whats wrong with howard the duck? 'nt'

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: : Okay, first the disclaimer. : : I saw clerks in the theater, I own every DVD, and I have Silent Bob for : : Halloween four years running. I'm not competing, I'm just qualifying : : myself as a fan. : : I hated the Clerks cartoon. After twenty minutes of the first episode, I : : started playing nintendo and watching in the background. I forced : : myself to sit through the second episode, and I just never laughed. I : : never even cracked a smile. I could launch into a theoretical diatribe : : over its problems, its post-postmodern self-referential pop cultural : : blandness, but I won't. : : Maybe ABC was right. I hate Spin City, too, but, much like the Odd : : Couple, it makes me laugh at least once per episode. They were : : probably wrong for so many reasons, but it just doesn't make the : : cartoon better. : : Mr. Smith, you can do better than this. My advice: Don't let this be your : : Howard the Duck. Don't release it on video in the U.S., only in Japan, : : or somewhere where serious fans, like myself, will be able to go : : through some major effort to get it, and then cherish it, if not for the : : product, at least for the effort itself. But whatever you do, bury it, : : distance yourself from it, and move on. : : And learn from it. Don't learn about networks, we all know networks : : all suck. All of them. Even Comedy Central, which brought us, in the : : same year, South Park and Public Citizens Brigade (and if you liked : : PCB then you probably suck too, and I don't want to hear about it). : : Its time to reinvent yourself. I mean, not at the expense of Jay and : : Silent Bob. Think Jay and Silent Bob in Chasing Amy, pure brilliance. : : Think Bluntman and Chronic. Forget about pop cultural references: : : No one loved clerks because it referred to Star Wars, nor because of : : how many times they said "fuck." Clerks was a moment, but it was a : : combination of complete brilliance and ignorance, of obvious talent : : and a complete lack thereof. Returning to it would overwrite it, which : : should be avoided at all costs. : : Think minimal. Again, think Bluntman and Chronic. : : Bluntman and Chronic. : : thanks, : : -Philip (who will be a live-action Silent Bob

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