Talk:Clerks

Dante is Dead

In the original cut of Clerks,Dante is shot and killed (as stated in the main article).Now the question is : How would things be without Dante?What would Randal's reaction be?More importantly,how different would Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks II be? - R.G. 16:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

None of that really matters to Wikipedia because it's all speculation and POV. Try imdb's message board for that type of discussion. 204.115.253.51 18:48, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

How does that not matter he's the main character. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.85.134.44 (talk) 19:44, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Because unsourced speculation is considered original research and is not appropriate for inclusion on Wikipedia. DP76764 (Talk) 22:05, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

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Beserker

The song "Berserker" was referenced in the Xbox 360 video game Gears of War. When the player defeats a monster of the same name on the Hardcore difficulty setting, they receive an achievement listed as "My love for you is like a truck." It is also referenced in the PlayStation 2 game Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories. A sword called "Berserker" can be bought from the shop, and its description is "Its love for you is like a truck".

Wouldn't that go under trivia in the article Gears of War? Plus, I highly doubt that Cliffy B put that charecter in because of that song. Maybe he put in, oh I don't know, maybe because the charecter is beserk?

No, it's a reference. also both of you should learn to sign your post (remember four tildes [~]), the first person is talking about the reference "my love for you is like a truck", not the monster. The line is a reference, it being attached to the Berserker monster makes it a double ref. Doc Strange 22:27, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Imported Trivia

• In Mallrats, when Brodie and T.S. go to the "Dirt Mall", T.S. puts on a black hat that says "CLERKS".
• In the scene from Purgation, where Dante points out that in the store, "all the prices end in 9", nearly every visible price tag in the screen ends in 5, and none end in 9.
• The first draft of the script was 168 pages.
• The original draft of the screenplay was entitled Inconvenience. Other possible titles were Life of Convenience and Rude Clerks before choosing the final title of simply Clerks.
• The film bares many references to the movie Blue Velvet. In Clerks, Jay says "I'll fuck anything that moves" - a line directly taken from Blue Velvet.
• The screenplay is loosely based on The Divine Comedy. The character Dante Hicks gets his name from Dante Alighieri, the author and fictional protagonist of The Divine Comedy. The chapter titles are also somewhat of a reference to the literature in that in The Divine Comedy, each level of hell is given a title. It can be said that Quick Stop is "Dante's hell".
• The VHS version of the film is one of the most stolen or unreturned video rentals from various video rental chains (specifically, from Blockbuster).
• The rights to the soundtrack cost more than the film itself. This was a first in the history of film.^{[citation needed]}
• When Miramax took the film to post-production, the budget rose to $127,575. The combined cost of the film's entire production and its soundtrack would only have paid for about seven seconds of filming the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.
• The girl who died and whose funeral Dante and Randal attend is the same girl whose death is mentioned in Smith's next film Mallrats. She also dies the same way. This implies that the events in Mallrats take place a day before Clerks as she's stated as dying on Thursday in the film, and later Randal confirms that the date of Clerks is Saturday. In Mallrats, Brandi tells T.S. Julie died 'yesterday' implying that Mallrats takes place on Friday. She is also mentioned in Chasing Amy when Holden and Alyssa are discussing growing up in the same neighborhood.
• If the events in Clerks are based on when they were filmed instead of the year that the film was actually released, the film should take place on April 10, 1993. Mallrats takes place one day before Clerks, on a Friday, meaning Clerks takes place on a Saturday. In Mallrats, they also say that Easter is that Sunday, which would be the day after Clerks In 1993, Easter was on April 11, so the Saturday before that would have been April 10.
• Even though Clerks was filmed in the early spring of 1993, it was not released in the United States until October 19, 1994. In the beginning of the film, when Dante is putting newspapers on the rack inside the store, the headline of the New York Daily News is "Pray For Them". This headline referenced a story about the then ongoing Branch Davidian siege, which took place near Waco, Texas between February 28 and April 19, 1993.
• Before filming Clerks, Kevin Smith was a staunch advocate of non-smoking. However, by the time he began shooting Mallrats, he had been up to two packs a day.
• A line of dialogue briefly mentions a girl named "Alyssa Jones". This would later become the name of the main female character in Chasing Amy.
• The film is mentioned in the Tim Dorsey novel Triggerfish Twist. Serge Storms tells a clerk about the film; the clerk has never heard of it.
• The "smoker's lung" used in one of the opening scenes is in fact a calf's liver that was rolled in dirt and burned with cigarettes.
• The Clerks logo is made out of letters cut from various magazines and food item wrappers. The C is from Cosmopolitan magazine, the L is from Life, the E is from Rolling Stone, the R is from a bag of Ruffles potato chips, the K is from a Clark Bar, and the S is from a Goobers box.
• The "RST" in RST Video stands "Rajiv, Sarla, Tarlochen." Those are the first names of the son, mother, and father team who owned (and still own) the video store and the Quick Stop. RST Video closed in 2003 but the video tapes remained on the shelves, perhaps in anticipation of filming for the sequel.
• The scene where Dante confronts Caitlin about her marriage to an Asian design major in the video store is done in one single take with no edits and lasts for over five minutes.
• It can be concluded that Caitlin has cheated on Dante a full nine times by the end of the film. Dante mentions that Caitlin cheated on him "eight and a half times;" the half involved Caitlin having made love with Dante under the impression that he was someone else. The theoretical second half would be Caitlin's affair with the deceased old man, as Caitlin is under the impression that the man is Dante.
• Dante sings the line "Here comes Randal, he's a berserker" when Randal "wrangles" out of Quick Stop at the end of the film. When listened to closely, the audio quality of this line does not match the audio around it. This is because the line was "looped", or replaced in ADR. The original line of dialogue was "Here comes Wrangler and he's one tough customer", a reference to a jingle for Wrangler Jeans.
• The character Caitlin was named after Caitlin Ryan, a character from the Degrassi series. Kevin Smith was a huge fan of the series and eventually guest starred (along with Jason Mewes) in five episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation.
• The end of the credits read "Jay and Silent Bob will return in Dogma". Dogma would become the fourth film set in the View Askewniverse.
• The roofer in the debate about independent contractors in the Death Star says his company is "Done and Ready Home Improvements". In Chasing Amy, "Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements" is listed as being on the 3rd floor of the building that "Bank Holdup Studios" is in.
• In Veronica's first scene she uses a fire extinguisher on the group of customers who throw cigarettes at Dante (though they just threw baby powder on the actors rather than actually using the extinguisher). Similarly in Dogma Bethany Sloane uses a fire extinguisher on Metatron when he appears in a fire.
• Various sports merchandise can be seen throughout the film.
  • Randal wears a New Jersey Devils hat through the whole film.
  • Jay is seen wearing a San Jose Sharks hat while shoplifting while Randall and Dante discuss the Death Star II.
  • The independent roofer is seen wearing a New York Yankees cap in the same scene.
  • During the hockey scene, Dante and his friend wear Pittsburgh Penguins and New Jersey Devils jerseys, respectively (Randall also wears the jersey of the Soviet Union). One player wears a Tampa Bay Lightning jersey.
  • Willam Black wears a Charlotte Hornets cap.
• The song "Berserker" was referenced in the Xbox 360 video game Gears of War. When the player defeats a monster of the same name on the Hardcore difficulty setting, they receive an achievement listed as "My love for you is like a truck." It is also referenced in the PlayStation 2 game Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories. A sword called "Berserker" can be bought from the shop, and its description is "Its love for you is like a truck".
• In the online shooter Soldat, when the player picks up a power-up called 'Berserker', a small part of the song plays upon picking it up and for every kill made afterwards.
• In the Beat 'em Up video game God Hand, in the Chihuahua Racing minigame, one of the Chihuahua's is named "37 In A Row", a reference to the famous line Dante says to a customer right after he learns that Veronica had performed fellatio on 37 different men.
• Japanese speedcore artist m1dy recorded a song called "37 dicks" on his album "Speedcore Dandy XXX". It includes a repeated sample of Dante's line "My girlfriend sucked 37 phallus's".
• The character Dante is obviously based on the film's writer, Kevin Smith who worked at the very store Clerks was filmed and also took a criminology class at a local community college while working at Quick Stop. In Clerks II Randall and Dante talk about taking this class in the jail scene, stating "We took criminology for God's sake. What the heck were we training to be, freaking' Batman?!"
• In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jay is seen wearing a shirt with a picture of Olaf with "Berzerker" written under the picture.
• California based punk band The Ataris reference Clerks twice on their 3rd LP End is Forever. One reference is at the end of the song Bad Case of Broken Heart in which it plays Silent Bob's speech from the end of the movie. And in the song Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B A B Start (The Konami Code?) they sing like the line "We hung outside Quik-Stop and pretended like we were in Clerks"
• Jason Mewes (Jay) was so camera shy that he had to get everyone to leave when he was doing his shots. No one is attending the camera while the dance scene is going on.
• Clerks is one of Kevin Smith's only two films that don't make the list of movies that most use the "F" word (the other being Jersey Girl), meaning the film has less than 100 uses of the word or its variations.
• While Dante and Randall talk about semen moppers, the fellow costumer (who is offended on the subject) was purchasing glass cleaner and paper towels.
• During the filming of Clerks, Jeff Anderson (Randal) proposed to Lisa Spoonhauer (Caitlin) on the set. They were married in 1995.
• After Dante and Randel get back from the funeral at the Quick Stop, Randel says he put Julie Dwyer's body back in the casket after he knocked it over, but in Clerks: The Lost Scene, Randel only runs out of the funeral home with Dante.

Above trivia has not been integrated into the rest of the article at all, so it's here. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 15:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Sex, lies, and stolen videotapes.

I've removed the following line from the "Reception" paragraph:

"The videotape of this film became one of the most stolen video tapes in America."

Non-cited, of course, and I doubt it ever can be cited, but it sounds like someone has just put it in there for giggles or as an experiment to show how easy it is to insert false information into Wikipedia. I'm sure it violates something else, but I don't know all the acronyms you people use these days. —Preceding unsigned comment added by James.Denholm (talk • contribs) 05:17, 28 November 2009 (UTC)