Word: doped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canada," adds Cheech, "the police use our films as training: how burned out you can get. When it comes to making films about drugs, if it wasn't us, it'd be somebody else. I believe there's good and bad dope," he continues, "If I believed dope was bad for you, well, you know..." and his voice trails off in a degenerate sigh...
AMERICAN HUMOR traditionally smells of liquor. There is no comic worthy of the Chateau de Ville who doesn't do a drunk routine, staggering, his speech slurring, his audience howling. But new markets are always opening up; in the last decade, dope has starred in a number of movies. Rarely has it played a bigger role than in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, the touching story of three men, half a dozen women, and a duffle bag of marijuana...
...little thrilling to see illicit drugs on the big screen, thrilling enough that they will howl and yell and carry on at the sight of the drug. And so the pair, aging Chicano drifters, draw laughs with an elaborate series of sight gags and one-liners, all connected to dope...
Together long enough to master timing and goofy faces, the pair are best when they forget about dope and concentrate on telling jokes. When hundreds of police arrive to arrest them, they innocently wander out the back way, mingle with the cops, and make an eight-track recording of their sirens. This may not sound funny, but it is--humor being relative. Later, they play the instruments in a music store so loudly that they catch on fire. They take over the stage in a nightclub and tell dirty jokes until a chair-throwing brawl breaks out. They wander through...
...only if you ask, it's not everyone who gets to spend their nights on a park bench, awakened three or four times each night by the Boston Police, bothered by kids who won't let him enjoy his high in peace, who want to steal his dope or just jabber with him because they're still soaring...