It's me, Dave... open up, man, I got the stuff!

not_on_display — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:07:44 -0800

[Rated NSFW, depending on where you work] | I got a Basketball Jones. (original animation) | D-A-V-E!! Open up! | Earache? Earache, my eye! | class...? Class...? | HardHAT! This is Codename Hardhat! | Ralph and Herbie | Where there's smoke, there's Cheech and Chong! Richard Marin and Thomas B Kim Chong met in Vancouver in 1970, during a short stint where they both performed improv comedy at Tommy's brother's nightclub. When the improv group disbanded, they teamed up as Cheech and Chong, touring comedy venues, and eventually landing in Los Angeles, where they were discovered by a record exec and signed. In 1971, they went into the studio, and started recording comedy albums. This is the part of the FPP where I pause, while you light up, mix a drink, or imbibe in the drug of your choice. Watching and listening to the following clips while sober may result in fatigue. OK, ready? Great! Now, what was I tallking about...? ...oh yeah! Here, man! Cheech and Chong (1971) Dave | Blind Melon Chitlin' | Trippin' in Court | Vietnam | Still waiting for Dave (vs. 2001) Big Bambu (1972). The original LP sleeve was manufactured to look like a giant rolling paper package, and originally contained an LP-sized rolling paper. Sister Mary Elephant (and, a completly lipsynced stage recreation) | Ralph and Herbie | Let's Make a Dope Deal (at 3:42, after Sister Mary Elephant) Los Cochinos (1973) Seargant Stadanko (Sister Mary Elephant II) | Basketball Jones (original animation!) -- Check out the lineup on this song, and how often this cartoon was featured elsewhere! Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album (1974) Earache my Eye | The Three Little Pigs Sleeping Beauty (1976) T.W.A.T. (Tactical Women's Alert Team) | Framed (via an excellent Lupin AMV) In 1978, Cheech and Chong released their first movie, Up in Smoke. Up in Smoke | Original Trailer | - Codename Hardhat! | Earache My Eye | Fuck me, Alex! The whole movie in ten parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Deleted scenes Here's a series of skits, performed live in 1978 at some nightclub: Intro | Let's Make a New Dope Deal | Blind Melon Chitlin | Earache my Eye | Adult Movie Theater | A Word from one of our sponsors | Low Rider part 1 | Low Rider part 2 | Chinese Restaurant | Red Neck | Sister Mary Elephant | Reverend Dyke | Queer Wars | Ralph and Herbie | Chicanos | Hairy Palms An interview with Aussie schmendrick Norman Gunston. Two reels of clips from Up In Smoke and Cheech and Chong's next movie, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie. Let's Make a New Dope Deal (1980) Queer Wars (via a puppet show) Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980) Trailer | Loud guitar | Mexican Americans / Beaners! (song) | Pee and coke | At the welfare office | Ain't that a peach? | Pendejos! | Pee Wee Herman's cameo | Chong's Peach | Space Coke (ending) Nice Dreams (1981) My balls itch | big sticks | At the gym | Save the Whales (song) | 1st 9 minutes of movie | a surreal russian dub | Stacy Keach sounds cooler with a french accent. By now, the well is starting to run dry... Things Are Tough All Over (1982) Chong's Bad Trip (with Rip Taylor) | Sensitive | [I didn't watch this one] | Herpes on his head | Me and my old lady (song) Still Smokin' (1983) Invisible Wrestler | Ralph and Herbie The Corsican Brothers (1984) - Their first movie that didn't have anything to do with weed. Also, their last feature-length movie. [another one I didn't watch] | Getting Brother Drunk | My sword is broken They were in Yellowbeard, too. Here's their section from a documentary on the making of Yellowbeard. Get Out of my Room (1985) Born in East L.A. | I'm Not Home Right Now | Get Out of my Room And, one of my favorite Xmastime classics: Santa Claus and his Old Lady After Get Out of My Room, they went their separate ways. "Which ways?" you may ask. "Which ways what?" I respond. "Which ways did Cheech and Chong go?" you ask, a little more irritated. "Far out, man," I respond. Cheech became a respected voice and character actor, and one of the world's foremost collectors of Chicano Art. And Chong? "After a fully armed SWAT team raided the 65 year-old comedian's home in February of 2003, Tommy Chong was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute drug paraphernalia through Chong Glass, a family business specializing in handmade glass water pipes, or 'bongs.' Of the 55 defendants prosecuted, Tommy Chong was the only one with no prior convicitons to receive jail time. Justifying the 9 month sentence, the prosecutor cited the classic 1978 movie Cheech & Chong film Up In Smoke as evidence that he had become wealthy 'trivializing law enforcement efforts to combat marijuana trafficking and use.'" A documentary, A/K/A Tommy Chong (review), was made of his ordeal; he also published a book, The I Chong. Here's Chong, promoting The I Chong at a bookstore appearance. Here's a bit of Chong's standup, and here's an interview with fellow Alternative Canadian Walk of Fame inductee, Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Here's Tommy Chong's youtube blog. Now I'm going to go eat a tub of ice cream. Adios!

Guns don't kill people, bongs kill people

homunculus — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:16:18 -0800

Tommy Chong in prison. 3 months into his 9 month prison sentence for selling bongs, the LA City Beat talks to Tommy Chong and the LA Weekly talks with his family about the details of his case. [Via Drug WarRant.]

I thought they were for tobacco

Ignatius J. Reilly — Wed, 14 May 2003 13:28:07 -0800

Feds hit the Bongs [and, by extension, the Chong]. The venerable entertainer Tommy Chong is the latest to go down in a recent bizarre DOJ sting against online retailers of smoking accessories that stems from a 1994 supreme court ruling removing from prosecutors the burden of proving that a retailer intended a product to be put to an illegal use. An odd campaign and questionable use of limited resources, indeed, but more shockingly, now that the man has Chong, who's next?

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It's me, Dave... open up, man, I got the stuff!

Guns don't kill people, bongs kill people

I thought they were for tobacco