Line #72 Film/Mallrats


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3	->''"They're not there to shop. They're not there to work. [[TheSlacker They're just there]]."''
4	--> '''{{Tagline}}'''
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6	A 1995 film by Creator/KevinSmith, and part of Film/TheViewAskewniverse. It is the second entry into this series, although chronologically [[{{Prequel}} set before]] the first film of the verse, ''Film/{{Clerks}}''.
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8	T.S. and Brodie are comic-book loving slackers who have both recently broken up with their respective girlfriends. Seeking solace at the local mall, they find ways to sabotage their exes' plans and to try and woo them back- all while dealing with a host of crazy and colorful people, both good and evil. Like all Smith films, this film has quite a bit of VulgarHumor. It was filmed in Eden Prairie Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, which at the time was a tired and dying mall with low traffic (it has since been extensively renovated).
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10	Taking place a day before ''Film/{{Clerks}}'', with the usual parodies and ''Star Wars'' references (and a surprising [[TheCameo cameo]] by [[Creator/StanLee Stan 'The Man' Lee]]). It was also then-skateboarding superstar Creator/JasonLee's first major acting role.
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12	Though it is now considered just as much a cult classic as ''Clerks'', at its time of theatrical release it significantly underperformed the earlier film on a '''much''' higher budget (grossing less than $2.5 million of its $6 million budget) and, together with Creator/MichaelMoore's ''Film/CanadianBacon'' (which came out a month earlier and [[BoxOfficeBomb recouped less than $179,000 of its $11 million budget]]), came close to bankrupting distributor Creator/GramercyPictures.
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14	20 years after the film was released, a sequel was [[http://www.slashfilm.com/kevin-smith-mallrats-2-2015/ unexpectedly announced]] by Smith, titled ''Mallbrats''; almost all of the cast (with the exception of Creator/BenAffleck) was confirmed to return, with filming originally scheduled to begin at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exton_Square_Mall Exton Square Mall]] in the Philadelphia suburbs in 2016. According to [[http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/mallrats-2/249676/mallrats-2-kevin-smith-drops-new-details this article,]] the plot was to be "''Film/DieHard'' in a mall", but with a "Save the Clock Tower" element -- specifically having Brodie try to save the mall by organizing a Comic-Con, only to have terrorists invade. Ralph Garman (the host of ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'' and one of Smith's more recent media partners) would portray the terrorist leader, and Creator/BruceCampbell was cast in an unknown role. [[http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/06/kevin-smith-confirms-mallrats-2-will-be-a-10-episode-series/ More recently]], Smith revealed that, due to being bogged down with legal issues between him and Creator/{{Universal}} (a partner in Gramercy), the sequel would be reconfigured into a 10-episode TV series instead; however, this plan was pitched with no success and the project is now on the backburner.
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16	!!This film provides examples of:
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18	* AccidentalPervert: Silent Bob turns into one of these: each time a ZanyScheme backfires, he ends up in a women's dressing room, where he sees a girl in the process of trying on clothes. And it's always the same girl. The girl in question, Gwen, is later seen changing in semi-public while talking to Brodie and TS, claiming that it saves her the effort.
19	* ActorAllusion: In one scene, Creator/ShannenDoherty's character Rene is called "Brenda" by mistake (her character in ''90210''). Ben Affleck's character's name, Shannon Hamilton, is a veiled reference to Doherty's previous marriage to Ashley Hamilton.
20	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The police cars that pull up to the mall indicate they're from the Red Bank Police Department. Red Bank, New Jersey has no indoor mall the size of the one portrayed in the film. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Though the original filming location planned was at nearby Seaview Square Mall in Ocean Township, NJ, prior to its demolition, before the Eden Prairie, Minnesota mall was picked.]]
21	* BaldOfEvil: Brandi's father, Mr. Svenning.
22	* BerserkButton: Shannon hates mallrats, because they just loiter with no intention of buying anything. (One has to wonder what he would think of people who take photos of retail stuff for the Internet nowadays.)
23	* BigBadEnsemble: Mr. Svenning and Shannon Hamilton.
24	* BlackComedyRape: Trish the Dish.
25	** Alleviated because it's "only" statutory, and ItsForABook.
26	** [[spoiler:Shannon's apparent gang rape in prison/being made a "prison bitch" is [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale played for laughs.]]]]
27	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Mallrats was shown on network TV (ABC) once and remains the only View Askew movie to do so. Needless to say, much of the raunchy humor was removed, including the explanation of the stink palm (Brodie's dialogue is changed to make it sound like his pretzels are moldy, which is why Mr. Svenning gets sick), plus some [[LipLock terrible ADR]] to boot. However, to make up for lost time, some of the deleted footage was added back in.
28	* BreastAttack: Gwen sneaks up on her old boyfriend TS, who jumps and "elbows [her] right in the freakin' tit!" She responds by giving TS an upward double axe handle to the groin. (Brodie uses the opportunity to explain his opinion of karmic justice to TS.)
29	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Brodie gives an AsideGlance to the camera after "stink-palming" Mr. Svenning.
30	* BrickJoke: Jay and Silent Bob are seen with a random orangutan in the WhereAreTheyNow credits. This is not explained for three movies, until they rescue an orangutan from an animal testing lab in ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', released six years later.
31	** Actually picked up on in the ''Chasing Dogma'' series of comics that has, as the name suggests, the movies ''Chasing Amy'' and ''Dogma'' as bookends. The series explains how Jay and Silent Bob end up in the same town as Bethany -- they're searching for Shermer, Illinois (the site of many a John Hughes movie, and naturally, nonexistent), and along the way, end up rescuing a chimp which is hunted, in a hilarious ''Fugitive'' spoof, by a Creator/TommyLeeJones lookalike. Presumably needing some narrative for ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'', Smith recycled this with Will Ferrell in the Jones role.
32	** In an effort to destroy the stage, Silent Bob dresses up in a Batman mask, swings past a critical pin (missing his chance to grab it), and crashes through a dressing room wall with Gwen inside. This (and their other antics) form the basis for the Bluntman and Chronic comic that forms parts of the plot of ''Film/ChasingAmy'' and ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. Additionally, Jay can be overheard telling this story to Loki and Bartleby in ''Film/{{Dogma}}''.
33	* TheBrute: Shannon.
34	* TheCameo: Of Creator/StanLee, no less. Also of GameShow host Art James.
35	* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Invoked deliberately by Tricia, as part of her sex research.
36	* CelebrityParadox: At one point, Silent Bob is shown reading ''Spike, Mike, Slackers, and Dykes'', a book about the indie film industry which includes a chapter on Creator/KevinSmith and the making of ''Film/{{Clerks}}''.
37	* ChekhovsGunman: Trish the Dish and her video tapes (specifically the one she made of her and [[spoiler:Shannon]]).
38	* ChekhovsSkill: Silent Bob practicing his Jedi telekinesis. [[spoiler: Also, Willam's ''inability'' to see the sailboat plays a pretty important part in the ending.]]
39	* ChristmasCreep: Easter Creep, in this case; when Brodie and TS first observe the construction of the ''Truth or Date'' stage, TS theorizes it's for the Easter Bunny photos. Brodie shoots that down, stating that "the Easter Bunny corner is down at the other end of the mall, it's been up since two days after Christmas!"
40	* CompanyCrossReferences: Since it was a Universal-produced film, Kevin chose to load the film with references to their other films, including ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' (in addition to TS's plan for proposal {which then verges into ProductPlacement}, TS's last name and Brodie's first name both reference ''Jaws'' characters), and Brodie has a ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' poster in his room.
41	* ContinuityNod:
42	** The movie explains the circumstances surrounding the death of Julie Dwyer, the girl whose funeral Dante and Randal crash in ''Film/{{Clerks}}''.
43	** Brodie's story from the opening monologue and another one he tells towards the end of the movie involve his cousin Walter, heavily implied to be the same as Randal Graves' cousin Walter.
44	* DeadpanSnarker: Brodie, continuing the Bruce-Graves family tradition.
45	* DeletedScenes: A whole hour of them on the Extended Version, including a dropped opening scene (and an additional plot thread referencing it).
46	* DenserAndWackier: Compared to ''{{Film/Clerks}}''. While that film was pretty down-to-earth, with most of the humor derived from its many {{Seinfeldian Conversation}}s, ''Mallrats'' featured a lot more zany comedy and slapstick.
47	* TheDragon: [=LaFours=] plays this role to Jared Svenning.
48	* ElevatorGoingDown: Brodie and [[spoiler: René]].
49	* EuphemismBuster:
50	-->'''Brandi''': Second suitor: if we were making whoopee, what sounds would you make?
51	-->'''Brodie''': Wait, what's whoopee?
52	-->'''Brandi''': You know, being intimate.
53	-->'''Brodie''': What? Like '''fucking'''?
54	-->'''Cue collective {{GASP}} from the audience'''
55	* FanDisservice: The psychic with the third nipple. Brodie, initially excited about the notion of topless fortune telling, shields his eyes the entire time.
56	* FanService: Gwen is seen topless one of the times Silent Bob bursts into her dressing room.
57	* FollowTheLeader: InUniverse, Svenning's game show is a shameless ripoff of ''Series/TheDatingGame.''
58	* FreezeFrameBonus: This could just be a mistake, but if you freeze-frame on the Magic Eye puzzle and actually adjust your eyes to see the picture, you'll see it ''isn't'' a sailboat; it's just a few abstract shapes. No wonder Willam couldn't see the sailboat.
59	* GoodCounterpart: Brodie to his cousin Randal in a way -- while both are {{Deadpan Snarker}}s who are obsessed with films and/or comics, Brodie is significantly nicer to T.S. than Randal is normally to Dante. Unlike Randal, he shows he's capable of forming good relationships (even if his relationship with Rene was rocky), gets along quite well with Jay and Silent Bob, and will step up to help his friends and stop assholes (even if one tactic is to shove his own hand up it).
60	* GroinAttack: Gwen smashes T.S. in the balls with her purse, after he accidentally elbows her in the breast. According to Kevin on the DVD commentary, in the take they wound up using, she accidentally did smash him and [[EnforcedMethodActing his agony is real.]]
61	** Silent Bob does this to a store sign (which forms the wall to Gwen's changing room.)
62	* HostileShowTakeover: Kind of. During ''Truth or Date'', Brodie essentially hijacks it by telling weird stories and aiming lots of quips at Gil, while T.S. deals with Brandi, and Jay and Bob, along with Tricia, are busy backstage.
63	* HyperspaceArsenal: Parodied. Silent Bob pulls a number of unlikely items from his trench coat, including a full-size, inflated sex doll.
64	* ItsForABook: Parodied with the 15-year-old Tricia having sex with older men in order to write a book about it.
65	* {{Jerkass}}: Shannon and Mr. Svenning, Brandi's father.
66	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Brodie has NoIndoorVoice and is pretty abrasive and selfish when it comes to René's needs, but is far more likable than either of the above, and ultimately goes out of his way to prove his love for René (with a little help from T.S. and Stan the Man).
67	* KarmicRape: The fate of Ben Affleck's character.
68	* KickTheSonOfABitch: Brodie convinces the cops who are arresting Shannon to let him punch the guy.
69	* KneelBeforeZod: Shouted by Jay after smacking La[=Fours=] with a baseball bat.
70	* TheLancer: Brodie, to T.S.
71	* LegCling: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mallrats_1849.jpg The poster.]]
72	* LipLock: Some scenes had to be re-dubbed to remove the references to the Governor's Ball plot; this occurred in the scene where TS and Brodie meet up with Jay and Bob, and the guy who gets decked in the parking lot by TS when they arrive from the dirt mall also suffers from this. The "[[{{Bowdlerise}} edited for TV]]" version also had this.
73	* TheMall: Of course. A very rare example of a work acknowledging the then fairly new concept of "dead malls" in the form of the "dirt mall" (which was actually in New Brunswick, NJ, and has since been replaced with a Loews Cineplex).
74	* ManBitesMan: Silent Bob can be seen biting one of the ears of the EasterBunny when he and Jay go to beat him up.
75	* MommasBoy: Brodie, according to his girlfriend.
76	* MoonLogicPuzzle: The Magic Eye puzzle Willam is obsessed with.
77	* MythologyGag: A portion of Brandi and Gwen's conversation backstage of the game show sounds vaguely familiar....
78	--> '''Brandi:''' [[Film/{{Clerks}} Jesus,]] Gwen, [[Film/{{Clerks}} the last thing I need at this point is a lecture]] on my love life.
79	-->'''Gwen:''' [[Film/{{Clerks}} All I'm saying is...]]
80	** In ''Clerks'', Dante asks Randal if he's going to lock up the video store before the hockey game. Here, T.S. asks Jay if he ever gets stoned. Randal and Jay's responses are identical, right down to the vocal inflection: "Look who you're askin'!"
81	** T.S. is shown to be responsible for the cutting remark that convinces Julie Dwyer to swim laps until she drops dead. Dante and Randall wreck her wake in ''Film/{{Clerks}}''.
82	** In ''Clerks'', Randall tells the story of how his cousin Walter died attempting to perform autofellatio. The opening lines of this movie have Brodie telling a similar story of a bizarre act by ''his'' cousin Walter, implying that they may be the same cousin and that Brodie and Randall are related.
83	*** The tie-in comics later confirm that they are indeed cousins.
84	*** It's also implied they have the same grandma: who is/was a lesbian, and [[Film/ClerksII very racist]].
85	* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: A meta example: René does not take kindly to being called "Brenda." See ActorAllusion above.
86	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Shannon delivers one to Brodie that made Kevin Smith uncomfortable.
87	** Jay and Silent Bob give a somewhat more humorous one to the mall's EasterBunny when they mistakenly think he beat up Brodie (it was really Shannon).
88	* NoodleIncident: While laying low at the dirt mall, Brodie asks TS "You used to be a stand-up kinda guy, y'know? What happened to that guy? The guy who punched Amanda Gross's mother after she called him "low class"?" TS then clarifies that it was ''Brodie'' who punched the woman, not him. And also states that it wasn't her mother, it was her ''grandmother'' ("No wonder the bitch went down so fast."). No further explanation is given to the story.
89	** The Governor's Ball is this in the final cut of the film, as it only gets referenced once by a TV executive speaking with Mr. Svenning.
90	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: T.S. completely ignores the topless psychic's breasts, and comes to an epiphany over her advice. Brodie however, who was previously excited at the thought of topless fortune telling, can't stomach the sight of her (fake) third nipple.
91	** The ironic part is that he has the epiphany over what she's saying as she's trying to get Brodie to look at it.
92	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Brandi is played by English actress Claire Forlani. Her accent is decidedly un{{Joisey}} and her natural English accent slips in quite often. It's especially noticeable in the opening scene, filmed long after the original production wrapped and absolutely no one was happy to be there, according to Kevin Smith.
93	** It's also quite noticeable during the game show, while she's giving her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to T.S.
94	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: In the [[ReCut Director's Cut]], Brandi dumping T.S. is triggered by him accidentally shooting the Governor of NJ with a prop musket from a play he was in at an event hosted by her father. Throughout the director's cut, people would bring up the incident. One particular example was the guy T.S. randomly beat up in the parking lot for asking him about Brandi in the final cut. In the director's cut, he asked him about the musket incident, and T.S. was finally sick of people bringing it up.
95	* PacManFever: Occurs slightly when Brodie's playing a hockey video game on his Genesis; see below for why.
96	* PetTheDog: [[{{Jerkass}} Jay]] saying goodbye to the pet store kittens ("Bye baby kitties!"). He even tells Silent Bob to show some heart and say goodbye to them as well.
97	** However, this is moments after he was [[{{KickTheDog}} slamming on the glass]].
98	* {{Prequel}}: Set one day before ''Clerks'', hence the mention of Julie Dwyer's death. We also find out that T.S. was responsible for her swimming laps in the pool and having an embolism.
99	* ProductPlacement: Sbarro's the only real restaurant in the food court. The only other real shop glimpsed is a B. Dalton (which has been gone since 2010). They did not show any of the real anchor stores (given that Carson Pirie Scott (whose' location at the real mall is now Von Maur) and Target were mainly, and in Carson's case, still is, Midwestern chains, though Target did start expanding to the Northeast and other areas in the late 90's, though.), except for a brief glimpse of the left side of the Target "Bullseye" when Brodie and TS return from the dirt mall to the real mall; a trimmed portion just before TS and Brodie enter the mall, as they walk through the parking lot, shows the Kohls, though (the Kohls is also the building seen as Team [=LaFours=] chase Jay and Silent Bob).
100	** Also, the VCR Silent Bob uses for the stage is a Panasonic VCR; they owned Universal at the time the movie was made, though by the time the movie was released they had sold it to Seagram's (yes, the liquor company).
101	** It's noted in the epilogue TS and Brandi tied the knot during the ''Jaws'' ride at [[ThemePark/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Florida]].
102	** There's also the case of Brodie's hockey video game. Originally, he was shown playing an Creator/EASports hockey game and its distinctive music could be heard. However, during production someone at Gramercy made a deal with Creator/{{Sega}} to help promote the film via this bus tour thing Sega had going on at the time. As a result, the scene was modified to instead have Brodie playing a ''Sega Sports'' game on his Genesis (more specifically, a ''UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn'' game). (As for that promotional deal, [[ShaggyDogStory Sega didn't promote the movie at all in the end]].)
103	* PyrrhicVictory: The Stink Palm.
104	--> '''Brodie''': "It's a small price to pay for the smiting of one's enemies."
105	%%** FridgeLogic: Brodie stink-palmed Stan Lee.
106	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Brandi's dad gives one to T.S. Also, Brandi and René each give one to T.S. and Brodie at the beginning of the movie.
107	* RepeatedCueTardyResponse: The climax featured Brodie setting up to expose Shannon having had sex with Tricia to be as public as possible, but it backfires in this fashion when the tape gets dropped. Cue him yelling "NOW!" several times as Shannon attempts to assault him before events turn and the tape plays, resetting Brodie's plan.
108	* RunningGag: Shannon's intention to have sex ''in a very uncomfortable place'' (meaning anal) with various women is constantly [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike misinterpreted as "the back of a Volkswagen'.]]
109	** Willam and the "Magic Eye" sailboat picture.
110	** Silent Bob crashing through the dressing room wall as Gwen is changing.
111	** In a deleted plot thread, mention of T.S. getting a musket tangled in Brandi's hair, or people seeing him on CNN.
112	*** Along with said people not quite remembering ''why'' he was on CNN, and offering their own reasons. This goes from attempting to shoot the Governor (which is at least what the people ''there'' thought), to shooting the ''Pope''.
113	* SeinfeldianConversation: T.S. and Brodie's conversation at the cookie stand about whether or not Lois Lane could carry Franchise/{{Superman}}'s baby to term, and their follow-up debate over the limits of what qualifies as being part of the food court.
114	* SexualKarma: Shannon by the end is the target of sex in a very uncomfortable place. Well, place'''''s'''''; it happens in prison.
115	* ShapeshiftingSquick: Brodie thinks entirely too much about the love life of Reed Richards and Susan Storm.
116	** And The Thing.
117	* ShoutOut
118	** The silent mall cop is named [=LaFours=], after the unseen lawman in ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' to the point of wearing a straw hat. This was [[InspirationNod nodded to]] in a conversation between Jay and Brodie that was deleted, but can be seen on the extended edition DVD:
119	-->'''Jay:''' ''Is [=LaFours=] out there?''
120	-->'''Brodie:''' ''No.''
121	-->'''Jay:''' ''Good. For a minute there, I thought we were in trouble.''
122	** After hoisting them to safety on his grappling hook, Jay asks Silent Bob where he gets [[Franchise/{{Batman}} those wonderful toys]].
123	* SilentAntagonist: La[=Fours=] doesn't say a word in the film. He could almost be considered an EvilCounterpart to Silent Bob.
124	* SockItToThem: "Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but I pulled my back out humping your mom last night. Nootch. Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie-Berzerk style, and knock out the fuckin' pin and bickety bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show."
125	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: "''Like the back of a Volkswagen?''"
126	** Also, a singular example:
127	-->'''Gwen''': Didn't I look just like Burt Reynolds?\
128	'''Brodie and T.S.''': ({{beat}}) ''Except for the mustache.''
129	** The female clerk at the lingerie shop who goes "I know exactly how he feels" and runs off crying after witnessing Brodie explain his relationship with Rene in terms of sleeping beside each other.
130	* {{Tagline}}: "They're not there to shop. They're not there to work. They're just there."
131	* TakeThat: In the scene at the dirt mall, T.S. tries on a cap before throwing it away in disgust. The cap has ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' written on it; the cap was made during the filming of ''Clerks''.
132	* ThirdPartyPeacekeeper: T.S. and his girlfriend Brandi break up after a fight about her replacing a contestant on her father's ripoff of The Dating Game, after the original contestant died [[note]]She died after being told by T.S. that the camera adds twenty pounds, and she was FormerlyFat with a neurosis about appearing that way again, and worked herself into a brain embolism at the local pool[[/note]]. Brody tells Brandi, after he and T.S. have gotten themselves on the show, that T.S. has done nothing but pine for her all day, and encourages the two of them to get back together, which they do.
133	* ThoseTwoGuys: Jay and Silent Bob again.
134	* TitleDrop: By Shannon Hamilton, the proprietor of Fashionable Male. "You're one of those loser fucking mallrat kids."
135	--> ''That's it, you're dead, mallrat! I am gonna fuck you up beyond repair!''
136	* TripleNipple: The topless psychic credits her powers to her third nipple, eventually revealed to be fake (and gum).
137	* UncannyFamilyResemblance: The guy going against Brodie and TS in the game show is Gil Hicks, played by Creator/BrianOHalloran. This is the same actor who starred as Dante in ''Film/{{Clerks}}'', and the two characters share a last name. WordOfGod is they're cousins, along with two other characters played by O'Halloran in the View Askewniverse (Jim in ''Film/ChasingAmy'' and Grant in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'') sharing the same last name.
138	* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: We not only hear Jay and Silent Bob's plan, but we actually see the drawings. They are, naturally, doomed to fail.
139	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue
140	** In ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' Brodie has a Variety on the wall of his comic shop which headlines him leaving the ''Tonight Show''. Rene became the band leader for the show... and was well-liked by his mother.
141	** Jay and Silent Bob's misadventures with a monkey were elaborated on in the interquel comic ''[[AllThereInTheManual Chasing Dogma]]'' - [[RecycledScript which was partially reused]] for the same subplot in ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack''.
142	** Willam eventually saw the sailboat.[[note]]"Yeah?"[[/note]]
143	* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Quoted almost exactly from Jay to Silent Bob.
144	* WritingAroundTrademarks: Likely the reason why much of the stores seen in the mall are either fictitious or shot so you don't see their names. Also, while the network Svenning is pitching ''Truth or Date'' to isn't named, it's implied to be Creator/{{NBC}} given the epilogue (a scene in the Extended Cut has a guy from NBC asking TS if they can make a cheesy TV movie about the Governor's Ball, however).
145	* WrongBathroomIncident: Happens ''twice'', both involving Silent Bob accidentally crashing through the wall into a woman's changing room. It's the ''same woman both times''.
146	* YouALLLookFamiliar: Mocked in the audio commentary - T.S. has a scene with a random construction worker who happens to be wearing the exact same outfit.
147	--> '''Jason Lee''': "He's the Heavy Metal version of T.S.!"
148	* ZanyScheme: Jay cooks up a couple of these in order to incapacitate La[=Fours=], complete with old-school-cartoon-style blueprints. A book was released in the 2010s featuring more blueprints drawn up by Jay, ''Jay and Silent Bob's Blueprints for Destroying Everything''.
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