1941 with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

He invented the summer blockbuster. He inspired millions of people around the world to “watch the skies.” And now, he has sent Griffin Newman into an existential crisis over the question “what is comedy?” Our friends Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger of The Doughboys join us to talk about Steven Spielberg’s infamously unfunny 1941. Why IS this film - loaded with so many comedic superstars - boring as shit? Is the opening scene one of the most embarrassing exercises in hubris ever committed to screen? Would this movie be better if they just inserted the entirety of Dumbo into it? Why does Eddie Deezen keep getting banned from dining establishments? Someone has to ask these things. Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Blank Check with Griffin and David
0:04.7	Blank Check with Griffin and David
0:08.7	Don't know what to say or to expect
0:11.7	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check
0:17.7	Blank Check.
0:22.9	Blank Check.
0:26.1	The most explosive podcast ever made.
0:27.8	Wait, that's what you did?
0:28.9	Okay, so here's the thing.
0:31.2	Is that the tagline or something? I was digging through all the trailers and the posters last night, and there was one I was trying to find that was, I can't quite locate.
0:37.8	But all of the trailers kept using these taglines that are like the most explosive comedy
0:42.8	spectacular in history.
0:44.5	I just know a comedy spectacular.
0:45.8	This is the thing.
0:46.3	That's the tagline I know from the big poster.
0:48.4	One of the advertising materials I saw combined the two.
0:50.7	Because a lot of the trailers kept on saying the most explosive movie ever made and the
0:53.8	posters keep saying a comedy spectacular. And one of them combined it. And it speaks to the inherent issues with this movie that they're selling of it was, this is so funny and so big.
1:05.5	I mean, that's the movie at large. But okay. But that they were just saying that as a statement and being like, don't you want to see a movie that's really loud and expensive and has jokes in it?
1:15.0	And you're like, what's it about?
1:16.0	And they're like, don't worry about that.
1:18.0	Uh-huh.
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