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Kevin Smith’s debut feature Clerks inspired a generation of indie filmmakers to scrape together a budget for their own quirky little comedies. After Smith’s first movie became a hit at Sundance, he was able to secure a larger budget and backing from a big studio for his second.  Mallrats essentially transplanted the Clerks formula – a day in the lives of two pop culture-savvy guys discussing relationship problems – into a shopping mall.

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While Mallrats was nowhere near as critically acclaimed as Clerks , it has since been re-evaluated as a cult classic and it has a handful of its own memorable quotes.

“I Can’t Express Myself Monosyllabically Enough For You To Understand.” - Brodie Bruce

Before Ben Affleck was an A-list leading man, he played a couple of hilariously hateable supporting roles in cult comedies, like butt-paddling senior Fred O’Bannion in Dazed and Confused and, indeed, smarmy Fashionable Male proprietor Shannon Hamilton in Mallrats .

When Shannon asks love rival Brodie Bruce if he wants to say something, Brodie quips back, “Yeah, about a million things, but I can’t express myself monosyllabically enough for you to understand them all.” This is a perfect insult.

“You Should See Yourself Right Now: A Grown Man With His Hand Down His Pants.” - T.S. Quint

When T.S. needs to exact a little revenge, Brodie has an inventive but disgusting scheme to get payback. It involves sticking his hand down the back of his pants before a handshake with the target.

As he prepares the gambit, an embarrassed T.S. says, “You should see yourself right now: a grown man with his hand down his pants.” Brodie quips, “Yeah, I probably look like my old man.”

“You Dumb B******, It’s Not A Schooner, It’s A Sailboat!” - William Black

Ethan Suplee’s simple-minded supporting character William spends the entirety of Mallrats staring at a Magic Eye poster, trying to see the sailboat that everybody else is able to spot straight away.

When a little girl and boy look at the poster and the girl says, “Wow, it’s a schooner,” William fires back, “Ha-ha-ha! You dumb b******, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat.” The little boy has a sharp rebuttal: “A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head!”

“What, Like The Back Of A Volkswagen?” - Various Characters

There’s a running gag throughout Mallrats that Shannon Hamilton likes to have sex “some place very uncomfortable.” Every time it’s mentioned to a character, they cluelessly think the uncomfortable place is the location of the sex act and ask the same question: “What, like the back of a Volkswagen?”

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The joke is paid off when Shannon’s sexual secrets are revealed to the entire audience of the game show and one of the game’s contestants asks the same Volkswagen question in front of the whole crowd.

“Adventure, Excitement... A Jedi Craves Not These Things.” - Silent Bob

It wouldn’t be a Kevin Smith movie without a healthy dose of Star Wars references . Clerks ’ Randal makes a hilarious point about the subcontractors who would’ve been killed in the destruction of the second Death Star, while the heroes of Zack & Miri Make a Porno attempt to self-finance and produce an adult parody of the George Lucas classic.

Silent Bob spends the whole of Mallrats trying to use the Force to lift a cigarette into his mouth. When he finally speaks, he quotes Luke’s wise master Yoda: “Adventure, excitement... a Jedi craves not these things.”

“Hasn’t It Become Abundantly Clear During The Tenure Of Our Friendship That I Don’t Know S***?” - Brodie Bruce

Oftentimes, the ones who are the most confident in what they say are the ones with no real point to make. When Brodie learns that T.S. actually listened to something he said and took it onboard, he’s taken aback.

As Brodie sees it, his track record should’ve told T.S. that something was amiss: “You’re gonna listen to me? To something I said? Hasn’t it become abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don’t know s***?”

“The Customer Is Always An A******!” - Shannon Hamilton

When T.S. asks Shannon if he’s familiar with the phrase, “The customer is always right,” Shannon contests its logic: “Let me tell you something. Let me give you a little secret, okay? The customer is always an a******!”

This line is relatable to anybody who’s ever worked in retail (like Smith himself, who used to work in the Quick Stop convenience store where Clerks takes place).

“He Seems To Be Really Hung Up On Superhero Sex Organs.” - Stan Lee

Stan Lee cameos in Mallrats at a crucial juncture to give Brodie some timely relationship advice: “Do yourself a favor, Brodie: don’t wait. Because all the money, all the women, even all the comic books in the world, they can’t substitute for that one person.”

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Despite this profound wisdom, Brodie’s first questions upon meeting his idol are whether Mr. Fantastic can stretch his penis and whether the Thing’s genitals are made of rock. A concerned Lee later tells T.S., “I think you ought to get him some help. He seems to be really hung up on superhero sex organs.”

“Snootchie Bootchies!” - Jay

The reappearance of Jay and Silent Bob in Mallrats connected Kevin Smith’s second movie to his first and began the stoner duo’s long-running tenure as the heart and soul of the View Askewniverse. Mallrats established Jay’s nonsensical but unforgettable catchphrase: “Snootchie bootchies!”

Jay’s proudest moment as a father in Jay & Silent Bob Reboot is when his estranged daughter Milly adopts his catchphrase. He uses the line a few times in Mallrats , but the funniest is after hitting LaFours with a baseball bat and crying out, “Come, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod! Snootchie bootchies!”

“You F****** Think Just Because A Guy Reads Comics, He Can’t Start Some S***!?” - Brodie Bruce

The character of Brodie Bruce is a departure from stereotype in that he’s a nerd obsessed with comics who’s also confident and outspoken. Whenever he feels threatened, he becomes brash and obnoxious, which Jason Lee plays up brilliantly.

After getting into an altercation with a fellow mallrat who looks down on his superhero fandom, Brodie yells at them, “You f****** think just because a guy reads comics, he can’t start some s***!?” Now that the MCU’s success has brought comic book obsession into the mainstream, this quote has aged well.

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15 Jason Lee’s Breakout Film

Mallrats  would be the skater-turned-actor’s first major film. Lee would continue collaborating with Smith on a  string of other titles  — many involving Jay and Silent Bob.

14 On Casting Lee

Smith let Lee audition because Giovanni Ribisi’s mother, Hollywood talent manager Gay Ribisi, asked the casting director to give her daughter’s boyfriend (Lee) a chance. “So they brought Jason in, and he had a bag of Burger King with him; he was in the midst of eating a Whopper,” Smith  told  The Hollywood Reporter.  “So he’s digging into his Whopper, and I go, ‘Okay, so we think you’re it. You’re going to be Brodie.’ He stops eating momentarily, looks up with the widest eyes possible, and goes, ‘Yeah?’ and then instantly, he goes back into his Whopper as if I wasn’t there. That Whopper was just the most important thing in the world to him.”

13 Reese Witherspoon Wanted to Audition But Pissed Smith Off

“We’d been looking forward to Reese, but it never went past the meet and greet,” Smith told  Yahoo!  on the film’s  25th-anniversary interview.  “So Reese Witherspoon is talking about  Clerks , and she goes, ‘Oh, I was also in a convenience store movie,  S.F.W . It’s the same thing.’ That really fucking turned me off where I was like, ‘ S.F.W.  is not — that’s not  Clerks . Like, what? Like, you know — and that was kind of the deal breaker for us.”

12 Smith Didn’t Know Who Ben Affleck Was

“Jim Jacks, our producer, comes to me, and goes, ‘Ben Affleck’s coming in today,’” Smith said in the same interview. “I was like, ‘Who’s that?’ And he’s like, ‘He’s O’Bannion in  Dazed and Confused. ’ I was like, oh, shit, the asshole with the paddle and shit. He came in, of course, reading for T.S., and I was like, ‘I don’t think he’s T.S., but I like him. I think he could be Shannon Hamilton.’ Ben, right away, was just like, ‘Oh man, I gotta play the bully…’ He’s like, ‘You know, man, I just want to do good work in this business, but everyone sees me as a bully. And now I’m a guy who just wants to have butt sex.’”

11 A Box Office Dud

While the 1995 movie failed at the box office — released on October 20th, it  went up against   Get Shorty  and  Now and Then  — it became a home video cult classic. 

10 A Career Killer?

Smith thought the box-office bomb signaled the end of his career. “I remember I flew out to Los Angeles from New Jersey for the premiere,”  he has remembered , “and when I landed in L.A., there was a radio station, I think it was KROQ, and the DJ was between songs and said, ‘Hey, what are you up to this weekend? I saw a movie that’s coming out called  Mallrats . Boy, it was terrible.’ I was like, ‘Oh, my God. Well, hopefully, that’s just a one-off.’ Then I went to the opening night back in Jersey; it was something like an 8 p.m. show, half sold. The next morning, I spoke to Jim Jacks, our producer, to talk about box office numbers. I was like, ‘Alright, man, how did it do?’ He goes, ‘We did $400,000.’ I asked, ‘On what screen?’ and he goes, ‘That was all the screens. I don’t know if we’re going to make a million for the weekend.’ And that was it.”

9 The Origin of ‘Snootchie Bootchies’

What would become Jay’s signature catchphrase was first dropped in  Mallrats . Listen below as Smith explains how Jason Mewes came up with his go-to line as a young teen and turned it into his own language.

8 Jumping From ‘Clerks to ‘Mallrats’

“Before  Mallrats , I’d only made  Clerks , and that never played on more than 50 screens,” Smith told  Forbes.  “It had a real arthouse release, but it made $3 million, so everyone was happy.  Mallrats  was a movie that we spent $6.1 million to make, and it opened to $1 million. It grossed just over $2 million. I was like, ‘Do I owe Universal Pictures $4 million? Because I don’t have that.’ I didn’t know the rules of the business whatsoever.”

7 The Link Between ‘Mallrats’ and ‘Almost Famous’

In  Mallrats,  Lee’s character Brodie Bruce shares the story of a plane almost crashing and the doomed passengers using their final living moments to masturbate wildly. Of course, the plane lands safely, setting up a punchline for Brodie.

Lee would later star in Cameron Crowe’s  Almost Famous , which features a scene where confessions are spilled because everyone thinks they’re about to die in a plane crash. Smith said he and Crowe actually discussed the coincidence years later. 

“At one point, when I was dating Joey (Lauren) Adams, she was auditioning for  Almost Famous,  and she had mentioned that we were dating,” Smith told to the Hollywood Reporter.  “I was like, ‘Oh my God, would you give him my info?’ and then Cameron and I would email back and forth. I didn’t see it in the sides that Joey was auditioning with, but I was telling him, like, ‘My God, these sides are fantastic.’ But when I saw the movie, I hit him up to be like, ‘Oh my God, dude! The plane!’ And he goes, ‘Yeah! My Silent Bob finally talks!’ because that’s where the drummer (John Fedevich’s Ed Vallencourt), who’d been quiet the whole time, finally speaks. And I was like, Um, yes, but the whole ‘Let’s say things or do things as the plane is about to crash, and then the plane doesn’t crash at all’ thing was in  Mallrats ! And he goes, ‘Was it?’ So I guess great minds thought alike, but one did not inform the other.”

6 How Marvel Helped the Movie

During the  Yahoo!  interview, Smith revealed how  Stan Lee’s MCU cameos  brought  Mallrats  back into the pop-culture conversation. “We got this incredibly lucky break with the explosion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe because suddenly, a Stan Lee cameo became  de rigueur  for every one of those movies that made almost half a million to $1 billion,” Smith explained. “And anyone who had movie trivia was like, ‘Oh, he was in  Mallrats ,’ like, ‘Stan Lee was in — he did that cameo thing in  Mallrats .’”

5 Almost a Different Jay

While it’s hard to imagine any one other than Jason Mewes playing Jay, the actor was hardly a sure thing. During an  oral history  of the  Jay and Silent Bob phenomenon , Mewes said that he had to audition because the studio was forking out the cash and wanted to make sure they cast the right guy. “I did want him very badly, of course,” Smith explained. “Jay had to play Jay, but the studio was like, ‘He’s your friend. This is a funny role. It could go to a real actor.’ And so they made us audition a bunch of people, and I still felt like he’s the guy. They had him audition against other Jays. Seth Green was one of them. I wanted Jay for Jay, but the studio liked Seth Green and also (the guy he) does  Robot Chicken  with, Breckin Meyer. Breckin went on to be in  Clueless   and stuff. There were two guys that they were like, ‘These are the dudes that we want to play Jay.’” Mewes, however, blew everyone away, and that is how Silent Bob got his Jay.

4 Smith Likes the Theatrical Cut

The studio wanted a bigger opening to the movie, so an extended cut was produced, even though Smith wasn’t feeling it. “Any movie called  Mallrats  that takes 30 minutes to get to the mall is not functioning properly,” he told the Hollywood Reporter.  Smith added that the whole Governor’s Ball plot, where it’s explained why Svenning hates T.S. was a mistake. “I still prefer the theatrical cut; it makes more sense to me,” he admitted.

3 The Movie’s Cameo in ‘Captain Marvel’

“A high water mark of my vocation was Stan reading the  Mallrats  script in Captain Marvel,” Smith told  Yahoo! .   “Number one, the movie made over $1 billion, which means more people saw the word  Mallrats  in  Captain Marvel  than have ever seen  Mallrats  collectively maybe since the movie came out. Um, number two, that matters to me. You know, suddenly, in that moment, I was like, wow. Back in ’95, I shined and put a spotlight on him. In 2019, he returned the fucking favor.”

2 The Mockery

In his  Forbes  interview, Smith recalled how the terrible theatrical performance turned his film into a punchline. “Making the movie, I thought it might have a life; we even thought it would have a sequel,” he shared. “I was ready to go, and then  Mallrats  came out, and everything stopped. Nobody talked about it anymore. There was no talk of a sequel. They shunted it very quickly to home video before we can even do like a fat laserdisc release and stuff. It was ignominious. Then, for 10 years, it was the punchline of most of my jokes. I’d be like, ‘Well, what do I know? I made  Mallrats! ’ I was the whipping boy that year after being the flavor of the month, or even flavor of the year, with  Clerks . I was a cautionary tale like, ‘This is what happens when you give those Sundance kids money.’ It was hard.” 

Of course, given the film’s cult status, Smith got the last laugh.

1 Smith Did End Up Writing a Sequel

“Yeah.  Twilight of the Mallrats ,” Smith answered when  Rolling Stone  asked him if he was working on a sequel in 2022. “It’s been written for so fucking long. And it’s beautiful, if I do say so myself. Very heartfelt but also very multi-generational. Falls somewhere between  Jay and Silent Bob Reboot  and  Clerks III  in terms of how it deals with characters, legacy characters we all know and love. But it also deals with Brodie Bruce’s daughter, Banner Bruce. It’s primarily their story together and about how our culture that we knew as children is completely gone — dead mall, shit like that. So I absolutely love it. And I think anybody who likes  Mallrats  would love it as well.”

Smith and Lee read some of the script on a  SModcast  episode. You can listen to it  here.

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• 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.
• [ first lines, Theatrical Version ]
• Brodie : [ voice-over ] One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck up his ass. True story. He bought it at our local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrassing for my relatives and all, but next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room. So, I run into him a week later in the mall and he's buying another cat. And I says to him, "Jesus, Walt! What are you doing? You know you're just gonna get this cat stuck up your ass too. Why don't you knock it off?" And he said to me, "Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?" My cousin was a weird guy.
• Shannon Hamilton : You wanna say something?
• Brodie : Yeah. About a million things, but I can't express myself monosyllabically enough for you to understand 'em all.
• Brandi : Second suitor, would you ever make whoopie in public?
• Brodie : I already did once today.
• [ clicks his finger at Renee ]
• Brodie : But my cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of the sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control, so he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of the sudden, snap! The hydraulics kick back in. The plane rights itself and it land safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever, you know, away and deboard. No one mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.
• Gil Hicks : [ beat ] Well, did he cum, or what?
• Brodie : Jesus *Christ*, man! There's just some things you don't talk about in public!
• T.S. Quint : But they're engaged.
• Brodie : Doesn't matter, it can't happen.
• T.S. Quint : Why not? It's bound to come up.
• Brodie : It's impossible. Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle his sperm? I guarantee he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry his child?
• T.S. Quint : Sure, why not?
• Brodie : He's an alien, for Christ sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan, the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a Kryptonite condom, but that would kill him.
• T.S. Quint : How is it that I go from the verge of hot Floridian sex with Brandi to Man of Steel coital debates with you in the food court?
• Brodie : Cookie stand isn't part of the food court.
• T.S. Quint : Of course it is.
• Brodie : The food court is downstairs. The cookie stand is upstairs. It not like we're talking quantum physics here.
• T.S. Quint : The cookie stands counts as an eatery, eateries are part of the food court.
• Brodie : Bullshit! Eateries that operate within the designated square downstairs qualify as food court. Anything outside, of said designated square, is considered an autonomous unit for mid-mall snacking. Now, if you're going to wax intellectual about the subject...
• Brodie : You're giving up? You? You used to be stand-up guy, what happened to him? The guy who punched Amanda Gross's mother after she called him "low class".
• T.S. Quint : That wasn't me. It was you.
• Brodie : Oh, yeah.
• T.S. Quint : And it wasn't her mother, it was her grandmother.
• Brodie : No wonder the bitch went down so fast.
• [ Jay and Silent Bob are hiding from La Fours ]
• Jay : Is he gone?
• Brodie : Halfway to Buy Me Toys by now.
• [ they come out of hiding ]
• Jay : Man, that bastard's faster than Walt Flanagan's dog...
• Brodie : I took you shopping all the time!
• [ Banging his hands against the elevator wall ]
• Rene : You took me where you went shopping, you jerk! You think I care what store in that shitpit dirt mall has the latest Godzilla bootlegs? Do you call eating pizza in the same dive pizzeria every night eating out? Do I give a shit when two major comic book labels are crossing over characters, selling two editions of the same book in varied-ink chromium covers? I'm a girl, damn it! I wanna do girly things! Like fix up someone's hair and get phone calls expressing romantic sentiments!
• Brandi : Suitor number 3, is your kiss like a soft breeze, a firm handshake or a jackhammer?
• Gil Hicks : Definitely a jackhammer, I'm in there with some pressure and when I'm done, you're not the same as before. You're changed.
• Brodie : Where do you come up with this shit? That's the cheesiest response to an honest question I have ever heard. I saw you kiss and it wasn't anything like that.
• Bob Summers : [ Chuckling ] Suitor #2, you'll have to wait until you're addressed before you respond.
• Brodie : Richard Dawson, why don't you just go back to your podium until it's time to play The Feud. All right?
• [ Audience laughs ]
• Gil Hicks : Who the hell did you see me kiss?
• Brodie : Some dude backstage. I don't know who he was but he seemed unimpressed.
• Gil Hicks : I didn't kiss any guy backstage. I swear. I'm not gay.
• Brodie : Hey, Suitorette, this guys a homophobe. You heard how repulsed he sounded. Is this the kind of guy you want to spend a vacation with? This hate-monger?
• Gil Hicks : I don't hate gay people.
• Brodie : So you love them?
• Gil Hicks : Yes. I mean no.
• Brodie : Textbook closet case self-loather. Can't be comfortable with his own sexuality.
• [ At a Dating Game-like game show ]
• Brandi : Second suitor: if we were making whoopee, what sounds would you make?
• Brodie : Wait, what's whoopee?
• Brandi : You know, being intimate.
• Brodie : What? Like fucking?
• [ the videotape of Shannon back-dooring Trica is playing on the big screen, with cheesy 70s porno music in background ]
• Shannon Hamilton : Yeah, who's your favourite New Kid. Yeah, call me Joey. Oh, come on. Don't make me get loose. Yeah, that's right. Call me Donnie. Oh, girl. Oh, please don't go girl.
• Jay : Goddamn. This is one wacky game show.
• Brodie : [ to the cops ] Hey! That girl's only 15!
• [ cops focus their attention on Shannon ]
• Shannon Hamilton : Ah, 15. I thought she was 36!
• [ cops are approaching him ]
• Shannon Hamilton : Come on, guys. Tell me you wouldn't have popped her.
• Brodie : That kid is *back*... on the escalator again!
• [ after hitting La Fours over the head with a baseball bat ]
• Jay : Come son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod! Snootchie-bootchies. Ehehehehe!
• Little Girl : [ looking at a Magic Eye poster ] Wow. It's a schooner.
• Willam Black : Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner... it's a Sailboat.
• Little Boy : A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head!
• Willam Black : [ becoming enraged ] You know what? There is NO Easter Bunny! Over there, that's just a guy in a suit!
• Shannon Hamilton : That's it. You're dead, mallrat! I'm gonna fuck you up beyond repair!
• Brodie : Ladies and gentlemen, this tall drink of water headed my way is a pillar of the shopping community who informed me earlier today of a nefarious plan of his to screw my girlfriend in an extremely uncomfortable place.
• Gil Hicks : What... like the back of a Volkswagen?
• 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.
• Rene : That was too little too late.
• Brodie : Too little? You said it was a good size!
• Rene : The effort, you retard. The effort was too little too late.
• Rene : But, now that you mention it, when a girl says its a good size, that's a nice way of saying that it's small.
• Brodie : Hey!
• Jay : Shit, bitch, we're gonna bust up that stage like a high school kegger. We're just gonna outwit Lafours, X-Men style.
• Brodie : Should I call you Logan, Weapon-X?
• Jay : No, *Wolverine*! Shnickty shnickty shnoine!
• Brodie : See, what he's doing is imitating Wolverine's berserker attack with his adamantium claws.
• T.S. Quint : I never would have guessed.
• Gwen : How is it that you recall the most trivial events?
• Brodie : I'll never forget it. How many times do you get to see Smokey fuck the Bandit?
• Gwen : Didn't I look just like Burt Reynolds?
• Brodie , T.S. Quint : Except for the moustache.
• Jay : [ to Willam, who's struggling to see a Sailboat in the Magic-Eye picture ] What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt! And I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-tittied mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit! Look at me, look at me, you sloppy bitch!
• Brandi : If we were making whoopee, what kind of noises would you make?
• Brodie : [ Making a 'doggy style' motion with his hand ] Rrrruff... rr... rruff...
• Brodie : [ Looks over at TS ] You know, that's kind of a personal question, I don't think I should answer that.
• Willam Black : Brenda?
• Rene : [ hitting him ] DICK!
• Brodie : You have my Punisher War Journal #6, my copy of "Fletch" and the remote control to my TV. Now, I know it's going to be hard to give this stuff up because of it's sentimental attachment...
• Rene : Sentimental attachment? Look, if I have any of that crap it's because you brought it over my house and left it there.
• Brodie : Okay, then let's talk about coming up with a schedule for visitation rights.
• Rene : For what?
• Brodie : For the mall. I figure you can take the odd days, I'll take the even days and weekends. When there's any special feature like a sidewalk sale...
• Rene : [ interrupting ] Brodie, Brodie...
• Brodie : ...or a boat show...
• Rene : [ interrupting ] Brodie! I've always taken you with a grain of salt. On your birthday, when you told me to do a striptease to the theme of "Mighty Mouse", I said okay. On prom night at the hotel when you told me to sleep under the bed in case your mother burst in, I did it. And even during my grandmother's funeral when you told my relatives that you could see her nipples through her burial dress, I let that slide.
• Rene : [ Grabs Brodie by the ear ] But if you think I'm gonna suffer any of your shit with a smile now that we're broken up, you're in for some serious fucking disappointment!
• Brodie : My Grandmother always used to say "why buy the cow, when you can get the sex for free".
• T.S. Quint : She didn't!
• Brodie : All the time, before she became a lesbian on her 60th Birthday, but that's besides the point.
• Jay : Bye baby kitties. Damn Silent Bob, show some heart.
• [ Brodie picks up a controller and continues a paused video game ]
• Rene : What are you doing? You promised me breakfast.
• Brodie : Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
• Brodie : After all he's done to you, you should still kinda stick it to him.
• T.S. Quint : How do you propose I do that?
• Brodie : You stinkpalm him.
• T.S. Quint : Stinkpalm?
• Brodie : You take your hand and stick it in your ass like this. You been walkin' all day and you're nervous, so no doubt you'll be sweaty as hell.
• T.S. Quint : You should see yourself right now, a grown man with his hand down his pants.
• Brodie : Yeah i probably look like my old man. So you shake hands with the guy, "Hello Mr. Svenning how have you been?"
• T.S. Quint : Whats the point?
• Brodie : You know how long it takes for that smell to come off? Scrub all you want, it'll stick around for at least two days. How does he explain it to his colleagues and family? They'll think he doesn't know how to wipe his ass properly.
• T.S. Quint : Meanwhile you yourself are left with a hand that smells like shit.
• Brodie : Small price to pay for the smiting of one's enemies.
• Jay : [ as Silent Bob is 'flying' across the mall towards the stage ] Fly, Fatass, fly!
• Silent Bob : Adventure, excitement... a Jedi craves not these things.
• Silent Bob : [ link=tt0080684 ] ]
• Brodie : You fuckers think just because a guy reads comics he can't start some shit?
• Brodie : I love the smell of commerce in the morning.
• [ Jay is reading a Hustler. He shows a spread to Silent Bob ]
• Jay : Dude, this one looks like your mom.
• [ Silent Bob nods ]
• T.S. Quint : I was going to propose to her.
• Brodie : Where?
• T.S. Quint : The Universal Tour.
• Brodie : You're kidding. What part?
• T.S. Quint : When Jaws popped out of the water.
• Brodie : That's the most romantic thing I've ever heard.
• T.S. Quint : Too bad I'm not trying to marry you.
• Tricia Jones : I heard that you were going to propose to Brandi Svenning at some theme park. When are men going to learn that women want ROMANCE, not Mr. Toad's Wild Ride...
• Brodie : Be fair. EVERYONE wants Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
• Brodie : Say, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel? They're a little melty but damn are they exquisite.
• Jay : You're fucking kidding me! The Easter bunny did this?
• Brodie : All I said was that the Easter bunny at the Menlo Park mall was more convincing and he just jumped the railing and knocked me down.
• Jay : He's fucking dead!
• Brodie : Oh let it go, he's under a lot of pressure.
• [ T.S. and Gwen approach them ]
• T.S. Quint : What the hell happened?
• Jay : The guy in the Easter bunny suit kicked his ass.
• Brodie : I had it coming.
• Jay : [ to Silent Bob ] Fuck all that shit! Come on, Silent Bob.
• [ Jay and Silent Bob leave ]
• T.S. Quint : What really happened?
• Brodie : The proprietor of Fashionable Male beat a raincheck into my stomach.
• Gwen : Shannon Hamilton?
• T.S. Quint : You know that guy?
• Gwen : I went out with him once after we dated. He tried to screw me some place very uncomfortable.
• T.S. Quint : What? Like the back of a Volkswagen?
• Brodie : Sounds like his M.O.
• T.S. Quint : [ reading the break-up letter that Renee gave Brodie ] Woah, she calls you "callow" in here.
• Brodie : You say that like it's bad.
• T.S. Quint : It means frightened and weak-willed.
• Brodie : Really? Shit. That was the only part of the letter I thought was complimentary.
• Brandi : [ calm and nefarious tone ] Second Suitor? If you were a comic book character, what character would you be?
• Brodie : [ caught off guard, but delighted ] Wow! That's a great question. Tough one, though I mean, what does one gauge his response on? Physical prowess? Keen detection skills? The ability to banter well with super villians?
• Brandi : [ interupting ] How's your comic book collection, Brodie?
• Brodie : Oh it's goin' good. But, I mean...
• Brodie : [ T.S. punches Brodie's arm and shows an angry look, realizing they have been made ] Oh, comics? what are you talkin' about lady? I don't collect comics! Comics are for kids!
• T.S. Quint : Maybe he's calmed down, we'll talk about it reasonably.
• Brodie : Reasonably shmeasonably, you should go over there and give him shit.
• [ Trying on lace panties overtop of his jeans ]
• Brodie : I would've made a sexy chick!
• Brodie : You've probably had a slew of women since her, am I right?
• Stan Lee : Oh, lots of women. Jagger and me, we had a running contest to see who had the most. In fact, last time I checked I was way ahead.
• Brodie : DAMN that's hot!
• Brandi : Suitor Number Three, what would our first date be like?
• Gil Hicks : Well, uh, first I'd take you shopping to stores you wanna shop in, and then we'd do a little lunch, probably at the Cheese Haus, followed by some golfing. And then at night, we'd take in an opera, probably Die Fledermaus, and then I'd follow it up with a drive to a secluded beach where I'd pop on the radio and we could slow-dance till the sun came up.
• Brodie : That was the biggest load of crap I've ever heard! I mean, look at you. You're the kind of guy who would beg for sex. And I should know, we can smell our own.
• T.S. Quint : How easily do you quit? Say you wind up with one of us?
• Brodie : Hopefully not Rush Limbaugh over here.
• Gil Hicks : Well, now, I'm not like Rush Limbaugh.
• Brodie : Well, why not? Because he's fat? Now you have something against fat people, too?
• Brodie : Why don't they ever bring back or remake good shows, like 'BJ and the Bear.' Now there's a concept I can't get enough of, a man and his monkey.
• Jay : Silent Bob here's an electrical genius. He won the science fair in eighth grade by turning his mom's vibrator into a CD player using some chicken wire and shit. The mother fucker's like MacGyver. No, the mother fucker's *better than* MacGyver.
• [ Jay explains the details of Operation Drive By to Silent Bob ]
• Jay : Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but I pulled my back at humping your mom last night. Nootch! Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie Berzerk style, and knock out the fuckin' pin and bickety bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show.
• T.S. Quint : How much did you smoke?
• Jay : All it took was a phat, chronic blunt. These guys were lightweights.
• T.S. Quint : How much do I owe you?
• Jay : My treat. As long as you promise that the next time you pop your old lady, you make her call you "Jay." Snootchie Bootchies.
• T.S. Quint : Let's hope there is a next time.
• [ Jay explains the details of Operation Dark Knight to Silent Bob ]
• Jay : Okay Lunchbox, let's try this again. We tie you to the roof and you jump off and sail like a Spitfire passing right over the arch nemesis La Fours. You then swing up to the stage and knock out the pin. And when that's gone the stage is trashed and we go smoke a bowl. You got it? Now get your fat ass up there. And dude, don't forget your helmet. Snoogens.
• Brodie : You're going to listen to *me*? To something that *I* said? Hell, most of the time I'm just talking out of my ass... or sticking my hand in it.
• T.S. Quint : Haven't you ever heard the phrase "The customer is always right?"
• Shannon Hamilton : Let me tell you something. Let me give you a little secret, okay.
• [ yells it right in T.S.' ear ]
• Shannon Hamilton : The customer is always an asshole!

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18 Fun Facts About Mallrats

Mallrats , which was released 20 years ago today, is the story of T.S. and Brodie, two heartbroken young men who spend an eventful day at the mall trying to win back their girlfriends. The film, which was writer-director Kevin Smith’s follow-up to the indie hit Clerks , was a critical and commercial failure back in 1995. But over time, Smith devotees and casual fans alike began to see the film from a new perspective—as if they were looking at a Magic Eye display—and reconsider its individual charms, eventually turning the film into a bona fide cult classic (and one that's about to get a sequel ). Here are some facts about the movie to read at the cookie stand, which is definitely not part of the food court.

1. THE STUDIO SOLD IT AS A "SMART PORKY’S ."

Universal was so confident in the film’s prospects that they referred to it as a more intelligent version of the classic 1981 high school movie and had plans for a Mallrats sequel before the original film was even released. They canceled those plans after Mallrats earned just over $2.1 million in theaters.

2. UNIVERSAL WANTED ETHAN HAWKE TO STAR.

In a 1994 interview with Entertainment Weekly , Smith explained that "The studio has given us a list of stars they think should be in the movie." At the top of that list was Ethan Hawke, who Smith called "the most overworked actor in America. I’d like to give him a rest.”

3. JENNY MCCARTHY AND JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT AUDITIONED.

Jenny McCarthy claimed that Smith "didn't even wait until I was out of the office to start laughing" about her audition. Love Hewitt tried as well, but didn’t make the cut . William Atherton was offered the role of Brandi’s father , Mr. Svenning; he opted to act in Bio-Dome instead.

4. PARKER POSEY INITIALLY HAD THE ROLE OF RENE.

Joey Lauren Adams had believed for one year that she was going to get the role of Rene, Brodie's girlfriend, until her agent informed her that her best friend, Parker Posey, had gotten the part. Awkwardly, Posey was standing right next to Adams when she got the news: "Tears streaming down my face, I hugged and congratulated her, as visions of arsenic danced in my head," said Adams . Eventually, Posey had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict, and Shannen Doherty got the part instead. Adams read for—and won—the part of Gwen.

5. BEN AFFLECK WANTED TO STAR IN THE MOVIE.

He settled for playing Shannon, despite not wanting to play another bad guy like he had in Dazed and Confused . "Part of me was like, 'God, am I going to be relegated to throwing people into their lockers for the rest of my career?,'" Affleck told Backstage .

6. JASON LEE WAS BETTER KNOWN AS A SKATEBOARDER, NOT AN ACTOR.

Jason Lee had been casually dabbling in acting while skateboarding, appearing in commercials and in small films before winning the part of Brodie. He decided to quit the sport after Mallrats .

7. SETH GREEN WAS USED BY THE STUDIO AS INSURANCE IN CASE JASON MEWES COULDN’T CUT IT.

Even though Jason Mewes had played Jay in Clerks , Gramercy Pictures (a Universal subsidiary) forced him to audition against Seth Green, then kept Green available just in case they found it necessary to replace Mewes during filming. The studio also wouldn't pay for Mewes' air travel, his hotel room, or for rehearsals. After studio heads witnessed his first day of work, they left satisfied with his performance.

8. IT WAS SHOT IN A MINNESOTA MALL.

Smith wanted to shoot the film in his home state of New Jersey, but Gramercy said no. Eden Prairie Center Mall in Eden Prairie, Minnesota ended up hosting the cast and crew. The state's big tax break and the fact that the mall was only operating at half capacity made it the right financial and practical choice.

9. A NEARLY 30-MINUTE OPENING SCENE AT A GOVERNOR’S BALL WAS CUT.

In the original version of the film, T.S. accidentally shot the Governor of New Jersey at a function hosted by Mr. Svenning, which helped explain Brandi’s father’s hatred of T.S. throughout the film. Preview audiences weren’t fans of the scene, so it was taken out of the theatrical cut. The scene became available for public consumption for the first time when it was added as an extra on the 10th anniversary DVD.

10. SMITH GAVE A SHOUT-OUT TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL.

Brodie wore a Henry Hudson Regional High School shirt in the beginning of the movie. Smith and Jeff Anderson (Randal from the Clerks films) both graduated from Henry Hudson in 1988.

11. THERE ARE CONFLICTING STORIES ON SMITH’S DIRECTING TECHNIQUES.

Throughout rehearsals, Smith gave line readings to the actors, speaking their lines so that they could simply repeat them with his tone and inflection, as well as physically demonstrating how an actor should move around at times. Joey Lauren Adams found it shocking. Conversely, Smith apparently relaxed when it came time to film. Michael Rooker (Mr. Svenning) remembered Smith playing on his Game Boy instead of giving his movie his full attention.

12. WILLAM CALLING SHANNEN DOHERTY "BRENDA" WASN’T IN THE SCRIPT.

Ethan Suplee (Willam) and Doherty (Rene) completed a take of the scene before Smith walked over to Suplee and whispered to him to call her Brenda (as in Brenda Walsh, Doherty’s character from Beverly Hills, 90210 ). Suplee said he believed at the time she didn’t know it was coming , then later heard she might have.

13. DOHERTY’S FANS ALMOST CAUSED A RIOT.

Doherty let her bodyguard take the night off and went on a shopping excursion to a different Minnesota mall with Joey Lauren Adams and the movie’s costume designer. A group of fans flocked to Urban Outfitters, forcing an employee to lock the store’s front doors. Some fans kept chasing Doherty and her two companions in the parking lot before they managed to escape in their car.

14. WALTER FLANAGAN REALLY DID HAVE A DOG.

Walter Flanagan played Fan Boy. He purchased a tiny puppy during filming, named it Brodie, and let it run around the closed mall and its empty parking lot, where she ran around so fast that she “looked like a little hockey puck.” That is where Jay’s comment that someone was running “faster than Walt Flanagan’s dog” came from. "It was such an inside joke, I guess Kevin just decided to keep it," Flanagan said .

15. A SCENE MEANT FOR MALLRATS WAS DEEMED "TOO RACY" BY THE STUDIO.

“The Jaws scene,” where the characters compare scars , was originally in the Mallrats script. Smith shot it for Chasing Amy instead.

16. ETHAN SUPLEE DIDN’T SEE THE SAILBOAT.

Suplee never saw a sailboat , or a schooner, in the Magic Eye picture he spent the bulk of the movie staring at. Apparently, there never was one in the picture to begin with.

17. KEVIN SMITH APOLOGIZED FOR THE FILM.

He jokingly apologized for making Mallrats at the Independent Spirit Awards. On his office’s answering machine after the movie's poor showing in theaters, Lee recalled that Smith greeted callers by saying , “Hey, this is Kevin. We can't get to the phone right now. We're too busy licking our wounds.”

18. A SEQUEL IS GOING TO BE FILMED NEXT YEAR.

Mallbrats will be shot at the Exton Square Mall in Exton, Pennsylvania. All of the original cast is slated to return.

Kurt's Thoughts

Regarding that stereoscopic picture in mallrats….

Just in case I never posted this:  Do you remember that scene in Mallrats where William can’t see the “sailboat” in the stereoscopic picture?  Did you ever wonder what the hell was in that picture?

Well, here it is.  A capture of the screen from the movie.  And yes, amazingly the stereoscopic picture works perfectly in the below snapshot:

Here’s the funny part:  There’s no sailboat.  I won’t tell you what’s in there but there’s no boat to be found, albeit there are 3D objects in the picture to be seen.

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it’s good. it has items in this way from left top to right bottom.. a plus sign, engraved cone, engraved diamond, engraved star, ball, a half ball shell facing upward, a ball shell with further half, a ball shell with further cut, and on the bottom row, 4 trees from top.

It’s not a sailboat, it’s a schooner, you dumb bastard!

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12 Trendy Fall Boat Shoes That Are More Comfortable Than Sneakers — Picks from Amazon, Nordstrom and More

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Out with the sneakers and boots, in with the boat shoes! If you consider yourself a fashionista, you know that boat shoes are about to replace sneakers in the style spotlight. Given that sneakers have had the spotlight all summer long, it’s about time!

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Unlike sneakers, boat shoes yield a classy, refined style that screams East Coast rich. They’re slightly nautical, ultra-preppy and sophisticated, all while pairing perfectly with any everyday ensemble. And unlike chunky boots, they’re light, chic and comfortable — if you find the right ones, that is!

We found some of the trendiest boat shoes from stores like Zappos, Nordstrom, Walmart and Amazon bound to give you the aesthetic you seek while supporting your feet, the best-case scenario if you ask Us ! Whether your budget is $20 or $200, read on to find a new go-to that’s comfier than your favorite walking kicks.

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1. Classy classic:  When you think of boat shoes, chances are you think of Sperry. These are the original boat shoes that have thousands of five-star reviews — $110 at Nordstrom!

2. Functional find:  If you’re serious about this whole yachting thing, you’ll need a non-slip shoe that repels water and resists stains. Meet your new go-to from outdoor brand Columbia — originally $70, now $41 on Amazon!

3. Clean look:  All-white sneakers are trendy . . . but all-white boat shoes are trendier! These leather Jeffrey Campbell boat shoes are effortlessly chic — $145 at Nordstrom! 

4. Plush cushioning: Yes, they’re as comfortable as they sound! Sketchers nailed the boat shoe look with these kicks while incorporating Ultra Go cushioning for support — originally $65, now $58 at Zappos!

5. Sperry Bahama 2.0:  Colors like white and navy exude yachting energy and these casual Sperry shoes are no exception — originally $70, now $52 at Zappos!

6. Girly girl:  Rhinestones are just the beginning when it comes to why we adore these Kirt Geiger London boat shoes. Gold accents and a darling bow tie are a few highlights — $135 at Nordstrom!

7. Casual find:  You’ll love the suede material of these Cecelia New York shoes that combine a boat shoe and a loafer. A 1.25-inch heel will give you some height, too — $20 at Walmart!

8. Sporty chic:  These leather shoes from Sebago are water-resistant and extra-breathable , ideal for day-to-day walks, touring the city and more — $185 at Nordstrom!

9. Crowd favorite:  Nearly 50,000 reviewers give these Hey Dude boat shoes five stars, so if you don’t take our word, take theirs! The shoe also happens to be over 50% off right now — originally $64, now $26 on Amazon!

10. Coastal style:  Another win from Sketchers! With a recycled knit upper, these are the perfect shoes for anyone traveling to Europe . . . or who are just wanting to look Italian — originally $63, now $57 at Zappos!

11. Chunky look:  Combine a chunky sneaker, boat shoe and loafer into one with these brand-new Steve Maddens ! A 1.5-inch heel, lace-up style and raw edge detailing give them a one-of-a-kind flair — $100 at Nordstrom!

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12. Western-inspired leather:  Why choose between Western and East Coast styles when you can have both ? This Roper shoe has a trendy design etched into its distressed leather — originally $81, now $65 at Zappos!

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‘It's just a tragedy': Officials investigate cause of Old Saybrook boat crash

The breakwater where encon officials say a boat crashed the evening of labor day is a part of the investigation. the location has been subject to crashes in previous years including two just last summer., by kevin gaiss • published september 3, 2024 • updated on september 3, 2024 at 8:02 pm.

“It’s just a tragedy, it really is, Kimberly Keinz, of Old Saybrook, said.

She lives across the street from the Harbor One Marina at Saybrook Point. The investigation and search lasted all day Tuesday. She noted the number of sirens and first responders that came to the area after the crash.

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“There was a little chop but not a bad night otherwise,” said a boater, who wished to remain anonymous, who was crossing through that area after a boating trip with family.

He estimated he passed through the same area as the crash about 15 to 20 minutes before it happened.

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“Last night was definitely a dark night,” he said.

According to officials in a press conference Tuesday afternoon, they are investigating darkness as a factor in the crash, though they noted the boat had appropriate instruments.

They are also considering speed as a factor.

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Another beautiful day on tap for Tuesday

That boater noted he has run boats in and out of Old Saybrook his whole life, and understands the breakwater is hard to see, especially on a particularly dark night.

“The lighthouse and the inner light right behind it, which I think some people may confuse with the inlet of the river that your home and they don’t realize you aren’t home,” he said.

Though Encon police said the channel is properly marked, it's also part of the investigation.

“They are marked, and it's something we are looking into,” Captain Keith Williams with Connecticut Environmental Conservation Police said.

Last year, on Labor Day weekend, four were injured in a similar crash. A boat crashed into the breakwater.

A few weeks before that at the end of July, another boat crashed on a jetty at the mouth of the river. A man was sent to the hospital in that crash.

“It doesn’t happen that often, but we have had a few in the last couple of years,” Captain Williams said.

Some stopping by Tuesday wondered what could be done along the channel to prevent this from happening again. As did the boater passing through ahead of the crash.

“I don’t know if they can do anything to improve that wall to light it up,” he said.

While investigators determine the cause and how to keep these crashes from happening in the future, those stopping by the boat recovery said they are thinking of the family.

“You hate to see any incident, any tragedy where there is loss of life,” Keinz said.

Even though boating season is winding down, officials are still offering the reminder to always have the appropriate life jackets on board and always make sure your instruments are working, and you are familiar with them.

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs arrested by federal agents in New York

Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City said.

Combs was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel on West 57th Street, a representative said. He was caught off-guard by the apprehension, according to a person familiar with the situation, who added he had been living at the hotel for several weeks.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams confirmed in a statement that on Monday evening, federal agents arrested Combs based on a sealed indictment filed by the Southern District of New York.  

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“We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time,” Williams said.

Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo expressed disappointment in a statement. He said Combs, 54, had been cooperative with the investigation and “voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges.”

“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man, and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children, and working to uplift the Black community,” the statement said. “He is an imperfect person but he is not a criminal.”

“These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court,” it added.

It was not immediately clear on what charges Combs, the rapper-turned-music mogul, was arrested.

Combs has faced a wave of lawsuits — one as recent as last week — accusing him of sexual assault and misconduct since November, when former girlfriend Casandra Ventura sued him in federal court, accusing him of years of physical and sexual abuse.

Ventura, who is best known by her stage name, Cassie, was once signed to Combs’ Bad Boy record label. The two settled her lawsuit a day after it was filed, without disclosing the terms of the settlement. An attorney for Combs said the settlement was not an acknowledgment of wrongdoing. He previously denied the allegations.

Since then, a number of others have sued, in cluding Dawn Richard , who alleged that he groped and threatened her when he employed her from 2005 to 2012 and that she witnessed him brutally beat Ventura. Combs has vehemently denied the accusations in the lawsuits, saying they were “sickening allegations” from people looking for “a quick payday.”

But in May, after CNN released hotel video of Combs kicking, punching and throwing Ventura on the floor in a hallway in Los Angeles in 2016, he apologized in a video on Instagram in which he said that his behavior was “inexcusable” and that he had sought therapy. The video was later removed from his page.

Richard, who was a member of the girl group Danity Kane, which Combs formed on the MTV reality competition “Making the Band,” and later the group Diddy — Dirty Money, sued Combs last week.

An attorney said Combs was “shocked and disappointed” by Richard’s lawsuit, which, like Ventura’s complaint, depicts him as controlling and violent.

Ventura’s lawsuit included allegations of sex trafficking. She alleged that he frequently beat her, that he forced her to engage in sex acts with male prostitutes — drug-fueled encounters Combs referred to as “freak offs” and sometimes recorded — and that in 2018, as she was trying to end their relationship, he forced his way into her home and raped her.

Richard said in her suit that she attended “drug-fueled parties,” where guests were required to surrender their phones. She also said she witnessed what she believed were inebriated underage girls being sexually violated by Combs and his guests.

In March, federal investigators searched Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles.

Investigators interviewed several people in relation to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault and the solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms, a source familiar with the investigation told NBC News in March.

The warrant to search Combs’ properties came from the Southern District of New York, NBC News has reported. 

Combs, who has also gone by such names as Puffy, Puff Daddy and Love, founded Bad Boy in the early 1990s. He is regarded as a trailblazer of hip-hop, fashion and media, having created the Sean John clothing line and launched the Revolt TV channel, which he sold his stake in over the summer .

Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer on Combs’ most recent album, alleged in a lawsuit in February that Combs made unwanted sexual contact, forced him to hire prostitutes and pressured him to participate in sex acts with them. Jones said he lived and traveled with Combs from September 2022 to November 2023, during which time he recorded hours of video and audio of Combs, his staff and others “engaging in serious illegal activity.”

His attorneys, Rodney S. Diggs and Tyrone Blackburn, who are also representing other Combs accusers, said Combs’ “long awaited arrest” was “an important step towards justice for all of Mr. Combs’ victims.”

“We leave the criminal aspect of this case in the hands of the people and justice system,” they said Monday night. “As for the civil cases, we await our time for the facts to reveal themselves and seek the justice our clients deserve. We also anticipate more victims coming forward. We knew this was coming. The evidence is very clear and it was only a matter of time.”

After the hotel video of Combs assaulting Ventura was published, Howard University cut ties with him . In June, the school rescinded an honorary degree it awarded him and disbanded a scholarship program in his name. The same month, Combs honored a request from New York Mayor Eric Adams and returned h is key to the city .

This month, Combs listed his home in Los Angeles that was raided in March for $61.5 million.

Chloe Melas is an entertainment correspondent for NBC News. 

Julia Ainsley is the homeland security correspondent for NBC News and covers the Department of Homeland Security for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.

Doha Madani is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News. Pronouns: she/her.