S16 Ep850: Clerks (1994, W❤️M) [PREVIEW CLIP]
We Hate Movies
WHM Entertainment
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
“It’s kind of a dirty movie…I was trying to imagine Travis Bickle taking a date to this” - Eric
On this month’s patron-requested We ❤️ Movies, we’re chatting about a real foundational flick for the four of us, Kevin Smith’s Clerks! How many VHS tapes did Chris Cabin’s house go through with this movie? How uncomfortable is it to say “View Askew-niverse” out loud? How hysterical is that funeral parlor cut? Could we bring Clerks to Broadway as a musical? And was the age of 11 too young for Steve to have seen this movie for the first time? PLUS: Michael Caine explains snowballing!
Clerks stars Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa Spoonauer, Jason Mewes, Scott Mosier, and Kevin Smith as Silent Bob; directed by Kevin Smith.
Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
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| 0:00.0 | Uh, yeah, this is interesting. |
| 0:15.7 | We were just saying seconds ago off the air, you know, this is one of those things like, |
| 0:19.6 | how does one go through talking about a movie like this? That is indeed, you know, this is one of those things like, how does one go through talking |
| 0:21.3 | about a movie like this? That is indeed, you know, 97% dialogue. And I think, like we said, |
| 0:27.5 | the way to do it is like kind of just talk about it, maybe not go through a piecemeal, |
| 0:32.0 | but also just, you know, the ins and outs of Kev Smith's career, the fact that like we do this |
| 0:37.1 | because he was doing it in |
| 0:38.5 | 2007 you know all that all that kind of stuff there's plenty of plot here too to be uh played with |
| 0:45.0 | like i that's you know the the problems with comedies is that you are just drawn to yes you are drawn to |
| 0:49.9 | being like that's funny that's funny that's funny and just pointing out the jokes but there's if you |
| 0:53.7 | stick to the plot of them they're always crazy that's the, that's funny, that's funny, and just pointing out the jokes. But there's, if you stick to the plot of them, they're always crazy. |
| 0:56.2 | That's the great thing about comedies is that they usually are insane. |
| 1:00.0 | For some, what they actually decide to make the story up with this one, this one is the goings-on of a video rental store and a, I guess, the parking lot and the quick stop in a Jersey suburb. |
| 1:15.4 | It's kind of a dirty movie with all these, you know, I'm just picturing when I was watching it |
| 1:20.4 | this afternoon. I haven't seen it in a while. I was thinking about like Travis Bickle trying to take |
| 1:24.5 | a date to this. I mean, this is a dirty movie. These references. |
| 1:28.9 | It is. And I saw this movie when I was, I just looked it up because I definitely saw it. |
| 1:33.9 | Like, I rented it immediately when it was out because like it just was like the funniest movie of the year. |
| 1:39.3 | And no one was watching when I was watching. I was 11 years old when I saw this movie. |
| 1:43.3 | That's fucking crazy. I didn't see this until high school. It kind of warped my brain. Like literally like this is like |
| 1:49.6 | I watched this movie as an 11 year old kid almost 12. Wow. That's awesome. And like it ended. And then I just, |
| 1:58.0 | I've never done this before or since, rewound it and watched it again. |
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