Marie Bardi

5 sketches, 4 claims, and 1 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–5 of 5 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) (guest)

Loves the film's stripped-down craft and sound; draws on her advertising career for how the client reads. Her favorite Fincher film is Gone Girl; she is a Fincher-series fan who liked Alien 3 and Panic Room.

Stances

  • The sound design demands a theater
  • The ending's twitch means he is itching to get back to the job
  • The client scene reflects advertising

Humor: Warm, quick asides and self-deprecating tangents.

In their words

  • “That he's just itching to get back to doing his job.” (1:42:15)
  • “I actually really liked Alien 3.” (2:05:23)

Blank Check — Patreon: David Fincher Music Videos (guest)

Madonna devotee with film-school training (NYU Cinema Studies), loves Alien 3 and the Fincher-Madonna videos, picks Bad Girl as her new discovery. Likes music-video visual gags and tiny people.

Stances

  • Madonna videos are the pinnacle
  • Bad Girl is the best discovery
  • Was not a Beavis and Butt-Head kid, watched Daria

Humor: Quick, straight-faced reactions.

In their words

  • “I did watch Daria.” (0:03:25)
  • “Did you know that when I was a student at NYU Department of Cinema Studies in our film theory class, we had an entire lecture devoted to Madonna's iconography.” (1:08:29)
  • “I'm going to rate my number one new discovery, and that is Madonna's bad girl.” (2:26:55)

Blank Check — Patreon: OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) (guest)

Marie Bardi handles the show's social media and joins the screening with dog-themed props. She asks the practical questions about logistics, counts the Oscar nominees, and gets scared at the gorilla scene.

Stances

  • Wants the logistics to make sense
  • Counts the Oscar nominees

Humor: Earnest literal questions that expose the plot holes.

In their words

  • “So I bought, I brought props that were dog related.” (0:24:57)
  • “As a straight woman, I would say it would be a turnoff for me to go to a guy's apartment and see a bunch of swords.” (0:53:32)

Blank Check — Patreon: 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT (guest)

Runs the bracket software and deletes suspicious votes. Predicts Mel Brooks. Not stated much beyond this.

Stances

  • Bracket integrity
  • Predicts Brooks

Humor: Dry and dutiful.

In their words

  • “Mel Brooks.” (0:29:36)

Blank Check — Patreon: March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 (guest)

Producer who keeps the bracket numbers; sympathetic to Eastwood voices and robot Rocky. Surname not given in transcript.

Stances

  • Master of the bracket

Humor: Quick deadpan sidebars.

In their words

  • “you're the master of the bracket here” (0:03:21)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–4 of 4 claims.

  1. craft (style echo): Bop Till You Drop (Rick Springfield video) → Alien 3. Marie notes the Springfield video already has industrial, alien-like imagery a decade before Alien 3.
    “I was like, oh, wait, so he was already sort of doing... Industrial... Industrial... alien stuff like 10 years prior.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:06:19 · Marie Bardi (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (visual homage): Josef von Sternberg → Madonna. A host says the Madonna-Fincher videos tap into a golden-age Hollywood, Dietrich and von Sternberg vibe.
    “they're tapping into, like, a golden age of Hollywood slash Marlena Dietrich von Sternberg vibe.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:08:51 · Marie Bardi (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Old Dogs → Jerry Maguire. The sports-marketing partners are likened to Jerry Maguire.
    “So they're Jerry Maguires?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:53:46 · Marie Bardi (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): A Christmas Carol → The Polar Express. A guess that the answer is Polar Express is rejected; Christmas Carol is the other Zemeckis frozen-faced animation.
    “It's the Polar Express?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:54:45 · Marie Bardi (0.70 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–1 of 1 fun item.

  1. fun, about Blank Check (the movie): Marie reports the movie Blank Check was a favorite of Michael Jackson's.
    “blank check was one of Michael Jackson's favorite films when he was alive.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:44:39 · Marie Bardi (0.50 sure it was them)