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One of my favorite jokes from the show was when they realized there were no Black people on the show and so they introduced “Lando” who did absolutely nothing but say hello. And when he finally had something interesting to say, Randall just says “not now, lando.” Comedy gold.

I cannot believe Disney poisoned Clerks the animated series' water supply, burned their crops and delivered a plague onto their houses.

I like how Gilbert didnt even try imitating Swayze's actual voice, he just used his actual (well, his comedian) voice.

I do like having the crudeness of mature shows toned down a bit so it's not obnoxious. Regular Show was like an adult show with restraint.

Even though it only got 6 episodes, Clerks The Animated Series still lasted longer than CNN+.

"Only weirdos obsessed with Cats Don't Dance care about animation" I feel personally attacked.

To be clear, while _Clerks_ was shot with a camera capable of capturing color (an Arriflex 16SR - which actually is professional-grade, albeit on the low end), the film used (Kodak Plus-X 16mm) was black-and-white. In other words, no color negatives exist.

When I was a teenager I traded illegal fireworks for weed a few times, so that particular change really speaks to me.

This guy has the coolest 2000s aesthetic I’ve ever seen.

Everyone credits South Park with kickstarting the second adult animation boom, but in the process, they forget that King of the Hill also premiered in 1997, the same year as SP and got ratings just as high as the Simpsons in its first couple seasons. You can easily see how having three smash hit adult cartoons on television simultaneously would motivate every network to play follow the leader without knowing how to actually play the game. PS Lando’s gonna return in Clerks III

I hear the name "Michael Eisner" and instantly start thinking about Defunctland. Kevin Perjurer has caused me permanent brain damage.

Man you made me remember awhile back when my college had a guest lecture from Stephen Silver some like 4 years ago. I remember him mentioning his favorite show to design for was Clerks. He did caricatures at an amusements park in highschool/college for cash so it kinda brought him back to that skillset and time in his life. Let him flex those muscles. Weird tho his least favorite show to work on was Phineas and Ferb. He mentioned the show was inconsistent in its design motifs. Like some characters were just shapes while others were odd shapes and others just had regular heads and bodies. Also the eyes were different across all the characters so it bothered him they werent kept a consistent style either. Mentioned how eyes are like a unifier and a defining feature of a style. Also he mentioned he wasnt a big fan of anime and weebs wouldnt shut up about it and wasted the Q&A section. Anyways he was a cool dude and fun to chat with. Still got his signed Danny print on my wall.

Clerks seems like it was Regular Show before Regular Show, and with less wacky adventures.

“Nothing can kill the Grimace” - Big Mac

I love how well the actors translated to voice acting for the show. The guy who played Randall, especially already had a very cartoon voice.

I really wish we could've gotten more of Clerks Animated. This show deserved so much better than it got

You glossed over the Super Bowl ad spot ABC promised the crew, which was part of what helped them decide to stick with Disney.

Eliminating scripted animated content and replacing it with reality based programing?? I'm living that all over again with WBD and HBO Max

Noticing a pattern with a lot of animated sitcoms from the late 90s/early 2000s that weren’t big hitters like Family Guy or South Park. They all deserve better.

The end quote where the director said “we enjoyed every minute of it” with the music was so good, really inspires me

it's so strange that your channel is now old enough to be considered nostalgic on it's own, the intro you've been using for years now gets me erry time, still feel like im 14 watchin ur videos in the teen section at the library, im 24 now lol

Thank you for this video!!!! My wife recently asked “how can you continue making new references to a show that only last 6 episodes 20 years ago?”

If this is the American Flcl then I can’t wait for Clerks Progressive and Alternative.😆

2:47 it was actually because they had to film during closing hours of the store so they could only film at night. Making it black and white made it harder to tell. That's also why the "gum was in the locks". Because if the window were open, the audience could easily tell it was dark out.

I was like "Oh, some of the character designs in this look like they're from Kim Possible", I should have known it was the same character designer

Given the references to FLCL. It makes me want to see the cast of that anime and its sequels in the Clerks Animated style. Hell imagine a crossover with the other Disney cartoons where several characters going over to the Quick Stop.

God I love RebelTaxi's intro. As a 90's kid it just hits me like I'm watching a show from the late 90's to early 2000's. I know it's an odd thing to talk about especially on a video of CLERKS. But, this channel is awesome. Keep up the great videos man.

You forgot to mention that Jim Venable made the music for Clerks. He's also known as the composer for Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack.

Clerks seems like something that should have aired on Adult Swim, Comedy Central, or MTV.

Amazing how well the art style holds up honestly. Looks so clean and polished.

I feel like an alternative to this show could exist if online animators wanted it to.

Oh yea, if you want a textbook definition of "Completely and Utterly Screwed Over", you can't get any better than the Clerks Animated Series. God, if only We'd have Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Whose Line is it Anyway and Clerks all in the same night...*sigh*

To be fair, the animation on that He-Man show was actually good.

Cool timing for a retrospective, I’ve been on a Jay and Silent Bob binge recently

Ironically, Who Wants To Be a Maillionaire was cancelled last year. As a side note, before Power House Animation, Kev's Smodcasts were animated by Steve Stark. Stark was also pretty popular with Smith. So much so in fact, that Kevin let him animate his own short film, Jay and Silent Bob's Groovy Cartoon Movie. It was meant to boost Stark's career, but ended up killing it and Kev's KZfaq channel, Smodcast Internet Television. Maybe you'll review it sometime.

Getting Gilbert Gottfried to do Patrick Swayze was hilarious to me as a kid because I was like "You could just...have Gilbert Gottfried! As himself! It's like having Sylvester Stallone play Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's just redundant. Even to me. And I was an idiot.

Watching FLCL as a kid makes me get goosebumps whenever I hear ride on shooting star.

How the hell do I watch that HEROES short?

It's my head cannon this show and Kim Possible take place in the same universe.

The real issue is: Who TF decided that Disney should be involved with something like Clerks anyway?

Imagine an alternate timeline where UPN nabbed it instead. They probably would have given Clerks: TAS a second run of production, and the synergy may have given Home Movies and Dilbert longer runs. (oh Dilbert, you were so ahead of your time...)

I had the fortune of watching both episodes as they aired. As soon as the DVD was out, I picked it up. I still regularly watch the show at LEAST once a year. My friend who introduced me to the films a few months before the show came out and I watched together and it was great. To this very day, I still refer to my friend as Mister Leo.

So I found this show years ago at a blockbuster video when I was stuck camping with my parents. I had a personal DVD player and binged this show in our camper. It was such an amazing experience. I then lent it to everyone of my friends and got them all hooked.

As the guy that wrote the oral history article on the series for Consequence of Sound, you got practically everything spot on. Nicely done!!

Pan, that mashup of FLCL and Clerks was stunning, you're the reason I heard of either of those shows and you clearly love them both so to see them combined so perfectly was hilarious and fitting, never stop making videos no one else can match your style!

"This job would be great if it wasn't for the customers." This.... just... this.

16:46 aged perfectly wow

I love how pan is Canonically trapped on a space ship that he can't control or get out of.

This series had so much potential. Should've gone on longer.

The use of Pillows' Ride on Shooting Star was just Man, I love this sort of vibe so dang much

"Oh my God Bear's driving, how can that be!?!?!" will forever be one of the best laughs I ever had.

This is also what introduced me to Kevin Smith. I remember watching reruns of this show on Adult Swim back in the day. Shame that it didn't get more episodes.

I loved Clerks the Animated series. I have a bootleg VHS tape with BOTH aired episodes from when they aired on ABC. And later owned the whole series on VHS, and then again on DVD! So well written.

Clerks is one of my favorite animated shows of all time now. But 6 episodes?! We deserve more. Hopefully Clerks III will deliver it.

A pleasant surprise for sure, didn't expect to see any animation related videos from Pan.

Such a good show, the restraints wound up hitting on such a timely humor of wild antics without the obvious lowbrow humor complete freedom would have afforded. I pop in this DVD every time there's a lengthy Internet outage, which is far more often than I would like. The series as a whole still holds up, but some of the jokes are a little hard to watch with 20 years' hindsight.

I certainly never caught the series on ABC. I didn't see it until it popped upon Comedy Central, and that led me to pick up the DVD a bit later. The show really impressed me with how it managed to maintain the Clerks feel while also having fun with the animated format. It's definitely among the strongest adult animated series of the 2000s.

I watch Clerks when it was on Adult Swim and I remember the first episode when that guy wanted a pack of smokes I was so scared as a kid I literally ran into my parents room. I kind of regret not watching it some more. Kind of reminds me of Regular Show, like a bunch of 20 something's trying to figure out their life

This is one of, if not the greatest RebelTaxi video! You really pulled out all the stops on this one, Pan. Very, very well done!!

23:22 for some reason, this has been rather effectively nostalgic on me, despite being a different singer and put to a few small clips.

So 'Clerks: The Animated Series' and 'Police Squad!' both only lasted for six episodes. Greatness can sometimes have limits.

It’s about damn time you made a video on Clerks Animated

23:21 hearing the FLCL song remixes to Clerks lines is so weird, I love it though. “Ride on Shooting star” 😎

17:24 This man is so good, he plays Randall without even trying

Bruh thanks sooo much for doing this lol. This show is one of my friends and mines all time favorites up there with southpark. I always love that the second episode was a flashback and now all the rips on abc and who wants to be a millionaire make sense. To this day me and my buddies still insult each other by saying " stfu....i bet you dont even have a peace prize". Lol BRUH THAT UP YOURS MATT DAMON CUT WAS GLORIOUS. THAT SCENE IN ARTHUR CAUSED NIGHTMARES 🤣🤣🤣

Combining two of my favorite things: Clerk and FLCL? Bless.

I really miss we designed bumpers. I can’t remember the last time I saw some networks bumpers and actually thought they looked cool.

I had no idea this existed, until I randomly found it in a dvd store. I had seen all his films to that point and was on holiday in the states having just got a region free DVD player. It was fate poor bastards And I actually really did enjoy the he-man reboot they did

If Clone High can get more episodes I’ll hold out hope for Clerks 😭

Glad to see you still make high quality editing intensive videos like a champ

I remember watching all six episodes late at night on Adult Swim in the late 2000s and thinking I had stepped into another dimension. What a hilarious and classic series.

I was in college, around 2003 or 2004, when a friend of mine introduced me to the works of Kevin Smith. Soon I found myself buying all his movies (and this show) on DVD. I actually found myself watching the audio commentaries on those dvds more than the actual movies/shows, themselves.

Yeah that's why I love this show, it's so 2000's it feels like watching basic cable in a dark room lit only by a big CRT during a stormy night, definitely the most comfortable feeling.

This was my first introduction to clerks as a kid and I'll always remember loving the thick ass black outlines the characters had

Great video! I really hope Clerks Animated comes back one day. I remember watching reruns on Adult Swim and really enjoying it. Disney must know that the show has a niche fanbase so hopefully at some point Kevin Smith can get the rights back.

I remember discovering this show when Comedy Central use to have a late night block of cancelled animated shows, I think that was like 07 or 08.

I didn't want this video to end.

One of my favorite "far too short of a run" shows. I remember seeing an episode on TV and immediately went and bought the series on DVD. I loved the little live action vignettes they included for each episode. Fantastic video, and I especially loved the ending with all the clips and that oh so familiar from another short run favorite. Thanks for making this and the nostalgia that comes along with it.

As a Kevin Smith fan I snagged a copy of this on DVD from eBay, as it was never released here. I paid barely £3 so I was shocked when it showed up signed by Smith

I just ordered a "Like New" copy on Mercari for 10 bucks. I loved this show and it was awesome to relive some of these jokes. Leonardo Leonardo was one of my favorite characters by far. "YES. Look at him" was always one of my favorite lines in the episode where Jay joins the baseball team and they're talking about the foreign kid lol.

“I wanted ask you how little you guys sold out for, and what it feels like to have no soul and a black heart” - Everybody’s response to David Zaslav and his destruction of WB

I'm cooming in my pantaloons Pan, I just finished rewatching the Clerks movie today. Also, if you look like Silent Bob or Dante DM me.

Great video! It's awesome to see so much love for the animated series, i watched those segmented youtube uploads so many times as a teen. I gotta admit, the FLCL theme with scenes from Clerks really hit me in a nostalgic soft spot!

according to Wikipedia, the clerk movies are owned by Miramax, which Disney sold to beIN Media Group in 2009, which was turned into a joint venture in 2020 with Paramount Global buying a 49% stake in the company giving them the rights to the Miramax films catalog, while the animated series was produced and distributed under Disney's Animation studio and their ABC/TV Division. (yes Disney owns ABC) so basically if it would return, Paramount would have to convince Disney to hand over the rights to the animated series, and reboot the show on either CBS or strength to Paramount+

8:19 That seems to be true now more than ever. ( also CDD is my 4th favorite animated film behind Aladdin, Mulan, and Toy Story 3)

Imagine being a Korean animator animating a Korean animation studio slave operation scene for an American cartoon.

Always happy to see a new Pan video. Glad you still make these videos. Puts a smile on my face

LOVE to see someone giving this some much deserved love. Great show

I was vaguely aware of Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob, and remember having a friend tape the premiere episode (what turned out to be episode 4, the BEAR IS DRIVING episode) for me, and him being skeptical about it being any good before he'd seen it. We were 12 and I don't think we ever really stopped quoting it. Also I remember watching Clerks Sell out in a high school computer class. Fuck I'm getting old.

Clerks animated has been a major inspiration for my cartoons. Shame it didn't last as long as it should.

“If your show only gets 6 episodes they better be the best 6 episodes ever” the Napoleon Dynamite cartoon didn’t get that memo

I worked at a comic shop at the time, and we made a point to catch it live. Yes, the broadcast order was confusing. We were running the convention circuit and one of us picked up the series (all six episodes) bootleg on VHS. We shotgunned it all the same night in the hotel room and "Bear is driving" was beaten into the ground very quickly, but is still used around here. Thanks for putting this all together. I forgot about it in the meantime, so I never heard any of the DVD commentary or the story around the production.

The cartoon limitations definitely made for a great show. ,"Nothing can kill the Grimace...Okay we're done here..." makes me laugh to this day.

"America's Fooly Cooly until it made more episodes" Honestly given how terrible both sequel series are I'd say this point still stands. There are no more episodes of FLCL after the original 6 and you'll never convince me otherwise

I remember watching the Clerks movie and loving it. Then I came across the animated box set at a hastings and bought it.

This was so well written and edited! Amazing

Dave Mandel? The dan vs guy? gonna have to watch Clerks now!

Loved the video, I really liked the part on character design. I too appreciate the thick outlines

as a long time fan of your videos, it's so cool to see you finally review this!