Brodie: Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent--I don't care which one--but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!
Brodie: He must be halfway to Buy Me Toys by now.
T.S.: How do I do that?
[Brodie picks up a controller and continues a paused video game.] Renee: What are you doing? You promised me breakfast. Brodie: Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Renee, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
Jay: Where do you get these wonderful toys?
Trivia:
After failing to see the sailboat image, Ethan Suplee's character wanders over to the stage, and gives a frustrated wail while holding on to a frame. This is a parody of a scene in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, in which Chewbacca omits the same cry while holding on to a support strut.
Brodie's comic book collection seen in the movie was actually director Kevin Smith's collection (which has grown considerably since). The collection is what Smith was able to purchase back after selling his original collection to finance production of Clerks.
Studio execs required quite a bit of language to be removed or replaced with weaker language.
Eden Prairie Center, where the film was shot, worked out perfectly for the shooting. The there were a lot of vacant store fronts, so the producers could set up "fake stores" for the film.
Brodie's shirt is the merged faces of three actors that tried out for the part of Brodie and didn't get it.
Credits Fun:
Jay and Silent Bob will return in Chasing Amy
Thanks to Mom and Dad for having sex all those years ago
DVD Easter Eggs: (Hidden So You Don't See Anything You Don't Want To See)
Edition: Universal Home Video
Region: 1
Description: Kevin Smith rants
a) Go to the disc’s “Special Features” menu and select the “Deleted Scenes”. Then, press the right arrow key to highlight the robot’s eyes. If you press “Enter” now, director Kevin Smith and another View Askew staff member will remind you to stop looking for Easter Eggs on DVD's.
b) Go to the soundtrack trailer and at the end there's a hilarious video for the Goops 'Build Me Up Buttercup' with Jay and his hetero lifemate Silent Bob.
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