Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as composer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they scored, which the two lists below run through too: La La Land (2016); Trolls (2016); The Greatest Showman (2017); Dear Evan Hansen.

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.

Adventure Time (TV series): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Trolls (2016), which they scored: Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation.
    “So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Shrek (2001): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Trolls (2016), which they scored: Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents.
    “this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Toy Story 2 (1999): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Trolls (2016), which they scored: Toy Story 2 ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Branch's grandmother backstory is likened to Jessie's flashback in Toy Story 2.
    “they like try to do the like Jesse Toy Story 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:44:03 · 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.

Babylon (2022): 1 line

  1. craft (score reuse) · through La La Land (2016), which they scored: La La Land ⇒ Babylon (the host's read). The Babylon score is said to reappropriate music from La La Land's dream ballet.
    “This is like very much from the dream ballet of La Land, this music and the score.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:57:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Music (4) everyone in music

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Benj Pasek and Justin Paul → The Greatest Showman. Trolls' one original song, Get Back Up Again, was by Pasek and Paul, who also wrote Greatest Showman, La La Land and Dear Evan Hansen.
    “the infernal craftsman behind a lot of the greatest showman and Lala Land and a lot of other things, dear Evan Hansen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:12:51 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Benj Pasek and Justin Paul → Trolls. The speaker says the one original song Pasek and Paul wrote for Trolls sounds like all their other songs.
    “It sounds like all their other songs.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:13:10 · unclear (Griffin Newman, David Sims or Richard Lawson) (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.