10 Films You Must Never Watch With Your Parents

4. Clerks II

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The first Clerks is something you'd not really watch with your parents; on top of the accidental necrophilia, the whole concept of twenty-somethings spending their time musing on pop culture minutiae isn't the best way to prove maturity. Set a decade later, Clerks II certainly has that element, but the big reason to keep it away from mom and pop is something much more risqué.

As a leaving surprise for Dante, who is about to get out of his minimum wage purgatory, Randal books a donkey show. Originating in Tijuana, the concept is, put as delicately as possible, a bestiality show featuring a donkey and a woman. Bordering on urban legend, it became a prominent comedy touchstone in the mid-naughties, with Clerks II certainly being the most extreme. It thankfully gets a rightful payoff (following Dante thinking the smoke machine was a real fire the police and fire service turn up), but the inclusion is bad enough without having to watch it with parents.

Many critics found the scene distasteful, with Joel Siegel storming out of the press screening in disgust

The Worst Bit: The attempt to play the whole scene as one jokey misunderstanding is in incredible bad taste and rounds off a terribly awkward ten minutes.

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