Blank Check — Patreon: Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman

Published 2019-10-01; 2:59:12 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: John Hodgman, Ben Hosley (producer, in the room).

Subject films: Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

On the transcript: Auto-transcription with no speaker labels; overlapping talk and many dropped words, so attribution is low-confidence in fast exchanges. Timestamps are from the commentary-track recording, with the film starting about 0:21:07.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Last Tango (in Paris), Reign Over Me, Hercule Poirot film, Escape at Dannemora, 13 Hours, Jon Hamm and other expansions of titles or names are inferred completions of partial or garbled mentions, not stated in full.
The 'Batman film' gag title is left unnamed; no title was said.
Mangled-name guesses (Scott Caan, James Caan, Yaphet Kotto, Vincente Minnelli, Cyttorak, Black Racer, Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Markus and McFeely) come from my own knowledge, not the transcript.
Characters Darkseid, Thanos, Sony, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson are entered as 'person' nodes because speakers connect them directly; no further facts were added.

Films that came up

Claims (111)

people (people): The Dreamers → Eva Green. The Dreamers was Eva Green's debut film.
“That was her 1st her debut film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:07:00 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Dreamers → Last Tango (in Paris). Bertolucci's The Dreamers was billed as his new Last Tango.
“this is his, like, new last tango.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:08:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Last Tango (in Paris) → Bernardo Bertolucci. Bertolucci directed both The Dreamers and Last Tango.
“This is like a Bertalucci”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:08:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Cobweb → Vincente Minnelli. Hodgman and Griffin saw this old Minnelli sanitarium drama together this summer.
“a wild old Vincent Manelli movie called the Cobweb”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:16:43 · John Hodgman (0.65 sure it was them)
people (people): Tag → Jon Hamm. Jon Hamm, who narrated two words of Hodgman's audiobook, is the Tag star.
“From the movie tag?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:18:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (joke): Avengers: Infinity War → Hercule Poirot film (Kenneth Branagh, title not said). Joke opening: Kenneth Branagh doing the distress call.
“Kenneth Branagh doing the distress call.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:21:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): John Hodgman → The Tick (TV). Hodgman and Griffin worked together on the canceled series The Tick.
“You and I were filming a very canceled TV show called The Tech.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:22:36 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Griffin Newman → The Tick (TV). Hodgman notes that Griffin was number two on the call sheet.
“you were number 2 on the call sheet”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:23:10 · John Hodgman (0.55 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Black Panther → Avengers: Infinity War. Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big.
“Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Avengers → Avengers: Infinity War. The Hulk echoes Tony Stark's words from the first Avengers; the movie is full of callbacks.
“echoing Tony Stark's words from the Avengers 2012”
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contrast (contrast): Josh Brolin → Guardians of the Galaxy. The Thanos of Guardians was a couple of scenes in a chair and very different in design and performance.
“the character is very, very different in Guardians of the Galaxy”
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verdict (verdict): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Griffin's frustration with Infinity War in theaters came from dreading what Endgame would do; having since loved Endgame he likes this film more on rewatch.
“I feel like a lot of my frustrations with this movie when I saw it were also based on me anticipating what I thought they were going to do with Endgame”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:28:09 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
people (people): Benedict Wong → Robert Downey Jr.. While shooting this film Wong flew to New York on Downey's private jet to see Serafinowitz.
“And he took a trip back to New York on Robert Di Jr.'s private jet to visit Peter.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:32:05 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Peter Serafinowitz → Star Wars (Darth Maul; film not named). Serafinowitz talked about playing Darth Maul at a Blank Check taping that Wong attended.
“We were interviewing Peter about just the process of playing Darth Maul.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:32:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
people (people): Peter Serafinowitz → Benedict Wong. The two became friends in a West End stage show, Star Trek Live.
“They appeared in a West End production of Star Trek Live”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:33:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Benedict Cumberbatch → Doctor Strange. Disliked him in Doctor Strange, prefers him in the two Avengers films.
“And I disliked him in Doctor Strange quite a bit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:36:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (parallel): Doctor Strange → Robert Downey Jr.. Strange's origin as a brought-low egotist who rebuilds mirrors Tony Stark's.
“the true origin story of Doctor Strange is so parallel to Tony Stark”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:37:00 · John Hodgman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Doctor Strange → Avengers: Infinity War. Doctor Strange has the worst joke writing in any Marvel film, while the Avengers films do his comedy better.
“I think Doctor Strange also suffers from the worst joke writing in any Marvel film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:37:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Spider-Man rights → Avengers: Infinity War. The dream of Spider-Man joining the shared universe once things are worked out with Sony.
“once you work things out with Sonny, Spider-Man gets to come into”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:40:43 · John Hodgman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Robert Downey Jr. → Mark Ruffalo. Banner now dresses like Tony Stark.
“now Bruce Banner just dresses like Tony Stark”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:42:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Carrie Coon → Avengers: Infinity War. Her Steppenwolf training goes into Proxima Midnight, where you see a third of her face.
“All her Steppenwolf training finally comes into play with Proxima Midnight.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:43:57 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Avengers → Avengers: Infinity War. In 2012 Banner could become the Hulk at will; now he cannot at all.
“where Bruce Banner could turn into the Hulk at Will, and now he can't turn into it at all”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:44:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Benedict Cumberbatch → Tilda Swinton. Casting Cumberbatch as Strange was so on the nose compared with the fuss over Swinton.
“I felt that casting Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange was so on the nose.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:45:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Marcus and McFeely → Guardians of the Galaxy. They do not totally nail Guardians-style humor, though Drax gets great lines.
“Do not totally nail the humor of...”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:49:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): James Gunn → Guardians of the Galaxy. The Guardians humor belongs to one writer, Gunn, who is the driver.
“like gun is sort of the driver.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:49:57 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Chris Pratt → Mark Wahlberg. Both succeed only as low-status guys nobody takes seriously who have to prove themselves.
“Both Mark Wahlberg and Chris Pratt succeed when it is about people not taking them seriously and them having to prove to people.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:51:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Chris Pratt → Jurassic World. Pratt's act fails when he plays the serious, in-charge leader, as in Jurassic World.
“Jurassic World is so bad”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:51:27 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → Seth Rogen. Fear that the Thing will be Seth Rogen.
“the thing is going to be Seth Rogan”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:52:09 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → Ashley Johnson. Ashley Johnson as the Invisible Woman.
“My friend and yours, Ashley Johnson.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:52:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Reed Richards should not be another white male super genius.
“you just cannot have another white male super genius in this universe”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:53:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → H. Jon Benjamin. The Thing is mostly a voice role with tough-guy energy and a heart of gold, so H. Jon Benjamin.
“since this is primarily a voice role with tough guy energy, but a heart of gold”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:53:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → Chris Evans. Everyone knows Johnny Storm should be Chris Evans.
“because we all know who should play. Johnny Storm, who?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:53:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → William Jackson Harper. William Jackson Harper as an alternative Reed.
“I think William Jackson Harper would be a great choice.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:54:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Rachel McAdams → Doctor Strange. McAdams's Doctor Strange role as Christine Palmer rules her out as Invisible Woman.
“forgetting that she is in Doctor Strange”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:54:22 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → Rebecca Ferguson. Corrected Invisible Woman pick after Rachel McAdams turned out to be in Doctor Strange.
“Invisible woman, Rebecca Ferguson.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:54:41 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Fantastic Four (fan-casting game, no film) → Michael Shannon. Michael Shannon as the Thing, objected to for lacking lovable John Goodman energy.
“my my pick had always been, though he is not Jewish, Michael Shannon.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:54:55 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (continuity): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. The Scarlet Witch's mind-reading powers from Ultron are teased here and then forgotten by Endgame.
“teasing the fact that the Scarlet Witch originated having mind powers”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:57:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Paul Bettany → Gangster No. 1. Bettany's first big role was playing the young Malcolm McDowell.
“Young Malcolm McDowell in gangsta number one.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:58:21 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Paul Bettany → A Beautiful Mind. The British indie breakout led to his run of roles starting with A Beautiful Mind.
“that then leads to him on the, like, beautiful mind run.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:58:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Paul Bettany → Master and Commander. Named as one of his great performances.
“And of course, master and commander.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:58:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Paul Bettany → A Knight's Tale. The screenwriter wanted Bettany in the Heath Ledger role and wrote Chaucer for him instead.
“He wanted to cast Paul Bettney in the film in the Heath Ledger role.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:58:58 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (continuity): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Thor knowing where the reality stone is sets up a bad decision in Endgame.
“that plays into Endgame, and a bad decision they make”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Guardians 2's Gamora and Nebula scene gives her survival-instinct backstory that Infinity War could have drawn on.
“I feel like Guardians 2 does this very good job when she has her sort of big scene with Nebula”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:07:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Benicio del Toro → Avengers: Infinity War. Del Toro is now a weirdo spaceman in two space franchises.
“In which Benicio del Toro is now part of 2 space franchises.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:10:45 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Benicio del Toro → Escape at Dannemora (TV). Stiller explained letting del Toro deliver a line his own odd way.
“Did you see that Stiller finally explained the scene in Escape from Danamora?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:10:52 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Ant-Man and the Wasp → Avengers: Infinity War. Seeing Ant-Man and the Wasp while shooting The Tick left Griffin ready to quit the MCU.
“I was like, I can't deal with these movies anymore.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:12:45 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (likeness): Thanos → Joe Rogan. Thanos looks like Joe Rogan with a little Rogan neck.
“He looks like Joe Rogan.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:14:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Don Cheadle → Reign Over Me. A critic's parenthetical called Cheadle elegant even on the back of Sandler's scooter.
“wrote Don Cheadle, and then in parentheses, elegant, even riding on the back of Adam Sandler's scooter.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:15:57 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Don Cheadle → Devil in a Blue Dress. His late-90s emergence in Devil in a Blue Dress and Out of Sight made every appearance worth waiting for.
“he was in like devil in a blue dress and out of sight and things like that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:16:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Don Cheadle → Benedict Wong. Both are fascinating just listening in a group shot.
“these are guys who are fascinating to watch just listen to other people in a group shop.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:16:33 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Avengers: Age of Ultron → Avengers: Infinity War. The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here.
“Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Joss Whedon → Avengers: Infinity War. Joke: the movie might as well show the directors throwing out Whedon's Avengers 3 script.
“taking Joss Whedon's like untitled Avengers 3 script and like throwing it in the garbage”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:17:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Kevin Feige → WandaVision (TV). Feige's Disney Plus shows are a chance to fill in the gaps of the crossover movies.
“announcing with like all these Disney Plus shows, this sort of opportunity to fill in the gaps.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:18:06 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Paul Bettany → Avengers: Age of Ultron. Wondering when Whedon decided to use Bettany for Ultron's voice.
“when he put that where he's like, I have Paul Bettany.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:19:29 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Vin Diesel → Avengers: Infinity War. Diesel changed his profile pictures to the Vision to angle for the role before Feige said they had not met him.
“he changed his like profile picture on every website to a photo of the vision”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:21:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Vin Diesel → Guardians of the Galaxy. Diesel campaigned to play Vision, and Groot was the concession.
“Then after they gave him Groot, which was the concession to him not being able to play.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:21:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Alien / Aliens. Stark getting sucked out the airlock: it's the first Alien, not Aliens.
“It's an alien thing, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:23:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Robert Downey Jr. → Avengers: Infinity War. Downey's growing control of the Tony Stark wardrobe.
“It is funny how increasingly he gets complete control over the wardrobe.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:25:10 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax.
“killing him after this would be an anticlimax”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (likeness): Thanos → Jordan Peterson. Endgame shows Thanos as a Jordan Peterson type hiding behind logic.
“Jordan Peterson-esque”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:29:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Avengers: Infinity War → Kramer vs. Kramer. A prestige drama such as Kramer vs. Kramer does not have a turncoat with a robot brain to pay off.
“Kramer versus Kramer doesn't have one of those.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:31:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Karen Gillan → Doctor Who. Gillan's physical comedy as the broken Nebula surprised someone who loved her in Doctor Who.
“I loved her in Doctor Who, but I never would have imagined that.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:39:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Alien / Aliens. The Titan ship looks like the horseshoe ship from the Alien films.
“Which also looks like the horseshoe from the alien films.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:39:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Star Trek (TNG, Star Trek Live). Spaceships need no aerodynamics; the Borg cube was the beautiful proof.
“That was what was so beautiful about the design of the Borg cube.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:40:14 · John Hodgman (0.35 sure it was them)
people (people): Ronald D. Moore → Battlestar Galactica (TV). An interview with Moore explained how the reboot's ship design was thought out.
“I remember I read this interview with Ronald D. Moore”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:40:47 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): John Hodgman → Battlestar Galactica (TV). Hodgman appeared in an episode as the space brain doctor.
“I played the space brain doctor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:40:56 · John Hodgman (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Star Trek (TNG, Star Trek Live) → Battlestar Galactica (TV). Battlestar put the bridge deep in the ship, unlike Star Trek's exposed bridge.
“And the bridge should be in the deepest part of the ship.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:41:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Peter Dinklage → Game of Thrones. Dinklage is locked up by Game of Thrones, and his post-Thrones career is eagerly awaited.
“I cannot wait to see his post Game of Thrones career”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:43:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees.
“A movie endgame is the one pathway.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career): Hugo Weaving → Captain America: The First Avenger. Weaving hated the Red Skull makeup, so Marvel never asked him back even for a CGI cameo.
“And for him, it really boiled down to he hated the makeup.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:48:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Jim Starlin → Avengers: Infinity War. The cosmic Thanos comics were mostly Starlin and mostly dudes talking on half asteroids.
“Starlin stuff, mostly.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:52:56 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Jack Kirby. The Vormir sequence is a perfect distillation of what the cosmic Marvel comic illustrations looked like.
“the Vormir sequence is such a perfect distillation of what those cosmic Marvel illustrations looked like”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:53:08 · John Hodgman (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Jack Kirby → Avengers: Infinity War. Kirby's cosmic creations at Marvel, Galactus and the Silver Surfer, are the ancestors of this material.
“he creates galactus and silver surf and all these parrots”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:56:25 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (analogy): Jack Kirby → Roger Corman. Kirby, middle-aged, chasing youth culture with cosmic motorcycle gangs was like Roger Corman and the acid.
“He was like Roger Corman being like, I don't know, the motorcycles and the acid.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:58:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Darkseid → Thanos. Thanos is Marvel's Pepsi to DC's Darkseid Coca-Cola; the Black Order is a recent addition.
“Thanos is Marvel creating their Pepsi to Darkside's Coca-Cola”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:58:23 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Thanos → The Godfather. Invoking Thanos is now as universal a pop reference as invoking The Godfather.
“invoking Thanos is the same as like invoking the Godfather”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:58:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Justice League → Avengers: Infinity War. Justice League tried to deliver team-up goosebumps three movies into its universe, too early.
“Justice League tried, like, 3 movies into their universe, essentially, to have the goosebump moments of, oh, they're all together”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:59:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Avengers: Age of Ultron → Avengers: Infinity War. The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before.
“it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before.”
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industry (industry): Avengers: Age of Ultron → Avengers: Infinity War. Whedon said he cut a great Hulk gag from Ultron and gave it back to Marvel.
“I came up with a Hulk moment, a Hulk gag that was so good and it just didn't fit into the story.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:00:51 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Black Panther → Avengers: Infinity War. Had Marvel known how big Black Panther would be, Shuri would not have been kept in one room.
“if they had known how big Black Panther was gonna be, they would not have kept Sherry in one room”
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industry (industry): Black Panther → Avengers: Infinity War. The Russos tested Infinity War before Black Panther opened and Black Panther material drew no reaction.
“They tested this movie before Black Panther came out and Black Panther shit got no reaction.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:03:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Black Panther → Avengers: Infinity War. A listener pointed out that Wakanda in Black Panther is an Atlanta parking lot on green screen, a source of local pride.
“clearly it is a parking lot in Atlanta that is green screen”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:03:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Venom → Avengers: Infinity War. The Outriders look like Venom symbiotes, perhaps a soft setup.
“They look like venoms, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:05:58 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose.
“And this is the echo to, I know what it's like.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Mantis proves Thanos can be mentally manipulated, so Endgame should have used Wanda against him.
“you have a very powerful mental manipulator in Wanda, and she doesn't do it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:12:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Would have preferred Wanda going into Thanos's head in Endgame, a Mysterio-style nightmare sequence.
“I would have enjoyed her more going into his head”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:12:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Avengers: Infinity War → Cobweb. The movie is a glove thriller the way The Cobweb is a drape drama: a huge story about accessories.
“Much like the cobweb is a drape drama.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:13:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Avengers: Infinity War → Captain America: Civil War. Both can feel like a supercut of character moments.
“I sort of have the problem that I have with Civil War where, like, sometimes it just feels like, you know, a supercut of character moments”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:19:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Joaquin Phoenix → Doctor Strange. Feige wanted Joaquin Phoenix to play Strange.
“Oh, and he wanted Joaquin to be strange.”
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what-if (what-if): Joaquin Phoenix → The Avengers. Phoenix was the first choice for Bruce Banner when Marvel recast; Ruffalo was a surprise.
“And he also was the 1st person they were trying really hard to get for Bruce Banner for Avengers when they knew they were recasting.”
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contrast (contrast): Joaquin Phoenix → Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch is a classically trained actor who can make pretend feel real; Phoenix is an autodidact who cannot.
“classically trained theater actor who is like, I can make pretend things feel real.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:24:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Joaquin Phoenix → Joker. The Joker appealed because it was pitched as a Scorsese-style film he could work in, unlike green screen.
“The Joker thing for him is totally the fact that they sold it to him as, we're going to shoot it like a Scorsett.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:24:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Tom Hardy → Joaquin Phoenix. Like Hardy jumping into the lobster tank, Phoenix likes surprises in front of him that a green-screen movie cannot give.
“much like Tom Hardy jumping in the lobster tank”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:25:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Mortal Kombat. Thor's lightning eyes read as Raiden from Mortal Kombat.
“Radonized from Mortal Kombat.”
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verdict (verdict): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Hindsight reframes Infinity War as a movie about processing trauma rather than pure battle.
“a movie about the processing of trauma”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:26:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters.
“Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Elizabeth Olsen → WandaVision (TV). WandaVision is expected to be weird.
“the WandaVision is going to be, and it is going to be weird.”
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craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Iron Man 3. Iron Man 3 completes Tony's arc, so Spider-Man can be his second arc.
“Iron Man 3 completes the Tony Arc”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:36:48 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
unmapped (joke): Avengers: Infinity War → Groundhog Day. Joke: Thanos should wake to a clock radio and say it's Groundhog Day.
“it's Groundhog Day.”
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industry (industry): Jon Favreau → Iron Man 3. Favreau earns an executive producer credit on any Iron Man movie because the franchise began with him.
“Favreau getting a dine out with an executive producer credit on any movie that features Iron Man.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:39:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Avengers: Infinity War → Avengers: Endgame. Infinity War's billing is a crayon drawing next to Endgame's.
“Billing on this movie is a fucking crayon drawing compared to the billing of endgame”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:40:23 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Avengers: Infinity War → A Quiet Place. In its fourth week A Quiet Place made $11 million against Infinity War's opening.
“It makes $11 million against this movie.”
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what-if (what-if): John Krasinski → Chris Evans. Krasinski was the leaked first choice for Captain America before Marvel offered it to Evans.
“That he was the number one choice for Captain America.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:46:26 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): John Krasinski → Jack Ryan (TV). 13 Hours and Jack Ryan both came from Krasinski proving he could be an action hero.
“13 hours and Jack Ryan are both totally the effect of John Krasinski going, people laughed at the prospect of me playing an action hero.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:46:50 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): John Krasinski → A Quiet Place. Every performance since has felt like a chip on his shoulder.
“every performance feels like a chip on his shoulder”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:47:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Michelle Williams → I Feel Pretty. Many say Williams is all dialed in and deserved an Oscar nod for I Feel Pretty.
“Michelle Williams is all dialed in.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:51:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Christopher Meloni → Snatched. Meloni's Snatched supporting performance was nearly a top-six of the year.
“Christopher Maloney gives a performance in that movie that was probably my number 6 for best supporting actor that year.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:51:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Rampage → A Quiet Place. Rampage was a disappointment because A Quiet Place suplexed it.
“Quiet Place like suplexed then.”
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industry (industry): Black Panther → Avengers: Infinity War. Black Panther got a box-office bump from Infinity War, as Captain Marvel did for Endgame.
“This is Black Panther getting the Infinity War bump, which happened with Captain Marvel and Endgame.”
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industry (industry): Avengers: Infinity War → Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. Infinity War finished just below The Force Awakens worldwide.
“Yes, and it barely, it almost beat Force Awakens worldwide.”
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programming (programming): Ant-Man and the Wasp → Avengers: Infinity War. Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War.
“A nice little sorbet, though.”
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fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Opening ritual: the hosts try to start the film in sync with a Thanos snap, botching the remote and resetting twice.
“David, I'm going to go three, two, one, and then I want you to do a Thanos snap.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:20:09 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Hercule Poirot film (Kenneth Branagh, title not said): The distress call prompts a Branagh Poirot riff, including the scene where he talks to the bread about how great the bread is.
“you remember the moment in the movie where he just talks to the bread about how great the bread is?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:21:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Benedict Wong: Wong once attended a Blank Check taping, then flew to New York on Robert Downey Jr.'s private jet while Downey went to see the Grateful Dead; he and Peter Serafinowitz met in West End Star Trek Live.
“They appeared in a West End production of Star Trek Live”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:33:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Black Order power ranking: Ebony Maw first for his Mr. Burns hand flick; Proxima Midnight second for Carrie Coon.
“I like the Mr. Burns hand.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:41:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Filming locations: the New York blocks are CGI, Edinburgh and Atlanta are real, and Thanos's little hut is in the Philippines.
“And then Thanos's weird little hut is in the Philippines.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:45:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Look at the chip shop in the Edinburgh scene: a sign says they will deep fry your kebab, which leads to Scottish deep-frying and a prank-call album bit.
“there's just a sign in the chip shop that just says, we will deep fry your kebab”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:59:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Cap's Nomad costume: the torn-off stars read as aged and on the run, and Hodgman explains the 1970s comic Nomad identity after Watergate.
“And I love that they make it clear that he has ripped off the stars.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:03:25 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Quick background gag: Tobias Funke-style Blue Man appears in one of the tanks as they pass.
“We just passed by the shot in which Tobias Bluth appears in one of the tanks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:10:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Knowhere scene: Benicio del Toro claps for Gamora after she stabs Thanos, which they think was his own idea.
“Now, my favorite thing here is when he claps for her.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:11:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Tony's techno hoodie is the most embarrassing garment, a member's-only jacket run through a Sharper Image catalog, with orange piping.
“this hoodie looks like a member's only jacket that's been run through a sharper image catalog.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:25:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Thanos makes Gamora a snack in a ramekin that is a big bowl in her hand; Hodgman: what a dad.
“The idea that he made her a snack though.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:27:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert Downey Jr.: Griffin recalls Downey's baffling Instagram video announcing a Rolling Stones and NASA collaboration, in front of a 1997 screensaver.
“Have you guys seen the video of Robert Downey Jr. announcing the collaboration between The Rolling Stones and NASA?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:44:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Doctor Strange's multi-future scene joke: what he saw was someone load a Blu-ray and a menu.
“What happened was he was looking, he saw someone load a Blu-ray.”
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fun, about Hugo Weaving: Weaving hated the Red Skull makeup and reportedly was never even asked to return as the CGI Red Skull on Vormir.
“I just, I have it on good authority that he was never even asked.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:48:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Vormir: Red Skull as Stone Smithers, a former victim of the stone now working as its personal assistant.
“You are now the Stone Smithers.”
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fun, about Jack Kirby: Kirby's Fourth World: assigned to Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen as a punishment, he smuggled in the New Gods, and made the Black Racer, a man in medieval armor on space skis.
“He was a he was a black man wearing medieval armor on space skis.”
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fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Shuri's translucent orange Blade Runner-style rain slicker gets a long overdue shout-out.
“Her very cool, translucent, orange, Blade Runner-esque, rain slicker.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:55:59 · John Hodgman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Wakanda battle: the force field cutting the Outriders in half is fun, and a Black Panther commentary commenter celebrated Atlanta standing in for Wakanda.
“This is so much fun, though, that the force field, like, cuts them in half.”
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fun, about Avengers theme: Griffin plays the Avengers theme to feel confident before shows and auditions and imagines himself part of an end-credit scene.
“I listen to the Avengers theme and I walk down the streets of New York City and I think that like I'm part of an end credit scene.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:07:38 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Quill's gauntlet fight: they call it a glove thriller, as The Cobweb is a drape drama.
“Much like the cobweb is a drape drama.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:13:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Joaquin Phoenix: Feige's white whale is getting Joaquin Phoenix into a Marvel movie; Phoenix says he doesn't know how to work in this process.
“has been trying to get Joaquin Phoenix to commit to one of these movies since the beginning”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:20:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Kevin Smith screamed 'no' at the press screening the second Tony was stabbed, and posted a tearful selfie; later he cried again at Cap shaving his beard in Endgame.
“And that person was Kevin Smith, who was in our audience”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:22:46 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Thanos: The funniest thing in any Marvel film to the hosts: casual Thanos in a self-made Hanes gray T-shirt picking fruit on his farm at the top of Endgame.
“the funniest thing in any Marvel movie is just casual Thanos in a self-made Haines gray t-shirt”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:38:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Billing joke: Josh Brolin is Thanos with the special participation of Chris Pratt.
“And Josh Brolin is Thanos with the special participation of Chris Pratt.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:42:31 · John Hodgman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about A Quiet Place: Attack sound circled on John Krasinski's whiteboard is the funniest bit of set dressing.
“John Krasinski's whiteboard where he has written a bunch of like expositional nonsense, including attack sound, which has been circled.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:45:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Post-credits scene: Fury rides in an Infinity QX-series car; he finally uses his pager, which has logos on it.
“That's an infinity X7, I think, which is the car I'm least likely to be happy about when I order a lift.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:49:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves Endgame, can be talked around on Infinity War after a rewatch, adores comics history (Kirby, Fourth World), fan-casting games and Marvel trivia. Can't stand corporate killing-off-characters-as-meaning,, and actors' craft. A sucker for the Avengers theme and big crowd-pleasing hero moments.
David Sims (host): Champion of Infinity War: loves how Thanos is the real protagonist and how the movie argues for caring about every character. Hates the idea that deaths must be final to matter, and loves actors' craft and box-office trivia. Nervous flyer who loves a road trip to Toronto.
John Hodgman (guest): Loves Infinity War ('I love this movie very much'), grew up wanting an X-Men movie, enjoys Vormir for how it captures cosmic Marvel art. Not a fan of cosmic comics generally; a sucker for plugging his book and for corgis.
Ben Hosley (guest): Producer in the room who has seen none of the MCU; contributes sparingly and is the target of drug jokes. Likes Nomad and Ghost Rider as outsider heroes.

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Names the transcriber got wrong

'The Tech' = The Tick (the canceled TV show Griffin and Hodgman worked on)
'Ebony Moss/Mom/Mark/Mahal/Maw' = Ebony Maw
'Proximate Midnight/Some midnight' = Proxima Midnight
'Corgias Glave/Corvus Glaze' = Corvus Glaive; 'Obsidian' = Cull Obsidian
'Marcus and McPhe Feely' = Markus and McFeely (writers)
'Bandict Wong/Bandit Conrad' = Benedict Wong; 'Bandict/Bandic Cumberbatch' = Benedict Cumberbatch
'Vincent Manelli' = Vincente Minnelli
'Rain Over Me' = Reign Over Me
'Paul Bettney/Betty' = Paul Bettany; 'gangsta number one' = Gangster No. 1
'Peter Seraphinoitz' = Peter Serafinowitz
'Yafit Kado' = Yaphet Kotto (guess); 'James Conn' = James Caan (guess); 'Scott Conn/Khan' = Scott Caan (guess)
'Gomorrah' = Gamora; 'Thanis' = Thanos; 'Tinglish/Dinkla' = Dinklage; 'Nidavalier' = Nidavellir
'Citarac' = Cyttorak; 'Black Razor' = Black Racer; 'Metron' ok; 'Vandy Farrer' = Vanity Fair
'Chachalla' = T'Challa; 'Sherry' = Shuri; 'Kobe Smoulders' = Cobie Smulders; 'Haines' = Hanes
'John Hamm' = Jon Hamm; 'Rachel McCams' = Rachel McAdams; 'Maloney' = Meloni

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