March Madness 2020 Recap - Round 1

**March Madness 2020 Recap - Round 1** is episode 48 of Blank Check: Special Features about the first round of the year's March Madness tournament. Posted March 9, 2020.

## Summary

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> March Madness season is upon us Checkmates. This year we have TWO different brackets and the competition is hot! Both the filmmaker and the franchise deemed champion will decide a future series for later in 2020. So get in on the daily action on Twitter OR on our Patreon page and vote every day in March.
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### Milestones and Ephemera

* Ang nickname: The Barracuda!
* Chip's beat: breaking Showgirls news.
* Chip carries a leather-bound book and looks like a Sims preset character.
* Some of Chips favorite directors that didn't make it on the bracket: Bruce Beresford, Ben Affleck.
* The Razzies bracket was pretty tough. Lots of people that don't exist, they've already been covered, or they're really awful people.
* Seeding is gone! They're focused on thematic pairings.
* **Round 1** - Oscars
	+ Coens beat Scorsese to death. He got totally cucked by the Coens. They were matched up because they're both long filmographies and they didn't want either to make it too far.
	+ The Coens are #TheTwoBrothers. They got the most votes in March Madness history thus far.
	+ Beatty: third year in MM, third year not making it past round 1.
	+ Jackson and Zemeckis: both dudes who got obsessed with computers late in their career.
	+ Griffin's ideal final four: Nichols & May final matchup
* **Round 1** - Razzies
	+ They nearly covered Bay, but went for Nolan instead.
	+ Tom Green was the true chaos pick, and the only single-film director. Ben suggested slowing down the film and reviewing it frame by frame.
	+ Freddie Got Fingered -- a possible Ben's Choice? Not a porch movie but a Ben Vibe movie.
	+ Much like Michael Cimino, Chip has also bankrupted a movie studio. Which one? ***Pass.***
	+ Sims put his finger on the scale for Costner v. Hooper and it *almost* worked.
	+ Including Hooper is a risk, because at time of recording he has not won a Razzie yet.
	+ When they recorded, Ritchie had a healthy lead over Prince which he lost by the time the match was decided.
	+ They would include *Purple Rain* if Prince won. Superbowl performance and Sign o' the Times could be Patreon episodes.
	+ Guy Ritchie -- think of the bit!
* Is Chip a deep fake??
* **Special Features Round 1**
	+ Frankenstein got trounced by Alien.
	+ Day 2 disappointed David. "I want to open the Park, said David to me." - Chip Smith
	+ Griffin and David are both *Jurassic Park 3* apologists.
	+ More bones in Terminator 2! Wet bots! Goopy!
	+ Mission: Impossible upsetting Fast & Furious! Why not wait until FF10 to do them all?
	+ The most influential films of all time: Sean Connery Bonds or the Austin Powers films? Jury's out.
	+ Shrek got wrecked. Got peeled like a fuckin' onion! The Muppets *bodied* Shrek.
	+ Ang: Kermit rising, Fozzie moon, Rizzo the other thing.
	+ Chip and David are massive Trekkies and go to cons together.
	+ Ben has never seen any Harry Potter or Twilight.
	+ Facts Ben knows about Harry Potter: has glasses, is a wizard, taught by grouchy Alan Rickman.
	+ Pitch for a spin-off miniseries: Ang watches Ben watch the Harry Potter movies for the first time.
	+ The Muppets: a lot of canonical chicken-fucking.
* Ben pitches some new sponsors!!!
	+ Taco Bell -- It's different now. Taco *Chains*. They're not sponsoring the podcast, but sponsoring Ben. Clank clank.
	+ EyeHolePaintings.com -- Are you tired of not having a painting that allows you to spy on guests? Whatever you want, they'll get an eye hole into the painting.
	+ No More Homework -- A new non-profit foundation dedicated to no more homework.

## Quotes

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> | Chip: |  I have a lot of... *income*.
> | Ang: |  I'm concerned about where that money's coming from.
> | Griffin: |  I've got some follow-up questions here--
> | Ang: |  A journalist's salary.
> | Griffin: |  Yeah, mostly from other broadcasting jobs? Where is that income coming from?
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> | Chip: |  We could do Joe Johnston... and by "we" I mean the collective Blank Check team.
> | Ang: |  Chip you'll be in the room --
> | Griffin: |  Of course, and we do think of you as part of the Blank Check Family.
> | Chip: |  You've got my W2.
> | Ang: | -- sitting in the corner with Sleepy Al Pacino.
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## References

1. ↑ Blank Check Podcast. March Madness 2020 Recap - Round 1. Patreon. Retrieved on March 25, 2021.