Hey everyone! I’m trying to get Kevin Smith to see this video, especially the part at the end where I talk directly to him and ask for an interview! If anyone is so inclined, could you Tweet the video link to him (@ThatKevinSmith)? Maybe if enough people send it his way, he’ll notice it! Thank you in advance 😊

"Nothing can kill the Grimace" is one of my favorite comedy lines.

I remember when adult swim started playing reruns of clerks back in like 2008.

Nothing can kill the Grimace has been been a stand out line stuck in my head for 20 years as well

It’s so great to finally see someone discuss this great series.

It’s a shame this show never caught on. The first few episodes were kinda rough (still funny, but finding their footing), but by the time they were doing that crossover parody of Temple of Doom and Bad News Bears, it was pure gold!

Nothing can kill the Grimace. Best line ever. I will still say it at people sometimes. This show is great, awesome video.

Three hours of recording well-spent. This is great work.

This is so weird, I was just thinking about Clerks yesterday!

"babies first clerks-" i love that omg

I literally never knew clerks had an animated series. Seeing how much you love it and hearing so much about it's history makes me want to watch it tho

"Why are we walking like this?" "What's wrong with him?" "Nicotine fit!" "Charles Barkley? The hell are you doing here?!" "Who driving car? Bear driving car! How can this be?!" So many freaking quotes my friend and I still quote to each other. I was pretty sure that we were the only two people on earth that had seen it.

One of the few people in Minnesota to have watched this on live TV when it first aired; since I had worn my clerks VHS cassette tape down until it was tissue paper. Damn I’m old.

I'm watching these right now!! Wish their was more than 6 episodes

"it's your favorite pokemon characters shaped as pasta noodles!"

THIS IS MY FAVORITE CARTOON!!

This is so great. I had the box set as a kid and probably the watched it 20+ times

I watched the entire series on DVD in 2001 or 2002, and it's kind of bizarre how often I think about it. "It's cold in here, Hoth cold." "WE'VE ALREADY MADE THAT STAR WARS REFERENCE."

Here's one for you. For years when I was younger I loved wearing purple and was quite built like The Grimace. My friends called me The Grimace (among other things). So we're all sitting on the couch goofing off and watching this episode and the SECOND that "Nothing can kill the Grimace" line popped out the room went silent and everyone just started staring at me before all of them breaking into fake bows and "we're not worthy" at me 😁. Ahhh happy times!

Personally I think this show came out too early, if it came out in the time of netflix and hulu it might have had more of a chance and probably wouldn't have had all the limitations disney forced on them

A funny show that was disrespected

Kevin Smith is the absolute best!!!!!!! Such a super nice and humble. Those movies got me out of a tough time.

I think if they are gonna revive this, then it should go on adult swim or comedy central.

Still one of my favorites and one of my favorite dvds to own.

Just watched this and the Space Jam videos, though I should probably be a sleep. Glad I found this channel. Might be my new favourite.

Hello, I love your presentation of the clerk's animated series I think I was about 21 when it was around I remember cartoon Network actually aired it back then but when media play was around me and my first girlfriend went and bought the DVD collection and I have to say at the time of my genius mind I was able to make a copy of it on VHS. So everything that you talk about brought back many memories. Again love your presentation hope you do another video like this on another animated series.

I recently revisited this series for the first time since my teenage years after stumbling over the commentary tracks on KZfaq, and I was fucking cackling and wheezing all the way through. The entire sequence where Randal heckles Jay's lawyer over the fact that he won't sue them until he finally caves is just incredible and had me in tears.

I love your videos

I used to stay up late and catch the reruns of this and Mission Hill on Adult Swim when I was a kid. It always bummed me out that neither of those shows got a second season.

You had me at Nothing Can Kill The Grimace💜

"Oh god, the kid in the helmet." "Yes.... look at him 👨"

Love this! Thank you.

Now that we have Clerks 3 coming out, it's time for a reboot of the cartoon!

Well done. This perspective of Kevin's cultural impact isn't often documented as well. I recall being anxious for months for the Animated series to air...To have it cancelled...To then finally seeing the full series a few years later on dvd. Thanks for the nostalgia.

This is awesome that you did a complete review of this series clerks was an amazing series something that an average stoner could sit back enjoy and have a laugh

All year Ive been asking "can the virus kill the Grimace?" And disappointingly no one has replied "nothing can kill the Grimace"

"I paid to have this line custom printed on a shirt seen here" Me: *subscribe*

I loved the mash up of the king of the hill and south park intros lmao. Great video and absolutely miss Clerks.

Appreciate you taking the time to make this video. This show has always deserved a bigger audience than it got, and a chance to have made more than 6 episodes, and for more than 2 of them to have aired and to have aired in order, etc... P.S. I might be one of the very few people that was a Kevin Smith/Basketball fan back when Clerks was set to premiere.

I love Samurai Jack, but I don’t think I’d call it “adult” in the same way the other examples were. It doesn’t possess the mature jokes that would make the other listed show inappropriate for younger audiences.

I'd never heard of this seo before but now I wanna buy the dvd! Nibbler Bubblesx2 mojo jojo superman aka Clark Kent, Woody, Blossom Those are all the ones I know. Great vid!

Poliwhirl, Monkeybone, Nibbler, Bubbles, Blossom, Woody, Mojo Jojo, Curious George, Superman, and Bubbles. I don't know the cow in the middle and it is bringing me great shame.

Yessss! I watched the few episodes that actually aired and was gutted when it was cancelled. But the DVD set holds a dear place in my heart and DVD shelf.

That montage of you & the Clerks DVD was so freaking wholesome & I just bought my own off eBay because of it (woulda done itunes but I need those sweet sweet commentary tracks)

I remember the series when it first aired on ABC. I only saw the clip show episode and remember finding the show very funny. When it aired on I think Comedy Central or Adult Swim, I loved it so much. I got the DVD shortly after it came out.

You are my new favorite. thank you, I was starving for someone worth listening to 🤣🤣 (there are lots of intelligent creators out there, but sometimes they're hard to find!)

It's so great to see another one of your videos. I love watching your videos about stuff I use to watch when I was younger. Your videos give me info I didn't know or might of forgot. And congrats I hope your new future leads you to brighter horizons.

I never thought I would find a video about this by clicking in a Pokemon comercial from the 90's

Absolutely great content, never heard of that show before ,but you surely hyped it quite a bit. I'm 8 out of the 10 characters names and It's just bugging me so much !

That show made my life man. I was so lucky that i was one of the few who got to see it when it premiered on TV. it changed my life.

You are 100% going places. This had to have been so much research! Awesome work!!

There. I just shared this to like six different Kev-related Facebook groups. The rest is up to our Buddy Christ! "I just want to tell you, good luck. We're all counting on you!" 😉 🖖🏾💯

AMAZING work Ariana!!! Really blew me away with how much attention to detail, editing etc, I can tell how hard you worked on this, Incredible content, you should be proud of this one!

Just found the channel through this vid! Wanted to share, I glanced at the view count, thought I saw two million, and that checked out in my brain. Totally accepted that was the number it deserved. Two thousand is nothing to shake a stick at, but I'm happy I found this and you deserve, and will probably eventually get, much more!

Do you know what I think? I think that after ABC cancelled it, Adult Swim should’ve picked it up and made more episodes. I mean, they did it with Home Movies, Baby Blues and The Oblongs

It does have one of the catchiest themes. I still have the DVD set somewhere. At least we all know the Grimaces secret. And it still lives to this day.

Great video! Well researched and presented. Love the details. Gave me some flashbacks to little bits of info that haven't crossed my mind in over a decade... so thanks for the revisit on that entire saga that was this series. Which was one of the best things ever created by people for any reason. I too also first saw this series very early on, a year before someone would turn me onto Mallrats, and thus start my Kevin Smith fandom. Even then it wasn't until a few years later when listening to the commentary tracks for the series that it occurred to me that I was one of the few people who saw at least one of those two episodes when they first aired. Clear flashback to sitting crossed legged in my family's living room watching the opening titles. I really hope that now that Clerks III is finally happening, there might be a renewed interest in reviving the series. At SDCC a few years back, Kevin commented that there might have been something in motion soon for that to happen... but it's been crickets ever since. Fingers crossed. I just REALLY want to see the next episode they pitched, with Randal buying Kit from Knight Rider, then Kit getting jealous of Dante and pulling a Single White Female on him. Sounds amazing. I shall continue to dream.

I love how passionate you are about this!

Yesssss such a wonderful show and a great analysis on how it was treated!

Thanks for making this video 🥰

Great video by the way!!

This is wonderful! I love your style of videos. Definitely keep it up! Subscribed!

No random chance you happened to accidentally have an extra 2XL "Nothing Can Kill The Grimace" shirt printed I suppose?

"Give those mole people hell, son!" sooo many great lines from the animated series. I also owned it on DVD in the 90s and made everyone i knew watch it at least once.

I was so hyped when this show was announced! They showed TWO episodes and there was a storm in my area and so I ended up seeing one AND A HALF episodes on TV.

I love how you're really into the show. It's a favorite amongst me and my bros too. Great video!

Great job...love your poise and confidence

I love this show so much! Also you got yourself a subscriber.

It’s so nice to see a Kevin Smith discussion video that’s not “You suck! Stop making movies!” just because it’s fashionable to hate on him. Good on you! 🙃

I remember watching this series on DVDs at a friend's house and being really into it and then it just...Ended. I was so sad, and kinda mad my friend let me get into a store without warning me it got cancelled after 13 episodes. Luckily they made it up to me by showing me a different show called Firefly afterwards! 😬🥺😩

I didn't know that about the NBA final delay the premiere...that makes the scenes beating up Charles Barkley even more funny!

Fun fact: I found out about this show when I was 9 because my mom was trying to order the MOVIE on Amazon and ordered this instead. The colorful box of course enticed me and I opened it up and watched it before she could send it back. I’ve loved it ever since and periodically rewatch it every now and then. Is it SAFE?

I watched the six episodes of animated before even going through Clerks and Viewaskew Movieverse films and it immediately shot to the top of my list of favorite shows of all time! Six perfect episodes. I'm almost afraid of a possible continuation series because it feels like it would be so hard to live up to!

I've always wanted to know the backstory on this series. Thank you. #WhyInTheFeddidledaddle

Came back for one more comment, just to point out that the more I think about it, episode 2 is likely the Peace of media that officially cemented my love of "running gags". "Why are we walking like this?" Made me laugh harder and harder, each time it popped up. But it's a style of humor that I personally find an interesting art form. Beautiful Troll Humor, I'd call it 😂 My most recent movie review for Richard Pryor's "Bustin' Loose" is practically made out of so many running gags, yet I'm more amazed at how frequently I keep finding ways to use them, that still feels fresh to me. Like, just when I think it's time to leave a gag be, I end up like "Yeeeaahh, but the joke I just came up with, for it, is pretty funny though...😏" 🖖🏾😂

I remembered this so vaguely that I thought it was a fever dream.

If they can't get Clerks 3 off the ground, they should at least make an actual season of Clerks animated. The 6 episodes are actually really funny

My sis bought this series on DVD in 2003ish and we watched the heck out of it. It made up a pretty big chunk of my quote quiver for a part of my early 20s. I only knew a couple people out of our circle that had seen it.

Pretty solid vid!

20:33 You’re awesome for having a Monkeybone plush at that age!

"Is it safe? It puts the lotion on its skin and then it puts it in the basket."

I watched the debut of this show when it aired and was so ready for episode 2. Then I came back for what should have been the third episode and it was just NBA basketball. I came back for week 3 and there was no Clerks, but "maybe just other things pre-empted it" I thought. It wasn't until week 5 with no more episodes that my little heart finally realized the show was done and not coming back. This little two episode weird show that no one else in my area but me seemed to have watched was gone and I could only tell people how awesome it was. It sucks, but at least we got the DVD with all the finished episodes a few years later. I could finally show my friends the "Who is driving? Oh no, Bear is driving! how could that be?" scene that probably made me sound like a maniac for years when I was describing it.

It’s really unfortunate to see a quality show that was given the DOA treatment. We’ll never know what it would’ve become which is always the worst part.

Awesome video

Dope content!

That's cold, Obi-Wan.

I think I actually saw the series premiere when it aired and picked up a bootleg VHS at a comic show like a year later. It may have inadvertently gotten me into the Smith movies. Anyway….remember when he came out with a book that was a transcript of of his podcasts?

Omg she's so beautiful! You remember Stormfront from the boys

Nice review

Great video! Oddly enough you look a lot like Kevin Smith's daughter.

I live in Southern NJ, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash is about an hour and 20 mins northeast of where I live. I was very happy with the place, I believe I bought a Walking Dead book there and then spent hours with my friends at Yestercades down the street.

I loved this show so much. I still have my dvds when it came out lol

Great video. I was hoping that in the beginning of the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot movie that the courtroom scene would have introduced the judge as the honorable Judge Reinhold as a nod to the clerks animated series.

I accidentally caught an episode at 11:30 or midnight one random day on ABC I couldn't believe the show is on ABC then I immediately found the DVD

Underrated video

Really well written and done video on one of my favorite cartoons! I reference it at least monthly. I learned a lot about the behind the scenes stuff that I didn't know and jeez, Disney really screwed them over. They should've stuck with UPN.

The best part of the cartoon was the DVD commentary. If you get the chance to listen to it while watching the show, do it!

I found this video thanks to RebelTaxi making a video on this show as well, I love Kevin Smith’s movies and Clerks was a funny show that unfortunately was screwed over heavily by the network, brilliant shows like this networks just have trouble understanding, similar thing happened to The Dana Carvey Show a few years prior and Titus on FOX. I feel like if Clerks aired on FOX with shows like King of the Hill and Family Guy it would’ve fit right in instead of a family oriented network like ABC

Wish I still had my DVD set of these cartoon.

I watched all 6 episodes yesterday and i loved it