"63: Toy Story 2 with Griffin Newman (Part 1)" and "64: Toy Story 2 with Griffin Newman (Part 2)" are the 66th and 67th overall episodes of Podcast Like It's 1999 covering the films, television and pop culture of 1999, hosted by Phil Iscove and Kenny Neibart. The episodes were released on February 6 and February 9, 2019. The end of Part 2 is a discussion with Griffin about the '99 Oscars.
Description[]
Part 1[]
"This week on Podcast Like It's 1999, Phil and Kenny have the unique pleasure of talking with America's greatest living podcaster, Griffin Newman (Black Check with Griffin and David, he also stars on The Tick), about one of his favorite movies, Toy Story 2. Join us for this in-depth conversation about Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Pixar, John Lassetter, Sarah McLaughlin, Toy Story, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, Partysaurus, Babe: Pig in the City, Detective Pikachu, Frasier Crane, Prince's Super Bowl Halftime Show and the meaning of life. And come back next week for Part 2 of our discussion with Griffin!"
Part 2[]
"It’s time for Podcast Like it’s 1999 Back with Part 2 today Podcast Like it’s 1999 Come on, it’s time to hit play! There’s Phil, the proud Canadian Kenny, he’s often hoarse Ernie, the quiet producer And Griffin, the man himself, of course It’s time for Podcast Like it’s 1999 Excluding Blank Check, it’s the very best! It’s the rootin-est, tootin-est Podcast That has an episode on “Wild, Wild West!”"
Kenny's Intro[]
Part 1[]
"Hello, and welcome to Podcast Like It's 1999, the podcast where we look back at the movies from 1999 from fresh inside our original packaging here in 2019."
Part 2[]
"Hello, and welcome to Podcast Like It's 1999, the podcast where we look back at the movies from 1999 from up here on the shelf here in 2019."
Historical Information[]
"Woody (Tom Hanks) is stolen from his home by toy dealer Al McWhiggin (Wayne Knight), leaving Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the rest of the gang to try to rescue him. But when Woody discovers that he's actually a valuable collectible from a once-popular television show called "Woody's Roundup" and is reunited with his horse Bullseye, Jessie the yodeling cowgirl (Joan Cusack) and his faithful sidekick, Stinky Pete the Prospector (Kelsey Grammer), he doesn't want to leave."
Toy Story 2 was released on 11/24/1999 in 1st place against Sleepy Hollow, Pokémon: The First Movie, Anywhere But Here and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc. It made $497M on a $90M budget[1]. It has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 87% from audiences[2]. Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars.[3]
Quotes[]
Part 1[]
| “ | I remember going to see some movie with my mom that I had dragged her to see, it might have been The Big Green or something, and the Toy Story trailer came up and i went "oh, that's my movie". | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | I just want to say for the record that a ten year old Griffin is like "should I put away childish things?" | ” |
–Phil | ||
| “ | Thats another thing that I think this movie totally changed, I think this movie shifted the entire sequel conversation at least 30 degrees in American cinema. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | I think there's a lot of very subtle characterization that doesn't get enough credit in how they depict Jessie as a survivor of trauma. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | I think you do this transference of your relationship to your toys which reflects your fears of how the world views you, and how your parents view you, and whether you'll be wanted, and loved, and cared for, and attended to. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | I'm not trying to distance this movie from auteur theory just because Lasseter is a creep, but I also think you look at this movie and the first one and A Bug's Life and then you look at Cars and you're like "you can't give Lasseter all the credit for these three" because clearly it was the fact that he had every good story person, every good animator. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | Lasseter says, whether it's apocryphal, that when he was flying back to go watch the first screening of Toy Story 2 he saw a little boy with a Woody doll, realized "oh, these characters mean this much to these people, I can't let this be shitty" ... I used to tell myself that I was that boy because no one could ever disprove it. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | That's why these movies are so existential because they really are like who do we want to be?, what do we want out of life?, and what are our greatest fears? | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | I don't want to sound too depressing when I say this: there's such an undivorceable context of me sitting there in the theater going "this is probably the best I'm ever gonna feel because I will never have higher expectations for anything and they are surpassing them wildly". | ” |
–Griffin, on seeing Toy Story 2 for the first time | ||
| “ | Now it's not about being a child and wondering whether your parent will love you forever and whether you'll have a place in the world and whether the outside world will care about you as much as your home did and all of that, now it's about being a parent and wondering whether your child won't care about you. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | At the end of the day what these Toy Story movies are about is that the only currency that actually matters is the relationships we have in our life. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | It's a beautiful movie about people looking out for each other. | ” |
–Phil | ||
Part 2[]
| “ | I get you can't have Potato Head in the whole movie because you gotta focus on a few characters, not everyone can have that much real estate, and then this one I was like "I was wrong, apparently you can put Slink in 90 straight minutes". | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | It's such a good bit, like, what if a dinosaur was a Jew? | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | This movie sort of screenwriting 101 because of, I imagine the time constraint, but they just fucking nail it, they just do it at a higher level. | ” |
–Phil | ||
| “ | He's the first wave of the sort of nostalgia driven guy because before that its like you were too concerned about dying to spend time thinking about "I wanna go back to that stuff I loved." | ” |
–Griffin, on Al | ||
| “ | This is a movie that stars an astronaut, a cowboy, a dinosaur... it's just, like, even if you just don't engage with them as toys and engage with them as the things that they are toys of, it's compelling to see all of them talk to each other. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | Griffin: The second he completes his collection its to flip so even if he loves Woody's Roundup and it started coming from that place and he owned a toy store because he loves toys, he doesn't seem to get any joy from these things anymore. Kenny: He's the guy who greenlit Cars 3, basically. |
” |
| “ | If you ask me this is the most exciting filmmaking. There's nothing that gets me more amped up than this. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | They get to something that feels like it's at the end of a Fast and Furious movie. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
| “ | Even before the bloopers I went "full meal, couldn't eat another bite, you've given me everything I've ever wanted and more" and then they slide over a lemoncello. | ” |
–Griffin | ||
Top 5 Pixar[]
| Kenny | Phil | Griffin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toy Story 3 | Wall-E | Toy Story 2 |
| 2 | Inside Out | Inside Out | Ratatouille |
| 3 | Monsters Inc. | The Incredibles | Toy Story |
| 4 | Coco | Toy Story 2 | Wall-E |
| 5 | Wall-E | Ratatouille | The Incredibles |
Trivia[]
- The episode of Blank Check that made Kenny declare Griffin a national treasure was Home Again.
- Griffin played the box office game for Thanksgiving weekend, 1999.
Ratings[]
| Host | 1999 Score | Before the Podcast | After the Podcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenny | 96 | 96 | 96 |
| Phil | 95 | 95 | 95 |
| Griffin | 99 | 99 | 99 |
- Ratings were given after the fact via Twitter.[4]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Box Office Mojo. Toy Story 2. BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved on May 18, 2022.
- ↑ Rotten Tomatoes. Toy Story 2. RottenTomatoes.com. Retrieved on May 18, 2022.
- ↑ Roger Ebert. Toy Story 2. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved on May 2, 2022.
- ↑ @WKRothe. "Great ep, but no 0-99?? Come on!". Twitter. Retrieved on May 2, 2022.