When I was 15 and saw Clerks for the first time on the television in Mike Papish's living room, I thought it was the funniest damn movie that I'd ever seen.

When I was 22, I watched Clerks again for the first time since I was in high school, and I realized--hey, wait a second, this movie's hardly funny at all.

And thus, the ViewAskewniverse died.

I feel bad for Kevin Smith, because despite his best efforts to grow up and move on, he's going to be making sequels he hates to the movie that got him started until the day Jason Mewes is the first person to ever die from a marijuana overdose, and there's absolutely nothing he can do about it.