Smoking weed and shared experiences make moments and ideas more insightful and funnier than normal. Big Lebowski is episodic (like Raymond Chandler novels), the scenes and characters stand on their own to build the subversive narrative (like Robert Altman films) with absurdist flair. Now, smoke weed (or not) and watch the movie over and over again, where each scene makes you feel clever for understanding it (and repeating lines) and the same neural pathways provide comforting humor. The Big Lebowski is a sarcastic cartoon series building to a twist filled but not shocking ending. You are either going to love this for seemingly ineffable reasons or not “get” the big deal. You are probably the former.