Seth Rogen Getting Stoned and Live-Tweeting CATS Is All of Us Right Now

On Tuesday night, the actor got stoned and made the decision to watch the 2019 movie adaptation of the stage musical CATS , a.k.a. one of the most baffling, cursed entries in the entire cinematic canon. It wasn't long before things got weird.

Im pretty stoned and watching Cats. Ive never seen the broadway show. It is truly trippy. Am I supposed to know what a Jellicle is? Theyve said it 200,000 times but I dont know whats happening haha. Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen)

Rogen was quick to point out many of the same gripes that critics and theatergoers had with the movie when it came out over Christmas: the inconsistency in scale (furniture changes size so frequently this could be Alice in Wonderland), the utter oddness of Rebel Wilson's mouse army, the fact that some cats are butt-naked and others are parading around in fur coats (whose fur? We never found out).

Judi Dench is in a cat fur coat which I can only assume is socially APPALLING in this world. Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen)

It's easy to see why people might choose watching CATS as their coping mechanism of choice: after all, what are we as a society right now if not a bunch of increasingly horned-up, excitable, socially awkward individuals who are desperate to introduce ourselves in the most extra fashion to any random passerby?

WHAT IS JELLICLE?!,!? Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen)

Rogen also tweeted that, out of respect, he wouldn't be dragging Idris Elba, who has already suffered enough indignity. The actor, who played the feline villain Macavity, recently tested positive for the coronavirus, leading to one news outlet describing him as the "CATS actor Idris Elba," ignoring his roles in Luther, The Wire, and the Thor movies, and reducing his contribution to cinema to the confusing sexual feelings experienced by a number of female and homosexual musical fans in December 2019.

Out of respect, Ill leave Idris out of all this. Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen)

Rogen ultimately abandoned his viewing experience in favor of the less uncanny 90 Day Fianc, but he was drawn back into the eldritch Jellicle world soon after by the revelation that there is yet another unseen edit of the movie. Apparently, in addition to editing out the human hands and feet of performers (oh, and Jason Derulo's bulge ), VFX staff on CATS were also tasked with removing catlike buttholes from the characters, which had been added in the interests of verisimilitude, presumably by a furry who is going to end up in the news one day.

Release the Butthole Cut of Cats!! https://t.co/C2VgPqSv1L Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen)

With the rise of virtual happy hour in the era of social distancing making remote gatherings a new social norm, it's likely that more and more groups of friends will be having online movie nights and watching CATS together in various states of inebriation. As someone who did precisely this when the film was released in theaters, I can say with some certainty: the crisis we're currently living through won't seem so bad after two hours with the Jellicles.