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Memorable Movie Quotes
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.
Stan Lee: You know, I think you ought to get him some help. He seems to be really hung up on super heroes' sex organs.
Tricia Jones: I get everybody's consent before we do it. Most guys get off on it. Men are easily amused.
Trivia
Stan Lee can be seen looking to his left or right repeatedly while talking with Brodie. This is so he can see his cue cards - not being a trained actor, memorizing lines was very difficult for him. Jeremy London, on the other hand, despite being an experienced actor, forgot his lines repeatedly.
The Wile E. Coyote-style blueprints used by Jay and Silent Bob were drawn by producer Scott Mosier.
Eden Prairie Center, where the film was shot, worked out perfectly for the shooting. There were a lot of vacant storefronts, so the producers could set up "fake stores" for the film.
While shopping, Rene Mosier (Shannen Doherty) is seen wearing at least three different outfits. Doherty had a clause in her contract that she could keep everything her character wore, so came up with the plan that her character should wear everything she bought on her shopping trip.
This is the second film in Kevin Smith's intricately interconnected View Askewniverse series (the others being Clerks. (1994), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) and Clerks II (2006)). The movies are all linked by characters, themes and events and each contains numerous references to the others.
In the scene where Jay and Silent Bob are hiding in the bookstore, Bob is reading "Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema" by John Pierson. The book contains numerous interviews and writings by Kevin Smith.
In real life, the elevator that Brodie and Rene have sex in has glass doors, covered up for the film so the people outside couldn't see in.
When Renee (Shannen Doherty) runs to tell Jay and Silent Bob that Brodie and T.S. are being arrested, Ethan Suplee (Willam) says, "Brenda?" - a joke reference to Doherty's character on "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990). The exchange wasn't in the script, but rather, Suplee was told to say this by Smith before the scene was shot, and so was Doherty. However, Suplee wasn't told that she would respond, so his reaction is genuine.
Brodie wears a Henry Hudson Regional shirt. Henry Hudson Regional is the high school in Highlands, NJ, from which director Kevin Smith graduated.
The pass that Mr. Svenning wears around his neck is the logo of View Askew, the film's production company.
Studio execs required quite a bit of language to be removed or replaced with weaker language.
Brodie's comic book collection seen in the movie was actually director Kevin Smith's collection at the time (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. (1994).
When Silent Bob is placing the tape of Shannon's sexual encounter with Tricia in the VCR, the crossed out title is "Woody Woodpecker."
Filmed in Minnesota, down the road from Fargo (1996) which was shooting at the same time.
Goofs
When T.S. first pulls into Brandi's driveway, he drives a Ford. After that, he drives a Mercury.
When T.S. pulls up to Brandi's house to pick her up for the trip, all the trees have leaves on them and the grass is green. In all other outdoor shots, the leaves have fallen off the trees and the grass is brown.
After coming from Miss Ivannah's, T.S. parks close to the mall in a spot between a Honda Accord and a Honda Civic. However, in the next shot, when T.S. and Brodie get out of the car, the station wagon is seen parked farther into the parking spot and between a black pickup and a Ford Taurus. Furthermore, the car is much farther from the mall than it appeared in the previous shot.
When Shannon Hamilton and Brodie collide, you hear liquid hitting the floor from Brodie's cup, but you never see anything fall from the cup.
When Silent Bob "skates" through the women's clothing store into the dressing room and sends clothes flying, a hand is seen briefly at the bottom of the screen tossing the clothes into the air.
When Jay and Silent Bob are being chased by La Fours, they run into a dead end. Silent Bob reaches into his coat and pulls out a vibrator, then throws it away. He pulls out an inflatable doll, and throws it away. Then he pulls the Batman-like gun from his belt, shoots the grapple hook, hugs Jay to him, and they fly up out of reach and view. La Fours arrives at the dead end, but the vibrator and doll are nowhere to be seen.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $6,000,000
Gross: $2,122,561
Filming Locations
Eden Prairie Center Mall - 8251 Flying Cloud Drive, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA (Brandi's House)
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Palos Verdes Peninsula, California, USA
Singapore Lake, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
U.S. 1 Flea Market, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA