24 Pleasant Websites That’ll Put a Smile on Even the Most Serious Doomscroller’s Face

Here’s What Mummies Smell Like

21 Things Movies Get Wrong About War

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia That Will Qualify You for RFK Jr.’s Forced Labor Camps If Ingested

40 Random Bits of Trivia About the Lottery, Gambling and the People Who Risked Everything

Party on the Set! 13 of the Most Plastered Movie Productions Ever

On these 13 infamous movie sets, the party never stopped.

Party on the Set! 13 of the Most Plastered Movie Productions Ever

April 08, 2021

Hollywood is known for excess, but some movie sets take it to a whole new level. Here are 13 productions that are infamous for mind-altering intoxication.

13

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS used fake weed props but ... ... we're talking about Seth Rogan here. When asked if the actors smoked on set, he admitted: I can honestly say that we did. Like, we really did it. Yeah, it's frightening that we even smoked weed. lsn't that weird? — First Showing

12

ANIMAL HOUSE was fat, drunk, and stupid Several cast members crashed a U of Oregon frat party during filming. The frat jocks didn't appreciate Tim Matheson and company stealing their girls, and a massive fight ensued. The Deltas survived, albeit with several bruises and bandages. — Fat, Drunk and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House

11

HELP! was all glazed eyes and giggling Fully-clothed jumps into the pool. Marijuana for breakfast. You can see a lot of red-eyed shots; they were red from the dope we were smoking, admits Ringo. Dick Lester knew that very little would get done after lunch. — Independent

10

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK laughed it up, fuzzball Despite filming the next day, Carrie Fisher couldn't resist an invite from Eric ldle to party all night with the Rolling Stones. I called Harrison and said, 'Get over here! This is ridiculous! The two were still drunk when they arrived on — The Daily Beast

9

Super Mario Bros.

SUPER MARIO BROS were super-buzzed Hoskins and Leguizamo knew early on that Mario would suck, sO they drowned their sorrows in scotch. A drunken Leguizamo hit the gas too hard in the characters' van and Hoskins got his hand smashed in the door. Luigi! It's a-me, Mario's broken finger! — Buzzfeed

8

Easy Rider

EASY RIDER crew members quit the party YAA AOTHERS WELCOM Wiy Clut JEAM T CRACKED.COM They just couldn't take Dennis Hopper's drug-fueled paranoid tirades. Jack Nicholson stuck to pot -- a lot of it. We were all stoned the night we shot the campfire scene, he says. Each time I did — Cheatsheet

7

DAZED AND CONFUSED didn't sign a clean-living pledge The young cast members were put up in an Austin hotel with little adult supervision. There were nights when actors shot guns while high on magic mushrooms. I got so high one time in Jason's room, says Adam Goldberg, I didn't — Los Angeles Magazine

6

CLERKS had to blaze some footage CRACKEDG Thirty minutes of Jay and Silent Bob's final scene had to be cut because Jason Mewes was high as a kite. Mewes was blasted during other scenes and very drunk as usual' when they recorded the DVD commentary. Snoochie boochies. — Film School Rejects

5

CADDYSHACK was a permanent party Cocaine would just materialize on the set, says Chevy Chase. The eagle has landed! writer Doug Kenney would announce. Get your per diems in cash, the dealer's here!' Ted Knight, an actor of a different generation, couldn't appreciate the debauchery. — The Wrap

4

BLUES BROTHERS had a cocaine budget The blow was to get through night shoots, according to Dan Ackroyd. John, he just loved what it did. It sort of brought him alive at night - that superpower feeling where you start to ... figure you can solve all the world's problems. — Vanity Fair

3

Bad Santa

BAD SANTA was also Drunk Santa I've traditionally played really extreme characters, says Billy Bob Thornton. If you're going to play a guy like this, you can't be sort of drunk, you know? And I wasn't sort of drunk. You have to go completely into it. — Entertainment Weekly

2

APOCALYPSE NOW was party heaven CRAGKEDCONT We'd have a hundred beers lined up around the swimming pool, says an assistant. There were people diving off the roofs, it was crazy. Dennis Hopper told Coppola he needed cocaine to play a deranged photographer. The crew was happy to oblige. — Independent

1

SETH ROGAN is baked in every dang movie What are the odds that Rogan is high when you watch him on film? 100%, he confesses. I smoke weed all day, every day of my life. For the last twenty years ...I do actually enjoy weed in my personal life — Cinemablend

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

Trivia & Jokes

20 Ways People Could Tell That A Tourist Was American

Movies & TV

40 Random Bits of Pop-Culture Trivia We Stole From One-Eyed Willy

Movies & TV

A Real-Life Pizza Place Stole Cosmo Kramer’s Idea

Science & History

5 Dogs Humans Have Bred Into Genetic Disasters

Trivia & Jokes

50 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of February 17, 2025

Movies & TV

The 5 Best Sequels We’ll Never Get

VIRAL ON CRACKED

1

25 Distracting Things In Movies And TV Shows

2

21 Things Movies Get Wrong About War

3

Bill Burr Fans Thank His Wife Nia for His Latest Dead-On Diatribe

4

20 Ways People Could Tell That A Tourist Was American

5

Actors Who Got Some Strange Responses From The Public