History Trivia / Clerks

* HostilityOnTheSet: On the first episode of ''Jay and Silent Bob Get Old'', Kevin recounted a conflict between Jason Mewes and Thomas Burke, the actor who played the roofer. Having had no time to rehearse, Burke would mess up takes, while Mewes waited impatiently to shoot his scenes. Mewes ended up blowing up at Burke and, at Smith's suggestion, left the Quick Stop to wait for his turn at RST Video, leaving Burke livid from having been told off and made fun of by a teenager. After the shoot Smith and Burke went to RST Video where Mewes has watching a movie and smoking a joint, and when Mewes made another disparaging remark, Burke revealed his day job as a narcotics officer. Needless to say, this quickly prompted Mewes to change his tune. This episode was referenced in ''Clerks III'' with Burke reprising his role, [[spoiler:only instead of the roofer revealing himself as a narc, Jay gets chased out of the store by the roofer's angry and very protective son, played by Burke's real-life son]].

** Kevin himself is critical of the gum salesman scene since its clearly trying to say ''something'' about smoking, buts so unfocused that not even Kevin knows what he was going for.

** Scott Mosier also plays Willem Black and the angry customer who challenges Dante during the hockey game, leading to the film's only "special effect" where the two characters [[TalkingToHimself talk to each other]] via a cut.

* TalkingToHimself: During the hockey scene, Willem (Scott Mosier) returns to the store to ask if they're open before we cut to a shot of Dante and the angry customer challenging him to some one-on-one hockey (also Mosier, sans beard) yelling "No!" down to him. Kevin Smith jokes that that was the movie's only special effect.

** Smith's friend Walter Flanagan plays four minor characters, causing him to be known as "the Creator/LonChaney of ''Clerks''."

** Smith's friend Walt Flanagan plays four minor characters, causing him to be known as "the Creator/LonChaney of ''Clerks''."

* DisownedAdaptation: Not the movie itself, which is original, but the attempted live-action TV show adaptation. According to a deleted scene from ''Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith'', while unsettled by the concept of someone else being the "creator" of Clerks, Smith still expressed interest in contributing to the show, only to bolt when a story he pitched ended up relegated to a B-plot. He also was critical of the casting choices. His only impact on the final product was forcing showrunner Richard Day to rename Jay to Ray, since he owned the characters of Jay and Silent Bob (and Silent Bob was AdaptedOut).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR8COL2GGTw A pilot for an attempted live-action series]] was being filmed around the same time Smith was directing ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', without his involvement whatsoever. [[InNameOnly It had pretty much nothing to do with the film]] and was scrapped as soon as it was finished.

* TalkingToHimself: During the hockey scene, Willem (Scott Mosier) returns to the store to ask if they're open before we cut to a shot of Dante and the guy challenging him to some one-on-one hockey (also Mosier, sans beard) yelling "No!" down to him. Kevin Smith jokes that that was the movie's only special effect.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/KevinSmith not only created the role of Jay for Jason Mewes, but he based the character on him. And he still had to talk Mewes into accepting it.

** At least one scene had to be re-blocked due to Smith falling asleep between takes and the cast and crew deciding to let him get his rest.

* CreatorBacklash: For a time, Jeff Anderson got so much unwanted attention from the film, due to how recognizable his face and voice were, that he hated it and even refused to speak to Creator/KevinSmith for several years. It took some serious convincing to get him to reprise his role in later projects.

* InspirationForTheWork: Smith was inspired to try his hand at an indie film after watching ''Film/{{Slackers}}'', a similar NoBudget film by Creator/RichardLinklater about lower class people making their way in life. He actually read an article explaining the whole process in how the movie was made and found distribution, which he tried following to the letter in making this film.

** Scott Mosier also plays Willem and the angry customer who challenges Dante during the hockey game, leading to the film's only "special effect" where the two characters [[TalkingToHimself talk to each other]] via a cut.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Randal says "No time for love, Dr. Jones." to the man who forgot his keys. However, the actual line in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' is "Hey Dr. Jones, no time for love!"

** Creator/KevinSmith originally wrote the part of Randal for himself (which is why he has all the best lines), but was already juggling directorial duties and working a full-time day job, losing a lot of sleep in the process, and realized that he couldn't hope to also play a lead character. He gave himself the role of Silent Bob just so he could be on-camera ''somewhere.''

* DisownedAdaptation: Not the movie itself, which is original, but the attempted live-action TV show adaptation. According to a deleted scene from ''Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith'', while unsettled by the concept of someone else being the "creator" of Clerks, Smith still expressed interest in contributing to the show, only to bolt when a story he pitched ended up relegated to a B-plot. He also was critical of the casting choices. His only impact on the final product was forcing the showrunner to rename Jay to Ray, since he owned the characters of Jay and Silent Bob (and Silent Bob was AdaptedOut).

* DisownedAdaptation: Not the movie itself, which is original, but the attempted TV show. According to a deleted scene from ''Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith'', while unsettled by the concept of someone else being the "creator" of Clerks, Smith still expressed interest in contributing to the show, only to bolt when a story he pitched ended up relegated to a B-plot. He also was critical of the casting choices. His only impact on the final product was forcing the showrunner to rename Jay to Ray, since he owned the characters of Jay and Silent Bob (and Silent Bob was AdaptedOut).

* DisownedAdaptation: Not the movie itself, which is original, but the attempted TV show. According to a deleted scene from ''Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith'', while unsettled by the concept of someone else being the "creator" of Clerks, Kevin still expressed interest in contributing to the show, only to bolt when a story he pitched ended up relegated to a B-plot. He also was critical of the casting choices. His only impact on the final product was forcing the showrunner to rename Jay to Ray, since he owned the characters of Jay and Silent Bob (and Silent Bob was AdaptedOut).