Originally conceived by Reitman as “Cheech and Chong join the army,” but retailored for Murray and Ramis when C&C insisted on complete creative control, Stripes is an irreverent, anarchic slacker comedy about two single, unemployed friends who join the US Army for shits and giggles, fomenting chaos at basic training and heroically penetrating the iron curtain. Reportedly, the bonkers mud-wrestling scene was largely improvised, with Murray and Ramis dragging uninformed screen legend Warren Oates into the mud, who chips his tooth in the process