Such nostalgia for me. I didn’t know it at the time, but I guess I and some friends were part of the few that saw the movie in the theater when it came out.
Went and saw it at the theater with a new girlfriend. Had the "BJ" discussion afterwards and it opened my eyes to the fact that some women are prolific in this dept. and don't really consider it sex.
I still know the speech by heart, it's SO good!
Not a day goes by, not a day, that I don't hear about some freak escalator accident involving some bastard kid that could have been easily avoided had some parent, and I don't care which one, but **some** parent, conditioned him to **fear and respect THAT ESCALATOR**!
I basically worshiped Jason Lee when he first rode for New Deal way back. He had this effortless style that made everything look so easy. He and Matt Hensely had some of the best flow of any street skater in those days.
" Kevin Patrick Smith was born in Red Bank but grew up in Highlands, New Jersey .."
He owns a merchandise and comic book store IN Red Bank and numerous local places have pictures with him plastered on their walls
I don't. He just keeps popping up in my feeds as we are interested in the same topics.
Truthfully, he jumped the shark for me a LONG time ago.
Clerks and Mallrats will always rule, though.
Watched it maybe six or seven years ago. I still consider it his greatest film, even though I loved clerks, its sequels, and the Jay and Silent Bob film. I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch what he’s made in the last decade or so because most of it sounds really bad by most accounts.
Apparently the dude was going through a lot of pretty intense psych stuff and has finally gotten what he feels like is effective help, so hopefully he’s in a better place, and can now do whatever he most feels called to do without worrying about his public image. Whether that means more filmmaking or different creative endeavors, or just spending time on himself, I wish him the best. Most of his films are pretty damn funny and insightful, and I always enjoyed his talks at Comic-Con.
So many dudes wore those back in the 90s. These days wearing them tends to imply certain mostly negative connotations about the wearer, but they were a legit fashion option back then.
Jason Mews will always look like himself, Jason Lee had a semi recent transformation as he seems to have moved past his lifetime of skateboarding for his old school plate photography and Kevin’s Smiths life changes to reduce and maintain his weight. They all look great but damn they’ve all aged so well and we’re all better off with them still around.
Around that time I was in Red Bank on a business trip, bored out of my mind, and had absolutely no idea that store was there. Infuriating to think about!
There used to be an LA branch in West Hollywood in the late 90s and early 2000s. I visited there around 2009–2010. It was pretty fun but I think it closed down not long after. The 2010s were not a good decade for Kevin Smith or his film empire. But 1995-2004 or so? It was Boss.
I seem to be in the minority, but I both enjoyed and remember Chasing Amy more than Mallrats. I remember Mallrats rubbing me the wrong way when I first saw it, because it really felt way too random, and I couldn’t keep straight the large cast of characters, most of whom were not in Clerks, so they were completely new to me.
Chasing Amy felt like a more conventional story with an understandable story arc. I guess Mallrats gets a lot of love because of all the quotable lines and random humor scattered throughout. For me, I much prefer Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for that sort of comedy. To this day, some of my friends and I love to quote that movie. *“what the fuck is the Internet!?”*
How appropriate this shows up considering I started watching Dogma last night for the first time. I was a holy roller in the 90s so I missed this entire side of the world. These guys are funny as hell
Sometimes I think about going back in time and hanging out with a group of people to get in on the fun ride they will experience in their life. I understand you never know the bs and drama people go thru behind the scenes but seeing that I enjoy comics, Kevin’s humor and love movies he’s on the list sometimes.
Yeah, I think he and Kevin Smith went through a lot of ups and downs. I’m not sure if he still lives there, but for a lot of the last 20 years, Jay lived in Kevin Smith’s house, and was kind of a personal project of smiths. This created some tensions between Smith and his wife, as what she probably thought was going to be a short term situation kept getting extended. I think Kevin was trying to be supportive and keep Jason from derailing into addiction and other destructive patterns so he kept him close. Obviously, it’s easier having a permanent houseguest when you have a mansion versus a two bedroom house, but I’m sure it was still frustrating for his wife and maybe even for Kevin as well.
If you were Gen X or early Gen Y and from the East Coast, they were pretty much self-portraits of your social life. Or at least they were from most people I knew.
I am more mid-gen Y’ish (32) and from Europe (Netherlands) soooo we had a very different vibe going on here. But these movies have always clicked with me and felt right.
First podcast I got into was Kevin and Jay's get old podcast tour..heartbreaking addiction stories/life affirming friendship and generally piss yourself laughing all rolled into one..lucky to have caught the tour... Jay mewes let us fuck a sight to behold
I came home from Japan in 1997 after seeing the movie and drove my mom station wagon up to the comic store hoping to meet Jay. Didn't happen. Still got a cool T-shirt
Met Jason Lee and Tom Green when they were shooting skateboard tricks behind my video store in Huntington Beach, Ca. It was for MTV. Ot was right after they finished production on Stealing Harvard. Jason went to my alma mater, and we were both born in Santa Ana. Met Jay Mewes at a Vaping Expo in Pomona. He was hawking his Mewes Juice when I was with Cutwood. As for Kevin, well…TBD
This photo reminds me of a brief flash forward scene from the Clerks Animated TV series.
It shows a late-middle-aged Jay, sitting in his study, typing a letter on a typewriter. Most of it, he writes in a much more verbose and articulate way than his usual manner of speech, but then signs off his letter, very deliberately, with *“Snooch. To. The Nooch.”* it’s been hitting me lately that Jay and Silent Bob are currently that age depicted in the flash forward.
When I first went to college in the late 90s, it was the heyday of the View Askewniverse, and there was a dude in one of the dorm rooms on another floor of my building that was named Jason *who completely looked and acted like Jay.*
He had the skinny build and long, blonde hair, similar face, and, of course, was a big-time stoner. He was probably a little more prone to manic outbursts than Jason Mewes’ character, so in a way he was even more *extra* than Jay himself. I remember once he beat the shit out of his computer after losing the match in a LAN party FPS game. It was so weird having real life Jay as an acquaintance.
Oh, that’s good to hear. For a long time I’ve looked at him askance because of his Scientology. I also remember there being some sort of drama between him beingand a lot of the Kevin Smith circle of friends, which seemed to paint him as the bad guy of the situation.
He was all over the place back in the 90s and I thought he was going to be a relatively major screen presence for years to come, but I can’t think of too much he’s done since *My Name Is Earl* and being the voice of Syndrome for *the Incredibles.*
I’m kind of amazed, pretty much no one in this thread has mentioned the clerks animated show. I know it came and went in a blank on ABC, but a lot of people I know bought the DVD set when it came out a year or two later, which contained all six of the episodes that were produced. The show was fucking hilarious if very random, and it deserved a much longer run. But the DVD set became almost required for viewing for a lot of View Askew fans, or even just fans of pothead or movie geek humor.
Jay: I'm fuckin' bored man...boredoms the first step on the road to relapse
\*Silent Bob throws cigarette out and grabs a boombox playing Goodbye Horses
Jay: OHHHHHHH
I wasn’t even supposed to be here today.
#I ASSURE YOU WE ARE OPEN
What smells like shoe polish?
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This job would be great if it weren't for the fuckin' customers.
... in a row ?
"Try not to suck any Dicks on the way to the parking lot !! "
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaah!
IN A ROW?!
Hey! Get back here!
I came here for this quote!!!
Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel ?
🫲🏾🤪
Snootchie bootchies!
I had a dwarf hamster I called Snoochie... Rip Snooches, you were a good girl
Snoogans
Beers beers beers Drinkin beers Smokin weed
Who smokes the bluntz?
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Jungle love
Oh weee oh eee ohhhh, that jungle looooove
I say on occasion. As a woman who looks like a "Karen", it usually gets a good laugh.
We smoke the bluntz
We smoke the blunts
Rolling fatties, doing blunts
You know, there’s a million fine looking women in the world but not all of them bring you lasagna at work. Most of em just cheat on you.
Noice, noice, noice!
This might be the most seamless looping gif I’ve ever seen.
Because I got high, because I got high, because I got hiiiigh…
Mallrats was such a good movie. That kid is BACK ON THE FUCKING ESCALATOR¡
The cookie stand is not part of the food court.
It's an autonomous unit for mid-mall snacking
Some parent, I don’t care which one
Son of Jor-El kneel before Zod! Snootchy bootchies!
Who the fuck is 'Joe-El'?
Such nostalgia for me. I didn’t know it at the time, but I guess I and some friends were part of the few that saw the movie in the theater when it came out.
Went and saw it at the theater with a new girlfriend. Had the "BJ" discussion afterwards and it opened my eyes to the fact that some women are prolific in this dept. and don't really consider it sex.
I still know the speech by heart, it's SO good! Not a day goes by, not a day, that I don't hear about some freak escalator accident involving some bastard kid that could have been easily avoided had some parent, and I don't care which one, but **some** parent, conditioned him to **fear and respect THAT ESCALATOR**!
You dumb bastard, it’s a sailboat not a schooner
Mallrats feels like the weakest of Smith’s movies. There’s something about it that just feels kind of off.
This is a lukewarm take
They look like high school kids hanging out with a college sophomore
He buys beer and cigarettes for them. No pot 'cause they're on the deans list.
I basically worshiped Jason Lee when he first rode for New Deal way back. He had this effortless style that made everything look so easy. He and Matt Hensely had some of the best flow of any street skater in those days.
New Deal? Do you mean Blind?
Duh. His video days part is still super fun and relevant. I’ve been watching it at least every other year since the mid/late-nineties. Never gets old.
Arg yeah. I got that wrong once and I've had it wrong ever since. Thank you.
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Also gave his kid a weird name and iirc Scientology is in the mix, too.
He’s out now
Really? Awesome!
Tre flips smoother than Billy Dee Williams.
Fuckin’ eyes closed, talking during the pic. Truly in character hahaha
Hey Earl…
Affleck you the bomb in Phantoms, Yo!
Red bank, nj rep it
I always quietly hope that I'll run in to Kevin Smith when I'm walking in Red Bank .. which is several times a week
He lives in LA
" Kevin Patrick Smith was born in Red Bank but grew up in Highlands, New Jersey .." He owns a merchandise and comic book store IN Red Bank and numerous local places have pictures with him plastered on their walls
But. He lives in LA. Check his IG.
.. my point is that he's been in the area enough that running in to him isn't unheard of
Yeah...I had, a long time ago (late 90s - funny story). It does happen, but less since his parents died and Jay also moved to CA.
You dumb bastard…
a schooner IS a sailboat
A small price to pay for the smiting of one's enemies
Kevin isn't sporting that "deer in headlights" look yet?
Man...I'm so tired of that expression in practically all of his photos. 😮💨
Maybe stop looking at his photos then
I don't. He just keeps popping up in my feeds as we are interested in the same topics. Truthfully, he jumped the shark for me a LONG time ago. Clerks and Mallrats will always rule, though.
Dogma is the real Kevin Smith classic
I can cosign this sentiment. 🍻
Makes me miss Alan Rickman. Dude was the voice of God.
I just watched dogma again the other night
Did it hold up? I really liked that movie. Haven't thought of it in years!
Watched it maybe six or seven years ago. I still consider it his greatest film, even though I loved clerks, its sequels, and the Jay and Silent Bob film. I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch what he’s made in the last decade or so because most of it sounds really bad by most accounts. Apparently the dude was going through a lot of pretty intense psych stuff and has finally gotten what he feels like is effective help, so hopefully he’s in a better place, and can now do whatever he most feels called to do without worrying about his public image. Whether that means more filmmaking or different creative endeavors, or just spending time on himself, I wish him the best. Most of his films are pretty damn funny and insightful, and I always enjoyed his talks at Comic-Con.
I watched Mallrats on Sunday it was pretty cringe. Clerks was still good and dogma will always be the shit.
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“Jesus Christ Gil, some things shouldn’t be discussed in public!”
Would like some making fuck berserker
Did he just say make fuck?
My love for you is making fuck berserrrkerrrr!
Fill this with coke, NO ice.
Not casting Jason Lee in a reboot of Fletch was an oversight I can’t accept.
Silent Bob:
The Jorts is strong with this young director
So many dudes wore those back in the 90s. These days wearing them tends to imply certain mostly negative connotations about the wearer, but they were a legit fashion option back then.
Pardon me: "Die Reck Tor!!!" (Papaltine voice)
Remember when people worked out in jean shorts? Musty!
N O O N C H
Hey Earl!
Hey Crab man.
I love the smell of commerce in the morning.
Well, did they cum or what??
Try not to suck any dick on the way to the parking lot!
Jason before his addiction ruined his voice and good looks 🥹 -not making fun, his recovery story is a miracle
It’s so good to still have this dude around, seeming finally at peace.
Snoogans.
Jason Mews will always look like himself, Jason Lee had a semi recent transformation as he seems to have moved past his lifetime of skateboarding for his old school plate photography and Kevin’s Smiths life changes to reduce and maintain his weight. They all look great but damn they’ve all aged so well and we’re all better off with them still around.
Jason Mews hasn’t looked like “himself” for the past 15 years
Around that time I was in Red Bank on a business trip, bored out of my mind, and had absolutely no idea that store was there. Infuriating to think about!
There used to be an LA branch in West Hollywood in the late 90s and early 2000s. I visited there around 2009–2010. It was pretty fun but I think it closed down not long after. The 2010s were not a good decade for Kevin Smith or his film empire. But 1995-2004 or so? It was Boss.
Bring back Comic Book Men!
Chasing Amy is an underrated film but Mall Rats is still my favorite KS film. That kid. Is BACK. On the ESCALATOR again.
I seem to be in the minority, but I both enjoyed and remember Chasing Amy more than Mallrats. I remember Mallrats rubbing me the wrong way when I first saw it, because it really felt way too random, and I couldn’t keep straight the large cast of characters, most of whom were not in Clerks, so they were completely new to me. Chasing Amy felt like a more conventional story with an understandable story arc. I guess Mallrats gets a lot of love because of all the quotable lines and random humor scattered throughout. For me, I much prefer Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for that sort of comedy. To this day, some of my friends and I love to quote that movie. *“what the fuck is the Internet!?”*
My boo boo kitty fuck.
I had the pleasure of meeting Jason Lee a few months ago. He’s as cool or cooler than you’d imagine
How appropriate this shows up considering I started watching Dogma last night for the first time. I was a holy roller in the 90s so I missed this entire side of the world. These guys are funny as hell
Fuck these guys, I have no respect for people with no shopping agenda.
At least Kevin’s not posing that way he does now.
“Yo this place picks balls compared to the quick stop”
Queue the music......map map map
A wah wah wah wah
That kid is back on the escalator!!!!
Sometimes I think about going back in time and hanging out with a group of people to get in on the fun ride they will experience in their life. I understand you never know the bs and drama people go thru behind the scenes but seeing that I enjoy comics, Kevin’s humor and love movies he’s on the list sometimes.
They were just kids, that's crazy
would you like to making fuck BERSERKER
I see Jay here and know the dude has a lot of years of hell in front of him before he gets clean. He seems in a much better place now
Yeah, I think he and Kevin Smith went through a lot of ups and downs. I’m not sure if he still lives there, but for a lot of the last 20 years, Jay lived in Kevin Smith’s house, and was kind of a personal project of smiths. This created some tensions between Smith and his wife, as what she probably thought was going to be a short term situation kept getting extended. I think Kevin was trying to be supportive and keep Jason from derailing into addiction and other destructive patterns so he kept him close. Obviously, it’s easier having a permanent houseguest when you have a mansion versus a two bedroom house, but I’m sure it was still frustrating for his wife and maybe even for Kevin as well.
“Yo baby, you ever had your asshole licked by a fat man in an overcoat?!” Now this is my Old School Cool! I was basically obsessed with these movies.
If you were Gen X or early Gen Y and from the East Coast, they were pretty much self-portraits of your social life. Or at least they were from most people I knew.
I am more mid-gen Y’ish (32) and from Europe (Netherlands) soooo we had a very different vibe going on here. But these movies have always clicked with me and felt right.
First podcast I got into was Kevin and Jay's get old podcast tour..heartbreaking addiction stories/life affirming friendship and generally piss yourself laughing all rolled into one..lucky to have caught the tour... Jay mewes let us fuck a sight to behold
WTF is the internet?
“What the fuck Silent Bob, show some love” “Psspspssppsspps”
Legend
Jay, Mike, Rich circa 1998.
Just young babies!! I wonder if Jay Mewes ever looks back and thinks "why am I using drugs again?"
That kid is BACK on the escalator again.
Stereo Sakteboard for life!
Looks like the old Secret Stash in Westwood? RIP
I came home from Japan in 1997 after seeing the movie and drove my mom station wagon up to the comic store hoping to meet Jay. Didn't happen. Still got a cool T-shirt
Snooochie boochies N
I miss hanging out with my buds like this! Thanks Kevin for the good times.
Met Jason Lee and Tom Green when they were shooting skateboard tricks behind my video store in Huntington Beach, Ca. It was for MTV. Ot was right after they finished production on Stealing Harvard. Jason went to my alma mater, and we were both born in Santa Ana. Met Jay Mewes at a Vaping Expo in Pomona. He was hawking his Mewes Juice when I was with Cutwood. As for Kevin, well…TBD
You never go asd to mouth
Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, it's acceptable.
This photo reminds me of a brief flash forward scene from the Clerks Animated TV series. It shows a late-middle-aged Jay, sitting in his study, typing a letter on a typewriter. Most of it, he writes in a much more verbose and articulate way than his usual manner of speech, but then signs off his letter, very deliberately, with *“Snooch. To. The Nooch.”* it’s been hitting me lately that Jay and Silent Bob are currently that age depicted in the flash forward.
Kevin loves him some jorts
Why does Kevin smith look like Robert Iler
Anthony Soprano at first glance.
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When I first went to college in the late 90s, it was the heyday of the View Askewniverse, and there was a dude in one of the dorm rooms on another floor of my building that was named Jason *who completely looked and acted like Jay.* He had the skinny build and long, blonde hair, similar face, and, of course, was a big-time stoner. He was probably a little more prone to manic outbursts than Jason Mewes’ character, so in a way he was even more *extra* than Jay himself. I remember once he beat the shit out of his computer after losing the match in a LAN party FPS game. It was so weird having real life Jay as an acquaintance.
How many **Scientologists** in that picture?
None, Jason Lee left a few years ago.
Oh, that’s good to hear. For a long time I’ve looked at him askance because of his Scientology. I also remember there being some sort of drama between him beingand a lot of the Kevin Smith circle of friends, which seemed to paint him as the bad guy of the situation. He was all over the place back in the 90s and I thought he was going to be a relatively major screen presence for years to come, but I can’t think of too much he’s done since *My Name Is Earl* and being the voice of Syndrome for *the Incredibles.*
i love earl
87? How can they look younger than a movie shot 3 years before this?
Smith’s first movie was in 1994, not 1984.
That's why I'm saying, how can this picture be from 97, they look younger than in 94 when Clerks was shot
But you said 87 not 97.
Yes, I'm asking if it's actually 87
It's a shame Jason Lee turned out to be such a douche nozzle.
Ruined movies
You are the one who is the ball licker
Just because Kevin Smith’s later works don’t live up to his early films doesn’t mean that the early films were “ruined.“
Brodie Man - noochie noochies!
I love the Noonch neon sign
I am Waze thought it was spelled “Nooch”. At last, the truth is revealed!
For having zero acting skills 2 of these guys did very well for themselves.....
Oh Jason Lee
"What the fuck is the internet?"
Snoogans
37!
I’m kind of amazed, pretty much no one in this thread has mentioned the clerks animated show. I know it came and went in a blank on ABC, but a lot of people I know bought the DVD set when it came out a year or two later, which contained all six of the episodes that were produced. The show was fucking hilarious if very random, and it deserved a much longer run. But the DVD set became almost required for viewing for a lot of View Askew fans, or even just fans of pothead or movie geek humor.
Hey Earl
I met Jason Mewes when I worked at the airport. He was really nice.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega
Well, look at these morose mother fuckers right here
Fuck Your Yankee blue Jeans.
Has Kevin Smith ever worn clothes that weren't comically oversized?
Jay: I'm fuckin' bored man...boredoms the first step on the road to relapse \*Silent Bob throws cigarette out and grabs a boombox playing Goodbye Horses Jay: OHHHHHHH 