Randal Graves

Randal Graves is a fictional character from the movie and cartoon Clerks., created by Kevin Smith. He works at the RST video store, which neighbours the Quick Stop Convenience Store. Randal is portrayed (in the film) and voiced (in the cartoon) by Jeff Anderson.

In the film, Randal is a prime example of the typical slacker. He works in a dead end job, has no respect for the customers, and is content with his situation. He shows up to work late every day and then closes the store periodically throughout the day so he can chat with his buddy Dante Hicks. Unlike Dante, Randal believes that his behavior dictates title (unlike Dante, who thinks the other way around) and thus, does what he pleases. He's been known to order porn movies through RST video in front of customers, spit in people's faces, and intrude on private conversations about sex.

His life is made up of three simple elements: Movies, video games, and porn. He often quotes movies in his daily dialogue and goes to other video stores to rent pornography. In the animated series, he is constantly carrying a pornographic magazine with him. His love life is non-existent. Many of his former girlfriends became fed up with men and became lesbians.

Trivia

 * Randal's behavior is very contradictory. He works in a video store, yet rents movies elsewhere. He hates people, yet loves social gatherings. (Film)


 * Favorite movie is Return of the Jedi. (Film)


 * Didn't like Empire Strikes Back, but was uncomfortable with Return of the Jedi because he felt innocent independent contractors were killed when the second Death Star was destroyed by the Rebels while still under construction. A real roofing contractor overheard and told him that contractors should know what they're getting into, and it was their own fault for working on the Death Star. (Film)


 * Gave up sex with a former classmate to play arcade game Pharaoh. He became the greatest player ever to live, and was recruited by a secret group much like in the movie The Last Starfighter. However, instead of being a starship fighter, Randal had to build pyramids by hand. (Cartoon)


 * Was first introduced to a porno magazine when he owned a lemonade stand and a diabetic customer died on a sugar overload. His porno magazine fell out of one of his bags. (Cartoon)


 * Though he uses homophobic language, he (accidentally) married two guys in one year, one of them being Dante. (Cartoon)


 * Movies rule Randal's opinions and thoughts. When Leonardo Leonardo became sick from eating bad burritos, Randal thought it was the deadly Motaba virus from a monkey in town and called a quarantine on the strip of shops because he had seen Outbreak. When he was a child, he was worried sharks were going to attack him from inside his toilet after seeing Jaws. (Cartoon)


 * Often wears a Soviet Union hockey jersey. (Film)