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* TheBigRace: Played with for laughs. Jason Mewes brings Creator/AdamWest to the Stash and the conversation turns to which would be faster: Series/{{Batman|1966}}'s Batmobile or Series/TheGreenHornet's Black Beauty? Ming makes a few calls, gets two accurate replicas and the group prepare to race the cars in front of the Stash. Challenges are made, engines are revved, the handkerchief is dropped, and...the two cars set off at under ten miles per hour[[note]]both cars are so valuable that if either got the tiniest of scratches, the Stash would have been under new management[[/note]]. The Batmobile eventually wins a race that is so slow that Jason Mewes could outpace both cars at light jog.

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* TheBigRace: Played with for laughs. Jason Mewes brings Creator/AdamWest to the Stash and the conversation turns to which would be faster: Series/{{Batman|1966}}'s Batmobile or Series/TheGreenHornet's Black Beauty? Ming makes a few calls, gets two accurate replicas and the group prepare to race the cars in front of the Stash. Challenges are made, engines are revved, the handkerchief is dropped, and... the two cars set off at under ten miles per hour[[note]]both cars are so valuable that if either got the tiniest of scratches, the Stash would have been under new management[[/note]]. The Batmobile eventually wins a race that is so slow that Jason Mewes could outpace both cars at light jog.



* DagwoodSandwich: Essentially what Walt and Bryan make in the [[CookingDuel Cooking Duel]] episode.

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* DagwoodSandwich: Essentially what Walt and Bryan make in the [[CookingDuel Cooking Duel]] the
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-->'''Kevin''': I noticed a pig flying by.

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-->'''Kevin''': -->'''Kevin:''' I noticed a pig flying by.
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* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: After just being referenced to on Bryan Johnson's shirts and stickers on the Stash's wall, Brian Quinn was able to get onto the show in an episode in Season 4. The reason for this was a relaxing of TruTV's policy with the Impractical Jokers star, and co-host of the Tell'Em Steve-Dave podcast that inspired the Comic Book Men series, making appearances on competing network shows. Kevin Smith even threw out a plug for {{Impractical Jokers}} and TruTV in the "podcast" segment of the episode. While not doing any sort of challenge or any other improvisational routine that he'd do with his troupe, the segments Quinn was on did surround him being a professional comedian.

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* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: After just being referenced to on Bryan Johnson's shirts and stickers on the Stash's wall, Brian Quinn was able to get onto the show in an episode in Season 4. The reason for this was a relaxing of TruTV's [=TruTV's=] policy with the Impractical Jokers ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' star, and co-host of the Tell'Em Steve-Dave podcast that inspired the Comic Book Men series, making appearances on competing network shows. Kevin Smith even threw out a plug for {{Impractical Jokers}} ''Jokers'' and TruTV [=TruTV=] in the "podcast" segment of the episode. While not doing any sort of challenge or any other improvisational routine that he'd do with his troupe, the segments Quinn was on did surround him being a professional comedian.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of Bryan's comments fall into this.
** Kevin has gone on record many times saying Randal from ''Clerks'' is based heavily on Bryan. Watching this show, it's incredibly obvious.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Most of Bryan's comments fall into this.
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Kevin has gone on record many times saying Randal from ''Clerks'' ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' is based heavily on Bryan. Watching this show, it's incredibly obvious.

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* BasementDweller: Bryan. Also somewhat of an {{Ironic Echo}}, as he's usually the first to quip on the other guys for being loser nerds, yet he's the single 40 something geek with no job (he merely hangs out at the Stash) other than presumably what AMC pays him for being on the show, and yes, he literally lives in his parent's basement.
** ...Or he used to. Bryan shares quite a bit on the ''Tell 'Em Steve-Dave'' podcast, and has mentioned that he's long since moved into his own place... And then had to move again due to psychotic neighbors.

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* BasementDweller: Bryan. Also somewhat of an {{Ironic Echo}}, as he's usually the first to quip on the other guys for being loser nerds, yet he's the single 40 something geek with no job (he merely hangs out at the Stash) other than presumably what AMC pays him for being on the show, and yes, he literally lives in his parent's basement.
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basement...Or he used to. Bryan shares quite a bit on the ''Tell 'Em Steve-Dave'' podcast, and has mentioned that he's long since moved into his own place... And then had to move again due to psychotic neighbors.
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* RealityEnsues: The boys go to a storage locker auction in the hopes of finding a stash of comic books. They end up spending several thousand dollars on a locker full of worthless knick-knacks.

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''Comic Book Men'' is a [[RealityTV Reality TV]] show on Creator/{{AMC}} about Creator/KevinSmith's comic book shop, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. The show uses a combination of following the cast around with the going-ons in the store, and podcast style commentary about the going-ons with the cast, and host Kevin Smith. The shop itself is named after Jay and Silent Bob, two recurring characters in Smith's films set in Film/TheViewAskewniverse.

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''Comic Book Men'' is a [[RealityTV Reality TV]] RealityTV show on Creator/{{AMC}} about Creator/KevinSmith's comic book shop, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash. The show uses a combination of following the cast around with the going-ons in the store, and podcast style commentary about the going-ons with the cast, and host Kevin Smith. The shop itself is named after Jay and Silent Bob, two recurring characters in Smith's films set in Film/TheViewAskewniverse.



The series premiered on February 12, 2012, with its first season of six hour-long episodes. With season two, the show shifted to half-hour episodes. The show ended after it's seventh season finished airing in April, 2018.

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The series premiered on February 12, 2012, with its first season of six hour-long episodes. With season two, the show shifted to half-hour episodes. The show ended after it's its seventh season finished airing in April, April 2018.



* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Kevin pronounces Mario as Mary-Oh.
** It's one of Kevin's tics. He also pronounces ComiCon Commie-Con.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Walt may be one of these, joking about showing off his action figure collection to his daughter's friends.

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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: AccentUponTheWrongSyllable:
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Kevin pronounces Mario as Mary-Oh.
"Mary-Oh".
** It's one of Kevin's tics. He also pronounces ComiCon Commie-Con.
Comic Con as "Commie-Con".
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents:
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Walt may be one of these, joking about showing off his action figure collection to his daughter's friends.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Creator/LouFerrigno was tasked with getting Bryan back into shape, they had a discussion about healthy eating. When Lou asked Bryan what's the first thing he eats in the morning, Bryan dryly answered "my girlfriend's boob".
** Defied later when Bryan starts joking about rolling a comic into a tube.
-->'''Ming''': What are you implying?
-->'''Bryan''': I'm gonna fuck the comic.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Creator/LouFerrigno was tasked with getting Bryan back into shape, they had a discussion about healthy eating. When Lou asked Bryan what's the first thing he eats GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the morning, Bryan dryly answered "my girlfriend's boob".
** Defied later when Bryan starts joking about rolling a comic into a tube.
-->'''Ming''': What are you implying?
-->'''Bryan''': I'm gonna fuck
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