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Who started the stoner surfer stereotype character in movies?
Posted on 4/26/24 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 4/26/24 at 4:27 pm
If it wasn’t Penn as Jeff Spicoli I’m guessing he at least got it into the mainstream but was this voice and mannerism done somewhere before that?
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Posted on 4/26/24 at 4:36 pm to JumpingTheShark
Cheech and Chong
Posted on 4/26/24 at 4:40 pm to Esquire
Cheech don't surf.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 4:55 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Penn as Jeff Spicoli
One of the most detestable characters in cinema, in my book.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 5:01 pm to Esquire
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Cheech and Chong
This is the answer I'd go with. I can remember when they first hit the airwaves on radio, TV, movies and their LP's. They epitomized the stoner 60's hippy types loaded on weed and magic mushrooms.
Sean Penn as Spicoli brought it to the screen 3 years after Cheech and Chong were in "Up In Smoke" in 79.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 5:08 pm to VoxDawg
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detestable
Explain.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 5:14 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
That character makes me irrationally angry. He's a worthless stoner piece of shite. Not my cup of tea. Neither is that garbage ticket scalper, Damone.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 5:32 pm to VoxDawg
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That character makes me irrationally angry. He's a worthless stoner piece of shite
Sounds like a nerve was hit.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 7:01 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Who started the stoner surfer stereotype character in movies?
the fact that it is reality
next question
Posted on 4/26/24 at 7:32 pm to JumpingTheShark
To answer the thread I wouldn’t be surprised if it could be traced back to the 1960s. Possibly later 50’s when surfing in CA worked its way into Hollywood culture.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 8:08 pm to JumpingTheShark
Donald Sutherland in Kelly's Heroes 1970
This post was edited on 4/26/24 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 4/26/24 at 8:16 pm to VoxDawg
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One of the most detestable characters in cinema, in my book
Posted on 4/26/24 at 8:54 pm to JumpingTheShark
Are they wrong?
Posted on 4/26/24 at 8:56 pm to JumpingTheShark
maybe Doobie Gillis ( actor that played Gilligan) was an early archetype of this character
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:32 pm to JumpingTheShark
John Philip Law as the hippie in Skidoo (1968)
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:33 pm to VoxDawg
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One of the most detestable characters in cinema, in my book.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:35 pm to OWLFAN86
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maybe Doobie Gillis ( actor that played Gilligan) was an early archetype of this character
Maynard G. Krebs was a stoner beatnik, the second cousin to the stoner surfer.
This post was edited on 4/26/24 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:35 pm to OWLFAN86
1944
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:36 pm to RB10
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Funny surfer dude
Well that dude admitted (which we kinda knew) that he was doing a bit....and trying to be Spicoli funny for that stupid interview.... Just to get attention and piss off the interviewer.
This post was edited on 4/26/24 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:42 pm to JumpingTheShark
Spicoli
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