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• When the studio bought the series, they apparently did not realize that the characters of Jay and Silent Bob were drug dealers. When they were informed, studio executives insisted that this be changed, and the two became firecracker dealers for the cartoon.
  
  
• The second aired episode is a parody of clip show episodes, meant to reflect back on the first episode that was produced. The first episode never aired, so the entire episode was filled with flashbacks to an unaired episode.
  
  
• The sixth episode they had written was prophetically titled "the last episode ever". However they didn't even get to the sixth show.
  
  
• Canceled after only two episodes aired.
  
  
• The aired episodes were the fourth then second in that order.
  
  
• The original voice for Leonardo Leonardo was going to be played by Alan Rickman, but was replaced by Alec Baldwin courtesy of ABC.
  
  
• In episode five, the yearbook features a picture of Randal holding a gun to another student's head. The caption underneath reads "best hall monitor". It's a dark reference to the infamous Vietnam photo from 1968 entitled "Execution of Vietcong Prisoner", The Clerks teams were only allowed to use this by parodying said photo - and the "best hall monitor" caption is the result.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Kevin Smith] [37] At 37 seconds into the DVD Main Menu, a dog takes a leak on Silent Bob's shoe. This is a reference to his favorite number.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Kevin Smith] [37] In the lost pilot episode, Randal is charging an old lady for her groceries and the total comes to 37 cents, a reference to his cult classic and basis for the series, Clerks. (1994).
  
  
• In the beginning of the final episode, where Dante appears in the nude covered by a mosaic, the animation team actually drew Dante anatomically correct and covered it with a mosaic.
  
  
• In the circus episode, the twins are characters spoofed from the movie Freaks (1932).
  
  
• The ending to Episode 6 (The Last Episode Ever) is a parody of the Looney Tune cartoon, Duck Amuck (1953).
  
  
• At the start of Episode 3, Randal and Dante read "letters from viewers." The first letter is signed Jennifer Schwalbach, a reference to Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, the wife of series creator Kevin Smith.
  
  
• In the final episode, we see one of the writers holding a book called "How to Write Cartoons, by Seth McFarlane", a reference to Seth MacFarlane, creator of the show's more successful rival cartoon series "Family Guy" (1999).
  
  
• In the unaired last episode ever, Dante worries that ABC will cancel them. Randal insists that it couldn't happen and, to prove his point, holds up a trade paper declaring, "ABC loves Clerks," underneath this it reads, "Also Sports Night," another acclaimed series cancelled that year.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Kevin Smith] [jaws] Twice in episode 3, when the clerks were talking about the virus outbreak, Randal compares it to Jaws, "There's water in the toilet. Sharks swim in water. I rest my case." Again later, they mention "Jaws".
  
  
• Ben Affleck was going to voice a reoccurring character that claimed he was the King of Canada. The series was canceled before this could happen.
  
  

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