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MARCH MADNESS 2023 - Day 26

The Ocean’s movies just drowned the Turtles. Sorry, folks.

Up today - a series of films about COPS BEING COOL, and a series of films about MOBSTERS BEING FUNNY.

It’s POLICE STORY vs. THE JELLY TRILOGY.


With POLICE STORY, we’d do 5 films:

We will not be covering Supercop 2 (not enough Chan) nor the “reboots” New Police Story and Police Story 2013.

With the JELLY TRILOGY - a thing that exists and we did not make up - we would cover 3 mafia comedies that feature character actor Joe Viterelli:

Will our guy Jelly wobble-wobble to the final four? Or does Chan have the edge to take him out?

Comments

Yeah that's the part that's confusing to me.

outb0undflight

I think it might be because they like it?

Michael Harrison

Jelly noooo!

Kristin

jackie moves real good

Jason Coates

I can’t wait for Ocean’s to wipe the floor with Police Story. Criminals make for better characters to follow in a narrative than cops.

Tyler Duggan

Every year people vote en masse for Police Story and every year I ask myself...why?

outb0undflight

jelly you deserved better. sorry they were too afraid

Aidan

I see the point, but tbh I only made it through 15 min of the Dundee II commentary. For three episodes, I need more than dull plotting and lazy jokes at the center. And plus everything about the late-DeNiro comedies depresses me a little. But I understand the appeal of hearing G&D giddy over a Jelly trilogy.

Michael Mayer

Wait it’s 50/50. Who Won??

Chris Lynch

Thank goodness.

FreakaJebus

Rigged

Stephen Mochan

Dat's fukkin' weird

Christopher Roundhill

Rigged 😜

Dustin Philipson

guys... who won??

Luca Bruno

Love you Marie

magicaljohnson

ACAB. But also AJID All Jelly Is Delicious

JB

Please vote for Police Story

Perry

he has never once said “dat’s fuckin weird”. how is this even a debate?

Rosemarie

Obligatory if you’re still in line stay in line post

JB

its a nail biter folks!!

Sofia Car

This is absolute chaos.

Philippe Gariépy

J E L L Y

Cody F. Schmidt

It’s JACKIE CHAN. The man acts, directs, sings, does his own stunts, dresses like he dgaf. How is this even a debate??

Gabe Kroeger

For anyone who doesn’t want either to win, may I point your attention to the fact that the jelly series will be a month shorter

JB

may i point you, dear listener, to the crocodile dundee commentaries, three of the most entertaining episodes ever released on the patreon?

Rosemarie

Please Jelly Please

Boogie

das fuckin weird

Judson Greene

Sure hoping it’s Jelly’s Last Jam (couldn’t resist). And yet somehow neck and neck. Old Dogs / Book of Henry-style commentary can be entertaining once in a while but going in with 3 mediocre to bad movies sounds bleak.

Michael Mayer

I got my bread, my peanut butter, just missing one thing

Fred

Das a bit fucking close

Daniel McLane

Wow dead heat

Anthony Regina

jelly is the only way we’re avoiding my personal hell of six weeks of scream movies so i’m ride or die for jelly

Rosemarie

Jelly took my beloved Hellraiser, if it had to take that then let Jelly take it all. We must become one with Jelly.

Botbotb

MBCJA

Nicholas Hoffman

too late.

Trevor McCandless

Might fuck around and start a second Patreon account to vote for Police Story again

Philip M Bernstein

Tired: Vote Jelly because it's funny Wired: With no totally surprising, out of left field underdogs to root for in the main feed bracket anymore, likely heading to another obvious populist winner there for the second year, voting for Jelly is the only way we can still get that rush of the Nancy/Demme "out of the box choice" wins this year. And also, it's funny.

Michael Natale

The. Jelly. Bit. STIIIIIIIINKS.

Jonathon Pernisek

America is a 5 letter word: J E L L Y

Sam Russell

Last minute switch to Jelly. Would prefer to watch Police Story but hear about Jelly

James A'Herne

It's the opposite of Alien Versus Predator. Whoever wins, we all win.

Refridganinja

What was that year?

Jonah

JELLY

Brynndiana Jones

You ever try to spread Cops on a crumpet?? Jelly is just the logical choice here.

Parsalian

I mean, I did not love it, so I think you’re right

Rad Rodge

People who are saying that this is a no bits podcast are missing the point that Jelly is not a bit

Filip Boratyn

Come on, people, don't get jelly-pilled

Bill Sweet

Where did this Jelly Hive come from? What is happening?

Joe Arvis

Police Story is one of my favorite series, not like this :(

Perry

Vote Jelly!

Matthew Levell

JELLY IS INCHING CLOSER #DONTBEFUCKINWEIRD #VOTEJELLY

Peter Angelinas

And perhaps, most importantly, they have Jelly in them.

Matthew Farthing

David's point from the latest patreon ep was valid. The Jelly movies are easy, light movies that will make for good commentaries! And there's only three of them.

Kevin Rowley

Cant believe we’re gonna meme ourselves into a a Jelly commentary series. This is 2016 all over again

Philip Munroe

Ok. We need to retire the bit. We all had a laugh, but now the joke that Police Story should beat The Jelly Trilogy has gotten out of control and it's time to send the bit to the rafters.

Matthew Farthing

The whole Jelly thing smacks of mid-2000s "random" humour on the internet. Jelly out!

James Smith

I say we get both and 0% copaganda!

Tyler Duggan

C'mon Jackie, wrap this thing up!

Kevin Merryman

Ein thousand jares jelly

Clammy_Damp

Saying it again: The Jelly bit STIIIIIIIIIIINKS.

Jonathon Pernisek

The Turtles had to atone for the sin of beating father Karras to death

Mauricio Salas

If you'll glorify criminals at least give serve it to us with a side of Jelly.

Mauricio Salas

Fucking wild!

EvanEightNine !

“DATS FUCKED UP!!!” - Jelly

Jake Maringoni

A vote for Jelly is a vote for goodness in this crazy, crazy world

Kaitlin

The Police Story movies are great, but the commentaries would be 70% “oh wow that rocked,” 20% talking Jackie Chan’s American career, 5% Griffin stressing out talking Chan’s CCP support and 5% unrelated fucking around. Vote Jelly. The movies may be mediocre but Jelly is perfect. Jelly’s MY jam.

Theodore Rosenblum

Cool kids vote for Jelly

Kelly Briscoe

After seeing the disrespect of David giving Magnificent Warriors 3 stars on LB, it's clear Hong Kong martial arts is a must for the boys. (This is a joke. I think Police Story is more fun than Jelly.)

Holden Martinson

Agree with this. What I loved about the Nancy Meyers, James L Brooks and Nora Ephron minis is you all talked about comedies in a deep way, which you never see. You all are great talking about anything (and found new angles with heavily documented filmmakers like Kubrick), but I think there's a true value of having 2+ hour dissections of movies like Something's Gotta Give, as most people just think "it's cute!" and leave it there.

Ben Goodman

Instead of Jelly can we just get Harold Ramis on the main feed? Last mostly-comedy mini was May, two years ago, would be nice to have another.

Philip M Bernstein

Come on people Jelly is so close. Vote Jelly!

Andrew Spitzer

Copaganda with sick stunts.

Mark Adkins

If we're all so suggestible that watching Jackie Chan drive a car through a shantytown is going to make us love real life cops none of us should be on the Internet at all.

Philip M Bernstein

If you loved the Old Dogs commentary as much as I did, you would be voting Jelly

Louis IV

Nothing has diminishing returns quite like Copaganda, tho

Tyler Duggan

That series was going to be really radical, dude. And they totally snubbed our bodacious good time.

Tyler Duggan

Who said it’s a bit? You think dedicated, valuable, and loyal friends, even among criminals, is a bit? Now Copaganda for Chinese Govnt… that’s a bit

Tyler Duggan

It’s like that Conan bit where if the joke keeps going and going, it goes through phases. One is it stops being funny… and then it immediately gets 10x funnier. But you must persist through the naysayers. And the Chinese Copaganda

Tyler Duggan

But not by Copaganda

Tyler Duggan

Finally someone gets it!

Tyler Duggan

Hey now, both have EXCELLENT movies. But Jelly ain’t Copaganda. He ain’t no snitch, y’know

Tyler Duggan

Boo, Copaganda! Yay, Hong Kong martial arts dramas but, BOOOO Chinese Copaganda!

Tyler Duggan

Chinese Copaganda is still

Tyler Duggan

You deserve to lose Weir to deal Toro, though. That’s the trick. Jelly is just an innocent guy who is just doing the thing for that guy in a place, y’know?

Tyler Duggan

Just cuz the copaganda takes place in China, doesn’t make it not-Copaganda! Gimme the real heroes, the real working class man! JEEELLLEEEHHHH!

Tyler Duggan

This is so stressful god I hope Jelly wins

Bridget Coulter

Yeah, but… Jelly!

Tyler Duggan

Jelly for a 1000 years!!

Bob Sacamano

If precedent holds, the hosts will thumb the scales in the final hours for Jelly (RIP Hellraiser, which held a commanding lead until the final moments when Blankies were literally commanded to vote Jelly). Jelly movies suck, we’re being given the chance to talk PPRE-HOLLYWOOD Jackie Chan! Hell, we’re being given a chance to talk Jackie Chan period! Hong Kong cinema! Michelle Yeoh! You want to throw that away over a jokey meme of a series? Now DATS fucked up.

CT

jellyyyyyy

Charlotte Langdon

I agree with this.

Alex

I truly hope Police Story maintains this slight lead

Anthony Regina

Neck and neck

Josh Harvey

When it became hilarious.

Donald W Pratt

Jelly, forever.

Curtis Brewster

If I lose Weir and Jelly two days in a row, I will lose all hope in humanity. Don’t do that to me.

Jacob Raleigh

I don’t understand how this keeps happening. Obviously I love Police Story but it’s Jelly, it’s gotta be Jelly

Champagne and Gummy bears

That's why I voted for Jelly

Alexander Seiler

I don’t want peace. I want problems always.

Nathan Knowles

vote Jelly, vote a winner

Theodore Rosenblum

ACAB includes Jackie Chan. Vote Jelly!

John Phillips

They're very clearly going to do the Jelly Trilogy because they're simply too tickled by their own bit, so don't worry about Jelly. They will do Jelly.

Jonathon Pernisek

Please vote for the franchise with good movies

Omeed

he might!

Luke West

the police story delegation does not claim any of the people being weird about jelly. i just wanna hear ben react to the mall fight in police story and the supercop wheel

Alex Lovendahl

I would have considered voting for the Analyze movies anyway, but packaging in Mickey Blue Eyes (meaning commentary on Hugh Grant stretching his shtick to its limits) through this sweaty connection pushes it all the way for me

Selmon Rafey

are they really as bad, chris. is jelly going to put brett kavanaugh on the supreme court, chris

Alex Lovendahl

Vote Police Story guys come on

Teddy Silva

Jelly robbed Hellraiser, we get what we deserve

Robin Tali

Jackie: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqkn5/heres-why-jackie-chan-is-really-unpopular-in-hong-kong Jelly: Das fucked up. Vote Jelly!

Michael Perry

am I missing something? Not fussed about JC either though given his statements on Hong Kong

obosh

Not to spoil anyone's fun but I don't get the Jelly bit. I fee l

obosh

okay it was funny up until now

Sunny Cheng

If Police Story beats Jelly, the anger directed at Police Story will be so overwhelming, the Jelly-heads will give whoever goes up against Police Story the decisive victory. So if you want Police Story to have a chance, you have to vote for Jelly.

Matthew Farthing

Say Hello to Jello(y)

Rory Dunn

As jelly says in analyze this: fuck da police

Ben Bequette

Jelly Dies Tonight.

Luke West

On this all depends

Rad Rodge

Cmon guys! Vote jelly.

Seth B

Jelly must be stopped

Mark Adkins

Say it with me everyone; cops are not cool

Cloud Prewett

I love my sweet boy. (Jelly)

Ben DeSart

jelly says ACAB

Justice SZ

The glory of the story cannot be understated

Jack o Diamonds

If there's one guy I'd be okay with beating Jelly, it's Jackie Chan. That being said, let's keep the Jelly train rolling!

Douglas Wykstra

Jelly!

Boogie

Jelly will honestly be disappointing post Analyse This…it’ll be a diminishing returns bit…nothing more

Joshua Ochoa

You guys already made the turtles go away. Can't you please at least leave us some jelly?

Luke Swisher

Jackie, I love you, but ACAB. I’m sorry

JB

Hoping the Jelly train stops here, but I don’t really want either of these in the final.

Kawaiidebu

My man! Jackie Chan!

David Rosenblatt

The criterion collection was created for Jelly

colin p clune

Jelly can’t be stopped. Stare into his eyes, give in to Jelly.

Louis Frey

No, it’s true. The original Police Story trilogy rips whereas Analyze This & That and Mickey Blue Eyes are unflushable pieces of shit. Voting for Jelly was funny the first round, but it should’ve lost against Hellraiser.

Matthew Chmiel

Nobody escapes the jellyfish forest

Will Redmond

True, there isn’t much Chan in Supercop 2, but the what Chan there is is potent enough to warrant inclusion imo.

Screen Drafts

How is Jelly not running away with this???

Alice

He wibbles, he wobbles but Jelly NEVER falls, he’s the anti-Jackie Chan and we must support him.

Andrew Jones

JEL-LY! JEL-LY! JEL-LY!

Jay Kay

We must vote jelly

Zach Stetson

The jelly hate needs to stop

Zach Stetson

Jelly needs to be stopped.

Colin

GUYS JELLY

Eileen Tierney

Okay, it's really time to end this Jelly madness and vote for the much more deserving Police Story.

Zef Wagner

Unless we get confirmation that we will also watch The Firm as a prequel to the Jelly Trilogy, I'm afraid I have to support Police Story,

Benjamin Russell

Then they can do Jelly twice. The reality is, franchises are much shorter than filmographies so a huge chunk of these are going to be done anyway, including Police Story. Which means we can only vote morally. Jelly!

Matthew Farthing

We all know the Jelly bit is the height of comedy, hasn’t already overstayed it’s welcome, and could sustain three full episodes. What my vote presupposes is: maybe it isn’t?

Jon Washington

I’m going to look beyond the temporary joy of the jelly joke and vote as if I love da movish. Police Story all the way!

Deren Ney

Fantastic comment. Totally unhinged. 5 stars no notes.

Amir Shani

Amab

Ray

They're definitely going to do jelly anyway though

Ray

vote Jelly acab

Austin McDougle

literally what is the point of Jelly getting this far if we’re not all gonna vote for it

Austin McDougle

JELL-EE! JELL-EE! JELL-EE!

adam

I would LOVE a police story miniseries. Some other time. Tonight we feast on Jelly.

Matthew Farthing

JELLY!!

Brooks Hoehn

I’m going to keep beating this drum. Please include The Firm for a Jelly Quadrilogy. We need more Jelly!

Collin Odell

So true!!!

Iguanahouse

Police Story is in the lead. Das not fucked up.

Patrick Orlob

acab includes inspector chan

Ml

POLICE STORY!!! JACKIE CHAN!!!! MICHELLE YEOH!!!!!

Iguanahouse

Das (reasoning is) fucked up

Zak Goldberger

I don't think that's true

Kyle Faber

JELLY TRILOGY

T.J.

Wobble wobble

Leroy Beckett

Michelle Yeoh literally lands a dirt bike onto a moving train in one of these movies! Jackie fights 15 dudes with a ladder! People voting for the jelly bit are just as bad as the people who voted for trump cause they thought it would be funny

Chris Hubbard

JELLLLLLYYYYY

Bryce Hendrickson

Do people really have free will and still not vote for Jelly? That's fucked up.

Mauricio Salas

Voting Police Story purely out of spite for the shafting of those decent, salt of the earth, Cenobites

Steve Nutt

What bit? Vote Jelly

Zak Goldberger

The Jelly bit stiiiiiiiiiiiiinks

Jonathon Pernisek

I have nothing agains Jelly *the man*, but those Analyze movies are what would spit out if an AI program came up with a film specifically designed to make me eat my own eyeballs.

Gretchen Lindensmith

Vote for the one with Michelle Yeoh

Kevin Love Hewitt

Ooh, nice to get a preview of the cover art for the upcoming Jelly Collection box set from Criterion

Begemott

Remember when Billy Crystal slaps Jelly in the face at the end of Analyze This? Not voting for Jelly today would be an even bigger slap in the face than that.

Brady Larsen

Voting for the Story......the Jelly Story!!!!

Eric Nagurney

Went to waffle house for breakfast, had a pack of jelly with my toast! It's a sign

James Young

RESPECT FOR JELLY ❤️

john-kawika shelton

COMMIT TO THE BIT

Esteban Minero

As fans of this show, are we not obligated to commit to the bit?

Michael Hashizume

Standing in a sea of peanut butter and crying out for some JELLY

Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat

I like that patreon comments can get more ruthless but at the same time it's for a harmless meme lol. The stakes are lower so the fights can get nastier

Jack Barr

I didn't sacrifice hellraiser for this, VOTE JELLY

Tyler McClellan

I’m voting police story just because im not ready for this jelly

David McCallum

time for jelly to get smeared

Data Janitor

Jelly robbed Hellraiser last week. Get em out of here.

tyler langlois

They need to wait until they're all dads for the ultimate dad movie series.

HappyCroc

😔 tough choice

Charlie

Jelly got jinxed in yesterday's update, knew this was coming. Police Story would be a great winner and I'm getting behind it til the end now.

HappyCroc

It’s Jelly time.

Austin Zook

JELLY JELLY JELLY!

Andrew Reck

the chaos of including a meme option is it only gets more popular as more franchises people wanted are eliminated. "my fav lost? well i got no horse in this race , all in on jelly baby"

slimesiren

I will always vote against Jelly.

Spam Boi

Jelly Gents rise up!

Nicholas Razzante

ITS PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME

Ryan O'Reilly

Jelly was winning at first and after losing the turtles to oceans yesterday I didn’t know if could take another upset!

James Manning

Follow your heart, not the bit. Vote for Police Story!

Eric Trapp

J E L L Y

Rosemarie

Jelly!!!

Brian Hines

DAS FUCKED UP

Aidan

I can vote for the bit only so many times. Jelly must fall to the cop who can’t be stopped.

Tobey

Police Story just goes much better with the World Cup theme of the mainfeed Also just got to season 9 of ER with my wife, and in Supercop Chan does a fight scene in front of a moving helicopter rotor

Adam Grzegorczyk

I said this in the Reddit, but while a Jelly series would be funny, it would be way funnier for him to be the “Lindsey Buckingham in What’s Up With That” of Blank Check

Brian Sweeney

I’m still mourning the loss of Weir (even though they are definitely going to eventually do him, right? RIGHT??)

Ditmarser

death to jelly

Matt Vaughan

Jiggle jiggle

Doc Brown

folks we've enjoyed Jelly's Cinderella run, but it's time for his boat- sized 1987 Cadillac to turn into a pumpkin now that a Supercop episode is in reach

Trevor Pyle

I'm sorry Jelly

Ben Burbank

Jelly vs Leonard championship: let’s make it happen!

Donald W Pratt

ACAB vote Jelly

Filip Boratyn

I can't believe it's this close.

Philippe Gariépy

I have come to except that jelly might win but I’m still not voting for it :)

Lawrence Guest

If anyone is at all conflicted I beg you watch the Police Story clip where Jackie's trying to answer all the phones at the station. Nothing better.

Philip M Bernstein

Jelly all the way!!!

Bobby Mageau

I can’t look at Billy Crystal without thinking about how much he loves to do blackface, sorry Jelly

CT13

Luckily, that amount of time is 301 minutes.

Donald W Pratt

JELLY FOREVER

PolterZeitgeist

if jelly loses, that would be falkin’ weird

Peter Angelinas

Sorry Jackie, I'm going for jelly

Sloane

I have to vote my conscience: Jackie Chan.

Joel Orr

This should be the final, i’m tempted to vote Police Story just because i don’t want Jelly to lose to something like Elmore Leonard or the Ocean’s movies. I think there’s been enough enthusiasm for Jelly that they’ll probably slot them in somewhere down the line, so Police Story might be the better choice

Azar

call me peanut butter, cus i need me some jelly

David freeman

The bit is good, but the first Police Story might be the best Jacki Chan movie ever.

Logghammer

Jelly

Seymour Butz

Life's too short to not vote for Jelly.

Étienne Fillion-Sauvé

Jelly you've had a good run but Police Story has to win this. Especially if you're taking my Turtles.

Sean C.

Sitting here experiencing terror steadily replace my amusement as I watch Jelly continue to power through this competition like Trump in the 2016 Republican primaries

elkweed

JELLY FOREVER

Teddy K

if jelly beats out police story im gonna go crazy

Lucas Nyhus

Boy howdy!

ChewyWalrus

The Analyze movies are fun beyond Jelly. The fact Jelly is in them just puts them over the top

ian

All love to Jelly but I must vote for Kukui carnage.

TV's Kevin Lanigan

Man, Police Story is so amazing! Jelly is only funny for so long.

bigcabba

Must be jelly cuz jam don’t shake

Quinn

If Jelly wins the tournament, this was a complete waste of everyone’s time.

Matthew Chmiel

Not jelly 🥺

Jim Finzel

The Bardi bump for Jelly due to the jingle in the last update must not be overstated

Raphael Esguerra

Noooo! Police Story! What is wrong with you people!?

Chad Hotelling

I’m gonna be pissed if Jelly wins the whole bracket.

Baxter

Chewy can you handle it?

Christopher Grigg

I'm ao conflicted!

Justin Peterson

here’s a police story: a guy didn’t vote for jelly so he went to jail because not voting for jelly is a crime

Eric

How is Jelly winning and WHY IS IT EVEN CLOSE

Jesse

Guys...Jackie chan = fun. We'll all regret the jelly bit 30 seconds into Analyze That.

Art Curtis

DAS FUCKIN WEIRD

Jake

JELL-Y JELL-Y JELL-Y JELL-Y

corndair

I am ready for this Jelly.

ChewyWalrus

Y’all are too committed to this Jelly bit. This is a no bits podcast!

Joel Cunningham


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