History Film / Clerks

** Jay is asked if Silent Bob's Russian cousin Olaf only speaks Russian - he responds "Naw, he speaks some English, but he can't not speak it good like we do."

** Jay is asked if Silent Bob's Russian cousin Olaf only speaks Russian - He responds "Nah, he speaks some English, but he can't all speak it good like we do".

** Willam from Mallrats is at the funeral.

* NotWhatItLooksLike

* {{Dismotivation}}: Dante.

* MoodWhiplash: The jolly guy who reads the tabloids gets extremely pissed when Randal spits his drink at him to shut up.

** According to Randal, how his cousin Walter died.

* BrickJoke: Randal mentions that he once had a cousin who died attempting autofellatio. A coroner later mentions that the strangest thing she had ever seen was when she had to tag a kid who died attempting autofellatio.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The Quick-Stop wouldn't let Smith shoot inside during the day, so he had to film all the interior shots at night. To hide this, he came up with the idea of someone putting gum in the locks on the shutters, necessitating them staying closed all day.

** Dante tells Randal a story about how Caitlin had sex with him in a darkened room thinking he was someone else. Caitlin would later have sex in the darkened bathroom with a dead man thinking it is Dante.

* YourCheatingHeart: Caitlin cheated on Dante 8 1/2 times in 5 years - the "half" was because she thought he was someone else in a dark room.

** Dante and Randal's boss (who was never named in the final cut, but a trimmed portion of the phone call has him named as Mr. Schneider). Turns out, he isn't coming in later, he instead ran off to ''Vermont''.

* TheStoner: Jay and Silent Bob.

** Jay is asked if Silent Bob's Russian cousin Olaf only speaks English - He responds "Nah, he speaks some English, but he can't all speak it good like we do".

* KarmaHoudini: The robber in the alternate ending who shoots and kills Dante. Because Randal disabled the security cameras prior to the Hockey game on the roof, the cameras would never catch the robbery on film. Also after the credits of that ending Kevin Smith (as himself, not Silent Bob) steals some cigarettes and runs off after noticing Dante was murdered.

* KarmaHoudini: Randal sells cigarettes to a little girl and Dante ends up getting saddled with the fine. And unlike everything else in the film, he doesn't even get properly [[WhatTheHellHero called out on it]].
** The robber in the alternate ending who shoots and kills Dante and because Randal disabled the security cameras prior to the Hockey game on the roof, the cameras would never catch the robbery on film. Also after the credits of that ending Kevin Smith (as himself, not Silent Bob) steals some cigarettes and runs off after noticing Dante was murdered.

->''"That lady's an asshole. Everybody that comes in here is way too uptight. This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."''

* BrilliantButLazy: Randal. Cunning, manipulative, acid-tongued, and very obviously whip-smart, yet content with his lot in life as a store clerk (and he doesn't even take ''that'' seriously).

** Doubles as SocietyMarchesOn: Iced coffee has more popular since the film was released thanks to Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.

*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he thinks that he's bringing in [[YouMonster an asshole who sold a back of cigarettes to a little girl.]]