Clerks
This animated series, based on Kevin Smith's 1994 film of the same name, centers on Dante Hicks and Randal Graves, the clerks at The Quick Stop and RST Video. These "slackers" spend most of their time spoofing pop culture and whining about their miserable lives. Adding color to their lives are the resident "hetero-life partners" Jay and Silent Bob, who hang out and sell fireworks outside the store.
Billionaire Leonardo Leonardo returns to Leonardo, New Jersey and opens the Quicker Stop right across from the Quick Stop, which takes away all of Dante and Randal's customers, and nearly puts the Quick Stop out of business. The duo set out to stop Leonardo by uncovering his plot to enslave all of humanity, but are scoffed at during an appearance at Town Hall. Jay and Silent Bob, who had been selling illegal fireworks to children, inadvertently blow up the Quicker Stop, thwarting Leonardo's plans.
Dante and Randal get locked in the freezer of the Quick Stop. There, they look back on their lives, primarily in clips from the same and previous episode, including foiling Leonardo's evil plans, working at convenience stores in the United Kingdom and India, how Randal got them kicked off The Real World, and their first meeting as children. Jay and Silent Bob also manage to get themselves locked in; Silent Bob eventually uses a crowbar to get them all out, only for Dante and Randal to become locked in the video store. In a parody of Stand by Me, an elderly Jay narrates what became of his friends following the events of the episode.
Quick Stop is put under government control after Leonardo is said to have been infected with a deadly virus by a monkey at the new pet store next to RST Video (at which they find Patrick Swayze working). Unfortunately, Jay and Silent Bob steal the monkey so they can teach it to smoke. The town of Leonardo is to be destroyed unless Dante and Randal manage to stop the helicopter pilot from dropping a bomb. After Randal tells the pilot that Dante is gay, Dante is forced to state that he is gay on live television to save the town.
Randal is left in charge of the Quick Stop as part of a bet between him and Dante. Jay sues the Quick Stop for $10,000,000 after slipping on Randal's spilled soda. Randal is Dante's lawyer for the case, while Judge Reinhold presides, and several NBA all-stars are members of the jury. Randal ends up doing more harm than good, putting Dante at the mercy of the courtroom. Before the verdict of the case can be announced, a disclaimer informs the audience that the script for the conclusion of the episode was lost, and the remainder of the episode will be told through Korean animation.
Dante and Randal attend their high school reunion, where Randal discovers he has the ability to turn women into lesbians, and Dante is accosted by his old baseball team because they don't remember him (although Dante was the coach that won them the championship game). Leonardo decides to let Dante manage his Little League team. The team is on a losing streak until the inclusion of Jay and Silent Bob (as Jay is still in the fourth grade for being held back so many times and is technically eligible to play). Meanwhile, Randal is put into slave labor after beating the high score on an old video game. Dante and the baseball team discover Randal while searching for the baseball team they have been scheduled to play (which turn out to be some of the children enslaved to work in the mines).
Dante and Randal work inside the Quick Stop discussing various things after being told that they need to make the show more similar to the original Clerks. Meanwhile, outside, Dante's supposed to have a date with Caitlin Bree, Jay and Silent Bob go to a fair where havoc ensues, Walt and Steve-Dave need stuff, Leonardo Leonardo finds a soccer team on his roof, and Dante keeps getting called by a guy who wants to show him "the truth about The Matrix". Eventually, due to a phone call unknowingly made to the President, the Army surrounds the Quick Stop, the President is attacked by hookers and vampires who are enraged to find RST closed, and Dante and Randal finally go outside, where the animators put them in various awkward situations until it is revealed that Jay is the one behind it all.
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Kevin Michael Richardson | Narrator |
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Kevin Smith | Silent Bob |
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Jason Mewes | Jay |
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Brian O'Halloran | Dante Hicks |
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Jeff Anderson | Randal Graves |
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Alec Baldwin | Leonardo Leonardo |
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Charles Barkley | Charles Barkley |
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Diana Devlin | |
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Tara Strong | Giggling Girl |
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April Winchell | Bailiff |
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Dan Etheridge | Mr. Plug |
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Jeff Bennett | |
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Bryan Cranston | Various |
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Brian Posehn | Man on Fire |
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Michael McShane | X |
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Walter Flanagan | Walt Grover the Fanboy |
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Bryan Johnson | Steve-Dave Pulasti |
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Jim Wise | |
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Elon Gold | |
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Frank Welker | Clerks Fan |
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Phil LaMarr | Axel Foley |
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Michael McKean | Doorman |
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Lauren Tom | |
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Gilbert Gottfried | Jerry Seinfeld |
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Matthew Maher |
| Director | Chris Bailey |
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| Steve Loter |
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| Nicholas Filippi |
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| Writer | Kevin Smith, David Mandel, Scott Mosier, Paul Dini, Steve Lookner, Brian Kelley, David Kendall | |
| Producer | Chris Bailey, John Bush, Billy Campbell, Brian Kelley, Steve Lookner, Brian Kelley, David Kendall, David Mandel, Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein | |
| Musician | James L. Venable | |
| Edition | Special Edition |
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| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Surround [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
| Subtitles | English (Closed Captioned) |
| Distributor | Miramax Home Video |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Feb 26, 2002 |
| Regions | Region 1 |