Nice Dreams

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Nice Dreams

Directed by	Tommy Chong
Produced by	Howard Brown
Written by	Cheech Marin Tommy Chong
Starring	Cheech Marin Tommy Chong Evelyn Guerrero Stacy Keach Paul Reubens Timothy Leary Peter Jason
Music by	Harry Betts
Cinematography	Charles Correll Brianne Murphy
Editing by	Thomas K. Advildsen Tony Lombardo
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	1981
Running time	88 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Nice Dreams was Cheech and Chong's third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Paramount. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero and Timothy Leary. Chong also directed the film.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Having stolen a large amount of experimental marijuana, Cheech and Chong decide to make a fortune by selling dope-infused ice cream from their truck, which they name Happy Herb's Nice Dreams. Business is good and introduces them to a variety of freaks and weirdos. While Sgt. Stedanko (Keach reprising his role from Up in Smoke) slowly turns into a lizard (a side effect of smoking the secret recipe dope), the pair meet a coke-snorting mental patient (Paul Reubens) and redheaded Chicken Man in the mental asylum where Cheech freaks out when offered "the key to the universe" by the doctor (Timothy Leary). They find long-lost love (Guerrero reprising her role of Donna from Cheech & Chong's Next Movie) and straight-jacketed Cheech scoots around a padded cell desperately asking for someone to relieve an itch. Michael Winslow does a Jimi Hendrix routine and Cheech pretends to swim on top of a stepladder while the police are in a helicopter overhead. Ray White also makes a cameo appearances as "Ray". Chong comes into the kitchen of the house that they were cultivating in and Ray is at the table. While rolling a joint, Chong enquires as to Ray's status and also asks him "How's Frank".

[edit] Trivia

The song Cheech and Chong sing at the beginning of the film, "Save the Whale, Shoot the Seal" is a parody of "Don't Kill the Whale" by the band Yes.

Sandra Bernhard, Tony Cox, Ray White and Geri Jewell make brief appearances during the mental asylum scenes.

Novelty artist Afroman paid tribute to the Happy Herb's truck in his "Because I Got High" video.

Paul Reubens' line: "You're the guy from the hamburger train, right?", is sampled at the beginning of, and lends the title to, the instrumental jam "Hamburger Train" from Primus's Pork Soda.