<P> Though the film was panned by most critics, it was a box office success and has managed to achieve a cult status, partially from frequent airings on cable television . The film's title became a minor catch phrase, and was commonly reworked in various pop cultural contexts during the 2000s . </P> <P> Jesse and Chester awaken with hangovers and no memory of the previous night . The television is on, showing an Animal Planet program about how animals use twigs and rocks as tools to get food . Their refrigerator is filled with containers of chocolate pudding, and the answering machine contains an angry message from their twin girlfriends Wilma and Wanda as to their whereabouts . They emerge from their home to find Jesse's car missing, and with it their girlfriends' first - anniversary presents . This prompts Jesse to ask the film's titular question: "Dude, where's my car?" </P> <P> Because the girls have promised them a "special treat", which Jesse and Chester take to mean sex, the men are desperate to retrieve their car . The duo begins retracing their steps in an attempt to discover where they left the car . Along the way, they encounter a transgender stripper, a belligerent speaker box operator at a Chinese restaurant's drive - through, two appropriately - worded tattoos they discover on on each other's backs, UFO cultists led by Zoltan (who later hold the twins hostage), a Cantonese - speaking Chinese tailor, the Zen - minded Nelson and his cannabis - loving dog, the attractive Christie Boner, the aggressive jock Tommy (who is the boyfriend of Christie) and his friends, a couple of hard - nosed police detectives, and a reclusive French ostrich farmer named Pierre . They also meet two groups of aliens, one group being five gorgeous women, the other being two Norwegian men, searching for the "Continuum Transfunctioner"; a mysterious and powerful device, capable of destroying the universe, that the boys accidentally picked up last night . </P> <P> After Pierre releases the duo after they answered a question about ostriches correctly, Jesse and Chester head over to a local arcade named Captain Stu's Space - O-Rama . Once inside, they encounter Zultan and his cultists who give them Wilma and Wanda in exchange for the Continuum Transfunctioner (which is a toy that Jesse and Chester tried to pass off as the Transfunctioner); Tommy, Christie, and the jocks arrive along with Nelson and his dog (whom they release after Tommy snatches the fake Transfunctioner from Zoltan). The two sets of aliens arrive and notify of the real Continuum Transfunctioner: a Rubik's Cube that Chester has been working hard to solve, and eventually does (thus activating it). They are warned that once the five lights stop flashing, the universe will be destroyed . </P>

Dude where's my car thing they are looking for