This remnant will be replaced soon. The FAQ is back, with a new design! Am I crazy, or is the number 420 everywere? Many songs are around 4 minutes 20 seconds long (since many songs fall between 2:30 and 5:30), including for example the "Charlie Brown Theme" (by Vince Guaraldi Trio), Pink Floyd's "A Great Day for Freedom" (on The Division Bell, 1994), the Foo Fighters' "My Hero", and "Smokin'" from Boston's first album. 4:20 marks the first downbeat of the drums in Led Zeppelin's epic "Stairway to Heaven." (Dan Harris) Douglas Adams wrote that the number 42 is the answer to "Life, the Universe, and everything" in the The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. The number is followed by a picture of Earth (which was destroyed in the beginning of the story), thus looking like 420. (David Waller) In the first fifteen pages of Karel Capek's novel War with the Newts, a man diving under water stayed down for four minutes and twenty seconds. (Garstka 1/6/00) "There have been 420 references on The Simpsons. In the re-run episode aired on April 20th, 1999 at a special time (probably in honor of those college students staying in the holiday spirit ;-), Homer mentions to Flanders that Barney's birthday is April 20th. Also, the jackpot sign in one part of the casino says $420,000. There are a couple less concrete ones, but these two have to be legit, especially since they decided to air THAT particular episode on 4/20/99." (Matt Meehan 4/21/99) Shirts with the number 420 on the red-and-blue interstate highway shield (Interstate 420?) have show up on the sitcom Will and Grace (Paul Risenhoover 5/14/99) and in several videos. The final score of the football game in the movie Fast Times at Ridgement High was 42-0. Reportedly, all of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. MTV's 1997 Viewer's Choice Award (for the MTV Video Awards) was decided by calls to 1-800-420-4MTV. One of the late-97/early-98 "Got Milk" ads featured a character eating cookies without milk and then passing a sign that reads "Next Rest Area 420 miles" (Ross Bruning). By May of 1998, the number was appearing in so many ads (eg Copenhagen 5/14/98 Rolling Stone p54, Corvette p55 5/98 Car & Driver) that its presence is presumed to be intentional. (As of Fall '99) the 60 free minutes that Working Assets Long Distance offers, at the 7 cents per minute rate, is $4.20 free. If you pay 6% tax on four items from the 99-cent menu of any fast food restaruant, the total is $4.20. (CycDaWg@aol.com) UPS' labelling software has a "420 postal code" legend for next-day/2-day deliveries (which is how Phish tickets are sent). (Jack Lebowitz 10/3/98) There's a Club 420 concerned with the boat of the same name. At the suggested retail price ($3.96) and Michigan (6%) sales tax, a deck of Uno cards costs $4.20. Nic Boris Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, macabely "celebrated" (or at least referenced) via the Columbine High School shootings. The bill authorizing force after the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11/01 passed 420 to 1, and news reports in following months noted many times that there are (or were then, anyway) 420 airports in the U.S. (Allan Morris, 8/02) 4 items off the .99 cents menu in any state with 6% sales tax (e.g. PA) comes to total of $4.20. (Laura Pfiefer, 3/03) Available at service stations across Australia, is the Four & Twenty meat pie. (Manus Flanagan, 4/13/03) And, of course, there's a band named 420 and a beer: 420 Pale Ale. "" -- This page last updated June 01, 2009. All contents © 1992-2007 Ellis Godard. All rights reserved.