While Wooderson was once a prominent football player, he decided to skip his college education to work for the city and put a little money in his pocket to support his slacker lifestyle. Wooderson goes on burn runs, shoots pool, hits on girls half his age, and arranges “beer busts” at the famed hangout, the moon tower. And why wouldn’t he? The seniors of his high school, set in the early '70s, treat Wooderson like some sort of partying god. Wooderson is in his mid-twenties, but that doesn’t keep him from hangin’ out with high school kids to relive his glory days.

This widely beloved slacker from Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused is a dimwitted, pot-totting partier of epic proportions. Yes they do, yes they do.”Īlright, alright, alright. “That’s what I love about these high school girls, man.

How does he spend his reward? By hiring Val Halen to play at his birthday party. In an epilogue to the Cameron Crowe-written film it’s revealed that Jeff is rewarded a hefty sum of money after saving Brooke Shields from drowning. Still, none of it seems to bother Spicoli or deter him from his slacking lifestyle. Hand ridicules Jeff by ripping up his school schedule and even makes a surprise visit to Spicoli’s house to teach him a thing or two about the American Revolution. Hand, the history teacher that makes an example of the high school degenerate. His hijinks finally catch up to him when he meets Mr. Spicoli spends his afternoons getting high in his buddy’s van, taking off his shirt in burger joints, and smashing up the school’s star athlete’s car. He was hated by his teachers, but that didn’t keep audiences from loving this character played so effortlessly by a young Sean Penn. Meet Jeff Spicoli, a surfer dude stoner who can’t show up on time for class to save his life. Shaun repays the deed by keeping the zombified Ed in his wood shed with his beloved video games. At the end of the day though, Ed proves to be a good friend by sacrificing himself for Shaun and his girlfriend Liz. He does help his friends make their way to their favorite pub/safe haven, the Winchester, but he still can’t stop playing on his phone or help himself from taking joyrides in Shaun’s stepfather’s car. While Shaun’s life slowly goes down the tubes, Ed is only concerned if his buddy will go to the local quickie mart to pick up an ice cream for him.īut does Ed step up to the plate by the time the zombie apocalypse shows up? Well, sort of. His flatmate Shaun is unmotivated as well, but looks like a super productive person in comparison to Ed. Ed is a lazy oaf that sits on the couch all day playing video games while selling a bit of weed on the side to support his freeloader lifestyle. Nick Frost puts in a slacker performance for the ages with his character Ed in Shaun of the Dead. Kevin Smith has stated Clerks 3 is in the works, and if history has taught us anything, we'll still find Randal with his feet up on the desk taking a much deserved break for all of us.

Randal still has a tough time doing actual work though, and frequently goofs off making fun of employees and customers for liking Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. In the sequel to Clerks, both Randal and Dante have graduated from being convenience store clerks to fast food operators. He rambles on about Star Wars, bubblegum, hockey, and whatever else helps to make the time pass. Randal, bored with his position and life in general, frequently makes his way over to the Quick Stop to shoot the breeze with Dante.

In Kevin Smith’s debut movie, Clerks, Randal runs the desk in a video rental store next door to a Quick Stop run by his buddy Dante. If you looked up the word “lazy” in the dictionary you would most likely see a picture of Randal sitting behind a counter eating potato chips. Anti-authority, anti-work and anti-Lord of the Rings, Randal is the slacker who does the bare minimum in order to get by.

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