Were Cheech and Chong's movies ever funny?

[terrya]

Did you really have to get high to watch them? I was...emphasis on was...watching "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie" on the Comedy Channel...and damn, that was unfuuny. Perhaps if I was smoking the weed I might have enjoyed it more.

[leftofthedial]

1. Dave ain't here, man

[dean_dem]

21. For that line alone, "Up in Smoke" was funny.

That cracks me up everytime.

Cool screen name. A Replacements fan, I take it?

[leftofthedial]

32. yessiree!

The Mats were great.

[MrSlayer]

50. It was Strawberry in Up in Smoke.

Dave is from the records.

[benny05]

66. Up in Smoke was Funny

and I saw it without the benefit of alcohol or other...

When I was a teacher, my students often quoted this movie, and they had little access to weed or other too.

[WeRQ4U]

2. For some reason, I enjoyed "E.T." or "Eddie Torrez, the Extra Testicle"

And I don't smoke anything. Other than that, not so much.

Edit:

It was funny how they called him "Mr. Burt REE-nolds" during the press conferences though.

[Dr Fate]

3. The 1st one has its moments, and is a great 70's time capsule...

...but I agree, the rest of the movies seemed thrown together.

All the movies are basically skits with filler.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. Oh, they were funny

You didn't have to be high to watch them, but they were every stoner you knew - that's why they were funny.

Stoners used to be really, really funny. Maybe they still are?

[Old_Fart]

31. I think that you are right

If you lived in the era and watched the stoner's you knew exactly what they were making a joking about.

[jswordy]

5. Yes they are NOW funny. No, you do not have to be high...

...but it helps a lot. Drunk, at least.

I also think their humor is generational. Those under say 35 may not appreciate it as much. Just like old SNLs.

I own "Up in Smoke" and "nice Dreams," prolly their two best.

The albums are also hilarious, IMO.

"Tired of that steady drip, drip drip of gonorrhea? Then call Peter Rooter!"

I was real glad to see Cheech Marin be able to resurrect himself as an actor. Chong turned out, well, less promising. LOL.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

35. Tommy Chong

He was so horribly railroaded by the government. I cannot believe there wasn't more outrage about what was done to him.

Fortunately, he came out in great shape and seems to have had the best revenge on those prosecutorial assholes: he's living well.

[Old_Fart]

40. "Peter rooter is the name you just flush your troubles down the drain"

"Rotten peter" :rofl: :spray:

[DrDebug]

6. I love the sniffing dog scene

I really want to see that again. It was Cheech and Chong as dogs sniffing each other. I was on the floor!

[Old_Fart]

26. "Let's go eat"

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. They were pretty much a one trick pony

Up In Smoke is comedic genius; the other movies much less so.

Even their stand up comedy gets old after a few "gags".

[punpirate]

8. They have their moments...

... but watching Stacy Keach ham it up is worth the time waiting for the decent lines.

Part of the attraction of the movies is that there are LA inside jokes that a lot of people don't get, and, too, Cheech and Chong are a bit like the Chicano version of Amos and Andy, in that they know they're being stereotypical and they're putting that on.

They'll never reach Orson Welles' high plateau, but most of it is just good fun and, in between the clunkers, there's some cleverness.

[Old_Fart]

41. Do you remember the lizard that was high off of smoking pot?

:rofl:

[punpirate]

46. If you watched the first few movies...

... the lizard was Stacy Keach (or what he finally ended up becoming)....

[fob]

9. Da dadada dadada Da Da, Da dadada dadada Da Da

My Momma talka to me
try to tell me how to live...
Da dadada dadada Da Da
Da dadada dadada Da Da
Poppa talka to me
said my head is like a sieve...


OR


Like Mexican-Americans
who go to night school
and take Spanish
and get a "B"




Hell yes they're funny!!

[redqueen]

11. Mexican Americans

don't like to get up early
so they do it
real slow

I loved that part!

[Old_Fart]

16. How about the skit with the "Labrador pot"

The dog had eaten their stash and they were smoking dog shit. :rofl:

[redqueen]

25. hehe... yeah...

This is good shit, what kind is it?

Labrador...


:rofl:

Priceless!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

36. Thanks, boys

I am right now laughing so hard, I think I'm about to have a nosebleed.

I haven't thought of that one in decades..................

[redqueen]

38. Hey I'm a lady

:hi:

What about the scene where he's not even moving, and the cop "pulls him over"... that's another of my favorites!

I hear you knockin but you can't come in!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

42. Did I write "boys"?

I meant "guys." You know, that offensive, generic, impersonal appellation.

You're the lady of all time, redqueen..............

The one when he asks how he's driving, to be told, "You're parked, man."

God, they were funny .................

[redqueen]

45. Oops!

:blush:

Yeah, that one... :rofl:

[Old_Fart]

43. Dueling bed springs?

:rofl:

[fob]

52. COP: Can I see your license, Sir?

Cheech: Isn't it on the back bumper, man?

[fishwax]

63. "Hey, man, how's my driving?"

I think we're parked, man ...

[jmowreader]

67. Sir? May I see your license?

It's on the bumper!

My very favorite scene in any movie, whatsoever, is out of Cheech and Chong's Next Movie. It's the one where Chong's got a jar of urine and a bag of laundry detergent...and convinces Cheech he's really got a bag of cocaine. It can't be described. It must be seen.

[Old_Fart]

69. I have movies mixed up

Is that the scene where the girl snorts a line of detergent and bubbles start coming out of her mouth and nose? :rofl:

[jmowreader]

71. No, that was in Up in Smoke

She snorted a line of cleanser and started acting like it was coke...later, Sergeant Stedenko and the narc squad raided Strawberry's house and the assistant narcs thought the cleanser was coke too.

"Hey Sarge! It's turning blue!"
'It's high-grade stuff. Could be Peruvian Flake.'

Not having ever seen any Peruvian Flake, I have a feeling that it doesn't smell like Ajax.

[RoyGBiv]

56. Earache My Eye

My momma talka to me try to tell me how to live
But I don't listen to her 'cause my head is like a sieve
My daddy he disowned me 'cause I wear my sister's clothes
He caught me in the bathroom with a pair of pantythose
The baksetball coach he done kicked me off the team
For wearin' high-heeled sneakers and acting like a queen

The earth is comin' to an end and I don't even care
As long I have my bitch to wear my fly-gear
And it don't bother me, if people think I'm funny
'Cause I'm a big rock star and I make-a lots of money, money, money, money, money, ah, ha, ha, ha

I own shopping centres and parking lots and
stocks an' all that shit!

I own you!
Ha!
You too!
You three!
For me!
He-hee
Oh-ho!

---
Gonna tie my pecker to a tree to a tree, gonna tie my pecker to a tree.

[redqueen]

10. I thought so...

even though they were nothing like the stoners I knew, I find their bits hilarious.

BEANERS!

[MsAnthropy]

12. I remember their comedy records in the 70s

which we played over and over and laughed our asses off. I recently heard "Sister Mary Elephant" again and wondered what we found so hilarious at the time. It HAD to have been the pot!

[Old_Fart]

14. Big Bamboo

Do you remember the gigantic joint wrapper that came with the Album?

[NoPasaran]

15. Fondly

:smoke:

[jswordy]

22. "Class.... claaaaasss....

SHADDUP!

:rofl:

"My record? What you wanna talk about my record for?"

:rofl:

"Hunh...good t'ing we don't step in it."

"Yah. Ptoooie. Ugh. Good t'ing."

:rofl:

[Old_Fart]

28. Sgt. Stadinko

He picked the dog shit up with his hands and then said "good thing we didn't step in it". :rofl:

[jswordy]

33. Uh, actually no. They were separate bits on the album. You obviously...

...were stoned at the time.

GOOD FOR YOU!

:rofl:

[Old_Fart]

44. I wasn't stoned but it's been a long time since I listened to their album

I think that I broke a rib or two laughing at their comedy. They were the best :rofl:

[catmandu57]

17. Do I?

Hell, we rolled it took a quarter pound. Yes they're funny to me anyway. We just watched The Corscian Brothers last week.

[Old_Fart]

68. The kicker was

It was a real zigzag rolling paper. My high school buddy used the clamp off of a jumper cable to smoke it. :rofl:

[Old_Fart]

24. I wasn't on drugs and I found them hilarious

We use to laugh until we cried while we were listening to them. It might have had something to do with not having a choice but I still think that they were funny.

Another funny comedian was David Lynch. I remember that he was very filthy but funny :smoke:

[HeeBGBz]

49. No stems, no seeds that you don't need...

Acapulco Gold is baad asss weed.

The records were much more fun for me. Especially when it was your first time hearing it.

[Old_Fart]

13. Is the Pope Catholic?

One of my favorite movies of all time is "Up in Smoke". I also liked the "Big Bamboo" album that Cheech and Chong put out.

[billyskank]

18. Up In Smoke was

"Hey, is my driving ok?"

"I think we're parked, man!"

[Warren DeMontague]

19. I particularly enjoyed pee-wee herman in "Nice Dreams"

I'm the guy from the, hamburrrrger train.

[jswordy]

23. LOL... OH yeeeeeeaaaaah! LOL.

[Old_Fart]

39. Cheech has a straight jacket on

He is scooting on the floor yelling that his balls are itching :rofl:

[48pan]

20. No. The first album...

was a scream, but they only had one joke and it got old fast.

[IChing]

29. did that one have the dog shit routine? and Class?, class? class? routine?

[Old_Fart]

34. Sister Mary Elephant

:rofl:

[mac56]

27. To quote Roger Ebert,

it's not nice to make fun of stoners if you aren't one, and not funny to do so if you are one.

[sundog]

30. meh... they have their moments

and i watched them baked :smoke:

[Old_Fart]

37. Basketball Jones

:smoke:

[gizmo1979]

47. Up in smoke is one of the 10

funniest movies of all time.

[HeeBGBz]

48. "Did you really have to get high to watch them?"

No, but I usually was.

[Old_Fart]

65. No you didn't

You had to live in the era in order to appreciate them. The Corsican brothers sucked so much that even if you were high it would have brought you down.

[MrSlayer]

51. Hell yeah.

Cheech and Chong's movies were great up until the Corsican Brothers.

[Old_Fart]

53. The Corsican Brothers movie sucked n/t

[vogonjiltz]

54. That movie was a buzz killer.

[MrSlayer]

57. Yes.

Up until that point they were great.

[RandomKoolzip]

59. So did "Still Smokin."' What a horrid piece of shit THAT movie was.

[Old_Fart]

64. How about the girl that snorted a line of comet

I got a kick out of the van that was packed in weed. There was a cop driving in the back of Cheech and Chong. The cop was inhaling the fumes from the pot and he got hungry. After he pulled them over he couldn't remember why he stopped them. :rofl:

[khashka]

55. Not funny even when baked

but Tommy Chong always did interesting things to my hormones. I still have his Playgirl spread.

Khash.

[RandomKoolzip]

58. Hey terry, guess what?

The second movie my parents ever took me to see was "Cheech and Chong's NExt Movie." The first was "Animal House."

As a kid I looooved C&C. After I started smoking pot, I still liked them, but found it a bit corny. Now that I'm a straight-edge thirty-year old, I find their humor childish.
But I can still quote all their movies from memory.....

[Zuni]

61. There was a guy in my neighborhood who took too much acid

and his head look like a pumpkin, man

[RandomKoolzip]

62. "Hey man, I never did no acid before in my life, man!"

"Well, I hope you're not busy for about a month,man..."

[xmas74]

60. I actually pissed my pants once while watching Up in Smoke

but I was high at the time so that might make a difference.

[FreedomFry]

70. I saw their live act at a rock concert ...

That was back when the idea of a comedy team at a rock concert was unheard-of. Cheech & Chong opened for the Allman Brothers, and everybody pretty much thought it was going to be stupid and boring. Were we wrong! They came out, did their "smoking" and "paranoia high" routines, and they were a riot.

They were new, different, and totally unique. Their same old shtick looks pretty tired now. But back then, it was great.

[tibbir]

72. Up in smoke

And it definitely helped to be high.

[GalleryGod]

73. They were glorious, irreverent, and fall down funny !

Of course...you had to have lived through the late 60's-early 70's to "get it".

[Seabiscuit]

74. They were funny when we were young and stoned 30+ years ago.

[drumwolf]

75. I've only seen "Up In Smoke"

but I thought it was hilarious and I wasn't stoned the first couple of times I saw it.

I was eleven years old the first time I saw it, when it was on cable TV, so obviously I wasn't smoking pot then. Then when I borrowed a friend's DVD last year, I wasn't stoned when I watched it again either.

[TroubleMan]

76. They were all hilarious and still are....sober or intoxicated

nt.

[Beware the Beast Man]

77. Making a van out of weed is comic gold.

"Up in Smoke" is the only movie of theirs that still makes me laugh, though, and I quite smoking weed 10 years ago.