Peter Sellers plays square attorney Harold Fine. We see him driving around a parking garage in his huge Lincoln Continental. It had to have been murder trying to park that thing, but I don't think that was the point.
I don't know if this is common knowledge anymore, but Alice B. Toklas was Gertrude Stein's girlfriend for years. In 1954, she published the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, as much memoir as recipe book. It included a recipe for hashish fudge. In the movie, a hippie girl makes cannabis brownies which Sellers unwittingly serves his fiancee (Joyce Van Patten) and his parents when they drop in on him.
At their wedding, Harold panics and leaves Joyce Van Patten at the altar. He becomes a hippie but wisely keeps his Lincoln. He has ridiculous-looking long hair like in What's New, Pussycat.
In one scene, Sellers laughs uncontrollably when a conservative-looking man comes into a hippie clothing store and buys a dress for himself, but that was while Sellers' character was still a square. Although, once he becomes a hippie, he tells his new girlfriend not to hitchhike, or to only take rides from women, and, he adds, "make sure she's not a dyke". An odd line in a movie where they keep playing the theme song with the line, "I love you Alice B. Toklas/and so did Gertrude Stein."
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