Courtesy of E! Online
By Kimberly Potts, February 6, 2000
From the network that brought you the ratings-smash Wasteland...From the studio that brought you the mega blockbuster
Happy,Texas...From the filmmakers who brought you the Academy Award-winning cinema classic Mallrats, comes the
next sure thing: Clerks. That's indie filmmaker Kevin Smith's trailer for the upcoming ABC cartoon Clerks: The Animated
Series, based on his 1994 cult-classic film. You gotta love a man who can poke fun at himself. And, okay, a few others
around him.
Smith, who teased the cartoon at Sundance and dished about it at last month's annual TV-critics gathering in Pasadena,
California, is bringing the whole Quick Stop gang--Dante (Brian O'Halloran), Randal (Jeff Anderson), Jay (Jason Mewes)
and Silent Bob (Smith)--to cartoon land, where, Smith admittedly says the film's profanity-laden tirades and bawdy subject
matter will have to be toned down for the Disney-owned network.
Not that the tone of the project itself will vary from Smith's now famous, produced-for-$27,575 flick. The show, which
premieres in March with six episodes, will follow the Garden State crew as they operate the New Jersey convenience store
and RST video shop, battle unruly customers and watch bemusedly the antics of Jay and his cohort in mischief, Silent
Bob.
The 'toon will feature a new villain, too: the town's resident evil millionaire (voiced by Alec Baldwin), who Smith says is a
"blatant homage to Mr. Burns on The Simpsons."
What's Happenin'
