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The sun beat down on the shimmering asphalt of a Santa Monica parking lot, where a massive, fiberglass ice cream cone sat perched atop a beat-up mail truck. Inside, the air was a thick, fragrant fog of "tutti-frutti" smoke and high-octane ambition.

Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams is a 1981 stoner comedy film and the third starring vehicle for the legendary comedy duo Cheech Marin Tommy Chong

"I can't, man," Chong said, leaning back as the ocean breeze hit his face. "I’m on break. Besides, look at the sunset. It’s like... God’s own airbrush painting, man."

: Appears as "Howie Hamburger Dude," an early, more aggressive incarnation of his Pee-wee Herman Timothy Leary

Looking back at the high-spirited (and highly smokey) world of 1981, Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams

The Hustle: Cheech and Chong become wealthy selling a stolen, high-potency strain of marijuana from an ice cream truck in Los Angeles.