The Flying Car (TV 2002)

Dante and Randal are back and trapped in Dante's car during a very bad traffic jam while talking about a "flying car" from The Jetsons.

Director:

Kevin Smith

Writer:

Kevin Smith

Stars:

Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jeff Lysiak

Cast

Credited cast:
Brian O'Halloran	...	Dante Hicks
Jeff Anderson	...	Randal Graves
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jeff Lysiak	...	Driver #1

Storyline

Kevin was commissioned to shoot the first ever short film aired on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The result was the return of Randal and Dante from 'Clerks' in this six-minute-long short film shown on The Tonight Show and downloadable at the View Askew web site (www.viewaskew.com). This short is a discussion of the absence of the "flying car" and the hypothetical question posed asking "what would you do to get a flying car?" Funny dialogue between characters leads up to a hilarious punch-line which ties it all together in a Kevin Smith trademark style.

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Plot Keywords:

flying car | traffic jam | three word title | title spoken by character

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Genres:

Comedy | Short

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Official Sites:

viewaskew.com [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 February 2002 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Middletown, New Jersey, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Big Dog Productions, NBC Studios, View Askew Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

7 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Before becoming a short film, the conversation between Dante and Randal in the traffic jam, took place in the original Clerks 2 script as they were making their way to a Soul Asylum concert.

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Goofs

A local anesthetic is specifically designed to not render the patient unconscious. A "local" which, as Randal describes, would knock Dante out, would in fact be a general anesthetic.

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Quotes

Randal: Listen to you. The guy is offering you the fire from Olympus that is the flying car and you trade him a bum foot?

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Connections

References The Jetsons (1962)

User Reviews

Kevin Smith has got WAY to much time on his hands.

Or he has just to many good ideas and no time to convert them into feature lenght scripts. so he makes shorts like this! and i love them! this short is basically just Clerks in a car. they're sitting there in traffic talking about how flying cars should have been invented already. it doesn't make much sense to the common viewer but to us fans of pop culture this is some of the funniest things we'll ever see. what's bothering me though is why didn't he include this in one of his movies in stead of making this little short? i mean i think it would have fitted into Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back somewhere. or maybe in Clerks 2? oh but it doesn't matter. this was great either way. it's just as his other movies so if you're a Kevin Smith fan then download it and watch it! it's a must!