What the corpus says about The Jerk (1979)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Jerk (1979) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Jerk (1979) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:19:32 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Jerk ↔ Father of the Bride · verdict · The Jerk would have been the pick for a while but has not got the legs. · "I think the jerk would have been there for a while, but I just don't think it's gotten the legs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:12:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Jerk ↔ Airplane! · aged-comedy peers · The Jerk is grouped with Airplane and Blues Brothers as all-time bangers that faded as years passed. · "like airplane, Blues Brothers, some of those where they were just like, all kind, all time bangers, and then as the years passed, they've kind of faded"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:01:38 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Jerk ↔ Steve Martin · verdict · The Jerk and SNL in 1978-79 are Martin's true Apex Mountain as the biggest comic in the world. · "it's probably 1978 or 1979 range when he's got the jerk out. He's the biggest comic in the world."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · lineage · The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. · "there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Airplane! ↔ Leslie Nielsen · craft · Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading. · "Leslie Nielsen, an airplane."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:27:58 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Airplane! · craft · Walk Hard is modeled on Walk the Line the way Airplane! is modeled on Airport, then copies everything else. · "in the same way that airplane is modeled mostly after airport, and then it copies everything else."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it. · "he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:25:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Risky Business · lineage · Remaking a film starring the biggest stars of 1982-83 would still have them hanging over it, as Elizabeth Taylor hung over the 1991 remake. · "if you remade risky business, Tom Cruise would hang over that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parenthood ↔ Father of the Bride · lineage · Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself. · "Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part II (the host's read) · lineage · Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget. · "I'm okay with Father of the Bride too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion) (the host's read) · lineage · The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic. · "The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Jerk (1979); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Jerk (1979) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.