Harold & Kumar
Contrasting ideas and perspectives on life, romance, and maturity feature as recurring themes, while the series is notable for its racially diverse main cast.
Harold Lee and Kumar Patel are two Asian-American (Korean and Indian) stoners who get the munchies and embark on a quest throughout New Jersey for White Castle burgers after seeing them advertised on TV.
On their journey, they encounter many obstacles, including a gang of extreme sports punks, a crazed raccoon, a group of Asian nerds, a racist police department, a cheetah that has escaped from a zoo, and an out-of-control Neil Patrick Harris.
The pair run into Vanessa Fanning, Kumar's ex-girlfriend, and her fiancé Colton Graham, another old college buddy who helped Harold with getting a job at Brewster-Keagan, at the airport.
During the plane flight, an elderly woman sees Kumar lighting a hand-crafted smokeless bong, and, thinking it is a bomb, screams "Terrorist!".
Harold and Kumar are detained by Ron Fox, a racist Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, in Washington, D.C., who then sends them to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
They meet with their college friend, Raza, who arranges a car for them to travel to Texas in search of Colton, a member of a family who has connections with political officials.
On their way to Texas, they encounter various people from an inbred trailer home family to the Ku Klux Klan, to Neil Patrick Harris and George W. Bush.
In April 2009, actor Kal Penn accepted the position of Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison in the Obama administration; when asked if his new job would mean no more Harold & Kumar films, he said, "That's probably true for now.
In 2014, it was announced that Adult Swim picked up Harold and Kumar: The Animated Series, and this was confirmed by Kal Penn, David Krumholtz, and Jon Hurwitz.
[8] In July 2016, co-star John Cho revealed that he had pitched an idea for a fourth Harold & Kumar and thought there was a chance it might get made.
In an interview with Den of Geek!, Cho stated, "I thought of a really great idea, and I pitched it out to the director when we happened to be having dinner one night.
And I don't know...I think we're gonna get this made.”[9] On November 12, 2021, while doing an Instagram Q&A for his new book, Penn was asked whether a fourth film was happening.
Harold's romantic life centers around John Hughes-like fancies (as is evidenced by his obsession with film classics such as Sixteen Candles).
In Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, it is revealed that he had a girlfriend named Vanessa in college, who introduced him to marijuana and transformed him from an aloof geek into the easy-going stoner he is today.
She is about to marry the shifty, arrogant frat boy Colton Graham (who disapproves of her marijuana habit), but Kumar interrupts the wedding and wins her back by reciting "Square Root of 3," a math themed love poem that he was afraid to show her in college.
After his adventure, Kumar tells Vanessa he has matured and very much wants to raise the baby with her, even offering to return to medical school and give up marijuana.
In a 2008 interview with Ain't It Cool News, Harris revealed that the series' writers were discussing the possibility of a spin-off movie based on his fictional persona.
[11]Andy and Seth are two Jewish friends and neighbors of Harold and Kumar portrayed by Eddie Kaye Thomas and David Krumholtz.
