Light Me Up: Sexy Stoners of TV and FIlm

They're the low-key slackers who end up making it through a madcap adventure, the funny guys with terrible memories and a laid back attitude. The stoner character has a unique place in pop culture, a mix of harmless lethargy, occasional insight and a hunger for snack foods. Here are some of our favorites:

Kal Penn and John Cho, The Harold & Kumar Movies

We got a new odd couple when Harold & Kumar go to White Castle hit theatres, featuring the hard-partying Kumar and the tightly-wound Harold. In addition to playing with Asian-American stereotypes, the Harold and Kumar films also gave us an over-the-top Neil Patrick Harris that made Barney Stinson look like a holdover from the anti-saloon league.

Elijah Wood, Wilfred

Wilfred's Ryan has a lot to deal with in his life. He's just walked away from a career that ate away at his soul. His relationships with his family are unbearable. So it's no wonder he's depressed and hanging out with an imaginary friend in a basement that may not really exist. Still, one has to wonder how Ryan's situation got to be so bad, when his adorable eyes put his canine best friend's puppy dog glances to shame.

Brad Pitt, True Romance

Every so often (a little too often) Brad Pitt takes a role that tries to cover up his pretty boy good looks, and in True Romance, we mostly saw Pitt in a smoke-filled (guess who provided the smoke) room where everything was covered by an old sheet. Still, if Pitt was looking to prove that he could get audiences to remember him in a movie without his costume ending up in different parts of the set, this fog-headed character did it.

James Franco and Seth Rogan, Pineapple Express

Saul and Dale had quite the bromantic adventure in Pineapple Express as they tried to hide from a drug lord and a corrupt cop after witnessing a murder. It's probably a good thing they had to run for their lives. Considering Saul's ability to go off on a philosophical tangent and Dale's many calls to talk radio, if given the time to just talk, the conversation would probably never end.