Thread:Marvelus/@comment-26838855-20190116120806/@comment-38230857-20190308221257

BEJT wrote: Thanks, I looked it up on my way back. I've seen Stan's cameo in Mallrats before but I've never seen the film so was not familiar enough with it and didn't recognise the lines.

It's a bit unclear if he's playing himself because obviously he looks significantly older than he did in 1995 (though I also thought they might have given him a bit of deageing sheen possibly? But still definitely older, and sans beard). I wouldn't think too hard about it, it's a guy who may or may not be playing Stan Lee reading the script for Mallrats presumably before the film's release. I'm not going to bend over backwards to work out the logic of a Stan Lee cameo joke.

And yeah, Mallrats probably filmed earlier than June but it's set in June 1995 and the Mallrats reference isn't really a contradiction so, yeah, I'm not too bothered about the minutia of it. Yeah, it's a cute meta joke but figuring out how it could work would be an unnecessary headache.