maid from the first movie still going through all the gallons. Cast Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves Rosario Dawson as Becky Scott Trevor Fehrman as Elias Grover Jennifer Schwalbach as Emma Bunting Jason Mewes as Jay Kevin Smith as Silent Bob Jason Lee as Lance Dowds Zak Knutson as Sexy Stud Wanda Sykes as Angry customer Earthquake as Angry customer's husband Ethan Suplee as Weed customer Ben Affleck as Gawking customer Kevin Weisman as Lord of the Rings geek Scott Mosier as Concerned Father Walt Flanagan as Quick Stop Customer Production Development In 1999, the original title was slated to be Clerks 2: Hardly Clerkin (cf. Jerry Lewis's Hardly Working), as seen in the credits of Dogma. Smith later modified the title to The Passion of the Clerks, lampooning the title of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. According to the DVD documentary, the title was changed to simply Clerks II, due to negative reaction to the "Passion" title. The film was shot from September to November 2005. It was originally scheduled for a 2005 release, and then a January 2006 release, but the production was pushed back due to other projects and Kevin Smith's involvement in the romantic comedy Catch and Release. Smith released production diaries on the Clerks II website (see links below). They chronicle the entire making of the film from the first rehearsals all the way through to the final release. Some of these web diaries are also available on the two-disc DVD of the film. Smith released a Web-only teaser trailer on the Clerks II website on January 9, 2006, and a web-only trailer on April 2, 2006. Smith also released several shorts featuring action figures from his previous films to promote the film. Before the release of the film, Smith had mentioned releasing an MP3 file commentary to be downloaded and listened to in movie theaters via iPod. Ultimately, theater owners and exhibitors objected, and the plan was scrapped. The abandoned commentary, featuring Smith, Scott Mosier and Jeff Anderson, is included on the DVD. The bookend Quick Stop scenes are in black and white (to simulate the original visual style of Clerks), while the rest of the film is in color. Smith has said that much of the film's color was desaturated almost to the point where the film had a similar texture to the first film. The