Weed was the essential primer that transformed the performers into comic geniuses by first transforming its audience into giggling morons. The squares that the duo goofed on across their eight films-institution figures ranging from cops to narcos to nuns to bosses-looked down on Cheech and Chong as hippie jesters for idiots, palatable solely to those wastrels who had sufficiently lowered their consciousness enough to chuckle at the doofus wordplay and poop jokes. But back when their stand-up tours were the scourge of moral watchdog groups and local police departments, the common knock against the pair was that they were only funny if you were stoned too. With marijuana currently nearing legalization on a federal level, it’s been a while since the drug was scandalous enough to make the comedic stylings of Tommy Chong and Richard “Cheech” Marin seem subversive. “Does Howdy Doody got wooden balls, man?” Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.

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