“Very ironic that the hit-plan they ended up executing was almost exactly the Skylark’s original plan—the one that the CIA said would never work.”
There was actually another meta-joke there that some might have missed.
In their previous movie, “This is the End”, Franco and Rogen are talking about doing a sequel to “Pineapple Express”, and Franco says that for the ending, his character should sacrifice himself to save Rogen’s character, and then Danny McBride’s character will eat him, just to make it completely ridiculous.
Then, at the end of the movie, that is exactly what happens, Franco sacrifices himself to save Rogen from a gang of cannibals led by McBride, who ends up eating him. So this is the second time that Franco made up a ridiculous ending and it actually happened in the movie.
Good catch. Saw “This is the End” a while back, but frankly stopped paying much attention to it after a certain point.