Griffin Newman

96 sketches, 1,162 claims, and 605 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–20 of 96 sketches.

Blank Check with Griffin & David: The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie (host)

Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness.

Stances

  • Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version
  • Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus
  • Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

Humor: Riffs and character bits on the Willem de ___ names and ongoing running gags.

In their words

  • “I find the ending so incredibly movie.” (0:19:45)
  • “This is my 1st time watching.” (0:26:27)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: The Color of Money with Chris Ryan (host)

Loves quirky or deep-cut cinema and playful franchise lore (Muppets, Species, Pink Panther sequels), and enjoys the abjectly stressful pool-hall world. Is a sucker for movie-star mannerisms and for fan trivia. Cannot stand Cars 2 or Zemeckis's Pinocchio.

Stances

  • Color of Money is a stabilizer, not a pure paycheck gig
  • Cars is bad and indefensible; Cars 2 is worse
  • Wants Lorraine Bracco redeemed via a Goodfellas episode
  • Adds stabilizer to the Blank Check lexicon

Humor: Rapid pop-culture riffing and running bits, playing unpredictably with franchise absurdities and mock-serious proposals.

In their words

  • “But stabilizer is a term we haven't used before. And you're right. Let's add it to the lexicon” (0:19:50)
  • “Cars is Doc Hollywood basically beat for beat.” (0:07:08)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: After Hours with Alison Sivitz (host)

Treats After Hours as a personal vibe movie and loves oddball details, Scorsese lore and downtown New York. Fond of Pee-wee and Griffin Dunn, plays bits about being named after Dunn. Cannot stand wasteful nostalgia and hates auto-flush toilets.

Stances

  • After Hours is a downtown, very Griffin movie
  • Modern remakes fail because phones and piled-up incident ruin it
  • Wicked 2 killed Wicked

Humor: Deadpan bits that run on, mock outrage, and wordplay about the Griffin theme.

In their words

  • “This movie also, let's just say, is very much reflective of my temperament.” (0:07:22)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Raging Bull with David Krumholtz (host)

A film completist who loves the weird 1980 corners of the box office and the Scorsese-De Niro dynamic. Cannot stand Jimmy Doyle as a date and worries about Hollywood executives. A sucker for obscure titles and good trivia and for Casavetes.

Stances

  • Raging Bull is a funny tragedy
  • Studio decisions based on metrics are ruining movies
  • Scorsese uses comedy to implicate the audience

Humor: Playful, riffing, bit-prone, with running gags like Hollywood 3.0.

In their words

  • “We've coined Hollywood 3.0 today for to describe just like the fucking nonsense that goes on day to day.” (0:13:41)
  • “The problem is those people who make the decisions now are like, it's like saber metrics.” (1:35:40)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman (host)

He came to the film bored at 14 (no monsters or puppets) and now respects it without it being his kind of movie; he adores Peter Weir's craft, Pirates of the Caribbean-era trivia and Oscar and career-arc analysis. He is a sucker for genre-bending Weir details and franchise history.

Stances

  • Revisited the film and understands its value though it is not innately his kind
  • Pirates of the Caribbean hurt this movie
  • Insists on playing the box office game
  • Weir is a patient director

Humor: Self-deprecating, quick riffs, bits about his own childhood tastes.

In their words

  • “It is innately not my kind of film, but I was not disengaged from it in the way I was as a 14 year old.” (0:36:16)
  • “I saw this in theaters.” (0:33:36)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Fearless with Timothy Simons (host)

Loves physical media, 4K steelbooks, and calling unlikely films masterpieces. Prone to over-planning and lateness. An anxious flyer who relies on Klonopin and researches crashes. Has a blind spot for studio comedies he has not seen.

Stances

  • Fearless is excellent but not a three-hour oil-drilling episode
  • movies are great again
  • Small Soldiers and Sliver defended as masterpieces by friends

Humor: Rapid-fire riffs, self-roasts, and elaborate hypothetical bits.

In their words

  • “They announce they announce small soldiers 4K steel book. and I go, obviously, inarguable masterpiece.” (1:00:59)
  • “I only see masterpieces.” (2:27:21)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Fargo with Zach Cregger (host)

A heavy researcher who comes with a 'dossier' of production history, interview quotes and box-office data, and loves Coens details, McDormand and Macy's performances, and deep-cut trivia. He is a sucker for the Mike Yanagita scene and the film's tonal balance, and delights in the weekly box-office game.

Stances

  • Fargo is the best encapsulation of the Coens, the way Blue Velvet is of Lynch
  • Macy should have been nominated for lead
  • Searches for essays-worthy meaning in the editing choices
  • Defends Jurassic Park III

Humor: Dry, bit-driven, and loves a running gag about podcast mechanics and Ben.

In their words

  • “I'm going to open the dossier now” (0:40:11)
  • “directing is about tone management.” (0:32:35)
  • “Okay, now I need to sidebar here for a 2nd because David and I are both Jurassic Park 3 defenders” (1:19:12)

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

Stances

  • The in-utero Mikey is peak comedy and the infant middle is lazy
  • Authorship is the show's central criterion for a director
  • Rebecca-era Cheers was a shadow of the show

Humor: Escalating riffs and tangents (Rugrats connections, Renaissance prequel pitch) delivered in dry mock-formal register.

In their words

  • “I think this is both such a good movie star performance from him and such a great example of what I would call a movie star movie” (0:37:06)
  • “everything about this feels like it was made by one person.” (1:49:39)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri (host)

Passionate about Spielberg's autobiographical psychology and Oscar-race history; loves Lincoln, Catch Me If You Can, ensemble casts, and Malkovich as a flavor. Cannot stand Always and Spielberg's pure comedies; a sucker for deep-dive trivia and dossier research.

Stances

  • Empire is a very good movie where Spielberg starts subverting his own style
  • Fabelmans explains Spielberg's trauma
  • 1941 and Always are weak spots
  • Spielberg suffers from being compared to his own canon

Humor: Self-aware riffs, callbacks, and long absurd comparisons (sun-dried tomatoes on a sandwich), plus bits about Ben's resolutions.

In their words

  • “I think this movie's excellent.” (0:38:38)
  • “He's sun dried tomatoes on a sandwich.” (0:01:21)
  • “I do not have a single happy memory of my childhood.” (1:52:20)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis (host)

Came to Indiana Jones late, via box sets before Crystal Skull, and prefers Last Crusade for its silent-comedy streak, with reservations about Temple of Doom. Fascinated by how movies were made and by fandom history; a sucker for Spielberg staging, action craft and comics-era nostalgia.

Stances

  • Raiders is a lightning-in-a-bottle movie the sequels cannot recapture
  • Modern action imitators reverse-engineer surface elements
  • Treats Crystal Skull as half working

Humor: Does self-aware impressions and cranky-David riffs, mixes film nerd rigor with asides.

In their words

  • “Whereas I think, you know, David and I always felt like weird kids were we were paying attention to this at a time when like people were not.” (0:17:08)
  • “I'm Griffin.” (0:06:37)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff (host)

He is the first-time Return viewer on this episode, so his taste shows in reactions: he loves Lynch's plainness, simple low-tech tricks and the sense that reality is ripping apart. He wants spoiler-free viewing, the proper Criterion/box-set version, and cannot stand being told to read recaps. A sucker for bits and for a gift-worthy game of ratings guessing.

Stances

  • Wants to be unspoiled and refuses to read recaps or the behind-the-scenes documentary yet
  • Treats Part 8 as hypnotic and nearly unsummarizable until the others explain it
  • Believes in extended bits (Wonka 2, Gethard cut) over discussion

Humor: He builds long running bits and follows riffs to absurd conclusions, sometimes holding straight faces.

In their words

  • “I'm going to ask dumb questions because you guys have been thinking on these things for years, if not decades, and I'm new to all of this, right?” (1:09:38)
  • “I felt like I, as a viewer, had like lost control of my point of view watching.” (0:52:12)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Dune with John Hodgman (host)

Reads the show's research dossier aloud and loves film-history trivia, particularly how directors get hired and what the studios did to them. Identified from lines addressed to him and dossier reads; many individual attributions with David are uncertain. Enjoys the Dune film as a design and sound object.

Stances

  • Dune '84 is fascinating as the one bounce that redirected Lynch's career
  • Respects the dossier's production details over speculation

Humor: Dry riffing and callbacks, running bits with Ben and the dossier-researcher JJ.

In their words

  • “So in the dossier, David.” (1:05:21)
  • “JJ, while we were recording, texted David and I hope the Dune dossier still made sense once you reach the deeper pages, LOL.” (2:29:32)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany (host)

Loves plot-driven noir, weird procedural details (chain mail gloves, pockets, eyedrops) and Park's stranger visual gags. He prepares the director-biography research and box-office game. Is a sucker for bits that run for minutes, like the sand-beach and Wheel of Fortune riffs.

Stances

  • Park's best scenes are the quietly bizarre ones, ten per film
  • Decision to Leave works because the hero cannot see her directly
  • Likes long-running meta bits more than the ad-reads

Humor: Absurdist escalation and puns, running a single detail (chain mail, sand beach) into the ground.

In their words

  • “Okay, so yeah, let's talk about the plot of the movie. Guy falls off a mountain.” (0:54:04)
  • “Oh, can I just Shout out to she, young Kim.” (1:34:01)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak (host)

Treats Sherlock Jr. as a perfect film and loves seeing silent comedy in a theater, where he says it transformed him at CalArts. Prefers Chaplin's One A.M. to his features, and is a sucker for meta jokes about film language and for Cabin Boy-style references. He sours on The Navigator's cannibal-island finale for its racism.

Stances

  • Sherlock Jr. is one of the best movies ever made and a contender for best film covered on the show
  • Certain films must be seen in a theater with an audience
  • Short runtimes of 40 to 50 minutes suit these comedies best
  • The Navigator is Keaton in play-the-hits mode and the racist finale kills it

Humor: Riffs on running bits and pop-culture parallels, then happily trips himself up in his own jokes.

In their words

  • “which, for my money, is still the best thing Chaplain ever did, over his features.” (0:58:42)
  • “you can watch rear window at home and appreciate it.” (1:00:20)
  • “Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick's cabin boy is such a Buster Keaton setup.” (1:51:04)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Wendell & Wild (host)

Loves Selick's visual inventiveness and thinks Wendell & Wild eventually satisfies despite its density; steeped in film-business history and trivia. Defends big sci-fi blockbusters with heavy exposition like Inception and Avatar. Rankings: Nightmare 1, Coraline 2, Peach 3, Wendell & Wild 4, Monkeybone 5.

Stances

  • Wendell & Wild works in spite of itself
  • Netflix botched the release
  • Nightmare edges Coraline on the ranking
  • Monkeybone is an odd, likable bad object

Humor: Riffs on streaming-era absurdity and takes self-aware swipes at the show's own running gags.

In their words

  • “I do think it is cohesive by the end of the movie.” (1:54:06)
  • “I would say it works in spite of itself.” (1:53:03)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Star 80 with Julie Klausner (host)

Respects the craft of Fosse and defends Star 80 as powerful and aware of its own evil, while admitting it nearly unbearable. Loves the structural play of Fosse's films and Alan Ladd-era filmmaker faith. Cannot endorse or recommend Star 80, hates the soundtrack and dwells on true-crime and victim culture.

Stances

  • Star 80 is great but almost unwatchable and not recommendable
  • Fosse is underrated as a filmmaker
  • Fosse hates himself and does not seek forgiveness
  • Ranks Cabaret first with All That Jazz a close second

Humor: Self-deprecating, dark and quick, with pop-culture riffs and jokes about his own podcast.

In their words

  • “I think this movie is like staring into the sun.” (0:04:19)
  • “He, I do think, is incredibly underrated as a as a filmmaker.” (0:05:55)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens (host)

Loves the film's elusive, memory-like childhood section and its refusal to explain itself; is invested in Campion's research quotes and festival lore. Can't stand the bedsheet-to-armpits sex scene and heavy-handed biopic cliches. A sucker for oddball 90s trivia like FX2 and Brian Bosworth.

Stances

  • The film should be a movie, not a three-part TV series
  • Likes biopics that focus on one slice of life
  • Wants to protect young Janet and root for her
  • Collects odd details and quotes from Campion interviews

Humor: Self-deprecating and digressive, jokes about his own obsessions and failures.

In their words

  • “I was so like moonlight pilled watching this movie” (0:20:22)
  • “I just wanted to protect her in this sort of 1st half of the movie.” (0:51:46)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Starman with Katey Rich (host)

Loves classic-Hollywood trivia, obsessive research dossiers, practical effects and the unfussy craft of Bridges' performance. Worships Dean Cundy and wishes he had shot Starman. Cannot stand overstuffed jukebox movies like the Amazon Cinderella. A sucker for Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet and Oscar-clip nostalgia.

Stances

  • Starman is a good dorky movie; the poster and home-video art are bad
  • Cundy would have made it better
  • Carpenter's unsentimental filmmaking helped it age well
  • Coppola should make Megalopolis now

Humor: Riffs on voices, absurd imagined scenes and dad jokes, then goes deep on obscure Hollywood trivia.

In their words

  • “I love a road trip movie.” (1:33:30)
  • “I'm trying to do Jeff Bridges in this movie” (0:04:43)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (host)

Loves a good character-driven film with specificity and is a sucker for franchise action (Mission: Impossible) and spirited bad-movie obsessions. Can't stand Joy and Jason Reitman's tone-deaf fan-service sequels, and gets wary when a movie loses its human focus.

Stances

  • Ricki and the Flash is a good premise executed poorly
  • Defends Tully until its twist
  • Blames some Demme decisions for Ricki's flatness

Humor: Quick pop-culture riffs, fake-announcer bits and absurd puns, often at his own expense.

In their words

  • “Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans.” (0:02:48)
  • “I was like, we need to ban children from films forever.” (0:05:16)

Blank Check with Griffin & David: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang (host)

Loves practical movie-making and visible seams, and gets emotionally floored by sincere pictures like The Farewell and Spirited Away. Cannot stand dense plotting without a map, gun fetishism, and 'Western catharsis'. A sucker for John Wick, Keanu Reeves, heroic dogs, and a perfect sandwich.

Stances

  • Nausicaä is busy and he would like it better in sequence after Lupin, Cagliostro and Sky
  • John Wick: Chapter 3 is the best Wick and one of the year's best
  • Practical animation cheats are charming, not a flaw
  • Dubs are fine and he regrets not using the dub for the plot

Humor: Self-deprecating, tangential, and bit-driven, he tends to run an absurd joke (the Disney Store greeter, Galactus-sized puppeteer) until the others stop him.

In their words

  • “I love practical shit. I love the seams of movie making, you know?” (0:55:15)
  • “this movie doesn't understand that this is fucked up now.” (1:37:12)
  • “I think it's maybe the best work of Keanu's entire career.” (1:50:14)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Big Picture

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 701–800 of 1,162 claims.

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → 1917. The single whistle-blowing sequence in Paths of Glory is more harrowing than all of 1917's unrelenting one-shot.
    “the one whistleblowing sequence with Douglas for me is so much more harrowing and tense than anything in 1917”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:47:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Born on the Fourth of July. The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality.
    “the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Full Metal Jacket. Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart.
    “the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): George Macready → Vincent Price. Macready and Vincent Price were best friends who ran an art gallery in Beverly Hills.
    “he and Vincent Price were best friends, and the 2 of them in Beverly Hills owned an art gallery”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:02:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): The Offer (TV) → The Godfather. The Offer sidelines Talia Shire and Diane Keaton, whose work on The Godfather was tangible.
    “the show is like completely uninterested in like Talia Shire or Diane Keaton”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:34:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. programming (programming): Around the World in 80 Days → Jackie Chan. Number four was a rereleased Best Picture winner; Griffin has seen only the Jackie Chan version.
    “I saw the uh, the Jackie, the Jackie Chan version.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:51:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (title bit): The Killing → Deathbed: The Bed That Eats. Bed of Fear leads to Patton's Deathbed riff and the title debate.
    “one of my favorite routines of yours of all time”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:05:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (title): The Killing → Evil Dead. The Killing as a title is like The Evil Dead; obvious words on a poster.
    “what we talked about with the evil dead”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (drew on his chess life): Stanley Kubrick → The Killing. The speaker says the movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in several ways.
    “I love how much this movie comes out of Kubrick's chess life in multiple ways.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:09:39 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (first real film): Fear and Desire → The Killing. Kubrick disowned Fear and Desire and treated Killer's Kiss as a warm-up, so The Killing is the first film he respects.
    “this is probably the 1st movie, Kubrick respects in his filmography”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:10:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (introduction): Alexander Singer → Stanley Kubrick. Singer introduced Harris to Kubrick.
    “Alexander Singer is a guy he knows who introduces him to Stanley Kubrick”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:11:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (source novel): The Killer Inside Me → Jim Thompson. Kubrick had loved Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, which is why he brought him the Clean Break book.
    “Kubrick, I guess, had loved um, the killer inside me”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:11:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. people (shared writer): Jim Thompson → Paths of Glory. Thompson also wrote Paths of Glory and is a big early Kubrick guy.
    “Jim Thompson writes paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:12:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. what-if (what-if casting): Frank Sinatra → The Killing. Sinatra was negotiating for the book rights, so this was almost a Sinatra picture.
    “So this was almost a Sinatra picture.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:13:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. people (shared cast): The Killing → Crime Wave. Hayden and Carey both appear in Crime Wave and The Killing.
    “he's in crime wave, obviously.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (set the template): James B. Harris → Stanley Kubrick. Harris's hands-off, money-handled arrangement sets the dynamic Kubrick later imposes on every studio.
    “creates the dynamic that Kubrick then extends to the studios with every other picture he makes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:17:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. industry (studio comparison): The Killing → Marty. United Artists compared the film to Marty as a low-budget A picture.
    “United Artists sort of compares it to Marty”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:18:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. craft (documentary style): The Killing → Fear and Desire. The Killing's documentary feel recalls Fear and Desire and Kubrick's earlier work.
    “Fear and desire feels very documentary-esque.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:20:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (trajectory): The Killing → Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick goes from documentary reality to building his own fake New York by Eyes Wide Shut.
    “by the time you get to eyes wide shut and he has no interest in capturing reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. theme (comparison): Timothy Carey → Cage. Cage is offered as a comparison for Carey's expressionistic acting.
    “But Cage is a good comparison too”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:34:43 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  21. people (shared actor): Timothy Carey → Paths of Glory. Carey was crazy on Paths of Glory too and Kubrick eventually fired him.
    “he was crazy when they made paths of glory as well, and eventually Kubrick fired him”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  22. craft (tone comparison): Marie Windsor → Safdie Brothers. The Windsor and Cook marriage scenes are like the Safdies adapting the Lockhorns.
    “if the Softy Brothers adapted the Lockhorns comic into a movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:37:58 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  23. lineage (remake): The Taking of Pelham 123 → The Taking of Pelham 123 (Tony Scott remake). Patton's contrast: the remake needs Denzel Washington, the original has Matthau eating a stale hot dog.
    “you look at the Tony Scott remake, and the guy has to be Denzel Washington”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:42:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (narration): The Killing → Magnolia. The Killing's ominous narrator recalls the Ricky Jay narration that opens Magnolia.
    “it reminds me a lot of the Ricky J narration at the beginning of Magnolia”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:46:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (narration): The Killing → Network. The narrator's too-slick, removed vibe recalls the narrator in Network.
    “I forget who does the narration in network, but he has that same sort of vibe”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:47:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (influence): Murder by Contract → Taxi Driver. Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver.
    “very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  27. people (shared actor): Vince Edwards → Murder by Contract. Val Cannon's actor Vince Edwards also led Murder by Contract.
    “very well-known for murder by contract”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (double bill): The Killing → Bandido. UA released The Killing on a double bill with Bandido.
    “they put it on a double bill with Bandido”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (early reader): Michael Powell → Goodfellas. Powell read the Goodfellas script and wrote Scorsese a letter praising it.
    “he sent the script to Michael Powell of Powell and Pressberger to get his thoughts”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. unmapped (admired): Albert Brooks → Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick reportedly wanted Brooks's notes on Modern Romance, which captured jealousy.
    “I need you Albert Brooks to give me Stanley Kubrick notes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:16:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. theme (same character): Punch-Drunk Love → Big Daddy. The McDonald's scene in Big Daddy is not far from Punch-Drunk Love freak-outs.
    “Is not that far from like Punch Drug Club, like from his weird little freak outs”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:19:45 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (heist gone wrong): The Killing → A Simple Plan. Ben thinks he would have pulled off the heist in both The Killing and A Simple Plan.
    “Pat, when we covered Sam Remi's a simple plan on this movie, Ben texted us”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:29:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. craft (tone): Fear and Desire → The Twilight Zone. The opening narration feels like the Twilight Zone.
    “that intro, narration, despite not making perfect sense, feels very Twilight Zone”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:02:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. unmapped (similar trajectory): Stanley Kubrick → Christopher Nolan. Self-taught path from watching movies to directing, as Nolan did.
    “Like, I mean, Nolan sort of has a similar trajectory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:27:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. lineage (inspiration): Day of the Fight → Killer's Kiss. The boxer short seems to the speaker like an inspiration for Killer's Kiss.
    “Uh, it seems like a bit of, you know, an inspiration for killer's kiss, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:30:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. people (shared cast): Fear and Desire → Killer's Kiss. Frank Silvera is in both films.
    “The cast, Frank Silvera, who's also in Killer's Kiss.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:37:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. unmapped (rough first film): Fear and Desire → Following. Following is the speaker's good example of a rough, interesting debut like this one.
    “Like, well, I think following is a good version of this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss (Ad-Free) · 0:39:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. lineage (lineage): The Lego Batman Movie → Grant Morrison. The film's premise is Morrison's idea that every Batman era is canon, so the goofy and the grim must coexist.
    “which is he did his run where he was like, every single thing that Batman's ever done is canon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:01:43 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  39. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → Team America: World Police. Like Team America, it aims a straight-faced pastiche of live-action blockbuster aesthetics at a toy world.
    “I think this movie has the Team America thing going for it”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:05:29 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  40. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → Jerry Bruckheimer. Its action is played like a Bruckheimer movie, with jokes placed inside as character jokes.
    “Like the joke is kind of treating this all like it's a Bruckheimer movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:05:46 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  41. industry (industry): The Lego Batman Movie → Pixar and modern animation. Modern family animation forces classic Hollywood storytelling and clean emotion, but this one still gets into weird shit.
    “this is the thing I like about Pixar movies and modern animation”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:06:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  42. industry (industry): The Lego Batman Movie → Comedy podcast culture. The cast leans on the comedy-podcast world (Mantzoukas, Garfunkel and Oats), making it one of the first films in dialogue with it.
    “This is also like one of the 1st movies that feels like it's like, in dialogue with how much comedy podcasts have started to define comedy”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:07:09 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  43. career (career): Billy Dee Williams → Batman (Burton/Keaton films). Voicing Two-Face here completes the arc of him never getting to play Two-Face in the Burton movies.
    “completing the arc of him never getting to play Two-face in the Burton movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:08:14 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  44. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → Michael Bay. The camera work deliberately copies real rigs, down to a constant circling Michael Bay shot.
    “This sort of constant circling Michael Bay shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:09:11 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  45. what-if (what-if): The Lego Batman Movie → Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. Griffin had hoped the Penguin and Mr. Freeze would be voiced by Schwarzenegger and DeVito.
    “I was hoping it was going to be Schwarzenegger and DeVito playing those 2 parts”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:09:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie. Warner wanted redesigned Lego figures; Lord and Miller insisted on honoring the real pieces' movement limits.
    “we want to actually limit them to the way the characters could move.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:11:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  47. lineage (lineage): The Lego Batman Movie → Batman (1966 Adam West film). The Joker's all-villains-together plan is the Adam West movie's plan.
    “it's essentially like the, the, uh, Adam West Batman movie plan, where it's like, I know to finally defeat Batman, call in everybody.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:12:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. career (career): The Lego Batman Movie → Robot Chicken (series). Director Chris McKay's Robot Chicken background shows in the sketch-like premise, which then gets taken seriously.
    “this is like a funny robot chicken sketch.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:14:27 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  49. lineage (lineage): The Lego Batman Movie → The Dark Knight. The Joker's need for Batman to see him as an enemy is read against the post-Dark Knight Joker.
    “It's this thing of like, right, especially post Dark Knight, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:15:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  50. industry (industry): The Lego Batman Movie → Universal. Universal bought the Lego rights but not the Warner-owned characters from the earlier films.
    “Universal bought the rights and then immediately realized they didn't own any of the characters established in the previous movies because Warner Brothers owns them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:22:38 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  51. career (career): Chris McKenna → Spider-Man: Homecoming. Community alum McKenna is now deeply enmeshed in studio movies, with five Marvel films.
    “Chris McKenna, who is a big community guy, but it's now deeply enmeshed in studio movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:23:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. industry (industry): The Lego Batman Movie → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The first Lego movie got Star Wars in because that deal closed just before the Disney purchase.
    “they fucking got Star Wars in there because it was like the last deal closed before the Disney Star Wars deal closed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:26:23 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  53. career (career): Michael Cera → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. With his post-fame leverage Cera made Scott Pilgrim, Youth in Revolt and Nick and Norah, hand-picking filmmakers and cast.
    “I want to make Scott Pilgrim, I want to make you some revolt.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:32:24 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  54. career (career): Zach Galifianakis → The Hangover. The Hangover put Galifianakis in a mode; his passion-project TV show was what he wasn't allowed to do in movies.
    “the whole problem with the hangover is it put him in a mode.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  55. craft (craft): Deadpool → Aquaman. Only Deadpool and Aquaman have successfully done an animated, expressive mask in live action.
    “I feel like Deadpool and Aquaman are the only 2 that have really done this successfully, but the animated mask.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  56. craft (craft): Batman Returns → Batman (Burton/Keaton films). The Burton films solved the mask problem by putting eye makeup on Batman and acknowledging it.
    “the patents in Batman is the 1st one to acknowledge that he is painting his eyes black.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:38:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. theme (theme): The Lego Batman Movie → Batman (Burton/Keaton films). The film shares the Burton/Keaton take that Batman is fully broken and has not processed his parents' deaths.
    “this movie sort of has the Burton Keaton take of like, he's fully broken by this fucking thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:40:08 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  58. career (career): Michael Cera → Arrested Development (series). Cera and Arnett did many scenes together on Arrested Development, and this film pulls that dynamic to extremes.
    “they did so many scenes together on Arrested Development.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:41:03 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  59. contrast (contrast): Will Arnett → H. Jon Benjamin. Arnett, like H. Jon Benjamin, has several iconic voice roles that all sound like him.
    “Arnett is in that H. John Benjamin zone, though, also, where it's like he has multiple iconic voice performances.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:41:19 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  60. industry (industry): Will Arnett → Arrested Development (series). New Line was buying spec scripts for Arnett vehicles in Arrested Development's first half-season.
    “already New Line was like buying spec scripts to develop for Will Arnett vehicles.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:43:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  61. lineage (lineage): The Lego Batman Movie → Batman (1966 Adam West film). Robin's costume transition and the Kick Butler nameplate are Adam West-style text and costume jokes.
    “It's essentially like a doing the Adam West transition.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:44:07 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  62. people (people): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie. Liam Neeson gives one of the all-time great Lego performances in the first movie as Good Cop/Bad Cop.
    “Liam Neeson, one of the gives one of the all-time great Lego performances.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:46:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  63. contrast (contrast): The Lego Batman Movie → Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Seeing Batman and Superman together here does not provoke the same cynicism as it did in Batman v Superman.
    “I don't give a shit, like, about in the same way I did in Batman V Superman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:47:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → Galaxy Quest. The Phantom Zone security system gets the Galaxy Quest joke: who would ever build this?
    “It's like the Galaxy Quest joke of like, why would this ever be your security system?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:49:34 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  65. contrast (contrast): The Lego Batman Movie → The Batman. Studios worry how to do a serious Robin; this film makes Robin the lighter contrast point instead.
    “I think Matt Reeves and Nolan, all these people freak out about like, how do you do the serious version of Robin?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:51:05 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  66. craft (craft): The Lego Batman Movie → Hanna-Barbera cartoons and Mike Judge. Repeating slightly varied copies of a drawing makes still characters vibrate, and the Lego films use the same trick on flames and clouds.
    “if you want to have a character standing still, essentially trace the same drawing 3 times on 3 different pieces of paper.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:52:26 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  67. industry (industry): The Lego Batman Movie → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Lego's 1999 Star Wars deal was its first licensed theme and changed the company.
    “And then 99, they make the Star Wars deal and that kind of changes everything.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:56:17 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  68. theme (theme): The Lego Batman Movie → Jaws. The Phantom Zone fills with franchise monsters, including the Jaws shark and the Jurassic Park T-Rex.
    “The shark from Jaws, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:58:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  69. industry (industry): The Lego Batman Movie → Wreck-It Ralph. Wreck-It Ralph began the modern IP-mashup movie, then The Lego Movie and this, then Space Jam-style follow-ons.
    “But it's also like Wreck-It Ralph was really the 1st of the modern Ralph, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:07:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. lineage (lineage): The Lego Batman Movie → Doctor Who. A Dalek is an iron-lung garbage can with a plunger arm, and the Lego film's villains riff on such designs.
    “But his main villainous called the Dalek, and it's like this sort of like big garbage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:31:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  71. theme (theme): The Lego Batman Movie → Jerry Maguire. Batman's arc ends with him giving the Joker the Jerry Maguire speech, completing the film's running Jerry Maguire joke.
    “just like it's so good full circle to fucking have him realize I have to give Joker the Jerry Maguire speech.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:33:26 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  72. industry (industry): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. Lego Batman grossed about 175, Lego 2 about 105, against about 250 for the first film, so the bloom came off the rose.
    “Lego one did 250.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:34:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  73. verdict (verdict): The Lego Batman Movie → The Lego Movie. The first Lego movie remains the pinnacle for Griffin, a brilliant, clever movie.
    “Lego movie is still the pinnacle for me, though.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:38:30 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  74. career (career): Lorne Balfe → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The composer of Lego Batman also scored Mission: Impossible Fallout.
    “who did the score for this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:40:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. industry (industry): Sam Raimi → Kevin Feige. Raimi is a rare hire with a defined style, with hope Marvel will not smother it.
    “Raymi's such a rare example of them hiring a guy who has such a fucking defined thing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:07:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. career (career): James Gray → Commercials. Esoteric auteurs pay the bills with commercials, e.g. Maybelline for Gray.
    “How does James Gray pay the bills, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:08:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  77. industry (industry): Franchise filmmaking → Commercials. Franchise filmmaking has become the world of commercials: taking the job for money or to try the toolbox.
    “the franchise filmmaking thing has sort of become like the world of commercials”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:10:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  78. programming (programming): The Batman → The Flash. The Batman is not in the same world as the other Batmen; DC is carving out separate zones.
    “Matt Reeves comes in and is just like, I don't really want this Batman to be in the same world as the other Batman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. industry (industry): Spider-Man: No Way Home → Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Multiverse lets Marvel turn sequels into Lego sequels, like a Force Awakens inside a newer franchise.
    “by using the multiverse, they can now turn these sequels into Lego sequels.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:15:48 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  80. industry (industry): Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness → Fantastic Four. The multiverse is a way to fold Fox's X-Men and Fantastic Four into a 25-movie universe.
    “figure out what the fuck to do with the Fox things they've inherited”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:16:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  81. unmapped (continuity): Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness → X-Men: Days of Future Past. Professor X here is not the same version as Patrick Stewart's in the Fox X-Men movies.
    “the Professor X that shows up in this movie is not the same one from the Fox movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:18:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  82. contrast (contrast): Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness → Justice League. Stewart's Professor X with the old chair and sting is like Elfman reusing the Batman and Superman themes: clever or fan service.
    “I'm going to use my Batman theme.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:19:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  83. verdict (verdict): Spider-Man: No Way Home → Spider-Man 3. The movie's internal logic is bananas but audiences accept anything to see three Spider-Men together.
    “what did everyone emotionally want to see?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:22:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  84. people (people): Wolverine → Hugh Jackman. Jackman embodies Wolverine as the only live-action player, but differs from the comics.
    “he embodies him in my mind now”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:26:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  85. craft (craft): Sam Raimi → The Hudsucker Proxy. Raimi's best movies have one deliberate way each scene could be constructed, with no alternate coverage.
    “there is only one way this scene could be constructed”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:32:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  86. what-if (what-if): Marvels (comic) → Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. A daring Marvel project would be Marvels, a photojournalist witnessing the history of the Marvel universe.
    “it's basically just one guy witnessing the the world changing”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:36:51 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  87. lineage (lineage): Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness → Blank Check. Scarlet Witch manipulating computers with magic recalls the hosts' Hacker Witch bit.
    “She manipulates the computer using magic, thereby witch hacker.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:39:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  88. career (career): Wild Hogs → Old Dogs. Wild Hogs was a huge 2007 hit, which is how Becker came to have the freedom to make Old Dogs.
    “Becker has what you could perhaps call a blank check to make whatever crazy passion projects he wants.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:10:28 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  89. lineage (lineage): Wild Hogs → Old Dogs. Old Dogs reteams Becker with Travolta after Wild Hogs.
    “He signs on to do this movie, re teams with Travolta, bring some new people in.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:10:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  90. industry (industry): Old Dogs → Dick Cook. Old Dogs came out amid a regime change at Disney after Cook left, shifting live action toward remakes.
    “And it came out, and there was a regime change at Disney.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:11:29 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  91. industry (industry): Old Dogs → The Proposal. Old Dogs came out the same year as the hit The Proposal, and Disney declined a sequel when the writers pitched one.
    “The same year as the proposal, which is a massive hit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:11:57 · Griffin Newman (0.75 sure it was them)
  92. industry (industry): Old Dogs → The Proposal. Disney turned down a Proposal sequel with the same stars.
    “And the writers come to them and go, we have Bullock and Reynolds on board to do a sequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:11:59 · Griffin Newman (0.75 sure it was them)
  93. industry (industry): Old Dogs → Wild Hogs. Disney also passed on a Wild Hogs sequel after Old Dogs.
    “They were in development on wild hogs too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  94. industry (industry): Old Dogs → Walt Disney Pictures. Speaker claims the film's failure killed off a whole category of live-action Disney films.
    “This movie like killed an entire, like, realm of possible films that Disney could make.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  95. career (career): Walt Becker → Van Wilder. Becker's pre-family-film background is Van Wilder (transcribed Vale Wilder), the basis of a rumor Old Dogs was shot R-rated.
    “because that's like Walt Becker's background from Vale Wilder before he became a family movie guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:22 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  96. career (career): John Travolta → Robin Williams. Both came out of 1970s sitcoms and rose to be movie stars, hence the Old Dogs pairing.
    “Coming out of sitcoms in the 70s and then ascending to become major movie stars and everything.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:14:47 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  97. people (people): Kelly Preston → John Travolta. Preston, Travolta's real wife, plays Robin Williams' love interest, and Travolta's real daughter plays her daughter.
    “Kelly Preston, uh, famously, uh, uh, wife of John Travolta, absolutely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:21:08 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  98. career (career): Kelly Preston → Love of the Game. The hosts previously covered Love of the Game and were rude about Kelly Preston there.
    “I recently kind of were mean about her on the 4th of love of the game episode.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:21:18 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  99. career (career): Seth Green → Star Wars: Detours. Seth Green's 39-episode Star Wars Detours sat on a shelf.
    “He produced 39 episodes of Star Wars detours, was sat on a shelf.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:23:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  100. verdict (verdict): Justin Long → Old Dogs. Uncredited Long is called the best performance in the film.
    “Now, in uncredited Justin Long, I would argue is the best performance in this film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:58:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

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  1. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Bar graph of Batman's happiness index versus days without crime goes straight down, an Adam West-style joke.
    “You saw that the bar graph that was Batman's happiness index versus days without crime.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:37:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Alfred rolls in on a spot labeled Kick Butler, a pure Adam West-style text joke.
    “the nameplate above it said Kick Butler.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:44:10 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Robin has not figured out Batman and Bruce Wayne are the same person: Bruce Wayne lives in Batman's attic, and Batman says Bruce told him it's okay to hang out.
    “he has to be like, uh, Bruce told me it's okay for you to hang out with me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:45:11 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Chris McKay: Dan Harmon wrote a Lego Batman 2 script (Lego Super Friends) that died when Universal bought the Lego rights.
    “Dan Harmon wrote the script for Lego Batman 2, which was Lego Super Friends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:48:27 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Animators keep the Lego limits: arms rotate and swing but never bend, though shoulders may dislocate to cross the chest.
    “but they'll let the entire arm sort of like remove from the body and turn inwards.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:54:01 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Lego (company): Lego ruled the 90s by building its own mythologies each year, with Johnny Thunder as its Indiana Jones hero, before the 1999 Star Wars deal.
    “There's Johnny Thunder, who is their attempt to create like an Indiana Jones style hero”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:56:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: A listener built Lego versions of the hosts; the builder, Dave Colletta, became a top contestant on Lego Masters, which Arnett hosts.
    “And the guy who built the figures of us became like one of the best contestants on this fucking show.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:59:05 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Lego Masters contestants strategized by talking about careers the way the hosts talk about directors.
    “the way they would strategize was talking about careers and the way we talk about directors”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:59:52 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Phantom Zone includes Sauron as a talking tower, Voldemort turning people to fish, the Wicked Witch, a Gremlin crew, and a Creature from the Black Lagoon.
    “Sauron is just a talking tower.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:00:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: Griffin argues the movie is a flawed pick for David because the IP cameos are shallow; the villains get little screen time.
    “Everyone else is truly a cameo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:09:48 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Deadpool: Robin's chimichanga comment ties to Deadpool's chimichanga bit, and Griffin finds chimichangas too heavy.
    “I just feel like chimichongas are, they're just very heavy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:17:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Doctor Who: Griffin explains a Dalek: it's a garbage can with a plunger because, per him, an arm went missing and a bathroom plunger replaced it.
    “they were missing an arm and they took a plunger out of the bathroom.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: The Phantom Zone guard, Ellie Kemper, is named Phyllis, which is also an Office character not played by Kemper.
    “which also has a character called Phyllis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:37:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Lego Batman Movie: The hosts get blind Lego bags from Dave Colletta: General Zod, Blight, Apache Chief, dance-party Harley Quinn.
    “Oh, that's Apache Chief from the Super Friends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:44:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: The episode's outro joke: they claim the runtime is 5 hours because they put on Secrets of Dumbledore.
    “So should I throw on Secrets of Dumbledore right now?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:48:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about James Gray: Maybelline commercials fund the uncompromising artist.
    “He does like fucking Maybelline commercials.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:08:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about The Flash: Dad confused about which Batman is where.
    “I've tried to explain to him so many times”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:12:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about X-Men '97: Disney Plus show continuing the 90s cartoon.
    “They are doing a show called X-Men 97”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:24:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Eternals: Zhao's style could not be removed; still obligated Marvel beats.
    “The one movie that was shot so specifically that they could not take her style out of it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:30:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Kevin Feige: Joke: did he jot down Hacker Witch five years ago.
    “Did he jot down Hacker Witch 5 years ago?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:40:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Old Dogs: Hosts note Becker's film is Disney live action, not Touchstone or Pixar: a Walt Disney picture by a Walt Becker.
    “It's a Walt Disney Walt Becker collab.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:10:52 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Disney: Griffin's thesis: the flop ended an entire kind of Disney live-action film.
    “This movie like killed an entire, like, realm of possible films that Disney could make.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.80 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Seth Green: Seth Green's Star Wars Detours episodes were shelved while he was in Old Dogs.
    “He produced 39 episodes of Star Wars detours, was sat on a shelf.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:23:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Walt Becker: His directing style, per Griffin: push every actor bigger on every take.
    “Waltbecker, his style is to tell every actor to just go bigger and bigger in every take.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:31:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about John Travolta: Charlie's magic hobby is set up by the fire trick and then dropped for the rest of the film.
    “He never once chose any affinity for magic over... the rest of the running time for the film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:44:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about John Travolta: The fire-from-the-hands moment: Griffin insists Charlie can really conjure fire, since nothing disproves it.
    “Charlie has the ability to conjure fire with his bare hands.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:45:25 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Walt Becker: Becker's commentary calls Travolta and Williams one of the great comedy duos, though they had never made a movie together.
    “He says, I think Travolta and Williams and this are one of the all time great onscreen comedy duos.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:52:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Justin Long: Unbilled Long is the one actor who knows what movie he is in.
    “I think he is the only person who knows exactly what movie he is in.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 0:58:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Old Dogs: After Justin Long's scout troop shoots a statue's head off, they burn it down and get kicked out.
    “After shooting the head off the statue, they stayed there long enough for the sun to go down to light the whole thing on fire, and then they were kicked out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:05:08 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Old Dogs: The bereavement group scene: Lori Loughlin's beach house invite turns out to be a grief group.
    “Her grandmother died six months ago, she's been going to this bereavement group.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:09:16 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Walt Becker: Alvin and the Chipmunks 4: Alvin sits next to John Waters on a plane, as Griffin's key Becker anecdote.
    “John Waters calls over a flight attendant, says, Excuse me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:13:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about John Travolta: Travolta's Joker face after the mixed-up pills is a digital effect.
    “His Joker face is digital.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:14:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Bernie Mac: Jimmy Lunchbox, Bernie Mac's role, is a master puppeteer with no puppets onstage.
    “Now, as I press play again, I want you to take note of, there being zero puppets on stage.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:18:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Old Dogs: The motion-capture parenting suit has a sensor in an unfortunate spot.
    “His crotch is electrocuting because he has the sensor by his penis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:22:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Bernie Mac: Griffin warns the audience they are about to see Bernie Mac's last moments on screen.
    “You're about to see the last seconds of Bernie Mac on screen.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:23:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Old Dogs: The Friday the 13th joke pays off: the kids watch the film in the apartment, and the host notes it's part three.
    “But this is not parts one or two because Jason doesn't wear the mask till three.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:28:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Seth Green: A cutaway implies the gorilla and Seth Green have a thing.
    “The movie is implying at this point that the gorilla has mated with Seth.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:48:16 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about The Princess and the Frog: Box office game: the Disney animated film opened that weekend on two screens.
    “Princess and the Frog opens this week, number 18.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:54:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Robert Zemeckis: Box office game: Marie's guess the 2009 holiday answer is Polar Express is wrong, it is A Christmas Carol.
    “Zameck is a Christmas Carol.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 1:55:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Old Dogs: Sign-off line, and the show's running Becker joke.
    “Walt Becker's a dang ass freak.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House (May 12, 2022) · 2:00:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Batman (TV series, 1966-68): Batman premiered and the Munsters tanked within four months; the Munsters movies came out after cancellation.
    “Right, it was like within 4 months of Batman premiering.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:03:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Griffin Newman: Griffin's Supergirl bit: Burt Ward and other legends in the opening credits made viewers think Crisis would tie in The Tick.
    “For 5 seconds, I think people thought Crisis on Infinite Earth was gonna tie in the tick universe.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:05:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about The Batman: The opening dedication sends up lovers of the ridiculous and apologizes to any sizable group of lovers it overlooked.
    “We've overlooked any sizable groups of lovers, we apologize.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:14:32 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Adam West and Frank Gorshin: The legend that West and Gorshin went to a Hollywood orgy in character and were expelled for doing too many bits.
    “Too many bets. Too many bets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:47:39 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Ben Hosley: Ben has knocked out a wall in his apartment and is building a Batcave-style computer room.
    “Ben, to be clear, just knocked out a wall in his apartment.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:53:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about The Batman: The Riddler's lazy branding: binoculars with a single question mark.
    “I think it's a little lazy of him to just get a pair of binoculars and put one question mark on them”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:59:39 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Nicolas Cage: Cage told a Reddit AMA his Kick-Ass performance was modeled on Adam West, who later teased him.
    “Adam West was like, I saw you try to channel me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:00:57 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Burgess Meredith: Meredith was blacklisted and then, jokes Griffin, quack-listed for years for being the Penguin.
    “He was also, unfortunately, I must mention, placed on the quack list for being the penguin.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:21:57 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about School Marm (hosts' villain pitch): Ben pitches a villain who assigns deadly science homework; Griffin names her The School Marm.
    “Here's the name.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:36:35 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Batman's belt: All the pouches on West's utility belt are upside down.
    “all the pouches on his belt are upside down.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:49:19 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Khartoum: Worst decision: applying makeup to the wrong actor (Olivier as Muhammad Ahmed).
    “Worst decision to apply makeup to the wrong actor.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:09:41 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about The Batman: The commentary ends with a tease for the next Not All Batman episode in 20 days.
    “same bat Patreon, same bat feed, RSS feed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:11:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Twilight series: Target canceled the host's Twilight steel book order the fifth time.
    “Target canceled my steel book order for the 5th time.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:10:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Burger King tie-in: Ring with Cullen crest that takes up four knuckles and opens to a picture of Edward.
    “It is a ring that would take up all 4 knuckles in terms of real estate and it has a hinge.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:35:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Burger King tie-in: Burger King Kids Club meal items: Bella's tote bag, 3 inches long, plus others.
    “Bella's tote bag is a tote bag, which is, I don't know, 3 inches long.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:36:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Burger King tie-in: A hacky sack with the Cullen crest, called the Forks foot bag.
    “a hacky sack with the Cullen family crest, of course.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:36:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Gigli: Griffin learns Ben Affleck's character is named Larry Gigli and is saving Gigli for a Brest win.
    “I literally just learned that Ben Affleck's character in Jeely is named Larry Jeely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:07:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Joe Dante: Dante has said he would appear on the show if covered.
    “I've communicated with Joe Dante himself and his team, and they had offered that he would come on the show”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:08:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Robert Altman: Griffin's father drank with both Altman and Cassavetes on the same night, and thinks Altman would win a fight.
    “My father drank with both of them once.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:09:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about Wong Kar-wai: He is recolorizing his films for Criterion editions.
    “him doing all the special editions has like pushed him into the forefront”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:16:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about Mike Leigh: Fans petitioned outside the blank check sphere for Mike Leigh.
    “people are petitioning people outside of the blank check sphere”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:17:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Danny Boyle: The Beatles-less world prompts a joke about a Yesterday episode.
    “what if the Beatles didn't exist?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:19:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about Ernest Dickerson: Directors needing an IMDb lookup tend to underperform in March Madness.
    “If they require, you have to go to IMDb”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:21:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Penelope Spheeris: Spheeris's decline: Senseless flop, Weinstein fights, called too old.
    “I got pegged with being difficult”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:28:19 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Spike Jonze: Jonze ran Vice TV as artistic director, and later made a Beastie Boys documentary.
    “I'm the head programmer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:31:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about Gore Verbinski: Lone Ranger described as one of the most cursed movies.
    “It's cursed as fuck.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:34:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about Jackie Chan: Jamel campaigned: hashtag Fund the Police Story.
    “hashtag Fund, the police story”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:37:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2's end credits praised as a favorite of the 2010s.
    “one of your favorite movies of the 2010s, of course, is the end credits to Twilight”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:42:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Final Destination / Vacation: Death and Chevy Chase called spiritual embodiments of darkness.
    “Death and Chevy Chase.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:44:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about The Mummy: Mummy episode would cover the three Fraser films plus the Cruise one.
    “we would cover the 3 Frasers and the cruise.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:45:34 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about Cheech and Chong: Meme: Cheech and Chong as blank check during paternity leave.
    “Dave's not here.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:48:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Saw / Rocky: Rocky waking in a meat freezer would punch the traps.
    “He's going to start punching the traps.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:51:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about Alien: Covenant: The Franco footage cooks him alive and Griffin says the 10-second prologue would have made the film's emotional start stronger.
    “you kind of really benefit from seeing him for 10 seconds alive, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Griffin's theater memory: texters in the row ahead; he let his guard down and missed the second Fassbender swap.
    “the people in the row in front of me would not stop texting.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:20:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about Danny McBride: McBride went to film school wanting to write and direct, was cast in friends' films, never auditioned, and said Covenant was what he always wanted to do.
    “McBride was pursuing a career as a filmmaker.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:32:23 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about The Tick: Griffin recounts his hardest technical acting scene: Dr. Karamazov shrunk, shot against tennis balls on sticks then redone from his own recorded dialogue.
    “the single most challenging thing I've ever had to do as an actor on a technical level is”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:39:04 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Alien: Covenant: Merchandise for the movie showed an earlier, practical-looking xenomorph design before the creature was redone in CGI late in production.
    “All of the merchandise for this movie had an incorrect xenomorph design.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:41:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about Alien Quadrilogy: The 2003 DVD box set that David calls a word hardly used outside that box; Resurrection got a special edition about seven minutes longer.
    “Quadrilogy, a word that has rarely been used outside of that one box.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:08:11 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Alien Resurrection: The Fox logo at the start is clearly from the film print, grain and all, not an HD transfer.
    “clearly the logo from the film print from this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about Brad Dourif: Dourif's perfect career: Alien, Lord of the Rings, Chucky, a secret Oscar nomination, unrecognized.
    “Brad Dorff, another example of a guy where I look at him and I go, that's a perfect career.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:21:00 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Ripley 8's reptilian, T-Rex-armed performance is compared to Bowser.
    “Yes, she's doing like T-Rex arms.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:24:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about Alien Resurrection: Golden age of animatronics: the aliens can stay in bright close-ups for ten seconds without cutting away.
    “This is the peak of animatronic technology before the entire art form is largely thrown in the toilet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:44:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about Ron Perlman: Perlman has a thermos canteen that turns into a gun; the more scars they add the better.
    “He's got a thermos gun.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:51:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about Brad Dourif: The pitch: killed early, only four weeks on set.
    “You only have to be on set for 4 weeks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:54:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about Dan Hedaya: His shoulder hair is the subject of a long bit.
    “There are like Dungeons and Dragons adventures happening in his body hair, like as we speak.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:54:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about Dominique Pinon: The Santa Claus line reading, with the emphasis in the wrong place, is the movie's famous unnatural English line.
    “That's just such a clear, I don't understand the words I'm saying.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:07:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about Sigourney Weaver: Griffin met Weaver on Political Animals: she introduced herself at lunch and was impossibly tall and gracious.
    “Like she does look like a Greek god.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:23:53 · Griffin Newman (0.90 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about Tuba: Griffin's hot take that the tuba is the funniest of all instruments.
    “I think the tuba is the funniest of all instruments.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:08:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about Scream (franchise): Griffin's Scream 4 audition: Wes Craven gave only silence and a shrug.
    “I auditioned like 5 times for screen four, including 4 Wes Craven”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:22:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about Greg Kinnear: Kinnear's pitch gave the restaurant breakup scene its soft ending.
    “Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about You've Got Mail: The fall leaves in the movie are CGI because they shot in the summer, per the commentary track by Ephron and Schuler Donner.
    “They're like, all of the fall stuff is CGI, baby.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about Dave Chappelle: Chappelle delivers the odd line 'she has the same coloring as' that was written for an older Eastern European actor in the original.
    “if you look up the actor who played the best friend role and shop around the corner, it's like an older Eastern European man with a mustache.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:58:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about You've Got Mail: The Zabar's scene was shot overnight from 10 PM to 5 AM; Hanks used the store PA to keep the extras happy.
    “So they filmed the entire thing from like 10 PM until 5 AM.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:12:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's PA announcement at Zabar's, quoted by Ephron.
    “ladies and gentlemen, shoppers at Zabars, want to announce that Meg Ryan is appetizing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:13:07 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about Nicolas Cage: Griffin's pitch: Cage and Travolta swap roles so Cage is Michael and Travolta is in City of Angels.
    “Nicholas Cage should have played Michael and John Travolta should have been in City of Angels with Meg Ryan.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:24:12 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks called the Cafe Lalo scene, a 12-page, four-night shoot, the hardest of his career.
    “It was a 4 night shoot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:22 · Griffin Newman (0.65 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Nora Ephron: Ephron rehearsed her casts for weeks in a taped-out black-box theater with fake props.
    “tape out the sets and give them fake props and run every scene with full blocking weeks in advance”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:31 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's own line on the Lalo scene.
    “I think it is the most sophisticated scene I have ever seen in a movie that is not supposed to be viewed as sophisticated.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:40:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Tom Hanks: The script supervisor fixed Hanks's block on the Lalo scene: he stays because he is trying to build the courage to say it is him.
    “Your motivation, this scene, is you think if you stay longer, you'll finally build the courage to say it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:42:15 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about Hanging Up: IMDb carrot-costume quote: Maddie's demand to fight, answered by "fine" in unison.
    “Ever since I was 7 years old for Halloween, I dressed up as a carrot and you 2 snuck off without me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:02:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)