A scene from Clerks 1994
Caitlin

[Randal is busy watching a transsexual adult film]

What are you watching?

Randal

Children's programming.

Customer

[regarding weird man examining dozens of eggs]

They call it "shell shock". It seems to only happen with guidance counselors. They use to make a big deal of it but they let just let it go now 'cuz they always pay for whatever they break and they never bother anybody.

Dante

Well, why guidance counselors?

Customer

Well, if your job was as meaningless as theirs, wouldn't you go crazy too?

Randal

Come to think of it, my guidance counselor was kinda worthless.

Randal

Embolism in a pool.

Dante

What an embarrassing way to die.

Randal

That's nothing compared to how my cousin Walter died.

Dante

How did he die?

Randal

He broke his neck.

Dante

That's embarrassing?

Randal

He broke his neck trying to suck his own dick.

Dante

[Dante is trying to pry a customer's fist out a Pringle's can]

Hold on to the counter and I'll pull.

Customer

Usually, I just turn the can upside down.

Dante

Maybe we oughta soap your hand up.

Customer

They oughta put a warning on these things, like they do with cigarettes.

Dante

Oh, I think it's coming!

Customer

[Dante pulls the can off the customer's fist]

Heh, thanks. I thought I was going to have to go to the hospital.

Dante

I'll throw this out as a precautionary measure.

Customer

It stings a little.

Dante

A little word of advice, my friend: Sometimes you gotta let those hard-to-reach chips go.

Customer

Thanks.

Dante

[Randal walks in]

You know that article's accurate? Caitlin really is getting married.

Randal

You know what I just watched?

Dante

Me pulling a can off some moron's fist?

Dante

I can't believe I'm gonna miss the **** game!

Randal

Well, at least we're stuck here together.

Jay

My grandma use to say "What's better? ****in' a good plate with nothin' on it..." no wait, I **** up, "What's a good plate with nothing on it?"

Dante

Meaning?

Jay

I don't know. She was senile and shit. She use to ****in' piss herself all the time..and shit herself. C'mon Silent Bob lets get the **** outta this ****in' jib joint, with this ****in' **** Dante. You ****-smoker.

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