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The Flying Car
The Flying Car
Directed by	Kevin Smith
Written by	Kevin Smith
Produced by	Kevin Smith; Scott Mosier
Starring	Brian O'Halloran; Jeff Anderson
Edited by	Scott Mosier; Kevin Smith
Distributed by	The Tonight Show
Release date	February 27, 2002;
Running time	6 minutes
Budget	$15,000

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The Flying Car is a 2002 short film written and directed by Kevin Smith.^[1] It stars Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson as the View Askewniverse characters Dante Hicks and Randal Graves, who were introduced in Clerks.

The short film was first commissioned by the Ford Motor Company as an inspirational film for its engineers at a yearly meeting, but when presented with Smith's final script, the company objected to the dialogue and dropped the project.^[2] Jay Leno later offered to have Smith go ahead with filming for airing on The Tonight Show and it premiered there on February 27, 2002.^[3] It also appears on the 10th anniversary Clerks X DVD. The DVD cut is remastered and features an introduction by Kevin Smith.

Plot

While Dante and Randal are stuck in a traffic jam, Randal laments that flying cars, as depicted in The Jetsons, do not exist. He asks Dante what he would hypothetically sacrifice in exchange for ownership of a flying car and its related intellectual property. Randal suggests increasingly ridiculous scenarios, all the while cajoling Dante for selfishly dooming humanity by withholding the car and its inspiration from the masses if he refuses. Dante ultimately agrees to let the car's German inventor cut his foot off with a hacksaw, and to not rescind the deal despite knowing that the inventor and his friends will molest him while he is under anesthesia. Randal expresses disgust that Dante would "do it with a bunch of guys just to get a car".

Cast

Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks
Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves

References

^ The Flying Car, retrieved 2019-12-06
^ Ryan, Danielle (7 December 2022). "Kevin Smith's Clerks Short Film The Flying Car Was Written For The Ford Motor Company [Exclusive]". /Film. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ Savlov, Marc (July 21, 2006). "A Convenient Truth". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2019-12-06.

External links

The Flying Car
The Flying Car at IMDb
The Flying Car at View Askew's Web site; includes the film in QuickTime, RealVideo and Windows Media formats
Transcript
The Flying Car on Kevin Smith's YouTube channel

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[1] The Flying Car, retrieved 2019-12-06

[2] Ryan, Danielle (7 December 2022). "Kevin Smith's Clerks Short Film The Flying Car Was Written For The Ford Motor Company [Exclusive]". /Film. Retrieved 23 April 2023.

[3] Savlov, Marc (July 21, 2006). "A Convenient Truth". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2019-12-06.

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 ==Plot==
-While stuck in a traffic jam, Dante and Randal have another philosophical, pop culture-laden conversation — this one sparked when Randal asks Dante what he would [[Hypothesis|hypothetically]] sacrifice in exchange for marketing rights to a [[Flying car (fiction)|flying car]] from ''[[The Jetsons]].'' The hypothetical scenarios Randal continues to suggest grow increasingly ridiculous, culminating in Dante agreeing to have his foot cut off with a hacksaw, get knocked out, and get molested by the German inventor and his friends in exchange for the flying car. Randal expresses disgust that Dante would "do it with a bunch of guys just to get a car".
+While Dante and Randal are stuck in a traffic jam, Randal laments that [[Flying car (fiction)|flying cars]], as depicted in ''[[The Jetsons]]'', do not exist. He asks Dante what he would [[Hypothesis|hypothetically]] sacrifice in exchange for ownership of a flying car and its related [[intellectual property]]. Randal suggests increasingly ridiculous scenarios, all the while cajoling Dante for selfishly dooming humanity by withholding the car and its inspiration from the masses if he refuses. Dante ultimately agrees to let the car's German inventor cut his foot off with a hacksaw, and to not rescind the deal despite knowing that the inventor and his friends will molest him while he is under [[anesthesia]].  Randal expresses disgust that Dante would "do it with a bunch of guys just to get a car".
 ==Cast==