Buster Keaton the City of Los Angeles declared the date "Buster Keaton Day." Keaton designed and modified his own pork pie hats during his career. In 1964, he told an interviewer that in making "this particular pork pie", he "started with a good Stetson and cut it down", stiffening the brim with sugar water. The hats were often destroyed during Keaton's wild film antics; some were given away as gifts and some were snatched by souvenir hunters. Keaton said he was lucky if he used only six hats in making a film. Keaton estimated that he and his wife Eleanor made thousands
Jay and Silent Bob bicycle over a ramp (a reference to the iconic E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial moon scene), propelling them through the window of a nearby building. By sheer luck, they land in the dressing room of James Van Der Beek (of "Dawson's Creek") and Jason Biggs (of "American Pie"), who happen to be playing Jay and Silent Bob in "The Bluntman and Chronic Movie"; Silent Bob is somewhat upset that his comic-book counterpart is being played by the "pie fucker". After learning this, Jay and Bob form a huddle in the corner and decide to beat up Biggs and Van Der Beek, but