Friday, September 04, 2009

AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SUCH A GREAT SOLAR POWERED BOAT...

In his adulthood, Eddie was going to fix the economic downturn, solve the energy crisis, and end world hunger. But then Eddie tried crack.

32 comments :

Michael said...

This is why I could never become a scientist. It's all fun and games until they take your pizza away.

library.ninja said...

i actually remember watching this in high school. 8 year old eddie dying from 2 hits of crack really deterred me from drugs and turned me into the fine, upstanding lush i am today.

marahe said...

tough times on wisteria lane

Unknown said...

gawd, yeah, i totally had to watch this in my "life skills" class in the 8th grade. at least it teaches you how to properly smoke a crack pipe, something that's missing from most public school curricula.

Anonymous said...

Seems pot isn't the gateway drug after all!

How did those kids manage to get their hands on such an impressive torch? Not to mention the crack pipe. Or the crack.

Unknown said...

Is that Helloween on the soundtrack- the most popular band amongst today's suburban African-American pre-teens?

Hester said...

How did a bunch of seven year olds get their hands on crack? And how very PC to make the white kid the pusher man.

airport.whiskey said...

To think of all the time I wasted dealing weed in elementary school, when the real money was in crack.

Anonymous said...

i don't remember my parents sounding like that the last time i smoked crack.

Anonymous said...

i think he dropped a hit of acid to help come down from the crack

Mitch said...

I actually do recall eating pizza in prison...

Adam said...

As far as child actors featured on this site go, those kids were pretty good. Is there some sort of award we can give for Eddie's performance? That "no MTV, no little brother stealing your underwear" speech at the end was quite moving.

Marty said...

So, when Eddie was on the phone, was he talking to Whitney Houston? And why does his family eat dinner in the dark?

Anonymous said...

Wow. I totally remember watching that video in middle school...

Nicol3 said...

...is there a reason his dad looks like a spray-painted white guy?

Anonymous said...

At the very beginning, there's this spooky ghost-lady standing to the left behind the kids as they walk down the sidewalk...is she supposed to be the dealer?

Christopher said...

I like the naive parents:

"Surely our little ten year old son isn't spending his five dollar a week allowance on crack!"

You poor naive bastards. You don't deserve to be parents, believing an out of touch fantasy like that.

B. Wags said...

Now whenever I hear "The Ides of March" by Iron Maiden I'll think of Eddie (coincidence?) the patron Saint of Crack.

Benjamin Rangel said...

doesn't make any sense that the white kid would initiate the crack usage. totally backwards.

Anonymous said...

The person who edited this fucked up. He cut out some of the greatest parts of the movie. Like the one where eddie asks if he will become addicted and the white kids says that his brother does it all the time and he is not addicted. they should of just posted the original untouched.

therandomizer said...

How many times have I heard the scientists-first-time-on-drugs story.

Eddie is acting a little weird, he's locked himself in his room and just listens to "White Room" on repeat.

Unknown said...

Does anyone else notice how appropriate it is that the white kid provides the crack?

OriginalDavid said...

that music rocked soooo hard. i want the soundtrack to this.

msmassacre said...

If there's one thing I've learned from the show it's that crack makes you puke. A lot. There should be more puking for a first-timer such as Eddie.

Tipsy McStagger said...

well at least there is plenty of pizza.

Samantha King said...

Eddie's nightly ritual consisted of smoking crack and playing "Zork" on his Commodore 64.

Anonymous said...

I watched this in middle school you guys edited out the funniest parts, like the whole phone conversation and the guy coming in at the end explaining that he had a heart condition or something.

Demimonde Mesila Thraam said...

Oh, it's definitely better for a kid to grow up making NUCLEAR BOMBS than it is for them to grow up to be drug users. See, it's socially acceptable to do things that result in hundreds or thousands of people having to deal with the toxic substances you put into the atmosphere. It's just WRONG WRONG WRONG if the toxic substance is consumed by you alone, and the consequences, for the most part, are yours alone to have to face.

How did we ever manage to end up having such warped priorities and values? Thankfully, here at the end of the double-zero decade, it seems Drug Prohibition has finally started to become unpopular with more than just the drug-using element of the population; its propaganda has become pretty much a universal laughingstock, at this point.

Anonymous said...

...and worst of all, no crack!

Anonymous said...

I really enjoy how his parents are clueless that their son has become a crack addict at age eleven.

Cbalk said...

I actually had to watch this movie in my sixth grade health class. It was a running joke for about the next three years. I totally remember the little crack pipe kid!!!

Anonymous said...

I watched this like 6 years ago in health class. The other day i was smoking weed and somehow thought of this, but i couldnt find it! Finally found it! Does anyone know the name of the original movie?