On an early mailbag episode, Griffin's pick for the worst episode of the show was their one on Amistad. He thought that they ultimately didn't have much to say on it, making it one of their more uneventful recordings. It's noticeably the shortest episode of the Spielberg miniseries, at only 1 hour and 9 minutes. Griffin also admitted with some embarrassment that he did a bit in the episode that was so bad that Ben had to actually omit it from the episode "for [his] protection".
On the 5th Anniversary special, Griffin expressed regret over how hard he was on Ahmed Best during the Phantom Podcast series, particularly the "A Profile Of Jar Jar Binks And The Gungans" episode where he voiced frustration with Best's dismissal of accusations that the character was racially insensitive. It was exacerbated by how, in the years since, interviews came out from Best about how much harsh backlash he received from fans over the years. Fortunately, the two got to converse when Best made a guest appearance on The George Lucas Talk Show.
The episode on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind turned out somewhat awkwardly. The show had booked Lulu Wang as the guest (done during the press tour for The Farewell) under the assumption that she was available to talk for two hours. However, halfway through the episode, Griffin, David, and Wang realized that they had only been scheduled for one hour, during which they had only briefly touched on aspects of the movie. As a result, the conversation was cut short. Griffin and David emphasized that Wang was not at fault for this, but that they were frustrated with the people in charge of booking for not being clear about their time limit.
Griffin admitted that the episode he listens back to the most and recommends often to people is their discussion on The Judge, in part because he considers it the Rosetta Stone for what the podcast would become while they were still in the middle of talking about the Prequel Trilogy - it features them analyzing the filmography of Robert Downey Jr.. up to that point, how Downey's clout helped to get the movie made, and what about his career at that moment helped to inform its production. It was also the first time they limited themselves to talking about one movie for just one episode, keeping things focused. He's also remarkably proud of the "Judging the Judge" theme song.
David's favorite episode is the one they did on The Matrix Reloaded, finding it to be a very fun one to re-listen to and saying that it shows how far the podcast had come after they fully committed to the actual Blank Check era.
David said that the Christopher Nolan miniseries might be the show's best one, with Griffin noting that it is at the very least their most popular one in terms of downloads.
Decided by One Vote: The March Madness 2023 bracket, with the final two participants being Korean filmmakers Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook. Park won by a single vote, with the final results being 10,344 for Park vs. 10,343 for Bong.
James Urbaniak was set to appear on The Happening episode but scheduling ended up not working out.
Jerah Milligan was planned to be the guest for the episode on True Lies but there were schedule conflicts.
In place of the "Ben's Choice" palate cleanser episodes in-between series, the guys floated around doing a trilogy of "Family" episodes where they would each bring on a relative as a guest to talk about a movie that meant a lot to them. Griffin did this with his sister Romilly (to talk The Devil Wears Prada) and David with his brother Joey (talking about Lost in Space). There were talks about Ben potentially bringing on his father, but on the Ratatouille episode (which had Romilly and Joey on as guests together), they mentioned that Ben's dad wasn't into the idea. They later revealed that Mr. Hosley actually was open to the episode but that it was still not as much of a priority due both to scheduling and the movie being hard to track down.
Prior to the release of the Lost in Space episode, David had implied that Joey's guest spot would be a discussion of S.W.A.T. (2003). As discussed during Lost in Space, it turned out that S.W.A.T. wasn't as much of a passion pick for Joey as David had assumed, leading to the switch.
Michael Bay was being planned as a miniseries and was in the early stages of being recorded, to the point where the show had even booked guests for certain episodes. When sections of the fanbase caught wind of it and expressed backlash to the idea, the series was scrapped for the time being. However, Griffin and David have continued to float it in the years since, with Bay being a recurring participant in the March Madness tournament.
Counting episodes on the main feed and patreon episodes that were supplementary content to respective miniseries, the guests who have made the most appearances on the podcast (excluding cameros) are:
Joe Reid (The First Annual Blank Check Awards, The Second Annual Blank Check Awards, The Third Annual Blank Check Awards, The Fourth Annual Blank Check Awards, The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards, Best of the Decade Blankie Awards, and The The Sixth Annual Blank Check Awards).
on The George Lucas Talk Show.