Posted by Darth Maulrats at host.159-142-140-45.gsa.gov on December 20, 2000 at 21:34:18:
In Reply to: I was thinking more in coincidental terms here. posted by Elijah Glass on December 20, 2000 at 20:54:41:
: : How very dumb.
: : Harley says little J. as in little Joker, Duh...
: I was't insinuating a direct influence here. I was just drawing on the fact that the captions spell out "Jay."
: : And Jason Mewes was "Jay" before he ever met Kevin...i think. anyone verify?
: Well, yeah!
: Then again, the characters of Jay & Silent Bob were paired up before (I think) Kev. started to draw parallels between them and DC's own dynamic duo. That Jay & Bob were like Batman & Robin probably wasn't the original inspiration for the characters; it just grew out of the idea of a cartoonish duo.
: Trust me, it's a stretch and a half that the animators on "RotJ" were thinking of ViewAskew, but, ah, Jesus, why am I bothering with an explanation?