Dave Sheridan played Officer Doofy in Scary Movie, the bumbling deputy ultimately revealed to be the man behind the Ghostface-style mask. The “Wazzup” face became a cannabis icon somewhere along the way, and 25 years later, now on a PAX vape, Sheridan is still trying to work out how the culture got there first.
Dave Sheridan has spent 25 years watching stoners fall in love with a mask he wore for about a minute of screen time. He played Officer Doofy in the original Scary Movie, the bumbling deputy who turns out, at the very end, to be the killer behind that white grinning ghost face. The role was a bit. The mask was a prop. Nobody on that set was building an icon.
Then the weed world got hold of it. The grinning “Wazzup” face turned up on hoodies, on rolling trays, in dispensary memes, at smoke sessions, until it sat somewhere in the visual vocabulary of stoner culture next to the leaf and the Grateful Dead bears. No brand pushed it there. Fans carried it, one convention photo and one meme at a time, until Sheridan could not go to a cannabis event without seeing his own masked face looking back at him.
Cheri Oteri plays Gail Hailstorm and Dave Sheridan plays Doofy in Scary Movie from Paramount Pictures.
A Second and a Half
The weirdest part is how little time the mask actually gets. It is a blink. Sheridan is not even delivering the “Wazzup” line when the camera catches it. By any normal logic, it should have vanished into the pile of gags that make up a Scary Movie script. Instead, it outlived almost everything around it.
“What’s funny is that the mask is only on screen for about a second and a half in Scary Movie, …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
