# Anyone looking forward to "Clerks 2" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347 "2006-07-13T16:51:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/21 "2006-07-14T00:39:31Z")
I don’t know if I am going to make it opening night. But hell or high water I will be there sometime opening weekend. It is a tossup whether _Clerks_ or _Dogma_ is my favorite Kevin Smith film. (although, I think Clerks edges out Dogma by a hair). Salsa Shark! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/22 "2006-07-14T00:44:44Z")
I’ll go see it after I listen to Kevin talk about it at Comic-Con. That will give me some insider perspective! 😃 The best Kevin Smith movie is _Chasing Amy_, bar none. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/23 "2006-07-14T01:20:36Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > You mean Brodie from _Mallrats_/Banky from _Chasing Amy_/Azrael from _Dogma_, right? Please mean that in this thread, of all places. 😉 Maybe he meant Earl’s brother, whom I saw in the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/24 "2006-07-14T01:33:34Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Maybe he meant Earl’s brother, whom I saw in the trailer. The very funny [Ethan Suplee](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839486/) has been in several Smith movies also. Dogma (1999) (voice) … Noman the Golgothan Chasing Amy (1997) … Fan Mallrats (1995) … Willam Black Drawing Flies (1996) (as Willam Black) … Ethan not a Kevin Smith movie, but kind of related as he was listed as the same character from Mallrats. BTW: He was great in [Evolution](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/) (2001) … Deke which is basically an Ivan Reitman made remake of Ghostbusters. Earl or Jason Lee is good friends with Kevin Smith and has been in every Kevin Smith movie except Clerks. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/25 "2006-07-14T07:15:51Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I too am a little disappointed in the color film, tho ☹ I thought he was kidding. It’s enough that this is a sequel; there’s no need to repeat the past. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/26 "2006-07-14T14:42:31Z")
Two words: Interspecies Erotica. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/27 "2006-07-14T14:43:51Z")
I’m going, but not on opening day. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/28 "2006-07-14T15:01:46Z")
I don’t know why everyone gets up for these movies. So full of in-jokes and tiny references, and then all these people who latch onto them. I’d shoot myself if I ever got to the point where I was so obsessed with the minutiae of movies like _Clerks._ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/29 "2006-07-14T15:13:17Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#): > > I don’t know why everyone gets up for these movies. So full of in-jokes and tiny references, and then all these people who latch onto them. > > I’d shoot myself if I ever got to the point where I was so obsessed with the minutiae of movies like _Clerks._ Gee, thanks for sharing. So what minor inane thing do you like that we can piss on? :rolleyes: Jim ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/30 "2006-07-14T15:13:51Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > You mean Brodie from _Mallrats_/Banky from _Chasing Amy_/Azrael from _Dogma_, right? Please mean that in this thread, of all places. 😉 You’re right, of course. I merely grabbed the first reference off the top of my head. In my defense, _Dogma_ hasn’t been on TV lately. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/31 "2006-07-14T15:25:09Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Gee, thanks for sharing. So what minor inane thing do you like that we can piss on? :rolleyes: I almost posted this myself, and then remembered where HSHP’s name comes from. You, sir or ma’am, have been whooshed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/32 "2006-07-14T15:28:12Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > I almost posted this myself, and then remembered where HSHP’s name comes from. You, sir or ma’am, have been whooshed. 😉 Can you explain the Whoosh, I appear to be missing the obvious? I thought his name was from Scooby Doo. Thanks, Jim 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/33 "2006-07-14T15:30:53Z")
_Happy Scrappy Hero Pup_ was, IIRC, a children’s video that Randal (or one of his customers) mentioned in the first _Clerks_. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/34 "2006-07-14T15:33:56Z")
Actually, it was _Happy Scrappy - The Hero Pup_, a child’s tape a customer was looking for when Randal was on the phone to the distributor. He asks for it, after reeling off a long and very vulgar list of porn titles. In front of the Mom and the kid. “$16.49 It’ll be here Monday.” ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/35 "2006-07-14T15:37:48Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Can you explain the Whoosh, I appear to be missing the obvious? > I thought his name was from Scooby Doo. > > Thanks, > Jim 😕 _Happy Scrappy Hero Pup_ is the name of a video a customer wants to order for her daughter. Randal orders it along with this lengthy list of outrageous sounding pornos. It’s classic. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/36 "2006-07-14T15:43:05Z")
> [@shamrock227](#): > > _Happy Scrappy Hero Pup_ is the name of a video a customer wants to order for her daughter. Randal orders it along with this lengthy list of outrageous sounding pornos. > > It’s classic. Now I remember the scene. Color me whooshed. Good joke **Happy Scrappy Hero Pup**, you got one victim at least. Thanks **Sean Factotum & Shamrock227** Jim ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/37 "2006-07-14T15:50:31Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I’m gonna see it. The bit on the commercial where Jay is doing the Jaime Gumb Silence of The Lambs dance really cracked me up. \ Have you heard the SotL “cover” of Alice in Chains’ “Down in a Hole” done as Jaime Gumb? Hilarious. “Can you help me put this in my van…” \ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/38 "2006-07-14T15:51:14Z")
Sorry, dude. Thought you’d have picked up on it. I make the same joke most every Kevin Smith thread. Here- for your edification: [http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=gog&media=MP3S&type=Movies&movie=Clerks"e=happyscrappy.txt&file=happyscrappy](http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=gog&media=MP3S&type=Movies&movie=Clerks"e=happyscrappy.txt&file=happyscrappy). mp3 The link has sound and is NSFW, so I have disabled it- remove the space between the happyscrappy and the .mp3 to get it to play. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/39 "2006-07-14T16:03:30Z")
I’ve never really enjoyed Kevin Smith films. They just seem… not well put together, or something. Funny bits throughout, but never enough IMO to support an entire hour and a half of movie watching. Clerks II, from the previews, looks kind of dumb IMO. And [crotchety old man]isn’t Kevin Smith getting a little old to be writing dialogue like this? Isn’t it kind of sad? “You’ve never gone ass to mouth” over and over again? Really? Is that clever or interesting?[/crotchety old man] Anyway, I like smart movies with clever dialogue as much as the next movie snob. I just haven’t really seen this done _well_ in Smith’s films. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347/40 "2006-07-14T16:07:01Z")
> [@Jess](#): > > Can’t wait. I’m probably going to have to go alone, though – my husband doesn’t ‘get’ Kevin Smith. He sat all the way through _Clerks_ and didn’t laught once. Can you imagine? I believe that’s grounds for divorce in most states. I’m glad Smith decided to go back to doing what he does best. Besides, it’s not like Mewes would be able to make a living if it weren’t for Smith doing these films. 😃 Oh, and Kevin? Me and my friends started doing the “gay hobbit” lines after we saw the first LOTR film (for some reason folks say I remind them of Randall), so we’ll be wanting our cut of the gross. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-clerks-2/364347.md?page=3)