YMMV / Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

• Genius Bonus: Sissy refers to Jay and Silent Bob as "Little Boy and Fat Man", the code names given to the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Seeing so many Miramax films and acting mainstays referenced all in the same film after Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse crimes came to light can be a bit hard to watch (especially the "Moonraper" billboard). Weinstein himself, whom Smith had previously referred to as his mentor, was even supposed to have a cameo at one point.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Will Ferrell's character is named Marshal Willenholly, a reference to the TV show, Land of the Lost (1974). Eight years after this movie came out, a film version of Land of the Lost was made starring Ferrell.
  • The fictitious sequel Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season, which is a Genre Shift to an action movie, has gotten funnier since Matt Damon has become an action star thanks to The Bourne Series.
  • This scene was clearly ahead of its time with regards to Ben Affleck and a certain superhero movie.
  • Marc Blucas appears at one point as a Fred Jones-lookalike. One year later, his Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, would play Daphne in the first live-action Scooby-Doo film. Plus, Eliza Dushku's in the film.
  • Chris Rock saying "Who the fuck am I? I'm the director. Chaka Luther King. That's who the fuck I am!" is similar to a quote from Osmosis Jones.
  • A deleted scene has the duo watch a Daredevil movie being filmed. Two years later, Ben Affleck starred in Daredevil, which had a cameo from Kevin Smith.
• Ho Yay: Jay likes to constantly remind everyone within earshot that he likes the ladies, then he or Silent Bob says or does something suggesting that he is deep deep in the closet (Word of God says Jay is a closeted bisexual). Silent Bob is guilty, too, only he doesn't say or deny much.
• Les Yay: The jewel thieves are supposed to be lesbians, according to Kevin Smith — however, many of the scenes that would have made this even more apparent wound up on the cutting room floor. They can still be found on the deleted scenes of the DVD. ^note Come Reboot, Justice is in a relationship with another woman.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Jay's entire rap at the start of the film qualifies, but this particular lyric is by far the most quoted by fans -"Fifteen bucks, little man! Put that shit, in my hand! If that money doesn't show, then ya owe me, owe me, owe!"
  • "Hey Affleck! You were the bomb in Phantoms!" How many people can say that have actually seen Phantoms?
  • "I think (insert copyright holder or director here) is gonna sue somebody!"
  • Holden's quotes about the internet, "The internet is a communications tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography." and "The Internet has given everybody in America a voice and evidently everybody in America has chosen to use that voice to bitch about movies." The latter is even the page quote for This Very Wiki's page for Internet Backdraft!^note And the former was the page quote for This Very Wiki's page for The Internet until 2021.
  • From that same scene, Holden's assertation that "They're not talking about YOU, they're talking about fictional characters. FIC-TION-AL CHARACTERS!" (complete with faux sign language motions for that last part) is often used as a reaction meme during particularly heated internet debates, with the (slightly altered) caption: "Please remember that these are fictional characters!"
• Once Original, Now Common: In the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the risk Kevin Smith took when he made a standalone movie that required the viewer to have already seen four other, loosely connected movies isn't quite as daring.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Well more like Two-Scene wonder: The Sheriff. He has no problem making the Federal Wildlife Marshal look stupid by correcting him about the difference between monkeys and apes. Later on he is the only one that doesn't fall for Jay's ruse of sneaking the monkey out as their adopted kid. He also leaves the Marshal to deal with Jay and Silent Bob without any assistance. Finally he mocks the Marshal's compliment during the scene with the rules. Why is he able to do that? Because he's Judd Nelson AKA John "Fucking" Bender, that's why. (And also Rodimus Prime.)
  • Hey kids, it's Mark Hamill! ^note Applause!
  • Seann William Scott as Brent. In his one scene, he sings a ridiculous song told from the point-of-view of a rabbit, gets outed by Jay for being a sheepfucker, and is then promptly tossed out of a moving van.
  • Also Carrie Fisher (a.k.a. Princess Leia) as a nun who gives the duo a lift early in the movie.
  • George Carlin as the hitchhiker who teaches Jay and Silent Bob the art of fellating one's way across the country.
• Pandering to the Base: Kevin Smith admits that he made the film purely for his fans who wanted a Jay and Silent Bob movie with tons of references to his other films, as well as lot of swearing, crude jokes, and Fanservice.
• Signature Scene:
  • Jay's iconic rap song from the beginning.
  • The bit where Jay and Silent Bob go to the houses of everyone who bad-mouthed them online and beat them up. If you've never actually seen the movie before but are at least aware of its existence and have spent some time online, you'd probably think this is a big part of the film, when in fact it's a very short segment at the very end.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • Jay not knowing about the existence of the Internet was at the cusp of pushing believability in 2001.
  • While the film references works from multiple decades, the early to late 90's are treated as being recent, with movies from the year 2000 being the most topical. The Daredevil Early-Bird Cameo references a movie that had not yet been released at that time.
  • For that matter, the film's satire of Hollywood in general, and especially of superhero movies. At the time, the defining image of such was notorious bombs like Batman & Robin, while the success of X-Men was a very new phenomenon that nobody imagined would last as long as it did. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot mines a lot of its humor from just how much had changed in this regard between 2001 and 2019.

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