Mike Mitchell

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983). Count them as director (8 films), craft (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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.

Casablanca (1942): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca.
    “The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Revenge of the Sith: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Revenge of the Sith ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Lucas added a 'No' to Vader's turn in Jedi that matches Revenge of the Sith.
    “same fucking no from the end of Avenge of the Sith.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:13:31 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Star Wars (A New Hope): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars (A New Hope) ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Leia pulls the Chewbacca-in-manacles disguise trick from A New Hope when infiltrating Jabba's palace.
    “pulling the same trick that they pulled in New Hope, that like Chewbacca in Manacles trick.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first.
    “We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sydney Greenstreet: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read). Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet.
    “He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Phantom Menace (1999): 3 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). Sees seeds planted in Jedi that bloom in the prequels.
    “you see the things, the mechanations starting to come into place a little bit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:08:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). The Obi-Wan log scene starts the over-explanation that typifies the prequels.
    “tiptoe towards the problems of the Phantom Madness trilogy, whereas, like, where it's all explained out loud.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 0:58:53 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read). Ewok guerrilla tactics echo the Gungan thing in Phantom Menace, though that one is far worse.
    “And it just sort of reminds you of the Gungen thing, which is way worse, but is in the same, like, ballpark.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:08:02 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Lego Star Wars: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ Lego Star Wars (the host's read). Lego game levels from Jedi are always fun; the prequels' plot-heavy levels play less well.
    “weirdly, like Return of the Jedi levels are always really fun to play.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:31:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Revenge of the Sith: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ Revenge of the Sith (the host's read). The Emperor in Jedi sits in a chair saying roughly the same things as in the identical-chair scene in Revenge of the Sith.
    “he's basically saying most of the same thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast (Ad-Free) · 1:11:34 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

The Incredibles (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983), which they were tied to as podcaster (Doughboys), fan of the rancor keeper: Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Incredibles (the host's read). The speeder bike forest chase is a clear inspiration for the Incredibles chase.
    “This is such a big inspiration too, clearly, on the Incredibles chase sequence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:02:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (10) everyone in directing

Craft (1) everyone in craft

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Trolls co-director Mike Mitchell made his feature debut with Deuce Bigalow rather than a family film.
    “Trolls is directed by the same man who directed Deuce Bigelow, Male Gigolo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:50:11 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Surviving Christmas. His follow-up was Surviving Christmas, released in October so it would be on DVD by Christmas.
    “Yes. He falls up with surviving Christmas.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:50:26 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Shrek Forever After. He came back to DreamWorks as a story artist on the Shrek sequels and then directed the fourth film.
    “comes back into the fold at DreamWorks, uh, doing story artist shit for the Shrek sequels”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:51:03 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Sky High. Sky High is called the sweet spot: live action that feels like a cartoon.
    “It's like live action that feels like a cartoon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:52:29 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Mike Mitchell → The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie / sequel (second SpongeBob film). Mitchell directed the live-action Antonio Banderas scenes in the second SpongeBob movie.
    “directs the Antonio Bendera stuff in the SpongeBob sequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:52:38 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. After Shrek 4 he made Chipwrecked, back in hybrid live-action/animation mode, then Trolls.
    “He's back in hybrid mode, and then does trolls.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:52:57 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Kung Fu Panda. The Trolls screenwriters had written Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Chipwrecked, two SpongeBob movies, Monster Trucks and Trolls 2: franchise-fixers.
    “the screeners of this film wrote Kung Fu Panda, Monsters versus Aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:56:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Mike Mitchell: Surviving Christmas was a known bomb released in the first week of October to be on DVD by Christmas.
    “They knew it was such a bomb that they released it the 1st week of October”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:50:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)