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Cheech & Chong's Next Movie Part 1 (Edited TV version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83kj9ukVLQ
This is first of 11 parts of the revisionist "drug-free" version
of Cheech And Chong's Next Movie (1980) in bad picture and
worse sound quality. This odd thing showed up on the cable
channel Comedy Central last century and earlier on broadcast
channels, even though the whole unedited original had already
been broadcast on independent stations.
This edited version may be of interest to those who've
already seen the original, to see how odd it is, with
outtake footage inserted, cartoons inserted, constant
background music throughout the movie that wasn't in
the original, but no Pretenders song "Space Invader" at the
end credits. The edited version is pretty long
considering it feels like half the original was deleted.
References to "weed" (marijuana) become diamond chips.
More time is devoted to alien scenes in the beginning
and end of the film.
But's it's not all drug-free, a drug joke about "blow"
(cocaine) is retained. At least the edited version
is now tobacco-free, unless I missed something.
Also the edited movie retains some of the sex jokes,
and depicts 2 seconds of "Chicken Charlie" (he
walks about in a chicken costume making clucking noises
near a woman tied up on a table).
Words changed: Pee Wee's comment to the police that "I
think they're Iranians!" becomes "I think they're
Communists!. In the edited version Cheech accosts a
pedestrian in a lewd way becomes something like "will
you donate to the Cheech And Chong Family Teen Park?"
That comment and the charity poster shown a few times implies
that the plot of the movie is to raise funds for a charity,
the Cheech And Chong Family Teen Park.
But these youtube videos are such low quality (think below
EP speed VHS) it's really only of interest to those
who compare it to the original movie.
And for those who say that "newer is always better" the
revisionist version is certainly newer than the
original, like all TV edits are newer than the films they
were edited from.
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