Cheech And Chong Up In Smoke Watch

[Barb Magario]

Accordingto Wikipedia, there are seven "primary" Cheech and Chong films made between 1978 and 1985, all of which Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin wrote, directed, and starred in. This does not include any of the secondary Cheech and Chong spin-off films (of which there are many), or the animated Cheech and Chong film that was released in 2013.

Despite the fact that I've smoked weed habitually for the majority of my two and a half decades on this earth, I have somehow never seen anything in the Cheech and Chong canon, let alone the secondary stuff. Which, frankly, is shameful. So in honor of 4/20, I've decided to pay tribute to America's favorite stoners by smoking weed nonstop while I watch Up In Smoke, the first movie in the Cheech and Chong franchise, and live-blog my reactions.

I will also photograph my eyes at various intervals throughout the film to catalog my transformation from "normal" to "crazy stoned lizard." I think it will help you get a more visceral image of just how incoherently high I am. Here's my baseline:

Unfortunately, yesterday I woke up with such intense pain that I couldn't breathe deeply without feeling like my rib was being stabbed with a knife. I wasn't too alarmed because I have had chronic pain in my shoulder and rib cage for probably eight years. I've been to a lot of different doctors about it. My general practitioner recommended physical therapy, which was helpful. All the other doctors lectured me on drug abuse and did nothing to diagnose or treat my pain.

But despite my insistence that doctors wouldn't help me, my boyfriend, Tyler, took me to urgent care. I told him I would only go if he came into the room with me, in the hopes that having a white male professional in there would make my pain seem more legitimate. I think that worked; the doctor not only diagnosed me with a compressed nerve, but he also showered me with codeine and muscle relaxers to treat the pain.

12:53 PM

Oh my god. They're in the car and smoking a massive joint full of dog shit. Chong is saying how his dog accidentally ate his weed and he had to inspect his dog's poo for a week before the dog pooped out the weed. When he found the weed poo, he rolled it into a massive joint and now they're smoking dog shit.

1:00 PM

Cheech stopped in the middle of the road because he started freaking out from the dog shit weed and now cops are pulling up. In this scene, Chong follows the same advice my mother always gave me: If you get pulled over by the cops and you have weed on you, eat all the weed.

1:25PM

My ex had a mustache like Cheech. I went through this phase where I couldn't stop imagining him (my ex) ramming his dick into blocks of cheese and cold tubs of margarine. Don't ask me why. I don't understand it either.

2:05PM

Cheech and Chong are now headed to a battle of the bands at the Roxy? They don't know any songs and Chong appears to be unconscious on stage. Cheech is wearing nipple tassels and a tutu. He seems to think his outfit will make them win?

2:10PM

Okay, so hear me out on this one: In this scene, a cop dressed like a Hare Krishna accidentally got stoned because a van made of weed caught fire nearby, so now he is rubbing pizza all over his face and body.

There really is something special about getting super stoned, throwing on a movie, and just getting lost in the screen. The toughest part is usually picking a movie, so today Tough Mama is helping out with some of the best movies to watch high.

The first of many stoner buddy films on this list, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is about, well, Harold and Kumar going to White Castle (a burger joint, for those unfamiliar). The premise is pretty simple, two buds get super high and need to cure their munchies, but their trip quickly turns into a gnarly adventure with Neil Patrick Harris (played by Neil Patrick Harris).

Cheech and Chong are the OG stoner buddies, so a list of stoner movies has to include the iconic duo. Up in Smoke is their first movie and the grandfather to all subsequent weed comedies. Just two men who love to smoke, getting into a series of shenanigans. This one is an oldie but goodie, and a great option for your next high movie viewing party.

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