History YMMV / Mallrats

** Brodie insisting it would be impossible for ComicBook/LoisLane to carry Franchise/{{Superman}}'s baby to term. [[Film/SupermanReturns Yeah]], [[ComicBook/JonathanSamuelKent about]] [[Series/SupermanAndLois that...]]

** In an age where the the general public is less accepting of the word "retarded" or it's derivatives, considering it to be equally as offensive as any of the worst racial slurs (especially after ''Film/TropicThunder'''s infamous "full retard" scene), René proclaiming her love for Brody by saying she "love(s) the little retard" doesn't come off nearly as endearing.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is pretty much dripping with 90s culture, from the outfits to the music. Even ''Truth Or Date'', despite being a 60s/70s throwback, is indicative of what was nostalgic ''in'' the 90s. Arguably, even just setting the movie in and around a shopping mall has noticeably dated it, given the decline of shopping malls in the 2010s and '20s due to the rise of online shopping exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is pretty much dripping with 90s culture, from the outfits to the music. Even ''Truth Or Date'', despite being a 60s/70s throwback, is indicative of what was nostalgic ''in'' the 90s.

!!The movie

!!The fanfic

* ShockingMoments: The fight scene can be jarring the first time you read the story, since it involves ''[[NiceGirl Leni Loud]]'' beating the crap out of the bullies.
* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: Fight scene aside, the fic is a beautiful little SliceOfLife, with Lincoln enjoying hanging out with Leni and learning that there's [[HiddenDepths more to her than he first thought]].
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* ShockingMoments: The fight scene can be jarring the first time you read the story, since it involves [[NiceGirl Leni Loud]] ''beating the crap'' out the bullies.

* ShockingMoments: The fight scene can be jarring the first time you read this story, since [[NiceGirl Leni Loud]] suddenly starts physically ''fighting'' the bullies.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Some ''{{Series/Charmed|1998}}'' fans watch the movie for Creator/ShannenDoherty, as it's one of her few big theatrical roles.

** The opening credits had parody comics featuring the characters. Shannon's (Creator/BenAffleck) was called ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Buttman]] [[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Adventures]]''. Nineteen years later, Affleck was announced as the next Batman.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Creator/KevinSmith only brought back Jay and Silent Bob because he wanted to see Jason Mewes play Jay one more time. After seeing the positive feedback to the characters, he felt confident enough to include them in all of his View Askew films.

* HarsherInHindsight: Jay's dedicated stoner persona can be a bit of this considering the actor Jason Mewes' later addiction problems.

* HarsherInHindsight: Jay's dedicated stoner persona can be a bit of this considering the actor Jason Mewes' later addiction problems.

* FriendlyFandoms: With Creator/MichaelMoore's ''Film/CanadianBacon'', which was produced by the same studio and opened around the same time to similarly horrid returns. Smith and Moore later had to do a press conference together for their respective films and reportedly sulked all the way through, asking one another how much they had anticipated their movies would make.

*** And of course, Stan Lee's cameo to begin with, as this was a good decade before he'd become famous for having a CreatorCameo in every movie in the MCU.

** ChildProdigy purposefully seeking out and initiating sex on her own terms or not, Tricia is still 15 years old (though at least [[DawsonCasting played by an adult actress]]), so legally speaking, she's actually getting raped by multiple adult men, as no circumstances whatsoever can change the fact that she's too young to consent, whether or not she says she does. Audiences in 1995 would've seen this as risqué, but not offensive, but audiences 20+ years later would see it as [[PaedoHunt enabling pedophiles]].

* SweetDreamsFuel: Fight scene aside, the fic is a beautiful little SliceOfLife, with Lincoln enjoying hanging out with Leni and learning that there's [[HiddenDepths more to her than he first thought]].

** In the extended cut, Brodie clarifies that it wasn't the theme from ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' that he had Rene do a striptease to -- it was ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats''. Six years later, Universal's [[Film/JosieAndThePussycats film adaptation of that property]] would follow a similar trajectory as this movie did (BoxOfficeBomb, then a CultClassic VindicatedByCable).