Maybe you're a little late, maybe you're a hurricane.

go on the internet right now and talk about the main characters of Clerks (1994) being gay with each other

i need to proudly embrace my identity as a loser slacker boy

it's something i feel like the series really lost in later entries but they're best friends and randal is literally nice to him sometimes. like of course i appreciate what later entries do for the randante cause and of course i'm not dissing later entries outright (except you, clerks 3, you can choke) but imo dante and randal feel more forced together by circumstance in those ones but in clerks 1 randal is literally ditching work just to talk to dante about random bullshit. and they apparently talk on the phone late at night, given how randal's annoyed at him not picking up last night. they're both protective of each other, dante showing it more physically (getting in front of randal when a fight is about to start) and randal showing it more emotionally ("break his heart again this time, and i'll kill ya. nothing personal"). and there's so many small moments hinting at how well they know and trust each other. also the entire final scene. GRRRR!!! THEY'RE LITERALLY FRIENDS I LOVE THEIR FRIENDSHIP IN CLERKS 1 A LOT. they should kiss gay style

clerks 1 randante is my faaavorite because well fav movie in the series and also i love the vibes of it and i like that randal is much less of an asshole (less of an asshole to dante in particular, i mean) in clerks 1 and i like the idea of randante working their shit out early in the series instead of WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME!!!! but mostly i like it for vibes and aesthetics reasons that i cannot quite explain. something cozy about it