Blank Check with Griffin & David: Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber

Published 2020-03-15; 1:57:30 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David” and the episode “Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Bobby Finger, Lindsey Weber.

Subject films: Ricki and the Flash (2015).

On the transcript: Auto-generated transcript with no speaker labels and many mishearings, especially of names; ad reads at roughly 0:31:40-0:34:40, 1:04:30-1:06:50 and 1:33:00-1:34:00 were skipped.

Films that came up

anecdote (14)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife · mother! · The Irishman · Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga · Holiday in the Wild · Tootsie · Pixels · Boy Erased · Ben Is Back · Home Again · Pixels (short film) · The Death and Life of John F. Donovan · Good Boys · Daddy's Home 2

passing (36)

Aeon Flux · Paradise · Ghostbusters (1984) · Camp Rock · Charming · Smurfs: The Lost Village · Murder Mystery · Jennifer's Body · Stop Making Sense · The Manchurian Candidate · It's Complicated · Hope Springs · The Giver · Unbreakable · Trainwreck · Spy · Grandma · Uncut Gems · John Wick · The Bourne Identity series · Mr. Holmes · The Miseducation of Cameron Post · Beautiful Boy · Straight Outta Compton · Ant-Man · Minions · Pinocchio (Roberto Benigni) · Room · Doctor Sleep · Rock of Ages · Long Shot · Mad Max (series) · Babe: Pig in the City · Happy Feet · Lorenzo's Oil · The Witches of Eastwick

subject (1)

Ricki and the Flash

dismissed (8)

Zoolander 2 · Suffragette · Joy · The Lady in the Van · The Walk · Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk · Fantastic Four · Vacation

compared (15)

Tully · Young Adult · Juno · Rachel Getting Married · Mamma Mia! · The Devil Wears Prada · Julie & Julia · Florence Foster Jenkins · How Do You Know · Master Builder · Man on Wire · Fast Five · Hacksaw Ridge · Galaxy Quest · Futurama (series)

recommended (7)

Wild Rose · Crazy Mama · Fighting Mad · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · Mission: Impossible - Fallout · The Gift · Vox Lux

Claims (54)

  1. people (frequent director): Diablo Cody → Jason Reitman. Reitman has directed half of Cody's movies.
    “Half her movies have been directed by Jason Reitman, who, uh, I, you know, will happily do on this podcast in the year 3000.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:00:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (blank check): Karyn Kusama → Æon Flux. Aeon Flux was Kusama's blank check that bounced; Jennifer's Body also tied to Cody.
    “I mean, like, Ian Flux was her blank check that bounced.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:01:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (sequel ownership): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Sarcastically, Reitman gives Ghostbusters back to the fans with a sequel set apart from the 2016 film.
    “And look at the larger political issue, which is that Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:02:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (origin-story parallel): Jason Reitman → Darren Aronofsky. Reitman's image-first story for Afterlife recalls Aronofsky's story of typing the title mother and the exclamation mark.
    “that reminds me of the Darren Aronovsky story about writing the title for mother”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:04:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (viewership claim): Holiday in the Wild → The Irishman. Rob Lowe claimed his Netflix elephant movie had more views than The Irishman.
    “my dumb little movie that I made about elephants in Africa had more viewers than Irishmen”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:13:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (inverse flaw): Ricki and the Flash → Young Adult. Young Adult is a little overwritten by Diablo Cody; Ricki is the mirror image, a little underwritten.
    “And then Ricky in the Flash is like the inverse of that where I'm like, this is like 10 to 15% underwrit.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:18:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (why Demme fit): Ricki and the Flash → Stop Making Sense. Demme was a sensible hire on paper because he made Stop Making Sense and Rachel Getting Married, plus a prior relationship with Streep.
    “If you go, like, you're getting the guy who did stop making sense and Rachel getting married.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. people (prior collaboration): Meryl Streep → The Manchurian Candidate. Demme worked with Streep on The Manchurian Candidate, so they had an existing relationship.
    “He worked with Meryl on the Venturian candidates.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:20:40 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  9. career (career run): Meryl Streep → Mamma Mia!. Ricki is the end of Streep's run as a lead in studio comedies, which began with Mamma Mia and the Devil Wears Prada.
    “this is also kind of the end of the Merrill leading lady studio comedy run”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (mediocre entry): Stephen Frears → Florence Foster Jenkins. Frears occasionally makes an Oscar-nominated piece of mediocrity like Florence Foster Jenkins.
    “Stephen Frere is the king of mediocrity.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:22:38 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. people (bad-singer casting): Ricki and the Flash → Florence Foster Jenkins. Streep playing a bad singer in Florence Foster Jenkins is a more interesting performance than her unclear singing in Ricki.
    “I like her singing and like that's a more interesting performance, performance because we know she's a bad singer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:22:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (band lineage): Bernie Worrell → Stop Making Sense. Worrell, in Ricki's band, was from Parliament-Funkadelic and sometimes a Talking Heads member in Stop Making Sense.
    “Yeah, you do. We found him out of Parnell and Funkadell, like sometimes a member of Talking Heads and stop making sense.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  13. craft (writing-style extremes): Ricki and the Flash → Young Adult. The speaker compares the two as opposite ends of Cody's style: Young Adult over-explains every incident, Ricki is vague about how bad Ricki was.
    “they feel like 2 sorts of extremes on her like her writing style, on the opposite ends.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:26:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. career (late-career genre run): Meryl Streep → Liam Neeson. Streep's 60s run of $100M comedies is likened to Liam Neeson's action run.
    “It's like she did the comedy version of the Liam Neeson action run.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:29:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. verdict (better-suited director): Jonathan Demme → Tully. A Demme-directed Tully would be better, said of Demme's humanistic approach.
    “Jonathan Demi Tully would have been a better Tully.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (lighting): Ricki and the Flash → How Do You Know. The flat, equally bright lighting of Ricki is likened to How Do You Know.
    “It is like the how do you know lighting?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:29:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. people (cinematographer): Tak Fujimoto → The Manchurian Candidate. Fujimoto, Demme's usual cinematographer, semi-retired; his last Demme movie was The Manchurian Candidate.
    “Well, so Tak Fujimoto, I think, sort of semi-retired.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:30:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. people (cinematographer): Declan Quinn → Rachel Getting Married. Quinn shot Rachel Getting Married (handheld home-video look), then Master Builder, then Ricki.
    “Yeah, he did racial getting married, which is a great looking movie, but obviously it's like all that handheld.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:30:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. people (cinematographer): Declan Quinn → A Master Builder. Quinn shot Master Builder, which looks bad, with a lighting concept of the sun coming through a window.
    “Then he did a master builder, which we recently discussed on this podcast, and it's not a good looking movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:30:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. craft (craft): Declan Quinn → Ricki and the Flash. The host, after naming Quinn as cinematographer, finds the photography of Ricki weirdly flat and shiny, a disservice to hiring Demme.
    “this movie is weirdly flat and I don't know what's up with the photography at all.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:34:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (specificity): Ricki and the Flash → Tully. Tully earns its modest, specific scenes of two people talking for most of its length; Ricki should have had that same energy between its complicated characters.
    “I wish this had the specificity that Tully has for so much of its running time”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:37:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (motherhood trilogy): Ricki and the Flash → Juno. Juno, Tully and Ricki are grouped as Diablo Cody movies about motherhood, with Young Adult as a possible fourth.
    “specifically Juno, Tully and Ricky and the Flash. The mother. All movies about motherhood.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:38:07 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  23. industry (awards snub): Ricki and the Flash → Joy. Streep lost the Globe comedy/musical lead category to Jennifer Lawrence in Joy, plus Trainwreck, Spy, Grandma and Lady in the Van nominees.
    “Meryl couldn't beat either of them out.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:42:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. industry (studio slate): Tom Rothman → The Walk. Rothman's first TriStar films were The Walk, The Lady in the Van and Billy Lynn, each arguably the worst film of a best-director winner.
    “He arguably made the 3 worst films in each of those filmmakers careers.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:44:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. verdict (better version): The Walk → Man on Wire. Watching The Walk, the speaker just wanted to watch Man on Wire again.
    “I was like, why am I not just watching Man on Wire again?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:45:27 · Lindsey Weber (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (same ideas): Ricki and the Flash → Wild Rose. Wild Rose tackles a woman abandoning family for a music career and does it better, with a lead who is both charismatic and annoying.
    “And is not the exact same movie, but is exploring a lot of the same ideas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:45:44 · Bobby Finger (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. craft (craft): Jenny Lewis → Ricki and the Flash. The speaker likes the song 'Cold One', written by Jenny Lewis and her ex-boyfriend, and says it should have drawn a Golden Globe nomination.
    “Written by Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis and her ex-boyfriend.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:47:07 · Bobby Finger or Lindsey Weber (0.30 sure it was them)
  28. people (casting real daughter): Mamie Gummer → Ricki and the Flash. Mamie Gummer plays Streep's daughter, a real mother-daughter pairing that seemed promising but doesn't help.
    “It's like they thought they were getting something special with having them be mother and daughter in this movie and they got the opposite”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:52:17 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (source inspiration): Diablo Cody → Ricki and the Flash. Cody said Ricki is based on her mother-in-law, who plays in a bar band.
    “that her mother-in-law is part of a bar band that she would watch her play”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:01:27 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  30. unmapped (talent reveal): Ricki and the Flash → Wild Rose. In Wild Rose the lead's talent reveal lands because she is a real fuck-up first; in Ricki we are told Ricki is good but can't tell.
    “The reveal of being really good.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:02:56 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  31. craft (unlikable-character craft): Ricki and the Flash → Juno. Juno nails an innately unlikable character (Jennifer Garner) as pathologically uncool; Ricki's son-boyfriend scene is the failed version of that balance.
    “Jennifer Garner's character in Juno is so incredibly good at being like, this is an innately unlikable person who we always demonize in movies like this.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:11:44 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (preferred Demme): Ricki and the Flash → Crazy Mama. One host prefers Crazy Mama and Caged Heat-era Demme to Ricki, which just disappoints.
    “I like Crazy Mama and Cage He far more than this.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:28:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. contrast (documentary-style contrast): Ricki and the Flash → Rachel Getting Married. Rachel Getting Married felt like Demme liberated; Ricki is his first studio film in 11 years.
    “Rachel getting married felt like him sort of being liberated.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. verdict (worst Demme): Ricki and the Flash → A Master Builder. The hosts argue which is Demme's worst; Master Builder is declared probably worse than Ricki.
    “And then he makes master builder, which is probably his worst movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:30:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. industry (studio interference): Tom Rothman → Ricki and the Flash. Rothman's micromanaging explains the too-big sets and too-bright scenes that smother Demme.
    “Tom Rothman, who is notoriously very controlling at Fox, very domineering and sort of micromanaging of everything, even just to the visual scheme of the movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:32:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. industry (franchise peak at five): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Fast Five. Both are fifth entries considered the best of their franchise.
    “I mean, Fast and Furious.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:35:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  37. unmapped (star-making role): Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation → Rebecca Ferguson. Rogue Nation, the fifth entry and a favorite, introduced Ferguson as a star.
    “This film introduced an actress, I would say, is a star.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. industry (same weekend): Ricki and the Flash → Fantastic Four. Ricki opened the same August 2015 weekend as Fantastic Four, ranking number seven.
    “Ricky by the way, is opening at number seven.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:38:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. people (composer): Philip Glass → Fantastic Four. One host says Fantastic Four was scored by Philip Glass.
    “What were all the score by Philip Glass?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:39:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  40. people (shared actor): The Gift → Juno. Jason Bateman gives another good fucked-up performance in The Gift.
    “another good fucked up Jason Bateman performance.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:40:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. unmapped (same creator): The Gift → Boy Erased. Joel Edgerton went from directing The Gift to directing Boy Erased.
    “And then, of course, Joel Egerton went on to make boy erased, a film we all saw.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:41:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  42. unmapped (same subject): Boy Erased → The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Both are conversion-camp movies; the speakers joke about how little time Nicole Kidman spends at the camp.
    “Yeah, and the miseducation of Cameron Post.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:41:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  43. people (Australian cast): Boy Erased → Hacksaw Ridge. Both movies are populated by Australian actors playing Americans.
    “Isn't that one of those weird movies like Hacksaw Ridge, where all but the lead actor are Australian, even in Australia?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:42:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. people (crew hoodie): Ben Is Back → Peter Hedges. A friend spotted a Ben Is Back crew hoodie at the gym, and it turned out to be director Peter Hedges.
    “That's Peter Hedges.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:44:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (tonal model): Pixels → Ghostbusters. Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  46. contrast (premise inversion): Pixels → Galaxy Quest. Pixels is a reverse Galaxy Quest where aliens attack with our own media.
    “It's like a reverse galaxy quest where the evil aliens are like, we're going to attack you with your media.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  47. lineage (ripped off): Pixels → Futurama. The premise of Pixels is said to be ripped off from a Futurama episode.
    “It is very much ripped off from Futurama.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  48. lineage (lineage): Pixels → Pixels (short film). The speaker says the feature grew from a viral short that was a visual effects show reel made by an aspiring VFX artist, who was paid millions in a studio bidding war but had no stake in the movie.
    “I believe the person was like an aspiring visual effects artist and he made it”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:29 · Bobby Finger or Lindsey Weber (0.30 sure it was them)
  49. unmapped (joke equivalence): Pixels → Ricki and the Flash. A joke that Pixels was Adam Sandler coming back to a recovering suicidal daughter, i.e. Ricki.
    “Became Adam Sandler coming back to a suicidal daughter's like recovery period.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:54 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  50. unmapped (known as): Jacob Tremblay → Room. People can name Tremblay as the kid from Room before they can name Brie Larson.
    “They'll be like, oh, the kid from room.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:54:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  51. industry (box office draw): Jacob Tremblay → Good Boys. Tremblay is called one of the most consistent box-office performers, pulling Good Boys across the finish line.
    “Trem Play's one of our most consistent box office performers.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  52. industry (box-office comparison): Good Boys → Long Shot. Good Boys is said to have probably outgrossed Long Shot and Ricki.
    “This movie probably made more money than like long shot, which made more money, but no question.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:57:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  53. unmapped (next obsession): The Death and Life of John F. Donovan → Vox Lux. The hosts say they need a Vox Lux-style cult-bad movie for 2020, and Donovan is a candidate.
    “We do need like a Vox Lux for 2020 that we need.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:57:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  54. verdict (great review): Emily Yoshida → Daddy's Home 2. Yoshida's review about watching an audience watch Daddy's Home 2 is called perfect writing.
    “Emily Yoshida's review of Di's Home 2 is a perfect, perfect piece of writing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 2:00:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items (24)

  1. fun, about Jason Reitman / Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The hosts recount Reitman's origin story for Afterlife (a girl in a cornfield with a proton pack) and mock it.
    “And then one day I was suddenly just struck with this image of a little girl standing in the middle of a cornfield wearing a proton pack”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:03:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Rob Lowe / Holiday in the Wild: Rob Lowe reportedly said his Netflix elephant movie had more views than The Irishman and he was told not to tell; the hosts riff on 'claims' and two-minute views counting.
    “It was a stupid Christmas elephant movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:15:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Meryl Streep: Bobby complimented Florence Foster Jenkins to Streep in an elevator and she replied 'sometimes you need little tonic', raising his opinion of the film from C-plus to A-minus.
    “I will never top the moment when I complimented Florence Foster Jenkins too, Meryl Streep in an elevator and she said, sometimes you need little tonic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:22:09 · Bobby Finger (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: The bar-band casting problem: Bobby and Lindsey's old dive-bar KJ felt like a real regular; Streep as a bar-band singer never reads as a plausible mediocre singer.
    “And I couldn't tell if I was supposed to think Ricky was a good singer, a so-so singer, a great singer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:23:29 · Bobby Finger (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: The band includes Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic and Talking Heads, and a member who is Demme's cousin or uncle.
    “This band is pretty crazy because you have Bernie Worrell in there.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:25:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: Lighting complaint: every shot is equally shiny and bright whether indoors, outdoors, day or night, so it looks like a Wizards of Waverly Place set.
    “Where like every single shot of the movie is the shiniest thing you've ever seen and is equally bright, whether they are indoors, outdoors, daytime or nighttime.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:30:01 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Meryl Streep: Streep's half-braid hairstyle makes her look alt without altering her; when the braids come out she is just Meryl again and the illusion breaks.
    “The moment they took those braids out and she just looked at Meryl Streep, I was like, now I get the braids.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: Streep lost the Golden Globe comedy/musical actress award to Jennifer Lawrence for Joy; nominees included Trainwreck, Spy, Grandma and Lady in the Van, which the hosts use as proof of the film's mismarketing.
    “Right, but this it just shows how like mismarketed this movie was, when it was finished, everyone watched it, was like, what is that?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:42:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Tom Rothman / TriStar: Rothman relaunched TriStar as director-driven with Ricki, then The Walk, The Lady in the Van and Billy Lynn, all flops; Amy Pascal was fired and Rothman took over Sony.
    “We're restarting TriStar, and TriStar is now like director driven.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:44:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: Box office: opened at number seven the weekend Fantastic Four opened to $25M and Rogue Nation held number one; made about $20M on a $30M budget.
    “And you're like, Ricky and the Flash like only costs 30 and still wasn't successful.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:45:17 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: The Kam/Cam Collins essay question: was Audra McDonald's role written for a Black woman or just cast that way? The line about driving to a white school reads ambiguously.
    “I don't know if this is just demi casting a great actress and not giving a shit about the fact that she's black or Diablo Cody being like, specifically, this is supposed to be a black.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:49:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Mamie Gummer: Gummer's wig and nails in Ricki: a hair gag that never changes shot to shot, compared to the Cynthia doll from Rugrats.
    “She looks like the Cynthia Dolph Rugrats.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:50:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Diablo Cody: Cody said she wrote Ricki after noticing male movie-industry parents just jet off while moms get judged; the hosts ask how many movies are about a man choosing between work and family.
    “How many movies are made about a man trying to decide between his love of his work and his love of his family?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:02:07 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: The scene in which Ricki reveals her back tattoo to Audra McDonald, plus a throwaway about her brother dying in Vietnam, is the movie's best character unlock.
    “And that's when she says, I just had one brother and he died in Nam.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:07:00 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: Ben Platt shows up in a pointless scene because Marc Platt produced the movie.
    “Because the movie is produced by Mark Platt.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:08:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: IMDb-trivia bit: Rick Springfield pawns his 1968 Gibson SG, but the proceeds could have flown the entire band first class ten times; the speakers argue the plot point is pointless.
    “This is like, with a lowest guitar price and current plane fares, all 5 band members could have flown 1st class 10 times.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:17:54 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: Highlight scene: Kevin Kline, stoned with his head in Ricki's lap, is asked if he is really tired or just wanting to touch her, then steps back; a moment of restraint praised.
    “I am not cheating on my wife.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:24:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: Quotable lines: the son says he was born gay and Ricki answers she was born Ricky; Mamie's 'I need a donut'.
    “when the sun says, I was born gay and she was and she says, I was born Ricky.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:27:22 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Ricki and the Flash: A theory that the film would have worked better if cheaper and quieter, as a Meryl who agreed to be in a Demme movie, rather than Meryl hiring Demme.
    “and it was Meryl agreeing to be in a Jonathan Demi movie rather than Meryl hiring Jonathan Demi.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:32:41 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation: Hosts rank Rogue Nation the best in the franchise for Rebecca Ferguson and the opera sequence; the one they dislike is MI:2.
    “The only movie I don't like in that series is two.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:38:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Ben Is Back: A friend spotted a man at his gym wearing a Ben Is Back crew hoodie; it was director Peter Hedges, Lucas Hedges' father.
    “And he says, spotted at my gym.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Pixels: Pixels began as a viral visual-effects short whose maker got paid millions and had no stake in the film; it became Adam Sandler doing Ghostbusters and was the last wide Happy Madison release.
    “And then there was this massive studio bidding war.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:49:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Daddy's Home 2: Emily Yoshida's review of Daddy's Home 2 about watching an audience watch it, and the missing comma in the title.
    “If ever a comedy sequel demanded a comma, TOO, and didn't get it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 2:00:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about George Miller: Next miniseries announced: George Miller, filmography including a Babe sequel, two Happy Feet, four Mad Maxes, Lorenzo's Oil and The Witches of Eastwick.
    “Two happy feet. Four Mad Maxes.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 2:02:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

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