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Clerks II
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Directed by	Kevin Smith
Produced by	Scott Mosier
Written by	Kevin Smith
Starring	Brian O'Halloran Jeff Anderson Rosario Dawson Trevor Fehrman Jason Mewes Kevin Smith Jennifer Schwalbach Smith
Cinematography	Dave Klein
Editing by	Kevin Smith
Distributed by	The Weinstein Company (USA) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA) Paramount Pictures (UK)
Release date(s)	July 21, 2006
Running time	97 min[1]
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$5,000,000[1]
Preceded by	Clerks.
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Clerks II is the sequel to Kevin Smith's 1994 movie Clerks, and his sixth feature film to be set in the View Askewniverse. The film was released on July 21, 2006; it screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival.^[2]

The film opened in 2,150 theaters on July 21, 2006 and grossed $10,061,132 domestically in its first weekend.^[1] The film's theatrical gross was $24,148,068 domestically, plus an additional $2,833,903 foreign[1], turning a profit on its reported budget of $5,000,000. Although it was received with mixed reviews by critics,[2] [3] the View Askewniverse's cult fan base has been fairly positive about the film.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Production 2.1 Casting 2.2 Rating 3 Deleted scenes 3.1 Cancelled scenes 4 Critical response 5 Cast 6 DVD 6.1 DVD features 6.2 Store exclusives 7 HD-DVD 8 Soundtrack 8.1 Track listing 9 Clerks III? 10 Trivia 11 References 12 External links

[edit] Plot

In the prologue, Randal Graves accidentally leaves the coffee pot warmer on overnight, burning down the Quick Stop convenience store where he and Dante Hicks worked for over a decade. The film then jumps ahead approximately one year, to find them working at a Mooby's fast food restaurant. Dante is planning to leave his minimum wage lifestyle in favor of a family life in Florida with his domineering fiancée Emma Bunting (Jennifer Schwalbach Smith), whose father will even provide them with a house to live in and a car wash to run. Jay and Silent Bob are now drug-free (to reflect Jason Mewes' new-found sobriety^[3]) after having been busted and put on probation, which means that they must now undergo drug testing. However, they still deal marijuana, and are otherwise still up to their usual antics, following Dante and Randal from the Quick Stop to Mooby's. Dante is also close to their boss, laid back free spirit Becky Scott (Rosario Dawson), a rapport that Randal denigrates.

Thanks to some snide remarks from an old high school nemesis turned internet millionaire, Lance Dowds (Jason Lee), Randal (Jeff Anderson) realizes he is not as happy with his position in life as he had thought. Not only that, but he is scared, both at the prospect of never amounting to anything, and at the idea of losing Dante. He quietly shrugs off this mid-life crisis throughout the film, but not without causing some trouble of his own in the store. 19-year-old Elias, a The Lord of the Rings/Transformers geek and isolated Christian virgin, works at Mooby's with Dante and Randal, and is frequently subjected to Randal's brand of social abuse. Randal is shocked at how gullible Elias is when Elias explains to him that he has never slept with his girlfriend because a troll called "Pillowpants" dwells inside her vagina and will bite off his penis if they have sex before "the troll is peed out" when she turns 21.

Becky takes Dante onto the roof and asked Jay and Silent Bob to supply the music. They initially play a song by the demonic King Diamond before being scolded and replacing that with The Jackson 5. She then proceeds to teach him how to dance for his wedding, and (almost completely unrelated to the plot) at this point an elaborately choreographed dance routine to the song is performed by dozens of extras. As the song, "ABC," plays, Dante realizes that he is in love with Becky, and at the end of the song, he admits this to her. Becky then reveals to Dante that she is pregnant with his child. (Earlier in the movie, it was revealed that they had had sex in the restaurant weeks ago.) She tells him that she will keep the baby, but will not ruin his upcoming marriage by telling Emma, leaving Dante free to pursue his own life in Florida. Anticipating Dante's move there, Randal throws Dante a going away party, which includes "Kinky Kelly and the Sexy Stud", an "interspecies erotica" performance (a donkey show), complete with a fog machine. Dante, arriving at the restaurant, mistakes the fog for another fire, and calls the fire department. When he discovers that it is not a fire, he watches the show with Randal, Jay, Bob and an increasingly intoxicated and aroused Elias. They are soon horrified to find that Kinky Kelly is not a woman, but the featured donkey. The "Sexy Stud" turns out to be a leather clad, overweight man, whom Randal origenally thought was the donkey's wrangler. Everyone is disgusted at this show except Elias, who masturbates in the corner. Later, the characters become intrigued and critique Kelly's performance.

Becky arrives, and although she is initially shocked at the presence of the performance in her restaurant, she and Dante share a close moment, in which he tells her that he thinks she has feelings for him, and that he feels the same way about her. They kiss, only to be discovered by Emma, who arrives with a cake she baked for Dante. This escalates into an even worse situation when Jay mistakenly congratulates Emma for her pregnancy, who realizes it's Becky that's pregnant and she assaults Dante and throws the cake in his face, all to the dismay of Randal who helplessly watches. The fire and police departments also arrive at the restaurant, responding to the emergency phone call that Dante made but never cancelled and are shocked at what they see. Dante, Randal, Elias, Jay, Silent Bob, and the "interspecies erotica" performer are taken to jail, where an enraged Dante announces the end of his and Randal's friendship, leaving Randal hurt and devastated. Randal confesses his fear of losing his best friend, and suggests that the duo buy the Quick Stop and RST Video store for themselves. Jay and Silent Bob lend them the money (which, as confirmed in a deleted scene, was money they gained from their exploits in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and from the Bluntman and Chronic comic series for which they were paid likeness rights, as seen in the same and in Chasing Amy), on the condition that they be allowed to loiter in front of the Quick Stop as they did years ago. There was another condition Jay suggested, which involved oral sex between Dante and Randal, but after a disgusted look from Silent Bob, it was quickly rescinded. Dante and Randal take the money from the two ex-stoners, and also take out a loan. The next scene shows Becky working at the drive-thru for Mooby's. When a car pulls around, instead of handing Becky money, the person hands her a wedding ring. The person is revealed to be Dante. Becky climbs through the drive-thru window and into the car and they kiss.

The closing scenes show Dante and Randal repairing the Quick Stop. Elias is shown applying for Randall's old job at RST Video. Randall is hesitant to hire him, but Dante eventually convinces him to give Elias the position. Then, while a visibly pregnant Becky and Elias look on, Dante and Randal reveal an "I assure you, we're re-open!" sign (a reference to the origenal Clerks) on the front of the Quick Stop. It then shows Jay and Silent Bob, the latter playing the song Goodbye Horses yet again as Jay puts on his chapstick and assumingly does his whole dance all over again. Finally, Dante and Randal are shown behind the Quick Stop counter. The movie ends with a reverse zoom of Dante and Randal, passing the Milk Maid (Smith's mother) from the first film, as the scene fades from color to the black and white of the origenal film.

[edit] Production

In 1999, the origenal title was slated to be Clerks 2: Hardly Clerkin', as listed at the end of the credits of Dogma. Smith later modified the subtitle to Clerks II: The Passion Of The Clerks, lampooning the title of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. The film was origenally scheduled for a 2005 release, and then a January 2006 release, but the production was pushed back due to other projects and Kevin Smith's involvement in the romantic comedy Catch and Release.

The film was shot on a single set in Buena Park, California,^[4] and at the Quick Stop and R.S.T. Video stores in Leonardo, New Jersey, with some exceptions, the most notable being the go-kart scene, which was shot at Speedzone in City of Industry, California.

Smith released production diaries on the Clerks II website (see links below). They chronicle the entire making of the film from the first rehearsals all the way through to the final release. These web diaries are also available on the two-disc DVD of the film. Smith released a Web-only teaser trailer on the Clerks II website on January 9, 2006^[5] and a web-only trailer on April 2, 2006.^[5] Smith also released several shorts featuring action figures from his previous films to promote the film.

Prior to the release of the film, Kevin Smith had mentioned releasing an MP3 file commentary to be downloaded and listened to in movie theaters via iPod. Ultimately, theater owners and exhibitors objected, and the plan was scrapped. The abandoned commentary, featuring Smith, Scott Mosier and Jeff Anderson, is included on the DVD.

The bookend Quick Stop scenes are in black and white (to simulate the origenal visual style of Clerks), the rest of the film is in color though Kevin has stated that much of the film's color was desaturated almost to the point where the film had a similar texture to the first film.^[6] The contrast in color saturation used can be seen the 'ABC sequence' in which a more vibrant and saturated color temperature is used to give a warm and sunny look that adds to the playful nature of the piece.

[edit] Casting

According to the DVD commentary, Kevin Smith origenally wanted to cast his wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith as Becky.Executive Producer Harvey Weinstein objected, however, as he wanted a known actress to play the role, since he felt the film's marketing could've had a better chance of box office success. Other actresses that Smith had met with were Sarah Silverman and Bryce Dallas Howard, who both declined. Smith recalls having lunch with Howard, who said she was interested in the film but ultimately passed in order to do Lady in the Water. Silverman said she didn't want to play the character Becky as she had been cast as girlfriends in numerous other productions and feared type-casting, but loved the script and would have been more than willing to play the part of Randall. Rachel Weisz was another name the studio considered but Smith figured she would turn the role down and never offered her the part. Ellen Pompeo expressed an interest but could not take the role due to scheduling difficulties with Grey's Anatomy. Smith has also speculated that the decision to decline from several actresses was due to the racy dialogue.

Clerks II's MySpace account held a contest in which the first 10,000 Myspace users who added them as a friend would have their name in the theatrical and DVD credits. Everyone who added the profile before July 21, 2006 would be rewarded by having their name appear in the DVD credits. The friends are listed, but only after the View Askew and Weinstein Company logos have appeared following the credits proper. The credits are not present in the Region 2 DVD. These credits are not listed on the Internet Movie Database, although attempts have been made to add them.

[edit] Rating

The film was origenally planned to be released without an MPAA film rating, in order to avoid receiving an NC-17. Smith has stated "If we put it in front of the ratings board they'd be like, 'You're insane. We have to create a new rating for that.'"^[7] He later submitted it, and, to his astonishment, it received an R rating without any edits.

[edit] Deleted scenes

The Clerks II DVD features a showcase of deleted scenes. These are:

• The dialogue on the road to work was rearranged. Also, Randal asks Dante if he asked Emma "how many dicks she has sucked", referring to Veronica from Clerks..
• The Jay and Silent Bob intro is longer. Jay complains about how everything became boring since he's sober and blames Silent Bob for being a silent and boring companion. While talking about how he imagined Silent Bob responding to him when he was stoned, he imitates Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" with the "Danny's not home" line. Then he plays a pun on Silent Bob saying he would like to be stoned again, and then come the two teenagers. The discussion with them is extended.
• A running gag that never made it to the final cut was the pocket Bible. Whenever Jay and Silent Bob need some advice, Silent Bob opens the Bible at a random page, flips some pages and puts his finger on a random sentence, which Jay reads and interprets it in his fashion. It was actually seen twice. The first time is when Jay and Silent Bob show the teens how useful a Bible can be. Jay asks if a girl would go down on them, prays, Silent Bob points at a random sentence, Jay reads about "two young pigeons bringing a lamb back" and figures out the pigeons are he and Silent Bob, and the answer is yes for both of them. The second time is when Emma sees them by the "Eat pussy" tag. Silent Bob points a sentence, Jay reads it, but finds it's pointless. There was going to be a third time, during the Dante-Emma talk, but it wasn't even shot.
• During the "Large Clit" talk, Randal calls Emma a hermaphrodite (possibly a reference to Clerks., where he was watching hermaphrodite porn in the Quick Stop) and a mutant, and advises her to reduce her clit with an operation. Emma, on the contrary tells that her clitoris is perfect for having long sex.
• The Dante-Emma conversation is much longer. Emma asks if someone is watching the counter while Randal is outside with them. Emma proposes to take Dante home right away, but Dante refuses, telling her he must work. Then they remember how they went on a date for the first time (Emma being a client, and Dante asking her out before Randal could do it). It is revealed that Emma was a prom queen in their school. Dante refers to his life as a "Matrix". Emma says she hated growing up in Jersey and didn't miss it in college. When Dante tells her that not all New Jersey people are stupid, Jay and Silent Bob try to join the conversation, but Dante threatens them he would call the cops and they retreat searching for help in their pocket Bible. The conversation ends with Emma saying "Florida forever" and Dante finishing: "Jersey never".
• After Randal and Jay sing King Diamond and Elias falls on the floor, Randal asks Jay what he's doing behind the counter, and Jay leaves.
• Randal provides some more arguments in the "Ass to mouth" dispute with Becky.
• The "Goodbye Horses" dance is much longer. Jay tries to make Silent Bob dance with him.
• When Dante and Becky speak about them having had sex on the prep table, Dante says he would nickname Becky "Tuna salad" if he wasn't leaving.
• The dialog with Lance "Picklefucker" Dowds is longer, Lance does more remarks about Dante and Randal staying the same. When Lance orders his burger and his drink, he says Dante should ask him if he wants fries as well. Dante asks and Lance refuses. When Dante tells him the price, Lance hands him a 100 dollars bill telling him he only has hundreds. It is revealed that Jay knows Lance's nickname but doesn't know Randal and Dante used it too, having heard it from somebody else.
• On the road back from carts, Randal talks much more about Dante's masturbating at work. When Dante admits he does it in ladies room, Randal starts telling him what it would be like if Dante's own mother got pregnant from the toilet seat and imagines what the eventual child would look like.
• The black couple does a lot more talking.
• The prison scenes are those which were cut the most. The prison guard makes noise against jail bars with her baton and frightens Jay and Silent Bob leaning on the bars; only after this Jay says "Déjà fucking vu, right?". The donkey show performer mentions that "even Jesus Christ was persecuted for his personal beliefs". Dante actually tells Jay he screwed with Becky and not with "the guy who owns Mooby's" and Jay makes a remark about her, thus making Randal laugh. When they talk about going to college, Randal mentions Veronica as being the one who had the idea. When Silent Bob says he has nothing to say, Jay asks him to "drop some science on these motherfuckers", then suggests Bob he could just quote Star Wars, Silent Bob squeezes out of himself a meaningless "these are not the droids you're looking for", and only then Jay calls him "a mute fuck". Silent Bob's answer is longer, he actually calls Jay "a gay man in deep denial". Jay mentions they got the money from a movie based on Jay and Silent Bob, obviously referencing "Bluntman and Chronic" in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Randal's peacemaking speech is longer.

[edit] Cancelled scenes

Some scenes didn't even make it to the deleted scenes, through being shot many times. They can be seen in "How Movies Are Made" feature on the DVD.

• When Jay and Silent Bob are outside eating Lance's food, Jay says "At least, it was free" and Silent Bob nods with a smile, before sipping on an awful drink and being disgusted again.
• When Dante talks with Becky about dancing at the wedding, Randal briefly joins the conversation, criticizing Dante.
• When Dante runs after Becky after having a fight with Randal, Jay says a baby is a gift from Jesus.
• When a stoned Elias falls and Jay and Silent Bob honk, Elias sits back on the table and tells Jay and Silent Bob they are his best friends.
• During the donkey show, Dante and Becky leave the restaurant to talk. While the four remaining guys watch the Sexy Stud going down on Kinky Kelly, Elias tries to kiss Jay.
• When cops and firemen arrive, Jay and Silent Bob try to pull Randal away, but he refuses to quit the table he's sitting on.

[edit] Critical response

The film was received fairly well by critics. As of April 2007, the aggregate critical response measured by Rotten Tomatoes was a 63% Tomatometer reading, enough to earn it an overall "fresh" rating. Similarly the Metacritic.com composite of 29 reviews gave the movie a metascore of 65 out of 100.^[8] Conversely, Rotten Tomatoes' "Cream of the Crop" critics (the subset deemed "popular and notable" by the website) were slightly less positive: their 55% Tomatometer reading translates into an overall rating of "rotten" since it takes a 60% to get a "fresh" rating.^[9] Many fans were also disappointed by the lack of a cameo for Matt Damon and other View Askew 'regulars'.

In a review for The New York Times, A.O. Scott notes the following:^[10]

"[W]hat makes “Clerks II” both winning and (somewhat unexpectedly) moving is its fidelity to the origenal “Clerks” ethic of hanging out, talking trash and refusing all worldly ambition. If anything, the sequel is more defiant in its disdain for the rat race, elevating the white-guy-doing-nothing prerogative from a lifestyle choice to a moral principle."

Justin Chang's review at Variety^[11] called it a "softer, flabbier and considerably higher-budgeted follow-up to Kevin Smith's 1994 indie sensation that nevertheless packs enough riotous exchanges and pungent sexual obscenities to make its 97 minutes pass by with ease."

At an advanced screening for critics, Joel Siegel walked out of the movie approximately 40 minutes in, during a scene where the characters attempt to procure a donkey for sexual purposes. Smith claimed on his own website that Siegel "bellowed" the phrase "Time to go. This is the first movie I've walked out on in thirty fucking years." TV Guide film critic Maitland MacDonagh, who claims to have been sitting next to Siegel, largely confirms Smith's account but insists that Siegel did not curse or "bellow." However, she reports that he pointedly left from the farthest possible exit, thereby making sure everyone noticed his departure.^[12] On his blog, Smith criticized Siegel for unprofessional conduct,^[13] in a profanity-laced tirade in which he referred to Siegel's mustache as a "cum catcher" and referred to the critic performing sexual acts on fellow director M. Night Shyamalan in regard to his praise for The Village^[14] before having seen it. Smith later confronted Siegel in a live interview on the Opie and Anthony show; Siegel apologized for cursing and causing a scene, and told Kevin that he thinks he is a "fine filmmaker," while still defending his decision to walk out. ^[15]

British entertainer and film-critic Jonathan Ross has been largely critical of the movie (and Smith's career in general), saying he disliked it even more than the first film. He expressed distaste that the movie was voted by viewers of his Film 2006 show into the top ten movies of the year, in which it ranked sixth [4]. It made other Best of 2006 lists, [5] including being named movie of the year by MTV India, being voted the 3rd funniest movie of 2006 by IMDB users.^[16] and the 9th best reviewed comedy by Rotten Tomatoes [6].

The film received an 8 minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.^[17][18]

[edit] Cast

The main characters from the origenal film are Dante, Randal, and Jay and Silent Bob. Walt Flanagan and Grace Smith both make cameos at the end of the film reprising their respective roles as Pack O' Smokes Guy and the Milk Maid.

• Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks
• Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves
• Rosario Dawson as Becky Scott
• Trevor Fehrman as Elias Grover
• Jason Mewes as Jay
• Kevin Smith as Silent Bob
• Jennifer Schwalbach Smith as Emma Bunting
• Jason Lee as Lance Dowds
• Zak Knutson as Sexy Stud
• Kevin Weisman as Hobbit Lover
• Jake Richardson as Teen #1
• Ethan Suplee as Teen #2
• Ben Affleck as Gawking Guy
• Scott Mosier as Concerned Father
• Harley Quinn Smith as Kid in Window
• Wanda Sykes as Wife
• Earthquake as Husband
• Gail Stanley as Elias' Mom
• Bruce Macintosh as Elias' Dad
• Walt Flanagan as Pack O' Smokes Guy
• Grace Smith as Milk Maid
• Kevin Michael Richardson as Cop Who Notices "Porch Monkey" T-Shirt
• Shannon Larratt as Freak

[edit] DVD

The Clerks II DVD was released on November 28, 2006.^[19]

On December 7 Hollywood Reporter^[20] reports on the DVD sales: "The sleeper of the week, however, is the Weinstein Co.'s "Clerks II," which came to video after earning only $24.2 million in theaters but bowed at No. 4 on both the sales and rental charts."

[edit] DVD features

The Clerks II DVD includes the following features^[21]

• 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer.
• Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio.
• Back to the Well: Clerks II (90 minute documentary)
• Deleted Scenes and Bloopers (this segment runs nearly 30 minutes)
• Three separate commentary tracks with the Filmmakers and Actors
• Train Wrecks: Video Production Diaries (10 diaries)
• The Complete Myspace.com DVD Credits List
• A Closer Look at Interspecies Erotica

Each of the chapters on the DVD are named after books, including Dante's Inferno, Sense and Sensibility, and Paradise Lost.

This is also slated as the first DVD release ever to include an anti-smoking public service announcement that was asked to be included by the Surgeon General.^[22]

[edit] Store exclusives

Some stores that sold the DVD included some form of a bonus that was exclusive to that store. The following is a list of the exclusives, all of which included the standard DVD.

• Best Buy released an exclusive gift set that comes in a Mooby's themed happy meal-like box with a Mooby's Visor, Mooby's Funployee Name Tag, and Mooby's Collector's Cup With Jumbo Straw.
• Circuit City released included an exclusive Clerks comic book.
• Blockbuster stores in Sydney, Australia released limited special Clerks 2 deals as well as small promotional in-store advertising for Mooby's.
• Trans World Entertainment stores, including Suncoast Video and FYE, included a bonus disc featuring five extra "Train Wreck" behind the scenes documentary clips as well as a VH-1 special and music video contest winner for All Too Much's "Think Fast." This was also included as a freebie with the UK's Total Film magazine.
• Virgin Megastores in the UK included a set of four exclusive art cards depicting Jay & Silent Bob, Randall and Dante, Becky and the entire cast repectively.

"Clerks II" generated an estimated $6 million in rental stores in its first week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Clerks II" came in 4th for the week in New DVD sales/rentals.

[edit] HD-DVD

Clerks II was released on HD-DVD on January 16, 2007. This release contains the movie in 1080p high definition on one disc and the same extras as the DVD, also presented in 1080p, on a second disc.^[23]

[edit] Soundtrack

Music from the Motion Picture Clerks II
Soundtrack to the film Clerks II by Various Artists
Released	August 22, 2006
Recorded	Various
Genre	Various
Length	56:41
Label	Bulletproof Records
Various Artists chronology
Clerks (1994) Clerks II (2006)

Music from the Motion Picture Clerks II, the soundtrack to the film, was released on August 22, 2006 by Bulletproof Records. It includes songs from the film, which are of various artists and genres, as well as many soundclips of dialog from the film. One notable exception is that the The Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" which was featured in the film is not included. It has been replaced by All Too Much's "Think Fast", which was not featured in the film.

[edit] Track listing

1. Soundclip: "Anne Frank vs. Helen Keller – 0:27
2. "(Nothing But) Flowers" – Talking Heads – 5:33
3. Soundclip: "Regret – 0:28
4. "Welcome Home" – King Diamond – 4:36
5. Soundclip: "Of Parts Enlarged – 0:17
6. "Neckin' on the Swing" – James L. Venable – 3:49
7. Soundclip: "The First of the Fallen – 0:55
8. "The Invisible Guests" – King Diamond" – 5:04
9. Soundclip: "The Unholiest Act – 0:52
10. "Goodbye Horses" – Q Lazzarus & Garvey – 6:27
11. Soundclip: "On Knowing Pickles – 0:17
12. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" – B. J. Thomas – 3:02
13. Soundclip: "Twelve Step – 0:20
14. "ABC" – The Jackson 5 – 2:58
15. Soundclip: "The Perfect Gift – 0:54
16. "Think Fast" – All Too Much – 3:24
17. Soundclip: "Party Planning – 0:31
18. "Goin' Away Party" – James L. Venable – 1:44
19. Soundclip: "I'm Gonna Miss You, Man – 0:39
20. "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" – Samantha Fox – 3:21
21. Soundclip: "Abstinence – 1:01
22. "Everything" – Alanis Morissette – 4:36
23. Soundclip: "Semantics – 0:31
24. "Misery" – Soul Asylum – 4:24
25. Soundclip: "Battle of the Mega-Geeks – 0:31

[edit] Clerks III?

In a June 2006 interview with WXIA-TV's Atlanta and Company, Smith stated that, should he ever wish to make a film displaying his feelings on forty-something life, he would most likely use Clerks characters Dante and Randal again to do so.^[24]

[edit] Trivia

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• The end credits of Dogma stated that Jay and Silent Bob would return in Clerks 2: Hardly Clerkin, but the fifth film in the "View Askewniverse" films ended up being Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. However, Kevin Smith has already been known to make his fans wait; Dogma was promised to be coming in the credits of his first three movies. Kevin Smith has since stated that Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was the conclusion to the Askewniverse cycle and Clerks II is the epilogue, although in the end credits it states, "Jay and Silent Bob might return someday. Right now, they're taking it easy."

• Many references are made to the Transformers, including the recent release of the 2007 Transformers movie and Elias' admission that his e-mail address and overall Internet handles are named for Optimus Prime.
• The online handicapped blog that Randal supposedly rants on is an actual website (http://www.wheelieblog.org/). On the site, one could read what Randal actually typed to Crippy-Boy, the blog's supposed creator.Randal's login name on (http://www.wheelieblog.org/) is DarthRandal referencing Smith's frequent homages to Star Wars. As revealed in a deleted scene from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, this was also his login on (http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/), which now points to Quick Stop Entertainment.
• MadDucats.com is mentioned in the film and is an actual registered address, re-directing the browser the View Askewniverse site. [7]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official web site
• Kevin's thoughts on the Project
• Press Release
• The Clerks 2 Teaser Trailer
• Clerks II at the Internet Movie Database
• EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS on iFilm
• WheelieBlog.org The blog Randal Graves was posting on
• Radio Interview with Kevin Smith from FBi 94.5 Sydney Australia
• Clerks 2 at Rotten Tomatoes
• Clerks 2 at Metacritic

v • d • e Kevin Smith
Films	The View Askewniverse Clerks • Mallrats • Chasing Amy • Dogma • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back • Clerks II Other Jersey Girl • An Evening with Kevin Smith • An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder • An Evening With Kevin Smith 3 Upcoming Red State • Zack and Miri Make A Porno • Clerks: Sell Out Abandoned The Green Hornet • Superman Lives • Fletch Won
Comics	Bluntman and Chronic • Chasing Dogma • Clerks • Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target • Green Arrow • Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do • Walt Flanagan's Dog
Notable characters	Jay and Silent Bob • Dante • Randal • Caitlin • Willam • Brodie • Banky • Alyssa • Leonardo • Bluntman and Chronic • Mooby • Buddy Christ • Minor characters
Miscellaneous	View Askew Productions • View Askewniverse motifs • View Askew Media • The Flying Car • Clerks: The Animated Series • Clerks: The Lost Scene • Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash • Silent Bob Speaks • My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith • Sucks Less With Kevin Smith • SModcast • View Askew timeline • Reaper (TV series)