I stumbled upon Fox’s sitcom, The War at Home tonight. Fox is generally known as a maverick station always pushing the limits. The War at Home is no exception. Tonight’s episode featured the parents trying to figure out if their teenaged daughter was having sex. During the course of the show the issue of sex was dropped, and marijuana use was the topic of discussion for the rest of the show. It seems that the father had a pot stash which turned up missing. The rest of the show involved showing the younger teenaged son buying pot and the other two teenaged kids implying they had smoked pot. The mother ended up finding pot in her son’s room, but wasn’t shown disciplining her son. Instead the next scene showed the parents saying “You’re sure you flushed the pot?” At the end of the episode the grandmother is shown smoking pot which garnered the biggest laugh of the whole show.
Since when is drug use funny? The show touched upon how pot will lead to much harder drugs, but the main line of the story was that pot use was funny.
I can remember watching 9 to 5 as an afternoon movie, with the pot smoking scene completely cut out. Many times it still is cut out today. Yet Fox thinks that pot use is not only acceptable to air on Sunday night (when most families are watching), it also makes a point to tell America that pot use is hilarious.