Trivia / Cheech & Chong

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The original recording of “Dave” does not feature the line “Dave’s not here, man.” The “man” part was added in later parodies. Although the word man appears throughout the skit, at no point does it follow the “Dave’s not here” line.
• Breakaway Pop Hit: "Born in East L.A." (a Cheech solo song credited to Cheech & Chong) originally premiered in the video and album Get Out Of My Room, but is better known thanks to being turned into a Cheech solo movie of the same name, which briefly featured the song that it was based on. It's also the only song from the album that the two acknowledge, as they performed a revamped version during their reunion tours (with a salsa interlude to highlight Chong and Shelby's salsa dancing, something they took up as a hobby in the 1990s).
• Creator Backlash:
  • Chong disliked Get Out Of My Room because he had little input towards all of the songs in the album and its videos, and it was mostly Cheech's vanity project throughout the production. The album and video's hit single, "Born in East L.A." didn't even feature Chong at all. Neither were satisfied with Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers.
  • Cheech felt this way toward the entire Cheech & Chong filmography when he was trying to establish himself as a serious actor. He also felt that their formula was getting stale and that if he continued working with Chong, they would have eventually ended up like Abbott and Costello and made movies like Cheech & Chong Go To Mars. However, Cheech later reembraced the stoner following that made him famous in the first place and eventually reconciled with Chong.
• Dawson Casting: Parodied in Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers as the duo plays their characters' as babies.
• Referenced by...: Sunset Overdrive: The Eazzy Pizzy pizza of "Veg Out", a vegetarian and cannabis joke, with a description of "Dave's not here, man...". It's made of cheese, mushroom, peppers, olives, onion, tomato.
• Throw It In!: "Dave's Not Here, Man" was the result of an improv session gone wrong. Chong thought that their cassette player wasn't recording, but didn't want to disturb the flow of their scene, so he tried to steer Cheech away from the scene which they had planned to act out with his character's Obfuscating Stupidity.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The hyenas Shenzi and Banzai from The Lion King (1994) were written in an attempt to reunite the duo, but the two were not on speaking terms at the time, so Chong's character was rewritten as a female (it helps that hyenas are typically matriarchies, making the now female-lead hyena pack a case of Accidentally-Correct Writing). Chong would eventually appear as a different character in a different Disney movie with animals.
  • Stripes was originally conceived as a star vehicle for them, but they were turned down because they wanted complete creative control.

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