Cheech and Chong

[Taverner]

Yes...I love these guys. Completely irreverent, juvenile humor, glorified drug use and outright politically incorrect.

I just re-watched a double shot of Up in Smoke and Next Movie. Many here might not get these flicks, but something about them endears me to them every time.

It could be the locations (where most movies film in overly produced locations, these flicks were literally filmed, in their backyards) it could be the pre-Reagan attitude towards pot smoking, and it could be the general lawless attitude that GOOD comedy should always have...

But I grew up on these films - and the irony was I was a cops kid! My dad and his cop buddies loved these flicks (not sure what that says...but I'll refrain from ruminating) and for their kids, this was something we all knew - a common language if you will.

Anyone else hold these films to the same high regard?

[methinks2]

1. loved them

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. people come around and try to tell me how to live

duh duh duh
duh duh duh
dun dun duuuuuuun

[regularguy]

19. But I don't listen to them 'cause my head is like a sieve

My basketball coach done kicked me off the team
For wearin' high-heeled sneakers
and actin' like a Queeeeeeeeeen.......

[mac56]

3. Never got the appeal.

As Roger Ebert said: "It's not nice to make fun of a stoner if you aren't one, and not funny if you are one."

[Taverner]

5. Yeah my wife doesn't get it either

But then again, she was never a stoner...and she has trouble dumbing down her sense of humor...

[IrateCitizen]

4. They were comic geniuses

I never have gotten tired of them, and still watch them if they're on.

[Taverner]

6. I would argue they're the "Three Stooges" for our era

discuss...

[mac56]

11. Can't agree.

Part of the humor of the Stooges is that they just appeared the way they were. No backstory on what caused them to be that way. C&C make it pretty clear about how they got that way, and it kind of dilutes the humor for me. Same way I never thought Foster Brooks (the "lovable lush") was funny.

[kmla]

7. Cheech singing "...Mexican-Americans like to go to night school,..."

"...take Spanish, and get a 'B"...."

Cracks me up every time.

[PragMantisT]

13. and the b-side

Chong singing: "Beaners"

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. That's fuckin hilarious!

[RT Atlanta]

8. Up in Smoke

Is one of the best comedy films of all times!

Man - "Hey, don't take those man... I almost gave you the wrong shit."
Pedro - "Hey man, I already took 'em"

Let the good times roll from there! :)

[Taverner]

10. OMG...that whole car scene in the beginning

I hadn't seen it in years and a friend had a copy in peace corps. We all lit up and went to the Peace Corps office (since they had the video player) and watched it. That whole sequence had me on the floor, unable to breathe because I was laughing so hard!

[RT Atlanta]

12. I agree Taverner!

First time I saw that scene I was stone cold sober and was still on the floor rolling I was laughing so hard. Those opening 15 minutes might be the funniest I have ever seen in a movie.

(corrected spelling on edit)

[Taverner]

14. Mellllloooooowwww......ohmmmmm....ohhhmmmm....

................................................................................................................................................




WAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Webster Green]

9. Absolutely high regard for the films and the guys.....

I had the pleasure of meeting them at some college gig back in the seventies. I was working as a sound guy on some tour (can't remember what group it was). Cheech and Chong were the opening act for that night, and since I had the monitors on auto pilot for them, my job became rolling enough doobs to get us all through the show. Heh, heh, that was great!

[PragMantisT]

15. Wait......What?

Dave's not here!

[ForrestGump]

17. Didn't do anything for me, though post-C&C Cheech is great

Maybe because I didnt do drugs and didn't find particularly admirable or funny people who were under their influence. Maybe I'd find some humor in it now, after all these years.

[Taverner]

18. Prolly not

You either get it or you don't...kind of like three stooges or the band Rush (which I'll admit, I never *got*)

[ForrestGump]

22. The Three Stooges do even less for me,

so you might be right.

And I can't even remember which of the '70s arena rock groups Rush was/is...it's so hard to tell 'em apart, even when they produce decent sounds.

[TEXASYANKEE]

20. Weird ....

I can't sit through any of their movies, but I have all of their albums. Does that make any sense?????

Sign ze papers, old man.

[Archae]

21. To me, their best film appearance and best sketch

Best film appearance was in "It Came From Hollywood," where they toke up watching "Reefer Madness."

Best sketch, obvious.
"Class, class...CLASS...SHUT UP!!!" :D

[Taverner]

23. The most ironic part of the whole C&C story

Is how Stacey Keach, Paul Rubens (Pee Wee), Geraldo Rivera and C&C used to live (and party) together in LA, and at times would be in each others movies and such...

Horendo Revolver was a take off on Geraldo btw...

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

24. Sign Ze Papers!

We use that alot at work...in fact the people who use it the most are all ex Marines....you can do that routine and the ex Marines will glom right on that its Cheech and Chong.

(its a routine from Big Bambu,..not the movies).

[GregW]

25. "And he gives him another piledriver!"

"... Oh baby, I promise I won't c*m in you like last time"