Donkey Kong
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Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
King Kong: 1 line unmapped ×1
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unmapped (legal anecdote):
Donkey Kong → King Kong.
Nintendo escaped a Universal suit because nobody had registered King Kong, and Nintendo got the Donkey Kong trademark first.
“and they checked and they did not.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:19:45 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- anecdote in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang, first at 0:19:25, 3 times
What was said about it, by kind
unmapped (1)
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unmapped (legal anecdote):
Donkey Kong → King Kong.
Nintendo escaped a Universal suit because nobody had registered King Kong, and Nintendo got the Donkey Kong trademark first.
“and they checked and they did not.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:19:45 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
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fun, about
Donkey Kong:
Nintendo almost got sued by Universal over Donkey Kong; someone checked and found nobody had registered King Kong, so Nintendo got the Donkey Kong trademark first.
“No one had registered King Kong.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 0:19:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Nintendo: studio/company (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang)