the first cheech and chong movie came out in 1978.
the first cheech and chong movie came out in 1978.
when did the first cheech and chong movie come out?
1978
bullet::::- in the cheech and chong movie "up in smoke" (1978), quaaludes are mentioned in several places. while driving the "van made entirely out of marijuana", which the narcotic sergeant stadenko is pursuing, cheech and chong pick up two hitchhiking women. one of them, jade east, offers chong a 'lude. at the roxy theatre, she gives chong pills she believes are uppers, but which are actually quaaludes, before he attempts to perform. chong's stage persona during his band's performance is "captain quaalude"; he is dressed in tights, a shirt emblazoned with a huge quaalude, and a cape. chong's apparent overdose on quaaludes causes him to fall all over the stage and his drums, until he is revived by marijuana smoke being drawn into the roxy's ventilation system from the van burning in front of the club.
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cheech and chong wander through the desert again until they're picked up again, this time by comedian rip taylor, whose puns and props make chong cry. the comedian drives the two into las vegas and drops them off at a restaurant, and has them dressed up as women to cover up their rags. cheech and chong start to dine at the restaurant, before the arabs show up for dinner as well, having escaped the desert. before they can eat, all the peyote chong consumed begins to mess with his mind. chong becomes emotional and confused, and when the arabs begin to notice, the stoners try to escape. however, their wigs fall off, and the arabs realize it's cheech and chong. the arabs chase the stoners out of the restaurant and through the streets of vegas. cheech and chong run into a women's-only porno theater with the murder-happy arabs on their tail. in the theater, the arabs see the showing of the hidden camera film of the stoners having sex with the arabs' girlfriends. while the arabs watch, inspired, cheech and chong escape. the stoners ditch the women's clothes and set out on foot to leave las vegas. the next day, as cheech and chong walk out of the city, a car pulls up, and cheech and chong get in, to find the arabs and their french girlfriends. at first, cheech and chong are terrified and try to escape, but mr. slyman reveals that, instead of killing them, the arabs have decided to cast the duo in porn films and launder the money through the enterprise.
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