Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Movie References

The characters Dante, Randal, Willam, and the titular Jay & Silent Bob were first seen in Clerks.

Additional references include:
1. The Quick Stop and RST Video locations were the primary setting of Clerks.
2. Dante repeated his familiar refrain of "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
3. Jay's Berserker shirt refers to Silent Bob's Russian cousin Olaf.

The characters Brodie and Suzanne the orangutan were first seen in Mallrats.

Further references include:
1. Brodie's enlarged Variety cover behind the counter of his comic book store explains his leave from The Tonight Show, a nod to the ending of Mallrats.
2. Brodie's joke about chocolate covered pretzels is a callback to his stinkpalm of Mr. Svenning.
3. Jay's comment that Silent Bob is "the guy who makes the blueprints" refers to the fact that Bob drew up their stage sabotaging plans at the Eden Prairie Mall.
4. Jay's exclamation "Flee, Fatass, flee" is a take on "Fly, Fatass, fly" when Bob dressed in Batman garb to bring the stage down.
5. Toward the end of the movie, there is a stagehand carrying a small piece of stage, perhaps a callback to the similar stagehands seen in Mallrats joked about on the movie commentary track because none of the pieces looked large enough to actually be part of the stage.
6. Alyssa makes a met-reference about Bluntman & Chronic being a better movie than Mallrats.

The characters Holden, Banky, Alyssa, Hooper X, and Bluntman & Chronic were first seen in Chasing Amy.

Further references include:
1. "Tube of Wonderful," the song during the opening credits, is played when Holden makes his first appearance.
2. Nails Cigarettes become View Askew's fake cigs (a reference to "nails in your coffin") and are seen frequently in background advertisements.
3. Jay chastises Bob for pantomiming even though he has no problem telling "that stupid Amy story."
4. Alyssa makes a meta-reference about Chasing Amy being a horrible idea for a movie.

The character of God was first seen in Dogma.

Further references include:
1. Jay's reference to "God, Herself" comes from his meeting with God.
2. Mooby's characters representing the "golden calf" are ubiquitous.
3. A Buddy Christ can be seen on the nun's dashboard.
4. Matt Damon makes a reference to his involvement in the movie Dogma.

The title of the movie and its logo are adapted from the Star Wars sequel.

Also, Mark Hamill, who plays Cock-Knocker, alludes to his role as Luke Skywalker when Jay cuts off his hand and he sighs, "Not again."

The intro titles that feature "A long time ago..." refers to the series' famous opening. Jay also spreads the rumor that Dante and Randal got hitched dressed as Storm Troopers. Holden makes the comment that a Jay and Silent Bob movie is the worst idea since "Greedo shooting first," a nod to Lucas's ill-received re-edits to the movie. Finally, the characters duel with "bong sabers" at the end of the film, inspired by light sabers from the Star Wars series.

When discussing the finer points of Morris Day & The Time, the band is referred as those guys from Purple Rain.

Randal complains that Jay & Bob are interrupting his enjoyment of Clash of the Titans while he's working.

Jay calls the officer frisking him "Serpico."

Brodie blames the success of X-Men for the influx films based on comic book properties.

Jay lists this movie as one of the classy movies Miramax is used to making.

Jay lists this movie as one of the classy movies Miramax is used to making.

Brodie insists Miramax went downhill after they produced this movie.

Holden's studio is called Potzers, Inc. in reference to the term for a weak chess player used in this movie. (It was also referenced in Chasing Amy.)

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are "those guys from Good Will Hunting." Later in the movie, Affleck and Damon are on the set of the movie's sequel, Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season. The two actors (playing themselves) refer to doing a movie as a pay back for a friend. This is a sideways nod to Kevin Smith who brought the Good Will Hunting script to Miramax.

Affleck was da bomb in Phantoms, Yo.

This saying also recalls a conversation on the director's commentary track for Mallrats.

Jay and Bob are "a couple of stoners who spout dumb-ass catch-phrases like a third rate Cheech and Chong or Bill and Ted," according to Magnolia-Fan.

Jay and Bob are "a couple of stoners who spout dumb-ass catch-phrases like a third rate Cheech and Chong or Bill and Ted," according to Magnolia-Fan.

Someone going by the handle "Magnolia-Fan" posts a venomous take-down of the Jay and Silent Bob characters.

This is also an in-joke because Kevin Smith caused a minor uproar on his own message board when he wrote a negative review of Magnolia.

Holden says other posters on Movie Poop Shoot are "joining Spartacus here's boycott."

Jay dreams of meeting the Scooby gang. Though clearly a reference to the cartoon, this movie was also in production at the time.

The Bluntman & Chronic characters are an obvious homage to Batman and Robin, but Jay's grappling hook scene as he breaks into Provasic is a clear visual reference to the Tim Burton movie.

Jay's nightmare of a monkey apocalypse takes several cues from Planet of the Apes, including apes riding on horseback and the destroyed Statue of Liberty on a beach.

When Bob gets stuck in the sewer pipe, Jay says he's just like WInnie the Pooh.

The stand-off with Federal Wildlife Marshal Willenholly bears a striking resemblance to a similar scene in the Harrison Ford flick. Also, Provasic is also the name of a pharmaceutical company in both movies.

After Jay talks about his union's problems securing health care, Pumpkin Escobar responds: "Norma Rae like a mother fucker."

Several well-dressed gentlemen on the Miramax lot walk in a similar formation to those colorful characters on the Reservoir Dogs poster.

Affleck refers to Matt Damon's taste in roles as limited to "gay serial killers who ride horses and play golf."

Matt Damon calls Ben Affleck "Bounce boy."

Affleck refers to Matt Damon's taste in roles as limited to "gay serial killers who ride horses and play golf."