Following
the events of the movie 'Clerks', Dante Hicks still works at the Quick Stop, and his best friend Randall Graves still 'works'
at the video store (even though he spends most of his time figuring out ways to get Dante into trouble). However, with the
arrival into town of diabolical billionaire megalomaniac Leonardo Leonardo, their lives are about to get more unusual, even
if their jobs remain as unsatisfying and tedious as before. Soon, Dante and Randall find themselves thrown headlong into crazy
adventures involving, in no particular order, a monkey, Little League Baseball, Korean animators, Canadian exports, lesbian
ex-girlfriends of Randall, Judge Reinhold, the Matrix, refridgerator door locks and numerous unwarranted 'Star Wars' references.
And as always, they receive very little in the way of constructive help from slackers Jay and Silent Bob.
When
the studio bought the series, they apparently did not realize that the characters of Jay and Silent Bob were drug dealers.
When they were informed, studio executives insisted that this be changed, and the two became firecracker dealers for the cartoon.
The
first aired episode is a parody of "Best of" show episodes, meant to reflect back on the first episode. The first episode
never aired, so the entire episode was filled with flashbacks to an unaired episode.
The
sixth episode they had written was prophetically titled "the last episode ever". However they didn't even get to the sixth
show.
Canceled
after only two episodes aired.
The
aired episodes were the fourth then second in that order.
The
original voice for Leonardo Leonardo was going to be played by Alan Rickman, but was replaced by Alec Baldwin courtesy of
ABC.
In
episode five, the yearbook features a picture of Randal holding a gun to another student's head. The caption underneath reads
"best hall monitor".
Director
Trademark: At 37 seconds into the DVD Main Menu, a dog takes a leak on Silent Bob's shoe. This is a reference to the movie
Clerks.
In
the lost pilot episode, Randal is charging an old lady for her groceries and the total comes to 37 cents, a reference to his
cult classic and basis for the series, Clerks.
In
the beginning of the final episode, where Dante appears in the nude covered by a mosaic, the animation team actually drew
Dante anatomically correct and covered it with a mosaic.
In
the circus episode, the twins are characters spoofed from the movie Freaks
The
ending to Episode 6 (The Last Episode Ever) is a parody of the Looney Tune cartoon, Duck Amuck
At
the start of Episode 3, Randal and Dante read "letters from viewers." The first letter is signed Jennifer Schwalbach, a reference
to Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, the wife of series creator Kevin Smith.
In
the final episode, we see one of the writers holding a book called "How to Write Cartoons", by Seth McFarlane. This is a reference
to the show's more successful rival cartoon series, "Family Guy"
In
the unaired last episode ever, Dante worries that ABC will cancel them. Randal insists that it couldn't happen and, to prove
his point, holds up a trade paper declaring, "ABC loves Clerks," underneath this it reads, "Also Sports Night," another acclaimed
series cancelled that year.
Director
Trademark: [Kevin Smith] [jaws] Twice in episode 3, when the clerks were talking about the virus outbreak, Randal compares
it to Jaws, "There's water in the toilet. Sharks swim in water. I rest my case." Again later, they mention "Jaws".
Factual
error: Gwyneth Paltrow's name is misspelled in the credits of episode 2.
Continuity
error: In episode four when the NBA All Star jury is entering the courtroom, there are a few seconds when they are standing
in front of the jury box. For a split second, the front wall of the box goes from behind them to in front of them, making
it look like they are standing in the box, but then it switches back to being behind them.
Each
episode begins with a tongue-in-cheek disclaimer. The joke at the end of the disclaimer changes with each episode.
Some
episodes begin with Randal announcing "Clerks is drawn before a live studio audience," a parody of similar announcements made
during 1970s sitcoms.
The
DVD collection fgures a few outtakes from the two aired episodes, along with 'animatics': pencil-sketch versions of the episodes,
featuring some footage that was removed before the actual eps.
Episode
2 features a scene where Dante and Randal watch a film called "Flintstone's List," an obvious takeoff on "Schindler's List."
While it appears on the DVD, it was cut from the TV airing.
Randal
Graves: State your name and latest film.
George
Lucas: George Lucas, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Randal
Graves: And, do you think Phantom Menace is as good a movie
as Empire?
George
Lucas: Well, certainly, I, uh, think it's the best movie I've made yet.
Randal
Graves: Permission to treat this witness as hostile. Mr. Lucas,
how do you explain that in Star Wars, Obi-Wan tells Luke that when he met his father he was a great pilot, but in Menace he's
just a little boy?
George
Lucas: Uh, well, my... my kids thought...
Randal
Graves: And how come Obi-Wan tells Luke that Yoda is the Jedi
that trained him, but in the movie Liam Neeson trains Obi-Wan?
George
Lucas: Uh, well, the power of myth...
Randal
Graves: Isn't it true you knew this was a bad movie, that you
wrote it over a weekend but kept telling people it was done for years?
Lawyer:
Objection, your honor. The pod race was pretty cool.