Various title cards are used throughout the film (after the title card for the film’s title itself, “Clerks,” with the exception of Dante). While some are merely the names of the characters that the ensuing scenes introduce, many of them are long vocabulary words that Smith pulled from a dictionary. Though none of the vocabulary terms are defined in the film, the enhanced trivia track on the “Clerks X DVD” defines them as they appear.
On the DVD, the film is split into 18 scenes. Each scene is titled by a corresponding title card with the first being “Dante/Opening Credits” and the last being “End Credits”.
- Dante/Opening Credits
- Vilification – An act of making cruel and insulting statements about a person
- Jay and Silent Bob
- Randal
- Syntax – The arrangement of something in a methodical manner
- Vagary – An erratic or peculiar modification, act or thought
- Purgation – An act of getting rid of something disagreeable, flawed or unsatisfactory
- Malaise – An all-around feeling of illness or bad health without any exact cause
- Harbinger – A person or thing that predicts the future
- Perspicacity – The intensity of judgment or observation
- Paradigm – A typical example of something
- Whimsy – A thought that has no apparent explanation to exist
- Quandary – A condition of doubt or uncertainty as to what to do in a certain situation
- Lamentation – An act or expression of sadness or distress
- Juxtaposition – An act of comparing two things, especially in a way that suggests connection between them or to distinguish them
- Catharsis – An event or sensation of spiritual cleansing brought on by a powerful emotional experience
- Denouement – The part of the ending in which all questions are answered and everything is cleared up
- End Credits