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welcome to vintage video where we're

re-watching the 80s so you don't have to

we'll be reviewing every major film

release of the 1980s in real time

over analyzing what you've seen and

spoiling what you haven't i'm patrick

o'reilly i'm jesse bayless and i'm

richard wells and today marks the 40th

anniversary of the release of chichen

chang's next movie

on july 18 1980. it was written by

cheech marin and tommy chong

directed by chong and an uncredited

scene directed by dan aykroyd

and was released by universal pictures

dan aykroyd

yeah he wasn't even in the movie nope uh

before we start i wanted to relay some

of my mom's recollections having gone to

high school with cheech

or rich marin as he was known at the

time his mom

and my grandmother both worked at the

school and were friends and he was

extremely

popular and generally well liked by

everybody my mom didn't even realize

that he was cheech

until he already had a couple movies out

on account of the name change

and someone told her oh you know rich is

cheech and she's like

what are you what because she hadn't

seen the movies

he later went to college at csun where

richard and i graduated from

and jesse and i saw him in person at the

premiere for mike judges extract where

he came as the guest of

clifton collins jr the two were working

together

on a film called the perfect game at the

time

jesse and i were just post-production

assistants on that show

and as such we were not invited per se

but i uh you won tickets right i entered

an online contest and won tickets to the

premiere of the movie we worked on and

you wore

jason bateman's suit from the film yes

uh because the wardrobe for the movie

was being held in the editorial office

at the time

i actually wore jason bateman's suit

that he wears to the funeral that ends

the film

to the premiere uh i also had a a cheech

anecdote oh let's hear it uh my

father worked with chicha's father who

was a police officer wow that's

that's hilarious uh so we got both of

his parents covered yeah in our family

history

this film marks the first feature film

appearance of michael winslow

this is also the first feature film

appearance of pee wee herman but not

paul rubins

who started with midnight mantis and

blues brothers earlier this year

he did have an uncredited role before

that but those were his first two

credited roles

speaking of people whose career started

this year we also have the third

appearance of phil hartman

after stunt rock and the gong show movie

did you find him in the movie

i don't know i don't remember seeing him

i hear his voice but i

i don't see his face in it is he in the

film crew people

he's in the cast he's in the castle he's

the person that's saving the day of the

favor

his his character name is also amazing

uh chick hazard private eye yeah

but it's weird because it sounds from

when you hear his voice it sounds like

he's the hero

and he's jumping into a scene where the

girls are saying save me womba

yeah so you would think wombo would be

the hero right

but there's a different person credited

as wamba and it's the guy holding a

knife on the girls

no i i think the wamba is the the red

guy

oh okay so there's okay i think i think

wamba

so so i didn't think he was like a

sidekick duo

thing so it's wamba and chick hazard

save the day

interesting we're getting ahead of

ourselves okay

sorry uh this is the second film in a

series of seven

choo choo chong films preceded only by

up in smoke

and followed by nice dreams things are

tough all over still smoking

the corsican brothers and an animated

film called chichen chang's animated

movie

somehow this is the only film in the

franchise where either cheech or chong

are referred to

by the names cheech or chong really yeah

the first

and last films in this franchise were

directed by lou adler

and brendan and eric chambers

respectively but the rest were all

directed by tommy chong

except for things are tough all over

which was directed by thomas k

avaltson who was this film's editor

immediately following its release

development began on a sequel

to be titled riding high but it was

eventually abandoned presumably it would

have picked up where the events of this

film left off but we'll get to that

later

we start with a big animated joint

floating in front of the earth like a

spaceship

for the title card and then we fade to

live action

chi chi chong are discreetly carrying a

trash can to a gas station

to siphon gas from a tow truck chong

chokes on the taste

once he gets it going and cheech fishes

some newspaper out of the can

and i assume that was all the trash that

they had left in this can

but when it's totally full it's like

overflowing with yard waste

um and for whatever and it's totally

full this is like a probably a 50 gallon

trash can easily and the two of them are

just carrying it with one hand each well

but there's also no way that there's 50

gallons in this tow truck tank

yeah and also they just couldn't pick it

up there's no way they could pick it up

it has to be like

even if it was just water in this can it

has to have a false bottom

because there's no way they could lift

this full trash can full of water

they didn't bring back the hose that

they siphoned it with so

when they're when they get to their car

they're literally just dumping the gas

into their tank like just pouring it

over the whole back of the car yeah

half over themselves yeah yeah but uh

it's clearly just water when they're

doing it

but a bunch of garbage and like milk

cartons and [ __ ] are like falling out

and

clogging up the tube that they're trying

to dump the gas into when they get the

car started they back into another car

on their way out

and chong is criticizing she's just

crazy driving cheech tells chong to

relax so he starts rolling up a joint

and she says man i'm gonna be late for

work again

how's the first time i've been late this

week it's only tuesday man uh

cheech tells chong to get a job or at

least sell some of his weed

and he says that he sold two lids last

night to himself

we're gonna starve to death man no that

was me man i'm a good customer

cheech complains about the smell in the

car and chong says that it's probably

all the gas they spilled on each other

and then she says no i just cut one they

noticed a sexy lady outside the car

but chong thinks he's talking about an

older woman on the opposite side of the

car and is disgusted

when uh when cheech gets them

straightened out they start cat-calling

this girl

and uh so she walks away and they back

up to follow her

before putting it back and drive when

they notice a cop card directly behind

them

either this girl or someone else in the

movie is

chong's wife but i can't i can't tell

you which one

because they never call this girl

beautiful and there's

multiple women that look very much like

chong's wife

right but there's somebody who is his

wife credited as beautiful beautiful

yes but we don't know if this is her or

exactly

the cops lights come on but he's

responding to a call so he drives around

them

and uh chong finally sparks up his joint

and the gas fumes in the car cause it to

explode and

cheech says i told you not to like that

man and he says you're the one who cut

it

because he thinks that the explosion is

from the fart and not from the gas

cheech pulls the car up to gate one at

the universal lot i know this gate well

i drive through it often at work when a

guard tries to stop him cheech says that

he's with the towering inferno shoot

which the guard believes because his

clothes are all burnt up but he should

have

been like two or three maybe

um because this this was too late to be

in a movie that had already come out

we cut to the set of womba's revenge

where a couple of girls are being held

at knifepoint by a bad guy one of the

girls

is overacting very intensely and it's

rita wilson

like pre tom hanks rita wilson they

didn't even know each other at the time

yeah because the volunteers wouldn't be

for a couple more years yeah

um so that's the movie that they met on

i believe so

uh but it was cool to see her this young

i don't think i'd seen her acting

someone else someone else is in there

too well yes yeah um

i guess we can say it right now elvira's

in there yeah cassandra peterson yeah

so uh it's so funny because as we're

going along through this we're gonna see

like

oh this makes sense why cassandra

peterson was

in peewee's big adventure yeah phil

harvey was in peway's big adventure and

why edie mccleary is in a bunch of

elvira stuff like yeah

it's just all over the place she was

also on peewee too right yeah

well she was in the hbo special yeah

they pause for a moment before they

start rolling on

on wamba's revenge although they they do

hold for a moment because

someone calls out that they need to fix

a shiny ass onset

the director gives them their line help

me womba and they prep for a take

and they clap a slate that says that

this is scene 69 take one

of wamba's revenge is being directed by

sai baby

and the dp is listed by the name

prince and then the gay f word which is

clearly a reference to this film's dp

being

king baggett they have prince f word

cheech calls out to his lady friend

who's apparently working the set

when the take begins we can hear a hero

which is the

the phil hartmann character we hear his

voice but uh we never see him

we just hear him saving the day uh this

is his only part in the film

unfortunately just the voice in the

background

when cheech gets the girl's attention

she comes over to meet him and the crew

is repeatedly yelling quiet on the set

as the two talk in the back of the room

he asks her

to hook him up with new clothes because

his are clearly destroyed

she says aren't you supposed to be at

work and he makes up a story about

seeing a baby in a burning building

and uh he says i rescued a burning baby

and i got burning baby all over me

that's what happened to my clothes

as he's leaving cheech encounters red

hulk who for some reason knows his name

yeah he says hey where's that woman

supposed to go crash through

and it's like who are you why do you

know me

uh but cheech points at a random wall

and he burst through it onto the set of

womba's revenge

so maybe maybe he is wamba and he was

supposed to jump through this wall to

save them but just not right now because

they're

not in the take anymore uh chong pulls

the burnt car

carefully back into their neighbor's

garage and sneaks over the property line

to their place

uh the neighbor hears chong knock over a

watering can or something

and chews chong out for ruining the

neighborhood cheech takes a van to

universal

and this time when the guard asks for a

pass he says pass sure thanks a lot

we cut back to chong at the house

despite their apparent personal gas

shortage chong is riding a chopper in

the house

blasting exhaust fumes at the neighbor's

garden through a pipe in the window

he moves to the counter and dumps a jar

of roaches by roaches i mean

the tail ends of joints and but one of

them is an actual insect

which is the biggest thing that he

dumped on the counter so he loads up his

pipe and just smokes the [ __ ] out of

this bug

it's not actually a roach though this

bothered me because it was just like a

black

beetle yeah and it was definitely not a

road well you don't want to smoke

an action does he actually kill it i

think he's i think he smashes it with

his hand but yeah

this is one of the one of those species

that i don't care

that you smashed it you're allowed to

kill bugs in movies i it bothers me a

little bit when you cut off a snake's

head

or what else have we seen the horses

tumble over themselves and probably run

through windows

yeah yes um so i'll only do it once but

yeah smashing a bug i can deal with i

think

chong chokes pretty hard on this bug but

then he goes right back to smoking it

he starts to play an electric guitar and

he keeps cranking the amp up until his

neighbors are in physical pain

the entire neighborhood is reacting to

this even dogs are like

laying down and covering their ears his

neighbor was trying to teach a piano

lesson

and that's not going to happen now

cheech backs into their driveway and he

scrambles into the house to unplug the

amp

and the whole thing kind of explodes

when he unplugs it he takes chong

outside to show him the universal loot

that he just got

it's funny because this whole

neighborhood is built on the universal

backlot

so really he didn't even leave the lock

but uh

but when he backed into the driveway he

accidentally dumped it out

runs sort of over his neighbor and the

doors fly open

which he doesn't notice until he pulls

the car away and then he notices he's

like oh no

we've been robbed hey man somebody

ripped off the thing i ripped off

man but it turns out that when he backed

up he accidentally dumped this

it's like a big slot machine that is

just crushing their neighbor

and they go to lift it off of him and

the neighbor is like screaming about his

hands

my hands my hands because obviously he's

a piano teacher he has very important

hands

um driving through town later cheech

makes a bad left

and nearly hits about seven cars in the

span of 10 seconds

they can't figure out why they're not

getting any respect from these drivers

until they realize that they aren't

dressed right

so they pull over to mod the car as much

as possible

as the soundtrack plays tequila by the

champs

cheech swaps out the rims chong throws a

magnetic heart-shaped window onto the

side of the car

he peels away a big magnetic

advertisement to reveal

an airbrushed painting of an aztec

warrior holding a woman on a mountain

chong throws a shag dash cover across

the front of the car

and cheech switches out the steering

wheel for one made out of like a chrome

chain link maybe eight inches wide

and they lower the front and head on

their way

cheech teaches chong some spanish

specifically pendejo

which basically means dumb ass but he

tells chong that it's a term of

endearment

they have a jump off with another car uh

with hydraulics

but she just letting chong control it

stupidly and so chong obviously just

never wants to stop

bouncing well i don't know i don't think

that they're actually controlling i

think

she's just bouncing i think chong is

just bouncing up and down to make the

car bounce up and down oh i thought he

was actually

like doing something no he's just i

think he's just bouncing because i

figured

this is actually a company car there's

no way that the

company car has these hydraulics in it i

was surprised that it had the aztec

warrior painting on the side unless they

did that themselves

but they also lowered the front so it

seems like they've done some

modifications to this car

but the car continues to bounce until it

ends up like fully in a family's front

yard

and they come out screaming at them and

chong is like hey pendejos how's it

going

and he's like oh no you can't call these

people that he's like freaking out about

it

and eventually they just drive away and

they take out the whole chain-link fence

around the yard

to escape later we see chong coming out

of his sister's house with a jar of

yellow liquid

and she's just like oh can i have some

and he's like sure and he hands it over

and when she smells it he's like this is

piss man he's like

yeah it's for my probation officer was

he drink pee

and this line killed me apparently he

failed his last urine test

because he stored the pee in a

mayonnaise jar that he cleaned out about

as well as they cleaned that trash can

earlier

and so there were still like bits of

mayonnaise floating in his piss and they

thought it was a side effect of a new

drug

he thinks this time it will really

confuse them because his the urine is

his sisters and she's pregnant

um cheech asks if she had any weed and

he says no they're waiting on some to

come in from colombia or something like

that

cheech starts aiming for the bumps on

the road on purpose to spill

chong's sister's piss all over chong and

uh

eventually to get him to stop he whips

out a huge bag of what is presumably

cocaine

cheech asks for a head of it but chong

says that he doesn't want to ruin his

life

cheech says can i just smell some and

when chong agrees to that she

just buries his face in it only to

realize he just took a huge hit of

laundry detergent

which we already saw happen once this

year in rhodey um

the reaction was pretty much the same

yeah i feel like he

the space coke reaction was the roadie

reaction yeah

the roadie reaction that was the only

time i laughed in that movie yeah

you guys just dying in the laundromat to

get the taste out of his mouth he grabs

the urine jar away from chong and starts

drinking it before he realizes what it

is

and then he like he hands it back but

then it's burning his nostrils and so he

has to drink it again

so he just keeps taking his jar and then

being grossed out that he drank it

over and over again but then there's

like bubbles coming out of the side of

the car

because he's got all this detergent in

his mouth and he's just spitting up

bubbles into the car

the next morning cheech wakes up in his

tiny whities

and he grabs a beer in the kitchen he

gets a shirt out of the fridge like you

do

when he looks out the window he freaks

out because the van is gone

apparently he's not supposed to take it

home and now it's been ripped off

and he's freaking out chong wakes up

while chicha's panicking and he goes to

wash his face off with the fish tank

water

it's pretty gross fish tank water too uh

chong is sleeping in the living room on

a door

with a phone book for a pillow and

suddenly their pay phone rings because

they have a pay phone on the wall in

their house

and cheech makes chong answer offering

to reward him with his last tie stick

and chong answers it immediately and

then hands it back to cheech like oh

yeah he's here man

he's like oh thanks a lot cheech lies on

the phone about what happened

while chong heads to the bathroom chong

flips up in the toilet needlessly to

reveal that it's overflowing with

garbage

and then he moves to pee out the window

just this scene was directed by dan

aykroyd

as he and john belushi had come to the

burbank set to visit while they were

shooting blues brothers

cheech learns over the phone that he has

been fired the neighbor tries to salvage

what he can from his garden when

suddenly a stream of piss is pouring

down from above

but he's unable to identify where it's

coming from apparently

back inside cheech reveals that the

company he works for took the van back

themselves

chong asks where that tie stick is at

like he still

earned it by just picking up the phone

and handing it to cheech i have no idea

what a thai stick is

it's just it's like a cigar of marijuana

basically

but they actually like started in

thailand we cut to the unemployment line

chichen chong trick a man and some

children out of chairs so they can sit

down

when suddenly chicha's other lady friend

donna shows up

she works here and she directs for them

to come around the windows to her office

in the back

cheech heads into the office and chong

sits with more waiting customers

in this back room two scenes are playing

out simultaneously here all in one shot

we have a background scene with cheech

coaxing donna into sex in her office

and she is understandably reluctant as

the walls are windows to her office

in the foreground chong is looking at an

old man

who's laughing at a junkie who keeps

falling asleep and then catching himself

with a cigarette between his fingers

suddenly the man to chong's left breaks

into a guitar solo

performed entirely with his mouth of

course this character is played by

michael winslow pre-police academy

and his talents remain unmatched winslow

pretends to snort a can of coke

and be a robot and other entertaining

things

and chong looks very genuinely amused by

these antics like

even on set he's just like wow that's

really great you can do that

i liked his baby impression and then

like soothing the baby with a pacifier

yeah yeah and then the dog and cat like

the way he bounces back and forth

between the dogs it's incredible it's

amazing um donna's boss comes back

looking for cheech and chong says oh

he's in there man

and uh donna and cheech are having sex

on the floor of her office

in the background we see donna and her

boss arguing while in the foreground

winslow is impersonating this fight

between an invisible dog and cat

and then we cut outside the building

where a cop is just leading cheech and

chong outside like nope no check for you

bye

back at home cheech sings a wonderful

song about mexican americans

he actually has a really great singing

voice but for my money the best line of

this song goes

mexican americans love education

so they go to night school and they take

spanish and get a b

chong counters with a song that he just

wrote in his head that goes like this

[Music]

that's the whole song it's especially

funny because

contrary to what a lot of people think

chong is not at all mexican

i never thought he was mexican is that

what people think i think people thought

both of them were mexican no

largely his name is chong

yeah i just for whatever reason maybe

just because of the way he grows out his

facial hair and and the way he talks and

everything that he tries to talk like

cheech for

so much of the movie that people just

assumed that they were the same

nationality

but chong is like half chinese and half

like scotch irish or something like that

born in canada

it reminds me of uh when you told

uh mike judge about our friends

it's another extract story i don't know

if we should put that on the podcast i

guess we can it's hilarious

yeah we uh we were doing the the sound

mix for the movie

and uh the assistant editor or no she

was she was the second

she's the assistant editor she was the

assistant editor on the feature uh

carmen

and uh she's half chinese half canadian

correct and she was delivering a hard

drive to somebody

and the guy was like oh what does she

look like and he's like i don't know

she's like a latina girl you'll probably

see her

she should be in the parking lot now and

and then

our our supervisor was like she's not

she's not latina and he's like what

she's not

and she's like no she's like half

chinese half canadian i said yeah tell

the guy to look for the half canadian

girl

and mike judge just started busting up

laughing i was like great i got him to

laugh

[Laughter]

but yeah uh while uh while chong is

continuing to

to workshop the [ __ ] song cheech goes

to answer the phone

and it's donna and apparently she's not

upset about what happened at work today

where

where she definitely got fired and he

invites her over for dinner tonight and

she accepts

he says i'll be waiting with balzan

oh which is a great line he rushes chong

out the door when the phone starts

ringing again

and this time it's his cousin dwayne he

wants to meet up with cheech

and he needs money but uh cheech sends

chong in his place and tells him

oh dwayne's got a bunch of money and he

loves to party so you hang out with him

all night and i'm gonna have donna here

and he's like oh you want me to bring

him back he's like no no no just he

wants to go to concerts and clubs and

stuff you guys will be fine

chong hitch is a ride with a leather man

on a motorcycle

to duane's hotel as macho man plays more

times in this movie

than in the village people movie earlier

this year bizarrely

leatherman offers chong a drink but he

answers maybe next time

actually i appreciate that they even

make the point that chong hasn't been

leading him on

because when they get there he says you

sure you don't want that drink and he

says no man maybe next time and i

believe him when he says maybe next time

yeah yeah

and he's like all right and then he

leaves uh on his way up the steps to the

hollywood hotel

a wino says how you doing there man have

a good time merry christmas

merry christmas in the lobby dwayne is

arguing with the bell boy

played by paul rubins dwayne mistakes

chong for cheech

which makes no sense because they look

very different but might also be a

reference to the fact that

people on the street have often mistaken

chong for cheech for whatever reason

and i will suppose mistake this cousin

for cheech yeah

that's weird that you would do that

weird but he also says i haven't seen

him in 10 years right so

you got real ugly man uh chong learns

that this hotel is keeping dwayne's

luggage until he pays his tab because he

mistook the

the daily rate for a weekly rate he

called sheech to bring money but chong

obviously doesn't have any

and duane says that people call him red

on account of his long red hair so i

will refer to him as such moving forward

important note red is played by cheech

with a

facial tattoo that's true and long red

hair and like a fur coat

and lots of turquoise yeah chong tries

to reason with rubens but eventually

they get into a screaming match

and reuben starts shouting his trademark

i know you are but what am i back at

chong

no no you are but what am i rubens moves

to call the cops

but red says yo let's go my luggage has

a bunch of weed in it i don't need the

police involved in this

we cut to a room of the hotel where a

white couple are doing

sexual role play with puppets

just a minute i'll see chong and red are

climbing the fire escape

looking to steal the luggage back before

the cops get here

they break the bars off a hotel room off

the hotel room window

and bust into the wrong room the woman

in the bed tells them not to lay a hand

on her despite them showing no interest

in her

yeah but she's trying to present herself

to them at the same time

the joke is definitely that the the

implication is that this woman wants to

be raped by these intruders

and they're just like no we're just

literally the wrong room we're just

trying to find our luggage

well they destroy the room in the

meantime yes rubens isn't having much

luck getting the police to come

until he says i think they're iranians

which is a scapegoat that we just

recently used

jeff in used cars to to blame for

blowing up the merchandise on roy fuchs

car lot on live television

i think we also use it in how to beat

the high cost of living at some point

iranians possibly yeah i feel like i

forget if we mentioned specifically the

nationality

in knight of the juggler for the the

bombing backstory

if they blame that on iranians or not

seems to be a general theme

of 1980 that we like to blame iranians

for things going wrong

yeah chong and red get all of his stuff

out and they leave chong has a duffel

bag full of weed that he thought was

maybe worth a hundred bucks altogether

but chong informs him that it's worth

more like fifty thousand dollars

and red says well there's a lot more

where that came from the cops show up

and

red gets out of tape recorder because he

likes to record

sounds like this to scare the deers out

of his field

just with loud sounds the cops tell red

and chong to get out of the way

because they don't realize that they're

the people that they were here to arrest

because they don't look iranian probably

and so at this point though

i am assuming that red is from far away

from here

because he doesn't understand the street

value of marijuana

in los angeles i think he's just a rural

guy i don't think he gets off the farm

often

okay but i i don't know they don't

really make it clear where he lives

specifically but they do make it clear

that he has a farm nearby

but uh rubens is trying to explain to

the cops that these are the people he

called about

and then they arrest him when he starts

getting really angry with them

a girl on roller skates stops red and

chong and gives them flyers to an erotic

massage parlor this could also be

chong's wife i don't know but they

decide to head right on over

she asks if they have any blow and red

offers a sleeve

because he doesn't understand they smoke

weed in the spa

at this massage parlor when a girl comes

in to ask if they need anything

and red just pulls her into the water

uh which i'm surprised didn't hurt her

because it's a pretty shallow spa

a lot of this looked unscripted yeah

them

kind of throwing the women around i i

feel like this

specifically this would have to have

been scripted because

you can't just pull a girl into a spa if

she doesn't know she's going to be

getting wet or anything like that yeah

it just it just seemed like

oddly aggressive and like dangerous yeah

but uh she's laughing about it so she

seems

totally cool with having been pulled

into this tub and then red pulls another

girl into a second spa

and red and chong start just running all

over the place in this parlor they break

into a private room where

chicken charlie has a girl all tied up

and he says he can't untie

until he has crowed the girl that's tied

up is named candy

and as they come in they're basically

like helping her get undone

and he's like finishing up whatever he

was there for

the parlor owner apologizes to charlie

on his way out but he really doesn't

seem to care about having been

interrupted

red passes a door where people are

having sex and he

tries to get a recording of this too to

confuse the deer

in his field when he accidentally plays

the recording of the cops from earlier

suddenly everyone's busting out of all

the doors in the place and out into the

night which is our second

accidental massage parlor evacuation

after uh don't answer the phone yeah i

was just thinking about that too

outside one of the girls candy doesn't

have a ride home

so she asks if she can go with them we

cut back to cheech at home

where he's singing a song while ironing

his clothes he says

sound funny but i don't believe she's

coming

hey baby come on [ __ ] he gets like mad

in the middle of the song like why is he

here already

and he says that [ __ ] don't get here

soon i'm gonna have to wait some more

[Laughter]

red chong and candy wander into a music

shop

presumably near the uh near the parlor

and immediately start playing all the

expensive [ __ ] that they can find

and they're driving a salesperson crazy

at the counter there's a woman in like

riding gear implying that she is rich

and red flirts with her a bit before

they they all leave at the same time

chong starts playing the amp in the

store and he he blows it

before they leave so they've

successfully destroyed more property

but outside they jump into the

convertible of the woman

that uh that red was flirting with she

seems to just go with the flow and takes

them all back to her house

uh once they enter gloria's mom played

by edie mcclure comes down the steps

and for some reason identifies each of

them as characters from wizard of oz

so red is the cowardly lion candy is

glinda the good witch

and chong is toto which i think fits

really well with what they're wearing

red pulls a saber off the wall which he

calls a frog sticker

and he starts swinging it all over the

place they all sit around a table for

dinner

when suddenly chicken charlie enters

evidently the patriarch of this family

and candy is ecstatic to see him outside

the parlor beyond calling him chicken

charlie though

and clearly recognizing him from the

from the parlor they don't rat on the

guy which

i thought was a nice touch yeah that

it's they're not like trying to ruin

this family they're just like

oh it's you and eddie mcclure is taking

all of this

very very well yes like the the the

intruders in her house and all the

craziness

i think for her in her life this is very

amusing yeah this is just a party

later gloria's singing a song very

poorly by the fireplace

and uh red tries to change it up with uh

with a magic trick

by the way i didn't mention this but

gloria the woman whose car they hopped

into

is cheech's wife or was at the time red

says that he's going to turn a bread

roll into a piece of fruit

and so edie mcclure is sitting on the

couch and he makes her hold the bread

roll wrapped in the napkin

and then he fashions the rest of the

napkin so that it looks like a penis

she's holding the head of

and he says ain't that a peach but she

does not seem to get this joke and

laughs anyway

ain't that a peach

[Laughter]

they get it i don't get it we cut to

them blasting down the freeway in a

bentley

smoking a massive blunt it's like two

inches thick

and eating mcclerg is like oh my god

like she's just having the time of her

life and she's so funny back at home

cheech has now ironed everything in his

whole house

like socks and like ties and things

and uh he's playing a mouth trumpet so

we hear like

this sad song playing and then we don't

realize until we get to teach that it's

actually coming from his face

which we had in what mad max and then as

a joke an

airplane in madame actually actually had

a uh

an instrument a saxophone well she had

the saxophone in airplane too

yeah but that was supposed to be a joke

an airplane i don't think it was

supposed to be a joke in mad max it just

came across that way

was it not supposed to be a joke i don't

know it was certainly edited as a joke

yeah red chong edie and candy go to a

comedy club

where the the first comedian being

introduced is pee wee herman

not clear if paul rubens has been pee

herman the whole time

or if he's just performing as this

character for this comedy club

but this is the first theatrical

appearance of pee wee herman he had

appeared

on television the previous year in three

episodes of the dating game

but other than that this was the first

like

widely revealed uh footage of pee-wee

herman in anything

but theoretically he was pee-wee herman

as a stand-up comic in general

yes he had done shows in the hollywood

area

yeah but nothing that was televised or

filmed before yes but his first hbo

special wouldn't air until the following

year paul rubins was a member of the

groundlings with phil hartman who played

the hero on the set of womba's revenge

earlier in the film

john paragon who played the director of

womba's revenge

and bob mcclerg who plays chicken

charlie in this movie and is the

real-life husband of edie mcclerg

gloria's mother and john paragon is a

jump jumbie yes yeah phil hartman john

paragon and eddie mcclure

would all go on to appear on the peewee

hermann hbo special in 81.

uh phil hartman obviously wrote and

starred in peewee's big adventure

uh rubens and paragon wrote the bulk of

peewee's playhouse series which paragon

also

directed a lot of and the two obviously

played the roles of peewee and

zombie also terry i think paragon was

javi and terry

and phil hartman was captain carl right

yes i also find it incredibly

fascinating

that he was a you know a comic

like an adult comic yes that they

actually just turned into a children's

series

you know like it was a joke that he was

an adult comic making these absurd

things

you know dressed as a child like being

childlike

and then they just said yep no you're

just gonna do a child

children series well apparently the the

origin of the character was

that paul rubens himself had trouble

like remembering the exact

like layup to a punch line like his

memorization he had memorization

problems

and so he made up a character who would

screw up the jokes

that started as this pee-wee herman

character who just was like

a comedian that wasn't gonna make it and

that was how the character was designed

and everybody loved it and obviously you

know it went very far

that's great i love that in these movies

too like this movie

it's all there it's all already there

the the gray suit

the white shoes the red tie everything's

there

and you know and i don't think he was

wearing the makeup that he

started to later like he has like rouge

and like pink lips usually

yes the character yeah but yeah the

costume is basically set

yeah i just love it that by this time

he's already got this character

so developed yeah he's so fully formed

the cameraman from the set of wamba's

revenge was also a writer on pee-wee's

playhouse

the only other credit that this movie

and peewee's playhouse have in common is

chuck rio

who is the lead singer of the champs who

performed tequila

which makes an appearance in this film

while they're modding the fan but also

in pee-wee's playhouse

and in big adventure for a memorable

scene in a biker bar

with cassandra peterson with cassandra

peterson peewee set bombs pretty hard

because he's getting heckled by red and

chong in the front row

red takes the mic and wins over the

crowd with a single joke

and then he drags edie on stage and

she's laughing super hard

as she tries to tell her joke and she

gets it out

but she's laughing so hard at her own

joke and her laugh is so contagious that

everyone just applauds her basically

because they just love her pee wee asks

club security to kill the man who got

him arrested earlier that day

uh chong takes the stage and tries to

redo the magic trick but instead he says

i'm going to turn this glass into a dick

a female bouncer named thumbelina steps

on stage and grabs the glass in the

napkin and just shatters it in her hands

she throws both of them out of the club

as a fight is breaking out

red is sitting on a stool out front when

a patron entering hands him his keys and

says

hey it's all yours take on camera buddy

of course red thinks this means it's his

car now and so he and chong drive away

without their massive bag of weed chong

is obviously very upset about leaving

all this weed behind

but red is like no no like if you care

about the weed i'll take you to where i

got the weed there's a lot of weed

back at home cheech is watching wumba's

angels

which maybe that's related to uh juan

bazaar

earlier but this seems to be a tv show

because then this is an episode where

wamba's angels are trying to find the

killer at the miss nude america contest

he falls asleep here waiting for donna

and in his dream she arrives

and he throws her on a bed but in the

real world he's about to have sex with a

large teddy bear on his bed

when donna finally actually arrives and

knocks on the door

he tells her to get lost and then wakes

up

just barely too late realizing what he's

done as she's driving away down the

street

chong and red catch the eyes of law

enforcement and for whatever reason red

decides that he's going to start a chase

and lead them directly to his field of

weed

he has the field booby trap though so he

tricks them off of this jump and they

get stuck

and then he sets off a pack of fireworks

around the car to freak them out

but of course they're calling for backup

now which is just gonna cost him this

whole field of weed like they're

gonna come back tomorrow suddenly a

tractor beam is shining down into their

stolen car

first the beam is sucking up a bunch of

marijuana plants and then

it dips into the actual vehicle the

convertible that they're sitting in

red puts his hand in the beam and chong

is like get your hand out of there man

and then he does the same thing

before both of them just vanish back at

home cheech is having a dream

now inspired by the painting on the side

of the van the warrior lays the body of

a woman on a sacrificial platform

not unlike the sacrificial platform from

blue lagoon

and starts mourning the loss of this

woman

but then eventually groping her corpse

and then he moves to have sex with the

corpse

when chong is waking him up again in the

dream though chong is wearing this weird

helmet with horns

and then in real life he's also wearing

a weird helmet with horns

chong tries to tell cheech what happened

that they were abducted by aliens

and that they gave them space coke to

try and then cheech takes a snort

because he doesn't care

that his friend yesterday gave him soap

to snort

and fully believes that this is space

coke and then he goes completely insane

and flies through the wall and starts

destroying their neighbor's house again

before jumping straight up through the

roof with chong wrapped around his legs

and they fly up into space where they

reach the animated blunt from the

intro to the film and it flies away and

that's the end of the film

our director here was tommy chong

obviously he's in all the cheech and

chong movies

he appeared with cheech and fern gully

he was squirrel master and half baked

that was the guy that was in prison

uh that uh he made him his [ __ ]

i'm somebody's [ __ ] yeah he also played

a recurring character leo

on that 70's show and he just recently

appeared as alfred

in kevin smith's jane santa bob reboot

in the blunt cave he's that he's the

alfred for

the blunt man in chronic comments okay

he also wrote and directed

and starred in a movie called far out in

1990 without cheech

about an aging hippie looking for his

family i'd never heard of that but

it's got rae donchong in it that's his

daughter

the writer here was tommy chong and

cheech marin cheech marin was in

yellowbeard cannonball run two

born in east l.a he's the voice of tito

in oliver and company

that's all i could picture whenever

whenever he was

not on screen but but talking

i could just picture a little chihuahua

saying all the lines

yeah you you uh you went to oliver

company over

like the lion king though well yeah my

brain just went straight to a little

chihuahua saying like oh yeah

i i like i like that i i like that it

it's

it's more i think he has more memorable

dialogue

in oliver and company than he does in

the lineup yeah well because and he and

because he and bette midler's character

uh

yeah have a relationship and i think he

i

i think the difference is that the lines

in uh

oliver and company mimic this character

whereas in the lion king

he he's not doing this sort of that's

true this sort of character yeah and so

the the tito character tito is more of a

chong or

more of a teacher yeah exactly yeah yeah

he also plays the doc

supervisor in ghostbusters 2 when the

titanic finally arrives

he uh we mentioned he's one of the

hyenas the lion king

he's in a bunch of robert rodriguez

stuff desperado dusk till dawn

once upon a time in mexico he played the

padre and the machete trailer

he's also ramon in cars all three of the

cars movies

and was he in the actual machete movie i

never saw it

i forget i've seen the machete movie but

i can't remember

yeah but i know he's in the trailer

because i rewatched it today

and i love that trailer uh joe dominguez

also

on nash bridges uh and apparently

they're doing like a tv movie or

something because that was his top

credit right now on imdb

i just looked cinematographer

uh nick mclean this was his first time

as a cinematographer

we have two cinematographers nick mclean

this was his first one

before this he'd worked as uh in the

camera department

on marathon man exorcist ii the heretic

close encounters and being there

and after this he was the dp on goonies

short circuit

spaceballs and mac and me oh

eclectic mix huh oh

yeah you might be surprised to learn

that after mac and me it gets less and

less

amazing but uh it's still very cool the

cool movies to have worked on

he insisted that they push a real kid

off that wheel yeah that cliff with a

wheelchair

you people are gonna tell i'm telling

you uh and he needs to actually be

disabled or it's not going to work

he was also the dp for hundreds of

episodes of friends

king baggett uh this was i said his

first time also as cinematographer

before this he'd worked on american

gigolo and defiance to early bruckheimer

films that we covered this year after

this he dp'ed dr detroit

last starfighter revenge of the nerds

and oh god you devil which is

the third one of that series evelyn

guerrero played donna she'll be back

next year as donna the panties gal in

nice dreams

another chichen chang film ricky maron

was gloria that's

the wife at the time of cheech marin

peter bromolo played the gay

motorcyclist

he was the hotel manager in wild at

heart he plays kafka in an episode of

the 1968 avengers

he's a butler on briscoe county junior

somewhere he also plays joe

in highlander 2 the quickening and a

nobleman in

the rocketeer lupe ontoveros plays old

lady

that was her credit in this i don't

remember seeing her in this but i know

her face was she the one that they

mistakenly he mistakenly thought was a

hot chick

side of the road and they don't show her

close enough yeah but she plays rosalita

in goonies

and she's also yolanda and selena the

woman who eventually killed well then

there

could have been any number of scenes

with with the woman that fits that

description but she's she's great and

she also plays chicha's mom and born in

east l.a

john stedman was the drunk at the

welfare office that's the old man who's

just laughing

he played ned mccluskey in gator and

he'll be back later this year as sam

and fade to black shelby chong was

beautiful she's the wife of tommy and i

don't know

who she was in the movie there somewhere

in the movie there's a character

there's a one-man band maybe in the

music shop i don't remember

but the the actor's name is credited as

dawn s davis

but it's not the dawn s davis that we

know okay i was going to say like

who is the don s davis that you know he

was the the stunt

double for pete on macgyver

who also plays basically the pete

character

on the stargate series okay because dana

elkhart didn't come back to

play that part yeah yeah you've seen him

and stuff he he played scully's dad

in the episode where he dies yeah yeah

well i mean just saying that that he's

that character from stargate i i have a

picture of him in my head

kim hopkins was the wardrobe girl that's

the girl on the set of wambus revenge

we had her earlier this year as one of

the pom pom girls in hollywood nights

that was wearing underwear she was also

young xaviera

in happy hook or go hollywood in that

little flashback scene that

the film producer improvises when he's

pretending that he knows her whole story

this was her last movie for 18 years

because she took time off to raise a son

michael winslow plays the he's credited

as welfare comedian

he's obviously sergeant jones in the

police academy movies

he plays a radar tech in spaceballs and

he'll be back next year for nice dreams

another xi jin chong film marcus chong

played johnny

i don't know who johnny would be you

guys have any idea on johnny i don't

remember any guy called out as johnny

i don't remember who that is but he is

the adopted son of tommy chong

and from his imdb picture i recognized

him immediately as tank

from the matrix he's one of the two guys

that stays outside the whole time

okay i didn't realize that he was uh

that he was

chong's adopted son rita wilson was one

of the hostages she's obviously the

currently the wife of tom hanks they

were married in 88

she's also in sleepless in seattle that

thing you do jingle all the way

also with phil hartman oh and i looked

it up uh

while we were chatting uh they actually

met for the first time on bosom buddies

but they didn't uh are you sure that's

not his first wife

no it's rita wilson okay they they met

for the first time on the set of that

but didn't start a relationship until

they met again

on volunteers which is what you said

okay because his first wife

he met i guess he met her before bosom

buddies but she was in a bosom buddies

episode as a waitress or something

carl weintraub plays the cop outside the

hotel he plays desoto and oliver and

company with cheech

bob mcclerg was chicken charlie he's the

husband of edie mcclurk

uh he plays a studio guard wait she was

married to her actual husband yeah they

were an actual couple

um and he was the one that was in

groundlings with yeah with the rest of

them

okay and she just like kind of tagged

along oh my god she's the star of that

yeah she she really like steals every

scene she's in

but uh bob mcclurk plays the studio

guard in pee-wee's big adventure

uh at warner bro on the warner brothers

lot so it's funny because both films

have

a film lot studio guard but uh this one

bob mcclure is playing that character

and uh he's also hairy in born in east

la with cheech

edie mcclerg played gloria's mom she's

also a groundling

and she played helen and carrie she's

back later this year in oh god book two

i think probably most people connect her

with

grace and ferris bueller's day off oh

well he's very popular ed

the sportos motor heads geeks [ __ ]

bloods wasteoids dweebies [ __ ]

they all adore it they think he's a

righteous dude

grace

she's also in a few elvira things and

she was in cars with cheech

uh paul rubins is pee-wee herman slash

desk

clerk he was also in the groundlings

he's obviously pee-wee

he was in midnight mattis and blues

brothers earlier this year he'll be back

in the next cheech and chong movie

uh nice dreams he does the voice of rx24

and star tours and max in flight of the

navigator

two very similar characters uh i was so

i was so upset that they replaced him on

the new star tours did they really

yeah why would they do that he's still

around i i was

it's all because it's all new star tour

stuff but i really miss him

uh he was also penguin's dad in batman

returns

yeah well because he and uh frenchie

yeah is the

penguin's mom who we just met at the the

the peewee's big adventure screening

that me and eddie went to the midnight

screening

he plays amelin in the buffy movie which

i forgot about until i saw that on his

video i was like oh yeah that was a

movie first he's also lock a nightmare

before christmas

he plays an fbi agent in matilda with he

is great yeah his partner is also a

batman

alumni and uh the two of them are just

hassling

his son danny devito who played the

penguin obviously

but yeah they're pretending to be like

boat salesmen or something like that

he's like there's no

there's no bodies of water around here

who are they selling boats to

and of course he was the spleen yeah

okay

we also when i worked at uh tom goes to

the mayor as an intern we had him as a

guest star for an episode

but i did not get to talk to him while

he was in the office but my favorite

role of his

all-time favorite role was gerhardt on

30 rock

where he plays this crippled habsburg

character

and uh he's so funny in them in those

episodes

doug cox played the cameraman on the set

of the fake movie

uh he played the beak in carrie he wrote

for peewee's playhouse

and he also showed up as mr murgatroyd

in the netflix peewee movie

uh big holiday or that's not big holiday

what is it

pee-wee's it is pee-wee's big holiday oh

it is pb's big holiday for some reason i

thought they didn't both have big in the

title but i guess they do

uh phil hartman was chick hazard private

eye you probably know him from snl

or peewee's playhouse as captain carl or

newsradio that's what he was doing

towards the end of his life

which was unfortunately cut short by his

wife who killed him

in their home he i get disoriented every

once in a while when

christopher walken hosts saturday night

live because they inevitably do

the continental sketch yeah where he's

talking to the camera

and they still use phil hartman's

introduction where he's like the sun is

set

the stars shine in the sky the night air

is tinged with anticipation

and it is time to meet the continental

but that's a funny sketch and we also

had him this year in stunt rock and the

gong show so far

and he's also known for a couple

priceless simpsons characters

lionel huts and troy mcclure and he was

going to be

the zapp brannigan voice for futurama

and uh

unfortunately he he was not around by

the time the show was actually coming

out

but uh i think billy west is doing a

fantastic job with the characters

yeah and and billy west's character fry

was given the first name philip

right in his honor oh i didn't know that

yeah

john paragon played the director in this

film he

was a writer and director of pee-wee's

playhouse the voices of

uh zombie and terry i guess not the

voice of johnny he's wearing makeup but

yeah he's not really a voice he is also

the voice

that's true uh he also i did not know

this until today

he plays r.j fletcher's son richard

fletcher in uhf

okay he's the one who's in the office

with his dad and he's like you thought

i don't pay you to think but dad shut up

because that's where they're revealing

that it's his son but we also have the

other line where he says

what do you think r.j fletcher senior

would be saying if he was alive today

and he says help me i'm in this box i

can't breathe in here help get me out

he's so great in that movie um he's also

the voice of dink

uncredited in spaceballs and uh he also

plays the economy flight attendant in

airplane two

and then the last credit i had here was

cassandra peterson as the hostage

she's elvira and all the elvira stuff

she plays the biker mama and peewee's

big adventure

and she will be psorias in allen

quartermaine and velocity of gold

later this decade

i thank you for bringing a file on

quartermaine yeah

allen quartermaine's great this movie's

a lot of fun i don't think it's as good

as up in smoke

i really like up in smoke i feel like

all these movies played on comedy

central non-stop when i was in high

school

they might have but believe it or not i

had never well i'd never seen this one

up until we watched it just now uh and i

had only ever seen one other

cheech and chong movie which i think i

watched about

10 years ago because i was sick at home

and it was on netflix

yeah and you know i it was

that it was open smoke and and that one

was okay i think you would like it more

if you re-watch it i think i would like

it more if i

were i laughed a lot at this movie i

don't know why i

appreciate this now 10 years later more

than i did 10 years ago i'm

i'm not a stoner i think i don't know a

lot of it is probably just california

culture too

that might be the case because 10 years

ago i was

relatively new to california yeah so uh

i had never seen

a cheech and chong movie other than

yellow beard oh really okay

are they both in that yeah they're both

they're both in it yeah

okay um and uh i hope to never see one

ever again

really uh i this one this one is very

aimless

i this is i don't think this is a fair

representation of most most chicha chong

movies

i think up and smoke is actually

genuinely funny stacy keach is the bad

guy in it

and it has a plot yeah see this movie

i was just like is anything going to

happen in this movie

there's there's really no plot to this

movie it's just like

wouldn't it be funny if this happened

and then this happened and then this

happened and it was

and it's mostly just a collection of

like mini sketches that are very hastily

scripted together

but i think up in smoke has a plot the

whole way through it which is

that they are unknowingly driving

a van made entirely of marijuana across

the border and they have a bunch of cops

following and they don't even know that

there's cops following them

but there's a there's an actual plot to

it and even like later films like

nice streams which you will have to

watch next year and

the next chichen chong movie which comes

out the following year like there's

it's like the early james bond stuff

there's like four years in a row of

of uh four cheech and chong movies but

um

but yeah they're they're not all as

aimless as this that that

would be my one complaint about this

movie is that uh like halfway through

the movie i was like

what is this about none of the scenes

seem to affect the next scene

there was no reason to take cheech out

of the movie and replace him with this

other kid i think he just wanted to be

play a different character and he's like

how can we have me play a different

character and they were like

we'll have a split up and you meet my

cousin and he's he's weird

because he didn't want to just play

cheech all the time

it's only the second movie well they've

been performing as cheech and chong for

a long

even the first time yes yeah okay i

didn't know they had out they have

comedy albums and stuff like that

beforehand

yeah but yeah it's a definite thumbs up

for me

i give it a thumbs up uh no it's a it's

a down for me

i think cheech also reminds me a lot of

my dad um

he reminds me a lot of you dad i mean my

dad's not mexican

my dad is just straight irish but he uh

they have a very similar build my dad

always had the exact same mustache

growing up and

he took the world about as seriously as

cheech does

in this movie and so i've every time i

watch them

ever since i was a kid even i was just

like this i don't know why but he just

reminds me a lot of my dad

and they do look similar but uh yeah so

i

i have it above the windows threshold i

don't know if richard's gonna agree with

this

uh for me i have it just barely above

that threshold though i have it um

a couple up from there have it in 48th

place for the year so far

just below folks and just above oh

heavenly dog

okay just above a heavenly dog

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well i liked it better than that one oh

that's right you you didn't hate oh

heavenly dog

like me and richard did no i was okay

with that yeah okay richard where's this

going

uh this is pretty low i have this uh

just below holy moses

which is below holy moses yeah what is

wrong with you i would much rather watch

holy moses

that didn't have a plot it had more of a

plot than that

no i never needed to see that one again

i don't ever need to see this one again

either

oh i'd watch it it made me laugh i

didn't laugh at a holy moses

uh i didn't laugh it either um uh so

which

has puts us above to all good night okay

which is number sixty woof i think this

goes for me

just below don't go in the house which

is above effects

which on your guys's lists would be way

better really low for me

yeah it's one two three four whoops

[ __ ] fourth what no

six seven eight nine

times four plus one thirty seventh place

i think that's everything for this one

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we'll be discussing honeysuckle rose

which imdb describes like so willie

nelson is a country singer

on the road caught in a romantic

triangle with diane cannon and amy

irving

the daughter of his longtime musical

sidekick

is this like a actual movie about

willie nelson i don't know okay i hope

it's

more that than roadie two

well i just don't know is he is he

playing himself or a character

we will find out all right it would be

funny if he is playing

a character and they describe it as

willie nelson is a country singer on the

road it's like hey

i know willie nelson is a country singer

these are people submitting these things

they're terrible

terrible descriptions no offense whoever

did this i yeah sorry

we leave you now with the trailer for

honeysuckle rose whether you're uptown

or down home

nothing beats a day in the country

willie nelson is buck bonham for 20

years he's been singing to the country

now he's living his own love songs

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going on between him and that female

guitar player he's got

wait a minute what are you talking about

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this summer warner brothers presents

something special

honeysuckle rose

[Applause]

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diane cannon irving

slim pickens and in his first starring

role in a major motion picture

a legend willie nelson

honeysuckle rose