Blank Check — Patreon: OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022)

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Ben Hosley (producer), Marie Bardi (social media).

Subject films: Old Dogs (2009).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy crosstalk; most lines during the film are short riffs that can't be reliably attributed, so speaker confidences are low except for Griffin's exposition. No miniseries is named for this episode (the 'director mini series' mention at 1:54:27 refers to the box office quiz answer, Zemeckis), and the first ~90 seconds are a cinema-industry advertisement, not episode content.

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Films that came up

passing (13)

Toy Story · Star Wars: Detours · Friday the 13th (parts 1-3) · Casino · Batman (the Joker) · Crash · You, Me and Dupree · Drag Me to Hell · Josie and the Pussycats · Road Trip · Ninja Assassin · Planet 51 · Precious

subject (1)

Old Dogs

anecdote (5)

Starman · Van Wilder · Love of the Game · American Gigolo · Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

compared (21)

Wild Hogs · The Proposal · Erin Brockovich · Gremlins · Jerry Maguire · Zero Dark Thirty · Chariots of Fire · Moonrise Kingdom · Spider-Man 3 · Being John Malkovich · Carlito's Way · Old Yeller · Jurassic Park · The Twilight Saga: New Moon · The Blind Side · 2012 · The Princess and the Frog · A Christmas Carol · The Room · Neil Breen movies · Manos: The Hands of Fate

programming (5)

Tangled · Frozen · Frozen 2 · Ralph Breaks the Internet · Moana

dismissed (1)

The Polar Express

Claims (50)

  1. career (career): Wild Hogs → Old Dogs. Wild Hogs was a huge 2007 hit, which is how Becker came to have the freedom to make Old Dogs.
    “Becker has what you could perhaps call a blank check to make whatever crazy passion projects he wants.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:10:28 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Wild Hogs → Old Dogs. Old Dogs reteams Becker with Travolta after Wild Hogs.
    “He signs on to do this movie, re teams with Travolta, bring some new people in.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:10:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Old Dogs → Dick Cook. Old Dogs came out amid a regime change at Disney after Cook left, shifting live action toward remakes.
    “And it came out, and there was a regime change at Disney.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:11:29 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Old Dogs → The Proposal. Old Dogs came out the same year as the hit The Proposal, and Disney declined a sequel when the writers pitched one.
    “The same year as the proposal, which is a massive hit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:11:57 · Griffin Newman (0.75 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Old Dogs → The Proposal. Disney turned down a Proposal sequel with the same stars.
    “And the writers come to them and go, we have Bullock and Reynolds on board to do a sequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:11:59 · Griffin Newman (0.75 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): Old Dogs → Wild Hogs. Disney also passed on a Wild Hogs sequel after Old Dogs.
    “They were in development on wild hogs too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. industry (industry): Old Dogs → Walt Disney Pictures. Speaker claims the film's failure killed off a whole category of live-action Disney films.
    “This movie like killed an entire, like, realm of possible films that Disney could make.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Walt Becker → Van Wilder. Becker's pre-family-film background is Van Wilder (transcribed Vale Wilder), the basis of a rumor Old Dogs was shot R-rated.
    “because that's like Walt Becker's background from Vale Wilder before he became a family movie guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:22 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Bryan Adams → Toy Story. The Bryan Adams song sounds to a host like the Toy Story song.
    “He's just doing the Toy Story song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. career (career): John Travolta → Robin Williams. Both came out of 1970s sitcoms and rose to be movie stars, hence the Old Dogs pairing.
    “Coming out of sitcoms in the 70s and then ascending to become major movie stars and everything.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:14:47 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  11. people (people): Kelly Preston → John Travolta. Preston, Travolta's real wife, plays Robin Williams' love interest, and Travolta's real daughter plays her daughter.
    “Kelly Preston, uh, famously, uh, uh, wife of John Travolta, absolutely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:21:08 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. career (career): Kelly Preston → Love of the Game. The hosts previously covered Love of the Game and were rude about Kelly Preston there.
    “I recently kind of were mean about her on the 4th of love of the game episode.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:21:18 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. career (career): Seth Green → Star Wars: Detours. Seth Green's 39-episode Star Wars Detours sat on a shelf.
    “He produced 39 episodes of Star Wars detours, was sat on a shelf.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:23:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Erin Brockovich. Kelly Preston's eco-protester plot is likened to Erin Brockovich (transcribed Aaron).
    “Okay, so she's, like, an Aaron Brockovich?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:32:48 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Safdie brothers films. Speaker says the single-day chaos feels like the Safdie Brothers (transcribed Safty).
    “So this movie has like Safty Brothers energy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:40:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Gremlins. Leaving the kids with a list of rules they will break is likened to Gremlins.
    “This is like Gremlin.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Casino. Joke about the kids never having seen Casino, which a speaker calls the most grown-up movie.
    “Casino is kind of the most grown up movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:43:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Jerry Maguire. The sports-marketing partners are likened to Jerry Maguire.
    “So they're Jerry Maguires?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:53:46 · Marie Bardi (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Zero Dark Thirty. Host wishes the film had Zero Dark Thirty style day-count title cards.
    “Like Zero Dark Third style.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:54:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. career (career): Matt Dillon → Crash. Dillon was four years past Crash and fresh off You, Me and Dupree.
    “What, crashes '05?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:57:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. career (career): Matt Dillon → You, Me and Dupree. Dillon was running hot off You, Me and Dupree when he took the part.
    “He's running hot off of you, me and Dupree?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:57:59 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  22. verdict (verdict): Justin Long → Old Dogs. Uncredited Long is called the best performance in the film.
    “Now, in uncredited Justin Long, I would argue is the best performance in this film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:58:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  23. career (career): Justin Long → Drag Me to Hell. Long was in Drag Me to Hell the same year as Old Dogs.
    “This is right around Drag Me to Hell, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:59:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. theme (theme): Old Dogs → American Gigolo. A podcast the speaker heard said Travolta turned down American Gigolo as too gay, tied to the film's homoerotic subtext.
    “Travolta didn't want to do American Gigolo because it was too gay.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:01:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Chariots of Fire. The pioneer-weekend games use the Chariots of Fire theme as a gag for audiences who know it.
    “Oh, we got the Chariots of Fire theme song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:01:49 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (lineage): Old Dogs → Moonrise Kingdom. A host jokes that Moonrise Kingdom, three years later, is what made scouts cool, after the Old Dogs scout weekend.
    “So you're saying Moonrise Kingdom made scouts cooling?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:04:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. lineage (lineage): Wes Anderson → Francois Truffaut. Speaker lists Truffaut among the director's (transcribed Western's) biggest influences while joking about Moonrise Kingdom.
    “Francois Truffaut.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:04:11 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  28. people (people): Robin Williams → John Travolta. The pair were Mork and Barbarino and were long asked when they would make a movie together.
    “No, no, it was it was Mork and Barbarino.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:06:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. people (people): John Travolta → Robin Williams. Compared to Spielberg and Cruise: fans waited decades for them to team up.
    “It was like Spielberg and Cruz.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:06:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. industry (industry): Old Dogs → The Clash. A speaker wonders what the pitch call was to license a Clash song for Old Dogs.
    “What do you think the phone call was like to license that song from the Clash?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:07:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. verdict (verdict): Robin Williams → John Travolta. One speaker says Williams is far funnier than Travolta in the film.
    “Williams is like 10 times funnier than Travolta in this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:08:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  32. craft (craft): John Travolta → Spider-Man 3. Travolta's drugged, lopsided face is likened to Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3.
    “Travolta's got, like, Topher Gray Spider Man 3 face.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:12:04 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  33. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Gaspar Noe. A speaker says the drug-reaction sequence has Gaspar Noe style imagery.
    “And it has Gaspar Noay-esque imagery.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:12:30 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. craft (craft): Walt Becker → Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. Becker's cornerstone take: his Alvin film has a John Waters cameo, evidence of knowing transgression.
    “So this is the cornerstone of my Walt Becker take is there's a moment in Alvin the Chipmunks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:12:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. people (people): Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip → John Waters. In the Alvin film Alvin sneaks into first class beside John Waters.
    “And the other person occupying the seat next to him is... John Waters.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:13:12 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  36. craft (craft): John Travolta → Batman (the Joker). The digital facial-palsy effect is called Joker face and compared to a Batman villain.
    “He's fully jokerified.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:13:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  37. career (career): Bernie Mac → Old Dogs. Old Dogs is Bernie Mac's final film performance.
    “Bernie Mac and his final film performance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:18:29 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  38. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Being John Malkovich. The human puppeteer plot is likened to Being John Malkovich (transcribed Mell).
    “So this is, like, being John Mell.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:19:34 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Brian De Palma. Bernie Mac and Travolta watching a live feed of the child is called De Palma style.
    “It's just fucking de Palma shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:23:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Friday the 13th (parts 1-3). The kids' Friday the 13th rule joke pays off in the film: they watch part three because Jason does not wear the mask until then.
    “But this is not parts one or two because Jason doesn't wear the mask till three.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:28:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. programming (programming): Old Dogs → Tangled. Disney released Tangled the next year on the same Thanksgiving weekend, which became its animated slot (Frozen, Moana).
    “A year later, they released Tangled the same weekend, and then this becomes the weekend they released their biggest animated film of the year.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:32:52 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  42. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Carlito's Way. A speaker predicts the ending will play like Carlito's Way (transcribed Carlito's white).
    “Old dogs ends like Carlito's white.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:33:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  43. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Old Yeller. Giving Charlie a new puppy after his old dog dies echoes the end of Old Yeller.
    “That's what happens at the end of Old Yeller, remember?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:40:01 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  44. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Jurassic Park. The zoo break-in sequence gives Jurassic Park vibes.
    “Getting kind of Jurassic Park vibes from this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:43:21 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  45. craft (craft): Old Dogs → Tim and Eric. The final freeze-frame credits gag looks like a Tim and Eric bit.
    “This is, like, a Tim and Eric, like, like, freeze.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:51:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  46. programming (programming): Old Dogs → The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Old Dogs opened fourth, behind New Moon in its second week, The Blind Side and 2012.
    “Twilight Saga New Moon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:53:21 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  47. programming (programming): Old Dogs → The Princess and the Frog. The Princess and the Frog opened the same weekend on two screens, ranked 18th.
    “Princess and the Frog opens this week, number 18.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:54:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  48. lineage (lineage): A Christmas Carol → The Polar Express. A guess that the answer is Polar Express is rejected; Christmas Carol is the other Zemeckis frozen-faced animation.
    “It's the Polar Express?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:54:45 · Marie Bardi (0.70 sure it was them)
  49. people (people): A Christmas Carol → Robert Zemeckis. The box office quiz answer, a 2009 holiday film in a director miniseries, is Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol.
    “Zameck is a Christmas Carol.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:55:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. verdict (verdict): Old Dogs → Room. A speaker finds Old Dogs more fascinating than The Room, Neil Breen movies or Manos because it was made by seasoned professionals.
    “I find this movie more fascinating than like the room or any Neil Breen movie or like Manos the Hands of Fire. Because everyone's been doing this for decades.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:57:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (26)

  1. fun, about Old Dogs: Hosts note Becker's film is Disney live action, not Touchstone or Pixar: a Walt Disney picture by a Walt Becker.
    “It's a Walt Disney Walt Becker collab.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:10:52 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Disney: Griffin's thesis: the flop ended an entire kind of Disney live-action film.
    “This movie like killed an entire, like, realm of possible films that Disney could make.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Bryan Adams: The original Bryan Adams song sounds, to a host, like the Toy Story song.
    “He's just doing the Toy Story song.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Seth Green: Seth Green's Star Wars Detours episodes were shelved while he was in Old Dogs.
    “He produced 39 episodes of Star Wars detours, was sat on a shelf.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:23:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Old Dogs: The $47 million acquisition prompts a podcast-industry joke.
    “That's like, I mean, that's like podcast acquisition money.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:23:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Walt Becker: His directing style, per Griffin: push every actor bigger on every take.
    “Waltbecker, his style is to tell every actor to just go bigger and bigger in every take.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:31:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about John Travolta: Charlie's magic hobby is set up by the fire trick and then dropped for the rest of the film.
    “He never once chose any affinity for magic over... the rest of the running time for the film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:44:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about John Travolta: The fire-from-the-hands moment: Griffin insists Charlie can really conjure fire, since nothing disproves it.
    “Charlie has the ability to conjure fire with his bare hands.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:45:25 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Walt Becker: Becker's commentary calls Travolta and Williams one of the great comedy duos, though they had never made a movie together.
    “He says, I think Travolta and Williams and this are one of the all time great onscreen comedy duos.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:52:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Luis Guzman: Luis Guzman, as a childproofer, eats the dog treats in Travolta's apartment.
    “Luis Guzman is eating dog treats.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:56:09 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Justin Long: Unbilled Long is the one actor who knows what movie he is in.
    “I think he is the only person who knows exactly what movie he is in.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:58:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Old Dogs: After Justin Long's scout troop shoots a statue's head off, they burn it down and get kicked out.
    “After shooting the head off the statue, they stayed there long enough for the sun to go down to light the whole thing on fire, and then they were kicked out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:05:08 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Old Dogs: The bereavement group scene: Lori Loughlin's beach house invite turns out to be a grief group.
    “Her grandmother died six months ago, she's been going to this bereavement group.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:09:16 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Walt Becker: Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: Alvin sits next to John Waters on a plane, as Griffin's key Becker anecdote.
    “John Waters calls over a flight attendant, says, Excuse me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:13:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about John Travolta: Travolta's Joker face after the mixed-up pills is a digital effect.
    “His Joker face is digital.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:14:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Bernie Mac: Jimmy Lunchbox, Bernie Mac's role, is a master puppeteer with no puppets onstage.
    “Now, as I press play again, I want you to take note of, there being zero puppets on stage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:18:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Old Dogs: The motion-capture parenting suit has a sensor in an unfortunate spot.
    “His crotch is electrocuting because he has the sensor by his penis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:22:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Bernie Mac: Griffin warns the audience they are about to see Bernie Mac's last moments on screen.
    “You're about to see the last seconds of Bernie Mac on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:23:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Old Dogs: The Friday the 13th joke pays off: the kids watch the film in the apartment, and the host notes it's part three.
    “But this is not parts one or two because Jason doesn't wear the mask till three.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:28:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Old Dogs: The film is called Old Dogs and Charlie's old dog dies off screen, followed by a dog funeral.
    “I just can't believe that this movie is called Old Dogs, and it ends with the fucking dog funeral.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:39:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Seth Green: A cutaway implies the gorilla and Seth Green have a thing.
    “The movie is implying at this point that the gorilla has mated with Seth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:48:16 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Old Dogs: The closing freeze frame, with everyone and the baby having taken the pills, is compared to Tim and Eric.
    “This is, like, a Tim and Eric, like, like, freeze.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:51:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about The Princess and the Frog: Box office game: the Disney animated film opened that weekend on two screens.
    “Princess and the Frog opens this week, number 18.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:54:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Robert Zemeckis: Box office game: Marie's guess the 2009 holiday answer is Polar Express is wrong, it is A Christmas Carol.
    “Zameck is a Christmas Carol.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:55:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Old Dogs: Griffin's wrap-up on why it fascinates: it was made by veterans, not amateurs.
    “There's no inexperience here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:57:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Old Dogs: Sign-off line, and the show's running Becker joke.
    “Walt Becker's a dang ass freak.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 2:00:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

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