Hillary Busis

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

Personality, episode by episode

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

Vanity Fair senior editor and mother of two who had never seen Look Who's Talking as a kid; Disney Channel kid who knows the sequels. She enjoyed it as a breezy watch and gets annoyed by crib and Demerol logic. She watched mid-90s Manhattan sitcoms as a child.

Stances

  • The film is a breezy, good watch
  • The talking-baby part is only about 10 percent of the film
  • Kids' media of her youth was Disney reissues and Nickelodeon

Humor: Self-deprecating, blunt and quick; she keeps unflappable pace with the hosts while correcting parental details.

In their words

  • “Oh yeah, I enjoyed it. It's a breezy watch.” (1:47:56)
  • “What is really fascinating is that it's maybe like 10% of what this movie is doing.” (0:42:54)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 1–5 of 5 claims.

  1. unmapped (childhood memory): Kirstie Alley → It Takes Two. Hillary knew Alley mostly from the Olsen twins movie, which also starred Steve Guttenberg.
    “I knew Kierstiali mostly from It Takes Two, the Olsen Twins movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:06:53 · Hillary Busis (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (TV-to-film trap): Kirstie Alley → Ted Danson. Both had a big movie hit and then could not sustain a film career.
    “there were these cases like her and Ted Danson, where like they do it. They have a big hit.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:10:40 · Hillary Busis (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (pilot contrast): John Travolta → Harrison Ford. Travolta dresses as a pilot while Ford flies small crashable planes.
    “unlike Harrison Ford when Travolta flies planes, he wears a little pilot outfit.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:44:57 · Hillary Busis (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (good-with-kids oscar): Dustin Hoffman → Kramer vs. Kramer. Hoffman's Oscar partly rests on being believably good with a child; Travolta gets the same benefit.
    “I genuinely think it is a huge part of Dustin Hoffman fucking winning the Kramer versus Kramer, Oscar.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:57:50 · Hillary Busis (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. theme (genre neighbor): Parenthood → Look Who's Talking. Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies.
    “There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–1 of 1 fun item.

  1. fun, about Look Who's Talking: The scene where the baby gets high from his mom's Demerol, and the speakers note epidurals would be the era-correct treatment.
    “The whole point of the epidural was like, that's so we don't pump drugs into your veins.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:19:42 · Hillary Busis (0.50 sure it was them)