Looking to feed off the success of Kevin Smith's indie sensation Clerks, a pilot was ordered in the mid-'90s for a more sanitized TV show featuring the same main characters (Dante and Randal), a mini-mart setting and a laugh track. The show was produced without the involvement of Smith -- a fact that becomes more evident after you realize Jay and Silent Bob are nowhere to be found in this version -- and the humor, while similar to the movie at times (like how Randal continues to harass customers), is way too tame to appeal to hard-core fans of the film.

Check out the full pilot below.

Eventually Smith took hold of his brand and produced his own offshoots of Clerks, including a comic shop called Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash, as well as comic books, animated shows and even a cartoon movie. There was also a sequel to Clerks, Clerks II, and Smith is now at work on a third Clerks movie, Clerks III, due out sometime next year.

And that's not mentioning the other films that feature Jay & Silent Bob as characters (Mallrats, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back), which in many ways makes Smith one of the first to play around with his own cinematic universe long before Marvel Studios perfected that game. 

Funnily enough, now is probably the best time for a Clerks TV show. It took a couple of decades, but with the rise of Netflix, Amazon Prime and cable networks like FX and AMC, a more rough-around-the-edges Clerks TV show might actually work.

Our only request: Keep it set it in 1994.