Mallrats - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[ava]

During production, a television movie (Clerks. (1995)) based on Kevin Smith's film Clerks (1994) was being filmed.

[lonnie]

Originally, Stan Lee was not going to have a cameo in the movie. Kevin Smith had written a fictional Stan Lee-type character, but through a connection, Stan Lee was asked to be in the movie and agreed.

[oscar]

The film takes place only a day before Kevin Smith's previous film Clerks (1994), even though it was released a year after that film came out.

[addison]

Seth Green was on-call, ready at any moment to fly to Minnesota, so he could replace Jason Mewes as Jay.

[sophie]

Towards the end of the film, Brodie (Jason Lee) tells an anecdotal story about his cousin Walter masturbating as a plane is seemingly going down, with the rest of the passengers doing the same thinking they're going to die, only to have the problem resolved. Almost Famous (2000) had a very similar occurrence wherein, under the impression their plane is going to crash, members of the fictional band Stillwater and their company start professing their darkest secrets, but the planes issue is resolved, and no party talks about it afterward. Jason Lee also starred in Almost Famous.

[victoria]

Studio executives required quite a bit of language to be removed or replaced with weaker language.

[ray]

According to the blueprints, Jay and Silent Bob's two stage trashing operations are "Operation: Drive-By" and "Operation: Dark Knight".

[jeffrey]

When Silent Bob is placing the tape of Shannon's sexual encounter with Tricia in the VCR, the crossed out title is "Woody Woodpecker".

[frances]

The book Bob is reading in the bookstore is simply a mock-up, as is the display stand. The real book had not come out yet.

[victoria]

Rene (Shannen Doherty) can be seen wearing a Decrassi Junior High School jacket, in reference to Kevin Smith's love for the show Degrassi High (1987).

[brent]

John Landis was going to make a cameo as an irate customer, but this was written out at the last minute.

[dustin]

Brodie wears a Henry Hudson Regional shirt. Henry Hudson Regional is the high school in Highlands, New Jersey, from which Kevin Smith graduated. An audience member in the show wears the same shirt.

[carl]

While filming exteriors of the mall, production assistants would stick paper New Jersey license plates on cars in the parking lot. Occasionally, unsuspecting (Minnesota) mall customers would drive away with the prop plates still attached.

[alyssa]

The stereo-gram, which supposedly shows a boat, actually depicts a set of four-by-three geometrical symbols.

[fred]

Steve Zahn auditioned for the role of Brodie Bruce.

[janice]

When Tricia's sex tape with Shannon is playing for the audience, he asks her "Who's your favorite New Kid?" and then to call him "Joey", and then "Donnie". This is in reference to Joey McIntyre and Donnie Wahlberg, the two most popular members from the the music group New Kids on the Block.

[carl]

The film takes place in April 1993.

[melinda]

Universal wanted either Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, or Chris Farley for the role of Brodie Bruce, and Ethan Hawke for T.S. Quint.

[kenneth]

In the opening credits for Ben Affleck in the movie depict a comic book, which is a parody of Batman. Twenty years later, Affleck would be cast as Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

[cameron]

The scene where backstage before the game show ran by Jared Svenning starts, Roddy yelled at T.S. and Brodie quoting "You called down the thunder, now you got it"! That's the same line that was quoted by Wyatt Earp in Tombstone (1993). Kurt Russell played Wyatt Earp along side Michael Rooker, who played Sherman McMasters. Rooker's character was present when Russell quoted this line. The whole line is "All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that? It says United States Marshal! Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin. You tell 'em I'M coming... and Hell's coming with me, you hear?... Hell's coming with me!"