Clerks.

Just saw this on youtube...not sure why anyone would confuse this with the movie Clerks... There's no Jay or Silent Bob.... They seem to replace those two with some some random ice cream store employee... Dante's obsessions are gone... I guess the original Dante & Randal auditioned for the show but didn't get the parts (How that happens is beyond me)... The humor is lame and that 90's G rated type humor that came with a laugh track at the most un-funny moments.... It came off more like an episode of Save By The Bell set in a strip mall... It even had the same sort of oddball half ass moral message at the end of the show like an episode of Save By The Bell ... The only thing that remotely reminded me of the original Clerks was they had "Can't Even Tell" by Soul Asylum at the end

according to the View Askew message boards this show never aired, the only people who have seen this is the ABC executives, Kevin Smith, Scott Mosier, and Vincent Pirerra. it had no cursing and no jay and silent bob so they decided not to air it. whoever it was that said he bought the DVD thats a different show, thats the ANIMATED tv show

Well it was very cheap set, "Saved by the Bell" type sets (That was Brian O'Halloran quote) and was horrible.

They ditched Jay and Bob, added other reoccurring clerks like the ice cream man and took everything good out of clerks and added in plots that involved like people in the store talking about their lives and horrible lines like that.

It was awful and if your lucky you can find the 3 minutes of footage running around the net somewhere.

Well "lucky" isn't really the right word. But yeah, After Miramax sold the rights to WB, WB then sold them out again for a sitcom. The sitcom was made into a pilot that Brian, Jeff, and Marlin tried out for and got rejected. Horrible, Horrible stuff.

I'm not quite sure how this would even work, but this sitcom pilot was made without prior knowledge (let alone consent) of Kevin Smith. He did write and direct the movie this is supposedly based on, but informing him about this spin-off seemed a bridge too far. In all fairness though: this barely has anything to do with the movie, which begs a lot of questions. "Clerks" was an underground hit, but is it really so famous that merely using its name gets you great ratings? And wouldn't actual fans of the movie turn this of after five minutes, noticing that the only thing it has in common is a store setting and characters named Dante and Randall (they don't even have Jay and Silent Bob)? There are really only two quite fascinating things about this pilot. The constant waves of canned laughter after lines you didn't even identify as jokes, and the fact that SNL alumnus Jim Breuer is in this playing Randall. Apart from that, this might just be the longest half hour of your life.

Imagine if the writers if one of those insipid carbon-copy Disney sitcoms were given the idea of "Clerks" to flesh out into a half-hour comedy show without being allowed to see the actual movie. Imagine they were only given a list of character names, brief (and heavily cleaned up) descriptions of their personalities, and a few plot points to focus on.

Now imagine that the script they eventually came up with was sent through a machine called the Bland-O-Matic 2000 before given to a director with no sense of humor.

Can you picture it? Probably not, because it's way worse than that.

Everything that made "Clerks" what it was has been stripped out resulting in yet another cookie-cutter sitcom that just happens to share the same name as the Kevin Smith movie.

No Quick-Stop. No Jay and Silent Bob, no drug references (Though there are one or two instances of someone saying the word "drunk"), and basically no sleaze. It's all been Disneyed to the point of being unrecognizable. If you were to change the characters names you would never even know it wasn't just some other ultra-formulaic Disney sitcom with the exact same tired jokes as every other show they've ever produced.

You can find this thing on YouTube, but I strongly advise you not to try to get through it in one sitting. Yes, it's that bad.

If I seem angry about this it's because I am, a little. I loved the movie when it first came out and still do to this day. It was bad enough what ABC did to the "Clerks" animated series, but this thing feels like a line was crossed.

Whatever your opinion of the movie "Clerks", whether you loved it or hated it, one thing we can all agree on was that this show was BAD!