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Up in Smoke
1978 · Film · 86 min
Directed by Lou Adler
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
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I'm pretty certain I've rewatched Sideways more than any other film.
Yeah i guessed Up in Smoke which did use the tune so seems like it needs to accept any correct answer or provide something that narrows it to a specific movie. But I like the idea.
They even made a film with this car. It's called: Up in Smoke.
There's this joke that may have originated in a Cheech and Chong movie ("Up in Smoke") that you should have ice cream after eating anything really spicy. The idea is that a day later when your spicy meal is making its exit, you can say "come on ice cream"[1] expecting the ice cream to cool things down for you.
About a thirty minute drive from me is Sunni Sky's[2] ice cream in Angier, NC. They have a flavor called Cold Sweat[3] which includes among other things ghost pepper extract.
They require you to sign a waiver[4] before letting you taste it.
Then they ask you if you want the baby taste or the real taste. Assuming you go for the real taste (as I did), in addition to handing you a mouthful of Cold Sweat, they are standing by with a second spoonful of vanilla for putting out the fire in your mouth.
Now I like really spicy food. I'll order things as hot as they'll let me in most Thai restaurants. So I was able to finish the full size taste of Cold Sweat they gave me, but there is no possible way I could have eaten a full scoop.
After finishing my taste, I glance up at their menu and notice a flavor called "Exit Wound." Upon asking what it is, they tell me it's about twice as hot as Cold Sweat.
Let me just say about these flavors: ice cream won't save you this time[5].
The flavor has made the local news[6] and Food TV[7].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyQoLtqB0s
[2] http://www.sunniskys.com
[3] http://www.coldsweaticecream.com
[4] http://www.coldsweaticecream.com/Cold_Sweat_Waiver.htm
[5] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL9vXAih2HI
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8oy_zYRTZ0
I never understood how Ebert became so popular. I remember (years ago) when he lambasted Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke", thinking that he just didn't get it. The movie was about two stoners in a van making stoner jokes for a stoner audience. That's what it set out to do, and that's what it did. You can't properly critique a movie without taking in context what the goal was - something he consistently failed to do.