Blank Check with Griffin & David: Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David” and the episode “Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Hillary Busis.

Subject films: Look Who's Talking (1989).

On the transcript: Auto-transcript with mangled proper names, some crosstalk and several mid-episode ad reads (Video Game Town, Audible Dracula, Mubi) that were skipped. Speakers are unlabeled so most host attributions carry modest confidence.

Films that came up

Claims (54)

unmapped (blank check): Chris Sanders → Lilo & Stitch. Sanders directed the Disney hit and his follow-up was the unmade American Dog.
“Chris Saunders, director of Lilo and Stitch, which is a huge hit for Disney, develops his, like, blank check follow-up project”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (creative conflict): Bolt → Chris Sanders. Sanders's weird American Dog idea was killed when Lasseter took over Disney and demanded Bolt be Buzz Lightyear as a dog.
“Lassiter takes over Disney and immediately is like, this is too weird, fires him”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:05:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (character echo): Bolt → Toy Story 2. Susie Essman's cat is exactly Jesse from Toy Story 2.
“the cat is exactly the same as Jesse from Toy Story 2.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:05:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (bad performance): Hairspray → John Travolta. Hairspray is nearly perfect except for one radioactive performance, Travolta's.
“I think that movie is like a 9.8 out of 10. And then it has one radioactive performance.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:06:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (spinoff): Look Who's Talking → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Heckerling made three films that spawned TV shows, including Clueless and Fast Times.
“Amy Heckerling has created 3 films that spawn TV shows.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:14:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (roman a clef): Look Who's Talking → Harold Ramis. Kirstie Alley's character Molly shares a name with Heckerling's daughter and echoes Ramis's leave-my-wife promise.
“Kirsty Alli's character is named Molly. Amy Heckerling and Harold Ramos's illegitimate daughter is named Molly.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:21:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career recovery): Look Who's Talking → Johnny Dangerously. Heckerling came off two disappointments, Johnny Dangerously and European Vacation, and needed a can't-miss hit.
“she was basically coming off of 2 things that didn't help her career and was like, I need a movie that's a can't miss hit.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:23:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (autobiographical): Look Who's Talking → Harold Ramis. The speakers say the film is Heckerling's personal grievance about Ramis, who fathered her daughter Molly while Neil Israel believed the child was his.
“The child that Neil Israel thought was his own was actually the byproduct of a years-long affair that she had had with Harold Ramos.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:24:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career arc): John Travolta → Matthew McConaughey. Travolta was never in the wilderness; he was like pre-McConaissance McConaughey, a bankable rom-com star not respected.
“I think it is closer to pre-ma connaissance, Matthew McConaughey.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:26:52 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career pivot): Look Who's Talking Now → Pulp Fiction. Now came out a year before Pulp Fiction; it is the sort of film you make before saying fine to a weird guy's script.
“Look who's talking now is the kind of movie that you make where you're like, fine, I'll be the heroin addict in that weird guy's fucking script, I guess.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:27:40 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (difficult shoot): National Lampoon's European Vacation → Chevy Chase. Heckerling had a miserable experience; Chase is said to be hard on collaborators.
“Whereas everyone who's ever worked on Chevy Chase immediately walks offset and into inpatient treatment.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:38:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career avoidance): Look Who's Talking → Fast Times at Ridgemont High. After Fast Times she refused to be pigeonholed in female teen sex comedies, leading to Johnny Dangerously.
“I don't want to get pigeonholed into the like female coming of age teen sex comedy.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (aspiration): Look Who's Talking → Mean Streets. Heckerling saw the hit potential but wanted to make something like Mean Streets, not a cute family movie.
“I can see how this would be a hit, but I kind of want to do like mean streets.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:41:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (alternative offer): Look Who's Talking → The Whoopie Boys. Heckerling was offered The Whoopie Boys at Paramount and chose talking baby over it.
“I don't want to do the whoopie boys, and I don't want to do talking baby, but talking baby, it is.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:42:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (marketing): Look Who's Talking → Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The big baby head plus the title sells the movie in one image the way Honey I Shrunk the Kids does.
“the big baby head and look who's talking as the title in a very honey, I shrunk the kid's way where you're like, you've told me everything I need to know.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:43:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (pregnancy-movie problem): Look Who's Talking → Knocked Up. Pregnancy comedies like Knocked Up and Juno are structurally unable to let the character abort, and the film too felt progressive for 1989 in this regard.
“there's always a problem with any pregnancy movies, a problem with knocked up as a problem with Juno”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:50:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
career (career enabler): Look Who's Talking → Clueless. The hit rescued Heckerling's career and so gave us Clueless.
“she kind of rescued her entire career, and because of that, we get clueless”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:51:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (joke): Look Who's Talking → He's Just Not That Into You. Molly stays in love with Segal; nobody had yet written 'he's just not that into you' and the reply credits Greg Behrendt.
“Well, nobody had written, he's just not that into you yet.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:51:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (recurring collaborator): Twink Caplan → Clueless. Caplan is a regular in Heckerling's movies and co-producer, and becomes a teacher in Clueless.
“A regular in all of her movies and also becomes like a co-producer on her movies.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:51:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (meet-cute guess): John Travolta → Kelly Preston. Preston is in Two of a Kind, so the speakers guess that is where they met.
“That film has Kelly Preston in it. So my guess is where they met.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:53:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (peak performance): Get Shorty → John Travolta. The speaker calls Get Shorty their favorite Travolta movie-star performance, quiet and controlled.
“I do think that is my single favorite Travolta movie star performance.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:57:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (tonal twin): Michael → Phenomenon. Michael is the comedy version; Phenomenon is the serious, saccharine one.
“Michael's a comedy version. Phenomenon is like flowers for Algebron.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:58:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (resemblance): Phenomenon → Flowers for Algernon. Phenomenon, with its lightning-struck genius dying of brain illness, is compared to Flowers for Algernon.
“Phenomenon is like flowers for Algebron.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (favorite role): Kirstie Alley → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The speaker likes Alley best as Saavik in Wrath of Khan.
“I guess I like her the most as Savik in the great film. Star Trek 2 the wrath of Con.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:04:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (childhood memory): Kirstie Alley → It Takes Two. Hillary knew Alley mostly from the Olsen twins movie, which also starred Steve Guttenberg.
“I knew Kierstiali mostly from It Takes Two, the Olsen Twins movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:06:53 · Hillary Busis (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (TV-to-film trap): Kirstie Alley → Ted Danson. Both had a big movie hit and then could not sustain a film career.
“there were these cases like her and Ted Danson, where like they do it. They have a big hit.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:10:40 · Hillary Busis (0.30 sure it was them)
theme (character comparison): Kirstie Alley → Look Who's Talking. Her Cheers character is a man-written career woman chasing rich men; the film writes the same character with intelligence and compassion.
“this feels like the same character boat written like intelligently and compassionately.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (casting trivia): Don Davis → Twin Peaks. The OBGYNs are Major Briggs from Twin Peaks and the Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files.
“Don Davis plays the OBGNYN who's like your your clock is ticking. Major Briggs and cigarettes. And then cigarette smoking man”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:24:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (baby aging): Look Who's Talking → Peanuts. Mikey's age inconsistency is compared to Linus and Rugrats babies aging.
“It's so similar to when Linus got rerun in Peanuts”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:34:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (dog-talks hook): Look Who's Talking Now → Rugrats Go Wild. Both use talking dogs as a hook, and Bruce Willis voices the dog in Rugrats Go Wild.
“The new hook, much like look who's talking now, is for the 1st time we can hear the dog talk.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:35:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (voice cameo habit): Look Who's Talking → Over the Hedge. Willis's voice side gigs make Look Who's Talking the first of several voice jobs.
“he has multiple like voice performances because he's also in Beavis and Butthead”
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unmapped (voice work): Bruce Willis → Over the Hedge. Willis took the voice role Jim Carrey left; the speakers say voice work is his last comedy outlet.
“if it's just my voice, they'll let me be funny Bruno.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:37:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
people (method actor): Jim Carrey → Horton Hears a Who!. Carrey refused animation's stop-start recording and had to be promised no pickups on Horton.
“they like promised him on Horton, hears a clue that they wouldn't do any pickups.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:38:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
contrast (pilot contrast): John Travolta → Harrison Ford. Travolta dresses as a pilot while Ford flies small crashable planes.
“unlike Harrison Ford when Travolta flies planes, he wears a little pilot outfit.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:44:57 · Hillary Busis (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (authorship contrast): Michael Mann → Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ben Hosley's line quoted from a Reddit comment contrasts a one-person Michael Mann film with Marvel's committee films.
“when I watch a Michael Mann movie, I can tell this was made by one person, Marvel movies aren't made by one person”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:48:56 · Ben Hosley (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (authorship): Look Who's Talking → Amy Heckerling. Griffin ties the show's criterion that a director's movies reflect one person to this film, which feels personal despite studio calculation.
“everything about this feels like it was made by one person.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:49:39 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (bizarre line reading): The Master Builder (Jonathan Demme film) → Wallace Shawn. Shawn's 'come in' from a hospice bed is called the most bizarre line delivery in cinema.
“It is the most bizarre line delivering the history of cinema”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:53:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (good-with-kids oscar): Dustin Hoffman → Kramer vs. Kramer. Hoffman's Oscar partly rests on being believably good with a child; Travolta gets the same benefit.
“I genuinely think it is a huge part of Dustin Hoffman fucking winning the Kramer versus Kramer, Oscar.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:57:50 · Hillary Busis (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): Look Who's Talking → Baby's Day Out. The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out.
“I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (TV cut): Look Who's Talking → Look Who's Talking Too. The Look Who's Talking Too TV cut reportedly adds 20 minutes of restored scenes.
“look who's talking to has one of those like weird fabled, the TV cut of the movie has 20 extra minutes in it.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:02:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
unmapped (reboot obstacle): Look Who's Talking → Baby Geniuses. Baby Geniuses bombing may have shown the audience appetite for talking babies had run out.
“Well, like baby geniuses was a pretty big bomb.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:03:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (box office legs): Look Who's Talking → Barbie. Number one for five straight weeks with similar takes, compared to the cultural impact of Barbie.
“it was like the Barbie of its moments.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:06:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (weekend rival): Look Who's Talking → Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Halloween 5 opened at number two on LWT's opening weekend.
“It is Halloween 5, the revenge of Michael Myers.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:07:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (comeback): Sea of Love → Al Pacino. The hosts hold Sea of Love as Pacino's quiet comeback, number three that weekend.
“we both hold the importance of Sea of Love as a comeback moment for Pacino.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:08:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (TV star vehicle): An Innocent Man → Tom Selleck. Selleck plays an airline mechanic framed by crooked cops in a Peter Yates thriller.
“he plays an airline mechanic sent to prison when framed by crooked police officers.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:09:49 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
people (director): Black Rain → Ridley Scott. The foreign-underworld cop thriller is Ridley Scott's Black Rain with Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia.
“It's Ridley Scott's Black Reign with Michael Douglas.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:11:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar nomination): The Fabulous Baker Boys → Michelle Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer joins the Bridges brothers' lounge act and got a nomination.
“Michelle Pfeiffer plays like the new lady they hire for her act who sort of gets in the in between them romantically.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:12:24 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (genre neighbor): Parenthood → Look Who's Talking. Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies.
“There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (motherhood film): Tully → Look Who's Talking. Tully was treated as a novelty for tackling early motherhood but its twist hurts it.
“That movie just shouldn't have a twist.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:15:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (visual style): Uncle Buck → Fritz Lang. An anonymous commenter said Uncle Buck has the mise en scene of a 1940s Fritz Lang film noir.
“why does Uncle Buck have the mise en scene of a 1940s Fritz Lang Fox Noir”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:15:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (box office record): Look Who's Talking → Kramer vs. Kramer. The film became Columbia's highest-grossing overseas film, passing Kramer vs. Kramer.
“This was conclusively Columbia's highest grossing film overseas. They had never had a film, performed this well outside of America. It usurped Kramer versus Kramer.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:16:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel): Look Who's Talking → Look Who's Talking Too. The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet.
“Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (post-credit shock): Look Who's Talking → Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The Joan Rivers end-credit reveal is likened to Clea appearing in Doctor Strange's credits.
“as shocking as Joan Rivers voicing a baby at the end of look who's talking.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:21:22 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (release pace): Look Who's Talking Too → Scream 2. Too came out about a year later at a Scream 2-like pace.
“Made at a scream two-esque pace.”
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Fun items (24)

fun, about Look Who's Talking poster: The poster promises the baby has John Travolta's smile, though Travolta is not the baby's father, and the film says he has only George Segal's eyes; Willis's voice is the real inheritance.
“I don't know where he got that since John Travolta ain't his daddy, which this poster is misrepresenting.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:01:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Bolt: Travolta's second-highest worldwide grosser is Disney's Bolt, which was the rewritten, normalized version of Chris Sanders's weirder road-trip animal movie.
“It is Disney's Bolt, which made 328 million dollars worldwide.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:04:37 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about John Travolta: Griffin's mother described Travolta as bovine; she meant the face, not the size.
“I think his face looks like the face of a cow.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:08:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: Original title was Daddy's Home; the studio pitch worked because the talking baby hook sold a woman's story, a Trojan horse for a personal movie.
“The film was originally called Daddy's Home.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:43:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Amy Heckerling: She handwrites scripts, lives on the Upper West Side with her mother, and stays up until 5 a.m. with coffee; a New York Times piece asked why nobody greenlights her anymore.
“stays up until 5 o'clock in the morning drinking coffee and handwriting scripts.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:46:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: Highest-grossing film worldwide in Columbia history at the time and Travolta's biggest since Grease; made on about $8 million, $4 million of it to Travolta and Alley, grossing about $300 million worldwide.
“$8000000 movie that my 300000000 worldwide.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:47:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Kirstie Alley and John Travolta: Alley called Travolta the greatest love of her life; during their first kiss on screen he kept breaking into Streisand singing Papa, Can You Hear Me.
“Travolta kept breaking out into a Barbara Streisand impression, singing, Papa, can you hear me from Yentl?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:49:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: Mikey was played by four babies; Bruce Willis was shown footage and told to riff.
“Mikey, the baby, was played by 4 different babies.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:49:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: The dialogue was dubbed over footage of babies; Willis got a cut of the gross and about $10 million, and there was almost nothing for him to do but riff.
“Bruce Willis. got a percentage of the box office for his role.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:49:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: The sperm were vinyl with little fishing weights dropped in a tank with an underwater cameraman.
“they sperm was a vinyl sperm and little fishing weights, and they dumped it in a tank and they had an underwater cameraman.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:50:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: Sony considered Travolta box office poison and was afraid to release it, until it tested very well.
“They considered Travolta box office poison.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:51:34 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: A plagiarism suit over a movie called Special Delivery was settled amicably.
“which was called special delivery, uh, settled amicably.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:51:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: See the chair-panning shot in which the camera pans over a chair as music builds: a bungle that became an evergreen meme template.
“They've made it so fucking easy for us to put anything on the back of a chair and laugh and laugh.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:18:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: The scene where the baby gets high from his mom's Demerol, and the speakers note epidurals would be the era-correct treatment.
“The whole point of the epidural was like, that's so we don't pump drugs into your veins.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:19:42 · Hillary Busis (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: The Chubby Charles mascot/branding line sounds like Chevy Chase when said repeatedly; a conspiracy theory that Heckerling meant it.
“And she keeps saying it and it starts to sound like Chevy Chase.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:23:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: The two OBGYNs are Major Briggs and Cigarette Smoking Man, and the jokes riff that CSM gives her the Demerol.
“Maybe he's being nefarious. trying to create a breed of stoned babies.”
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fun, about Rugrats Go Wild: The third Rugrats movie crosses over with the Wild Thornberries so the dog can finally talk, voiced by Bruce Willis.
“Because Eliza Thornbury famously can talk to animals. And who plays the voice of the dog? Bruce Willis?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:35:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Jim Carrey: Carrey told Katzenberg he couldn't do a method role with one animation session every four months, so Willis replaced him on Over the Hedge.
“I'm a method actor. I can't do this process of one animation record session every 4 months.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:36:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Amy Heckerling: Hillary is invited to theorize that Mikey's first word, dada, is a science fact because it is easier to say.
“kid always says data first. Because it's easier to say, right?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:55:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking Too: Tells that a blank-check pitch to remake: prequel set in the Renaissance, 'Look Who Hath Been Talking'.
“Look who hath been talking.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:02:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: Travolta pitched stunt casting the baby with a local Bruce Willis analog in each country, putting their name above the title.
“you should stunt cast the baby in every country.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:17:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: Heckerling first suggested Tommy Smothers to voice the baby; the studio wanted someone people care about.
“her 1st suggestion for the voice of the baby was Tommy Smothers”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:17:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking Too: The TV cut of Too reportedly adds 20 minutes, and Mel Brooks voicing a toilet is the speakers' memory-best performance.
“Look who's talking to might be the funniest movie ever made. If Mel Brooks is voicing a toilet.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:18:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Look Who's Talking: The shot that took 115 takes was Mikey playing with his placenta, requiring 12 puppeteers hanging upside down.
“We had one shot that took us 115 takes to get. It was Little Mikey playing with his placenta.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:22:20 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Griffin Newman (host): Loves puppet-baby and in-utero comedy, rewatching movies on Letterboxd, and weird Blu-ray ephemera. He is a Shelley Long Cheers loyalist who was cool on Kirstie Alley until this movie, and has a parent's eye on infant safety. He prefers movies that feel made by one person.
David Sims (host): Film critic who loves studio-era comeback stories (Sea of Love), Travolta in Get Shorty, and box-office archaeology. Dislikes Travolta's bad instincts, such as Hairspray. Loves the opening-weekend charts, and has strong opinions about Chevy Chase stories.
Hillary Busis (guest): Vanity Fair senior editor and mother of two who had never seen Look Who's Talking as a kid; Disney Channel kid who knows the sequels. She enjoyed it as a breezy watch and gets annoyed by crib and Demerol logic. She watched mid-90s Manhattan sitcoms as a child.

The show's recurring bits

The box office game: Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against.
The sung theme: "Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it.

Names the transcriber got wrong

Harold Dramus / Ramus → Harold Ramis
Siegel / Seagull → George Segal
Kirsty Alley / Alli / Ali → Kirstie Alley
A Vagoda / Dagoda / Ava Goda → Abe Vigoda
Olympia Dukaucus / Olympiacock → Olympia Dukakis
Kirsty Alli's hair/Kierstiali → Kirstie Alley
Twin / Twink Kaplan → Twink Caplan
Todd Masters → probably correct; 'works event later on' unclear
Chris Saunders / Lassiter → Chris Sanders / John Lasseter
Chubby Charlie's / Chubby Checkers → Chubby Charles (as corrected by speaker)
Pope fiction → Pulp Fiction
Greece → Grease
Heckling / Hackerling → Heckerling
Neil H. Moore → Neal H. Moritz
Jeremy Gerelick → Jeremy Garelick
Martin Prest → Martin Brest
Wallace John → Wallace Shawn
Christopher Seber / Schieber → Christopher Sieber
Harry Mentality → When Harry Met Sally
Goodeau → unknown name, a screening no-show
Jane Schoenburn → Jane Schoenbrun
Alexander Chaplin / Sin City / Spin City

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis

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compared (23)

recommended (5)

Claims (54)

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Who's talking

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong