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The new season of Weeds starts on Showtime June 8, and the cable channel has a couple of new ads out to promote the show. The one below features Kevin Nealon giving a speech with a familiar theme (not to mention that poster behind him...).

I haven't seen too much about this but Showtime recently updated their site. So I figure it's worth mentioning when you consider the cult following this comedy has developed. Showtime has slated the season four premiere of Weeds for Monday, June 16th. If that seems like a tight schedule, well... it is. Especially considering that they're starting from scratch following the WGA Strike and that production resumes this week.

There are some changes to note though...

Remember Page Kennedy, the first guy to play Caleb, the imprisoned son of Betty Applewhite on Desperate Housewives, then fired for some sort of "improper" act or remark on the set? He's now on the Showtime show Weeds, whose new season starts tonight at 9 with two episodes. He'll play U-Turn, a drug dealer who poses a problem for Mary Louise Parker and gang.

Kennedy doesn't want to talk about what happened over at ABC, but for the record, he says that the tabloids got it all wrong.

[via TV Tattle]

You smell that? It's called creativity.

In an effort to drum up even more "buzz" for the second season of Weeds (it premieres this Monday night), Showtime placed an ad in the August 24 issue of Rolling Stone. What a great idea. Advertisements! This ad was special though. Similar to the hundreds of fragrance ads offering whiffs of Paris Hilton's latest vomit inducing stench, the Weeds ad had a scent strip of it's own.

Guess what it smelled like?

I suppose all we have to do now is wait for the news to report on the idiot teenager who got a hold of four or five of the ads, rolled them up into a big fattie, and got sick from inhaling all the ink fumes. Oh and if you want to see what the ad looks like, I placed it after the jump. Just don't bother scratching your computer screen. I tried already.