History Film / ChasingAmy

** And MyGirlIsNotASlut, present in ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' as well. Also a lampshading of the ''DegrassiJuniorHigh'' references in the previous two movies.

* RefugeInAudacity: Most of the movie, but especially this exchange.
-->'''Hooper X:''' ''"And [[ReturnOfTheJedi Jedi]] is the most insulting installment! Because Vader's beautiful black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They trying to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white!"''\\
'''Banky:''' ''"Well, isn't that true?"''

-->'''Banky:''' [[FetishFuel I got a weird thing for girls who say, "Aboot".]]

* {{Armoured Closet Gay}} [[spoiler:Banky is apparently with Hooper in]] ''{{Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back}}'', though he could also possibly just be bisexual.

* HookedUpAfterwards: Banky and [[spoiler:Hooper]] in ''{{Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back}}''.

->''"She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away. So, I've spent every day since then chasing Amy. So to speak."''

''Chasing Amy'' is a 1997 romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Creator/KevinSmith. It is the third film in the View Askewniverse series. The film focuses on two comic book artists: Holden [=McNeil=] (Creator/BenAffleck), a heterosexual male, and Alyssa Jones (JoeyLaurenAdams), a lesbian-identified woman.

The movie contains frank sexual dialogue, and was originally inspired by a brief scene from an early movie by a friend of Smith's, Guin Turner's ''Go Fish'', wherein one of the lesbian characters imagines her friends passing judgment on her for "selling out" by sleeping with a man. In real life, Kevin Smith was dating Joey Lauren Adams at the time he was writing the script, which was also partly inspired by her.

The film won two awards at the 1998 Independent Spirit Awards (Best Screenplay for Smith and Best Supporting Actor for Jason Lee) and Joey Lauren Adams was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical.

* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Subverted and discussed at length. It's almost a deconstruction! After all, the guy loses the girl because [[spoiler:he can't cope with her past]].

* PronounTrouble

* [[{{HoYay/Film}} Ho Yay]]: Banky and Holden. SO MUCH. [[spoiler:It's [[WordOfGay text]], not subtext, that the reason Banky dislikes Alyssa so much is because he's in love with Holden and doesn't realise it]].
** Not only that, but Holden points all this stuff out.
** The [[HeroOfAnotherStory heroes of another story]], Alyssa's ex-boyfriends who nicknamed her "finger cuffs", certainly apply.

* BerserkButton: "You're a fucking '''tracer'''!"

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone's able to move on with their lives and Holden in particular becomes a better person in the end, but neither his relationship with Alyssa nor his friendship with Banky survive.]]

''ChasingAmy'' is a 1997 romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Creator/KevinSmith. It is the third film in the View Askewniverse series. The film focuses on two comic book artists: Holden [=McNeil=] (Creator/BenAffleck), a heterosexual male, and Alyssa Jones (JoeyLaurenAdams), a lesbian-identified woman.

* ChekhovsGun: Two, but they don't go off until subsequent movies. Jay and Silent Bob's bus tickets to Illinois get them to the midwest in time for the plot of ''{{Dogma}}'', and Banky and Holden's comic book (turned movie) becomes the major plot of ''{{Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back}}''.
** There's a third one: A blurb in one of the newspapers in the beginning reveals Brodie has quit his job as the host of the Tonight Show and opened up a comic book store, linking this movie to both ''{{Mallrats}}'' and ''{{Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back}}''.
** One of the newspapers also mentioned the character Mooby, whose chain of restaurants is featured prominently in ''Dogma'' and ''ClerksII''.

** Bizarrely enough, doubles with ActorAllusion ''twice over''. The scene where Alyssa's lesbian friends chastise her for "selling out" (her lesbianism by hooking up with Holden) mirrors a scene in ''Go Fish''. The scene here features Guinevere Turner, who shares a name with Adams' character in ''{{Mallrats}}''. Turner also wrote and appeared in ''Go Fish'' (although not in the scene in question).

** And MyGirlIsNotASlut, present in ''{{Clerks}}'' as well. Also a lampshading of the ''DegrassiJuniorHigh'' references in the previous two movies.

** YOUR MOTHER'S A TRACER!

* LetMeTellYouAStory: Silent Bob's title drop speech.

* ShoutOut: Alyssa and Banky comparing lovemaking scars is nearly identical to the famous scene from ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.

''ChasingAmy'' is a 1997 romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Creator/KevinSmith. It is the third film in the View Askewniverse series. The film focuses on two comic book artists: Holden [=McNeil=] (BenAffleck), a heterosexual male, and Alyssa Jones (JoeyLaurenAdams), a lesbian-identified woman.

* IAmNotShazam: The female love interest is named Alyssa, not Amy.

* OneSceneWonder: Jay and Silent Bob show up almost an hour and a half into the movie, say their piece and leave. Their scene not only features Silent Bob's TheOneThatGotAway speech which kicks off the final act of the movie but also has some of the funniest dialog in the movie.

* DropWhatYouAreDoing: Banky drops a bottle of milk when he walks into his and Holden's apartment to find Holden and Alyssa asleep naked on the couch.

* NoBisexuals: [[spoiler: Despite Alyssa being a "lesbian" and then turning out to sleep with (and have previously slept with) men, the word bisexual is never mentioned once. Also the UnfortunateImplications of her lesbian friends unrealistically disowning her from the group for sleeping with a guy.]]