Shark Bytes
This show could have been so much more funny.
Someone please tell the guy criticizing the show for its air times that Kevin Smith was just as pissed about ABC's choice of timing as he was; it wasn't Kevin's idea. ABC screwed him on a number of other things as well. Didn't get half the jokes in the second episode? That's because they were based on the first episode... that ABC never aired at all.
This show was classic. God, if it lasted longer it would have never jumped the shark. Smith can do no wrong in my opinion. The Real World spoof, "Randal doesn't need this, Randal will start his own Real World! And I did." Man, that show was great...buy the DVD if you have a chance.
When they signed on with ABC. What has ABC ever given us? They've given us a great pile of crap. Clerks was a great TV show. It was made crappy by ABC censoring half the stuff these guys did. They weren't even allowed to show Jay and Bob as drug dealers. Also, the show wasn't given more than two or three shows. Rent or buy the DVD and you will laugh until you crap all over your sofa.
I first heard of the Clerks animated series when I saw DVD copies for sale on ebay. I'm ashamed to say that because I really love Kevin Smith's movies - but I had no recollection whatsoever of there having been a Clerks series. Then I found out why - it appears as though the only two episodes that aired were aired while I was on vacation. Having watched all the episodes on DVD now, I can't understand why anyone - even someone not familiar with Smith's movies - would think this series ever jumped (unless you don't think series like the Simpsons and King of the Hill are funny at all). If, as one person here has observed, the two aired eps were aired out of order, that would screw things up considerably, but that's not the fault of 'the series'; rather, its the fault of the programming executroids ("Yeh - let's show the 'whodunnit' episode of Dallas before the episode where J.R. gets shot! That'll be regarded as genius for all eternity!"). The six episodes that are on the DVD are classic. I just hope that someday someone can get more of them made.
Aw, c'mon! If you can't laugh at space shuttles exploding what can you laugh at? Also the part in that episode when they showed the picture of Randall like that famous pic from Vietnam with the one guy holding the gun to the other guy's head was hilarious! But my favorite moment was from the "flashback" episode when Jay asks Randall how they got in here and it goes into Randall's head and he's wearing a monocle and a suit and says, "After I stock these shelves I'm going to pick up my Nobel Prize. What do you think Dante?" And Dante is sitting on the floor, wearing a diaper and a dunce cap, swinging a cat and saying, "Duh, my name's Dante and I'm the biggest idiot ever." Classic!
My husband purchased the "Clerks" animated series on DVD (as a Kevin Smith fan), and I saw all of the ones I missed on TV that never aired. If this show had not been canned, it would have jumped the shark with the class reunion episode. It features a flashback of one of the 80's high school class (all drunk) getting onto a space shuttle. The shuttle explodes after take-off. Not funny
The thing that killed this show was that ABC was so stupid they showed the episodes out of order. Instead of showing the Pilot episode first they decided to show the second episode first. This is especially dumb since all the second episode does is reminisce about the first episode. Nobody understood the first episode they showed because without the pilot episode the second episode makes absolutely no sense
Great Show. I never saw it on ABC though. But I say all 6 episodes on Comedy Central (even the ones that didn't air) and they were hilarious. It didn't jump on ABC it didn't jump on Comedy Central. This was a great show that network brass decide to scrap since it is a consipiracy against me to keep all shows I like off the air completely. God damn it was funny. Someone should by the rights to shows like Clerks, Police Squad and others like it and restart them on another network.
I'm jumping on the color bandwagon on this one. Even though the Clerks comic book was color, you're begging to be smacked by the authenticity police on this one. A bad idea nonetheless. Has any movie turned into a TV show ever really worked? Just something about trying to port a movie that barely staved off an X-rating into a Disney product should scream bad idea. Thing is, I think that if this show is on cable and doesn't have the Disney thought police all over it, it probably works well. Instead, we have this Disnified crap.
The closest this show came to jumping was when ABC forced them to change Jay & Silent Bob from drug dealers to fireworks dealers. Two examples of this show not jumping - A. Patrick Swayze voiced by Gilbert Godfrie. B. Judge Rienhold actually making fun of himself not having a career.
An amazing surreal jab at our society and what passes for entertainment these days. I could watch the collected episodes every day for a month and just laugh and laugh. It's called satire, people, and this show was so full of it that if you missed that point you were not going to enjoy it. "Why are we walking like this?"
