Clerks: The Animated Series

Clerks: The Animated Series
Title card featuring the four main characters. Top from the left: Dante Hicks, Randal Graves, bottom from the left: Jay, and Silent Bob.
Also known asClerks
GenreComedy
Created byKevin Smith
Based onClerks
by Kevin Smith
Developed byDavid Mandel
Scott Mosier
Kevin Smith
Voices ofJeff Anderson
Jason Mewes
Brian O'Halloran
Kevin Smith
ComposerJames L. Venable
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producersBob Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein
Billy Campbell
David Mandel
Scott Mosier
Kevin Smith
Running time22 minutes
Production companiesMiramax Television
View Askew Productions
Woltz International Pictures Corporation
Touchstone Television
Walt Disney Television Animation
Original release
NetworkABC (2000)
Comedy Central (2002)
ReleaseMay 31, 2000 (2000-05-31) –
December 14, 2002 (2002-12-14)
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Clerks (retronym: Clerks: The Animated Series) is an American adult animated sitcom created by Kevin Smith for ABC. Based on Smith's 1994 comedy film of the same name,[1] it was developed for television by Smith, Smith's producing partner Scott Mosier and former Seinfeld writer David Mandel with character designs by Stephen Silver, known for character designs in Disney Channel's Kim Possible and Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom. It is the first television show to be set in Smith's View Askewniverse. It is Disney’s second adult animated television series after The PJs.

Six episodes of the show were produced; only two episodes aired before the show was cancelled by ABC, with the remaining episodes burnt off at Comedy Central.[2]

  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 202–203. ISBN 978-1476665993.