User:Dominicmgm/sandbox

While Kevin Smith was working on Mallrats, Touchstone Television made a pilot for a television show based on his breakthrough hit mh:greatestmovies:Clerks.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Awful grasp of the source material. The only things the movie and pilot have in common are that they have characters called Dante and Randall who work in a convenience store and a video store respectively.
 * 2) * Jay and Silent Bob are nowhere to be found, instead appearing in their place is Ray (a character later made fun of in Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.)
 * 3) * The stores the characters work in aren't even called Quick Stop and RST Video and they look nothing like they did in the movie.
 * 4) * Continuity is also disregarded. Dante and Veronica are still dating even though they broke up at the end of the movie.
 * 5) The profanity of the original which nearly netted the film an NC-17 is now gone.
 * 6) Character derailment: Dante was turned into a moron in order to learn a moral at the end of the episode and Randall got Flanderized.
 * 7) A poor running gag involving Ray trying to buy alcohol even though he's underaged. To make matters worse, Ray looks the same age as Randall.