Imagine if the writers if one of those insipid carbon-copy Disney sitcoms were given the idea of "Clerks" to flesh out into a half-hour comedy show without being allowed to see the actual movie. Imagine they were only given a list of character names, brief (and heavily cleaned up) descriptions of their personalities, and a few plot points to focus on.
Now imagine that the script they eventually came up with was sent through a machine called the Bland-O-Matic 2000 before given to a director with no sense of humor.
Can you picture it? Probably not, because it's way worse than that.
Everything that made "Clerks" what it was has been stripped out resulting in yet another cookie-cutter sitcom that just happens to share the same name as the Kevin Smith movie.
No Quick-Stop. No Jay and Silent Bob, no drug references (Though there are one or two instances of someone saying the word "drunk"), and basically no sleaze. It's all been Disneyed to the point of being unrecognizable. If you were to change the characters names you would never even know it wasn't just some other ultra-formulaic Disney sitcom with the exact same tired jokes as every other show they've ever produced.
You can find this thing on YouTube, but I strongly advise you not to try to get through it in one sitting. Yes, it's that bad.
If I seem angry about this it's because I am, a little. I loved the movie when it first came out and still do to this day. It was bad enough what ABC did to the "Clerks" animated series, but this thing feels like a line was crossed.
Whatever your opinion of the movie "Clerks", whether you loved it or hated it, one thing we can all agree on was that this show was BAD!
Now imagine that the script they eventually came up with was sent through a machine called the Bland-O-Matic 2000 before given to a director with no sense of humor.
Can you picture it? Probably not, because it's way worse than that.
Everything that made "Clerks" what it was has been stripped out resulting in yet another cookie-cutter sitcom that just happens to share the same name as the Kevin Smith movie.
No Quick-Stop. No Jay and Silent Bob, no drug references (Though there are one or two instances of someone saying the word "drunk"), and basically no sleaze. It's all been Disneyed to the point of being unrecognizable. If you were to change the characters names you would never even know it wasn't just some other ultra-formulaic Disney sitcom with the exact same tired jokes as every other show they've ever produced.
You can find this thing on YouTube, but I strongly advise you not to try to get through it in one sitting. Yes, it's that bad.
If I seem angry about this it's because I am, a little. I loved the movie when it first came out and still do to this day. It was bad enough what ABC did to the "Clerks" animated series, but this thing feels like a line was crossed.
Whatever your opinion of the movie "Clerks", whether you loved it or hated it, one thing we can all agree on was that this show was BAD!