couple weeks from Comedy Central.
Workaholics has episodes about weed and psychedelics. One they have to pass a piss test and try to buy a middle school kids piss by bribing him with a porn mag. Another was about them drinking mushroom tea. I guess I have not seen the coke one. I don't even think most of the Kroll show is that funny. The guy is good on the League though.
Haha watching that now.. they also have an acid episode. Idk you see coke on ccops all the time, bbasically a cchannel away. Maybe people just stop givin a fuck. Does this upset you?
Hmm... Maybe it was just coincidence and the fact that I don't watch a ton of tv made it seem more noticeable or something. It doesn't upset me necessarily, more caught off guard. Read what I'm saying in my op, the fact they glorify it is what surprises me. Cocaine shown on Cops is associated with criminal behavior.
showing something is not the same as glorifying it. you could probably argue that workaholics glorifies every kind of bad behavior short of murder, but it's kind of the point of the show that the main characters are pretty much immature dumbasses who use drugs. if the show tried to have a public service "the actions of our characters are bad" message every episode, it wouldn't be funny. and the kroll show episode with it was about how ridiculous cokeheads are (unless there was another one that i haven't seen). and above poster is right, the kroll show is a fucking travesty anyway. the worst thing is that they already picked it up for a second season.
Yea what was interesting was they tried to have a little moral at the end, like aw you guys were such douches on coke that you wanted to cut my hair and mess up our friendship. Their all like yea we were douches, Ill never do coke again, unless you can get some.. "I can make a phone call right now". Then they're like yeeea coke! Idk I think comedy central is just giving the viewers what they want to see. There were probably coke heads like aww why isn't their a coke episode awww.
The cocaine centric tv continued on through the weekend. Not necessarily glorifying it but I saw Scarface on "Got some for me?" Yesterday and some cartoon called Out There on IFC (guess that's not cable tho) talking about it and then today with The Chapelle Show's Rick James episode "Cocaine is a helluva drug" and then finally with Seth Mcfarlin mentioning cocaine in one of his jokes at the Oscars... Strange stuff.
If I remember correctly, the original SNL was the first show to feature cocaine use in skits with blatant/suggestive props . Same with pot smoking. And didn't Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman also have some drug use in the show?? (I know there was off camera usage on both shows) So that would put it about 1977-78 or so. At that time cocaine was well on it's way in it's meteoric rise to prominence as THE glamor drug and attitudes towards it were completely different then, much as attitudes about marijuana are today, very relaxed and it's use was relatively accepted,.....then came Iran/Contra scandal, crack cocaine and Ronny Reagan and that changed the whole persona of cocaine and cocaine users. funny that the attitude change I refer to is exemplified in the opening remark; nothing against you GB, just hit me how the underlying perception of cocaine is almost opposite what it was pre-1980's. Anything before 1975 or so was the standard parsley joint that looked like an epileptic monkey rolled it as Joe Friday examines it while somberly warning of the perils of these insidious drugs.
You've seen the show Weeds before, haven't you? I know it's blatantly spot-on, but I doubt they were smoking tobacco or some other stuff in those bongs. I know some cast members have been elusive about what they were actually smoking and you know the episode with Snoop Dog hitting a bong multiple times it most likely wasn't fake. Breaking Bad also has blatant drug usage, although it doesn't glorify drugs, just the money that can be made selling them LOL. As a matter of a fact a shit ton of shows depict/glorify drug use. It's become another media niche market. I remember one short lived series, Rome, in one scene these teen girls were getting high and one of their mothers comes in the room and sits down and takes a "hit" (they "smoked" it by throwing buds into a censor with hot coals then breathing in the smoke). Mom commented about how much better the hemp from India is then what they try to grow in Italy. What I have noticed in the media is a shift to depicting drugs and their usage more HONESTLY. I can think of different instances in shows/movies where usage of various substances have been shown in a positive favorable manner. I have also seen shows that depict the negative sides of drug usage. Most shows touch on both sides of the fence, just like real life. The entertainment industry has realized that only honest depictions will garner favor with audiences over simplistic and stereotyped depictions of drug use/users. Too many sitting in the audience these days have first hand experience and will call bullshit quickly and loudly over outlandish portrayals that were the norm a few decades ago. Same goes for the people making/acting in these shows.
Yah I've seen Weeds but its on Showtime, I watched nearly 2 seasons of it. Good observations on the reasons why it may be more realistic and glorified.
eh, it's season 3; they have to branch out a bit or it just gets repetitive and boring. maybe you just have cocaine on the brain. every time i have something on my mind, it seems like i'm seeing references to it everywhere, but i'm sure i just notice those references more.
