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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Hercules with Larry Owens

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

BC welcomes multi-hyphenate Larry Owens (A Strange Loop) for a discussion on 1997's Hercules!

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0:00.0

Clang Jack with rhythm and David! Clang Jack with rhythm and David!

0:09.1

Don't know what to say or to explain!

0:12.6

All you need to know is that the end of the show is Clang Jack!

0:20.4

Though a kid of Zeus is asking me to jump into the fray,

0:24.9

my answer is two words, podcast!

0:31.4

The two words, podcast.

0:32.6

But the joke, David, you understand is that in the song, it feels like he is winding up to say

0:37.5

new way, no way, right? He's got the arms, he's going no way, and then Zeus hits him with the

0:42.8

lightning, and then he says okay, and it's a reversal, okay, it's also not two words, podcast, not two words.

0:50.6

Right. Also, I just went through every other song in this movie, and they're either too hard to sing,

0:54.9

or too lyrically hard to put podcast into or both, so I decide to do the one that day, Davido

1:00.0

kind of quote unquote sings. You were drawn to Davido, that's fair.

1:03.9

Yeah, yeah, that's my vocal range is Davido.

1:08.1

Hey kid! You know, we'll talk about it, but you know that someone who they auditioned for that

1:15.6

role was like you're just going to hire Davido, right? In 1993, when this was like in the

1:23.0

Gong Show period of Disney animation where like anyone could pitch any movie, someone pitched

1:28.9

hercules, it like developed a little, it laid dormant, and the key part of that pitch was the

1:34.6

sidekick is Danny DeVito. Like everyone was in such a like, romancing the stone, you got to have

1:39.5

Danny DeVito chasing the heroes, helping them out kind of mode. That was part of the pitch.

1:44.0

Then Muscoor and Clements pick it up a couple years later, they redeveloped pretty much the entire

1:48.8

thing, and they're like, it should be Danny DeVito as the sidekick, right? They go to Danny DeVito,

1:53.3

Danny DeVito is like, hard pass, no, go fuck yourself. They auditioned. Everyone else in Hollywood,

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