Mooby’s Fun Meal box and contains: Clerks 2 Collector’s Edition, Mooby’s drink cup, Mooby’s Name Tag and Mooby’s Funployee Logo Visor. The back panel of the box with all of the games includes: a. aMAZEing fun (you guessed it, it’s a maze) b. Mooby’s sing-a-long c. Mooby’s Mega Word Search d. Connect the dots (connect the dots and it becomes a “leaf”) Writer-director Kevin Smith returns to the scene of his cult comedy classic Clerks to pick up his nothing-is-sacred style of humor…and push it right over the edge! Ten years after the original, slacker heroes Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) have become “funployees” at Mooby’s fast food. In addition to offending customers and debating anything and everything, their responsibilities now include ragging on their uber-nerd co-worker (Trevor Fehrman) and teasing their sexy manager (Rosario Dawson). But when Dante announces his plan to leave New Jersey, Randal plots a shocking and hysterical going-away party that will alter their lives forever. Featuring cameos by Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Wanda Sykes, and the triumphant return of Jay and Silent Bob.

…If it’s any consolation, I almost had a run-in with some criminal activity as well.

On our way to the car after the event, Jen, Chay and I picked up a tail: two junkie-looking fucks who took an interest in our turn into the dark alley masquerading as the lot where we were parked. With one of the dudes hanging back a bit as lookout, the other guy picked up his pace heading toward us, while at the opposite end of the alley, two other guys started making their way toward our vehicle as well. I’m generally not the paranoid type, but this definitely felt like a turkey shoot. As I hurried the ladies to the car, I pressed the alarm button on my keychain, which starts the repeated honking and flashing lights cycle… and calls a great deal of attention to the vehicle. This startled our predators enough to slow their pace, and we piled into the car, as the dudes at the other end of the alley started yelling “What the fuck?!” – either at us or the two dudes behind us who’d now stopped cold. Doors slammed and locked, I did a General Lee out of that lot, rocketing by a pair of ratty looking fuckers who offered us pretty pissed (and disappointed) expressions.

Y’know how, from time to time, you get that “Something bad’s about to happen here” feeling? Like there’s some kind of buried instinct that starts screaming at you in moments of possible impending peril? This was most definitely one of those times. No weapons were brandished, mind you; but I got the distinct impression that our trio was a cunt-hair away from being introduced to the business-end of something… not very nice. For years, I always wondered why Ford included that forced alarm button on the keys to the Expedition; like, who’d want to set their car alarm off on purpose? Now I get it.

If you’re heading over to the event this evening, please make sure you park in a very well-lit area. Hollywood at night is about as dangerous as any other city – which means that if you stay on the road and off the moors, you should be fine. But just the same, since the event will, more than likely, get out late, I’d suggest staying alert on your way back to your car/hotel. Never forget that there are some desperate (or just flat-out evil) people in the world, and they’re always looking for a pigeon/easy mark.

And, yes: I can appreciate the utter irony in that last sentence, considering I was on my way home from an event where I was charging fifty bucks to sit around and watch some DVD extras.

What was “Hating Hal” about? Is it true that it was about a comic book guy who was to be played by Jason Lee? Has Kevin ever thought about trying to get it going again?

Kevin says: “I have, actually. Lately, I’ve been thinking of pitching it to another network. This was something Jason Lee and I developed, so I’d have to get his okay on it as well, but it’s not something he’d want to act in anymore. There was a tiny window post ‘Rats’ and pre-‘Amy’ when Lee was okay with the idea of doing a tv show. That window has long-since closed, and with good reason: Carsey/Werner, the folks who asked us to do a show, didn’t react very favorably to the show we wanted to do, and Lee reacted even less favorably to the shows they presented him with.”

Incidentally, ‘Hating Hal’ wasn’t what we worked on. We presented ‘Hiatus’, about a small-town guy who went to Hollywood to become and actor, wound up doing a lot or porn, then opted to leave the life behind and go back home to open a comic book store. The notion behind ‘Hating Hal’ (which was all mine) was something that was going to be incorporated into ‘Clerks 2′.

“Director Kevin Smith described Jesus as a black man in his 1999 film “Dogma,” with Chris Rock playing a black apostle whose story was erased from biblical canon by the church.”