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- The latest issue of Simpsons Comics (#86, out today) features a few neat Askew gags. First off, Springfield’s Aztec Theater hosts a film festival and at one point we see Apu and his wife watching a black and white film:
Page 6, panel 2
Manjula: Apu, have you ever seen “Clerks” before?
Apu: Seen it? I was the creative consultant!
(Onscreen is a rendering of Dante, hair seemingly patterned after the TAS version, saying, “Thank you, come again!”)
Panel 3:
Apu: The director liked me so much, he based a later film on me. The studio made a few changes in the final cut.
(Apu brandishes a “Chasing Apu” poster that features a close up of him, a la Joey Adams.)
Manjula: Apu, have you ever seen “Clerks” before?
Apu: Seen it? I was the creative consultant!
(Onscreen is a rendering of Dante, hair seemingly patterned after the TAS version, saying, “Thank you, come again!”)
Panel 3:
Apu: The director liked me so much, he based a later film on me. The studio made a few changes in the final cut.
(Apu brandishes a “Chasing Apu” poster that features a close up of him, a la Joey Adams.)
If anyone’s got some scans, send ‘em on, we’d love to post them.
- Quite possibly a Mallrats reference tucked into the latest Buffy The Vampire Slayer game (Chaos Bleeds) for the home consoles: One of the levels take place in an abandoned mall full of store fronts, one of which is called “Buy Me Toys”.
- Here’s a quick quote from a Seann William Scott interview in the latest “Maxim”:
Maxim: What the toughest thing about playing a doofus all the time?
Seann: It’s hard to do a comedy and play an intelligent guy. It’s always about some guy who’s not too bright and has to get himself out of a big mess. But I really don’t think my characters in Old School or Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back were doofuses. They were more like eccentric weirdos.
- Clerks plays the midnight show on 9/19, 9/20, and 9/25 at Chicago’s famous Brew & View Theater. Be there with your carefully laminated copies of the Clerks Drinking Game in hand.
- View Askew alum Joey Lauren Adams has a new thriller/drama on the way, titled “A Promise Kept” (also starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Mimi Rogers). The film will be screening on the 22nd of this month at the Angelika Theater in Dallas. Screening time will be 7:00 PM. Tickets are $8 and available online to purchase 3 days in advance of the screening. Visit the official website for the film for more info.
- And finally today, thanks to Salon.com’s gossip column “The Fix” for the site credit and link in their latest blurb, which lifted Kev’s quote regarding Ben & Jen’s “breakup” that appeared here over the weekend. ‘Til next we meet…
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