What the corpus says about Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

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What was said about it (26)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:42 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Blues Brothers · theme · Chez Louis is the same restaurant as in Blues Brothers and St. Elmo's Fire, a three-year span of iconic 80s restaurant movies. · "Same restaurant as the Blues Brothers, with Elwood and Jake."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ St. Elmo's Fire · theme · Same restaurant where Kirby (Estevez) waits for Andie McDowell. · "same restaurant at St. Elmo's Fire, where Kirby played by Abilo Estevez, waits for Andy McDowell"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ About Last Night · theme · Ferris is argued as the Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies, alongside Blues Brothers and About Last Night. · "is this is this Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · Other nominees for the all-in-one-day genre include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Do the Right Thing. · "Dazed and Confused, dog day afternoon. Um, the before sunrise before sunset movies. Do the right thing is on that list."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:19:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Inside Man · theme · Bill asks whether Ferris is the Apex Mountain of all-in-one-day movies; Chris names Inside Man as a favorite of the genre. · "my favorite all in one day movie is, I think, is inside man."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:35:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Risky Business · theme · Chris notes Risky Business as the first modern 80s movie, a candidate for a future episode. · "that's like the 1st modern 80s movie basically."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · Impersonating people over multiple phones to outwit annoying people peaked in Ferris, Beverly Hills Cop, and Fletch. · "This was peak trying to outwit really fucking annoying people by pretending to be different characters and using different phones."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 48 Hrs. ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read) · craft · Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs. · "it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?"
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:54:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Pulp Fiction · craft · Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Boogie Nights have better soundtracks, but none use music the way Ferris does. · "you can make the argument that like pulp fiction and um, Goodfellas and boogie nights and days all have like better soundtracks"
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · contrast · Hall's Gary is charismatic and confident, more like Ferris Bueller than a nerd. · "Gary feels more like Ferris Bueller to me."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:02:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · contrast · Ferris is more new wave, with synths and funky outfits, than the more trad early-80s Breakfast Club. · "Ferris feels more new wave than breakfast club in some ways."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Breakfast Club ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · verdict · Bill ranks Breakfast Club above Ferris, though both are pantheon. · "They're both pantheon for me, but breakfast club's an all timer for me."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:09:14 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Thief ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · verdict · Ferris Bueller uses Chicago best of all Chicago movies. · "I think Ferris Bueller uses the city of Chicago the best."
  22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:02:36 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Fight Club · fan theory · The online theory that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination is likened to Fight Club. · "this is Cameron's fight club, you know, that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination"
  23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Home Alone (the host's read) · dry run · Rooney getting beaten up by the house is Hughes's dry run for Home Alone. · "Hughes has like a dry run for home alone when when Rooney goes to the house."
  24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:51:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Platoon · same year · Oscar year 1986 pairs Platoon with Ferris, and Platoon's nominees are listed alongside the 1986 supporting actor race. · "Lucas, Ferris Bueller, Platoon. Iconic one year."
  25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:53:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · pop-culture integration · The Star Wars theme and the I Dream of Jeannie song are woven into the film though they do not belong to it. · "literally the I dream of Jeannie song and the Star Wars theme appear in the movie, and those songs don't belong to the movie, and yet they do at the same time."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:56:30 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · easter egg · A Simple Minds Don't You Forget About Me poster appears in Ferris's room, a year after Breakfast Club, as Hughes building his own universe. · "the simple minds. Don't you forget about me, poster, one year after Breakfast Club, which I love like Hughes making his own universe."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · said 4 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Easy A · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:31:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Cameron's house is in Lake Forest, near the Bears and Bulls facilities, five minutes from Michael Jordan's. · "I know where Cameron Fry's house is."
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:27:41 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Bill's 2009 mailbag timeline test: fit the whole day (Sears Tower, exchange, art museum, Chez Louis, Wrigley, parade, car repair) into under 8 hours. He challenged readers to reenact it; no one did. · "I challenged everyone in 2009 to to, I was like, all right, 3 high school or college people, just try to reenact this and see if you can do this in 8 hours."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:31:03 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Most Rewatchable Scene nominees: the they bought it monologue, Cameron deciding to leave, Ferris picking up Sloane, the Abe Froman call, the Star Wars Ferrari joyride, the art museum, Cameron destroying the car, and Ferris sprinting home. · "My winner for this is I'm going to break rewatchables tradition for the 1st time in 110 episodes"
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:38:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Bill's pick: the parking attendants' joyride in the Ferrari set to Star Wars music, one of the hardest he has ever laughed. · "It probably made me laugh top 4 hardest ever in a movie"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:41:41 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · The Cameron-destroys-the-Ferrari debate: Bill loves the car and sees no excuse; Chris in his 40s says Cam is getting executed by his dad; Sean sees it as angsty teen anger. · "Cam's gonna get a socket wrench to the eye if his dad is coming home, man."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:53:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Hosts argue the film may be the best use of pop music in a movie: The Smiths-style museum cover, the English Beat chase, and the Yello opener. · "is this the best use of pop music in a movie ever?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
  2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ Sneakers · programming · The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie. · "this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:46:09 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Marvin's Room · programming · Juliet's first coed theater outing was Marvin's Room, in contrast to seeing teen movies with friends. · "The 1st movie I saw with like boys and girls, like it was like a co-ed group outing was Marvin's room, which is so depressing."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:08:38 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Gilbert Hill ↔ 48 Hrs. · lineage · Giving Black actors the most powerful job in a nearly all-white movie with 30 seconds of screen time started with 48 Hrs. · "giving black people in a movie with no black people the most powerful job"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:23 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ Kevin Hart remake of About Last Night (the host's read) · programming · About Last Night was remade with Kevin Hart. · "They remade it with Kevin Hart and Michael Healey."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · programming · Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie. · "I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] John Hughes ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage. · "But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:55:07 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ 48 Hrs. · craft · 48 Hrs. has the same joke about a bad guy liking shooting cops more than getting laid. · "48 hours has that with Ganz."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:58:45 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ↔ Rob Lowe · programming · Recommended homework for Craig: a rom-com dramedy set in Chicago. · "I'd be interested if you and Liz saw that one."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · lineage · Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School. · "You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:52:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore version) ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · The movie nods to the Scarlet Letter and its puritanical heritage; Olive jokes about watching the Demi Moore version. · "does its best or at least at times nods to the Scarlet letter and kind of like, you know, the puritanical heritage"
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Alan Ruck (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat. · "Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad. · "Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Election ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein. · "the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

  1. [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
  2. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
  3. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
  4. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
  5. [speaker] Kyle Brandt · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · A Hughes-head who has pushed to cover Weird Science for about five years; loves the quotability, Gary's dad and Chet, and 80s mall and party scenes. Cannot stand Lisa's behavior and the lead's line readings, and is bothered that the Chicago-area setting ignores the 85 Bears. · stances: Weird Science deserves a rewatch and has the best 80s title theme song; Downey or Hall should have been the Wyatt/lead pairing; Chicago-suburbs Hughes-verse details matter
  6. [speaker] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [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)
  2. [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)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 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 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 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 · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:42 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Blues Brothers · theme · Chez Louis is the same restaurant as in Blues Brothers and St. Elmo's Fire, a three-year span of iconic 80s restaurant movies. · "Same restaurant as the Blues Brothers, with Elwood and Jake."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ St. Elmo's Fire · theme · Same restaurant where Kirby (Estevez) waits for Andie McDowell. · "same restaurant at St. Elmo's Fire, where Kirby played by Abilo Estevez, waits for Andy McDowell"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ About Last Night · theme · Ferris is argued as the Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies, alongside Blues Brothers and About Last Night. · "is this is this Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · Other nominees for the all-in-one-day genre include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Do the Right Thing. · "Dazed and Confused, dog day afternoon. Um, the before sunrise before sunset movies. Do the right thing is on that list."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:19:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Inside Man · theme · Bill asks whether Ferris is the Apex Mountain of all-in-one-day movies; Chris names Inside Man as a favorite of the genre. · "my favorite all in one day movie is, I think, is inside man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:35:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Risky Business · theme · Chris notes Risky Business as the first modern 80s movie, a candidate for a future episode. · "that's like the 1st modern 80s movie basically."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · Impersonating people over multiple phones to outwit annoying people peaked in Ferris, Beverly Hills Cop, and Fletch. · "This was peak trying to outwit really fucking annoying people by pretending to be different characters and using different phones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] 48 Hrs. ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read) · craft · Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs. · "it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:54:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Pulp Fiction · craft · Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Boogie Nights have better soundtracks, but none use music the way Ferris does. · "you can make the argument that like pulp fiction and um, Goodfellas and boogie nights and days all have like better soundtracks"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · contrast · Hall's Gary is charismatic and confident, more like Ferris Bueller than a nerd. · "Gary feels more like Ferris Bueller to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:02:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · contrast · Ferris is more new wave, with synths and funky outfits, than the more trad early-80s Breakfast Club. · "Ferris feels more new wave than breakfast club in some ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Breakfast Club ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · verdict · Bill ranks Breakfast Club above Ferris, though both are pantheon. · "They're both pantheon for me, but breakfast club's an all timer for me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:09:14 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Thief ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · verdict · Ferris Bueller uses Chicago best of all Chicago movies. · "I think Ferris Bueller uses the city of Chicago the best."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:02:36 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Fight Club · fan theory · The online theory that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination is likened to Fight Club. · "this is Cameron's fight club, you know, that Ferris is a figment of Cameron's imagination"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Home Alone (the host's read) · dry run · Rooney getting beaten up by the house is Hughes's dry run for Home Alone. · "Hughes has like a dry run for home alone when when Rooney goes to the house."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:51:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Platoon · same year · Oscar year 1986 pairs Platoon with Ferris, and Platoon's nominees are listed alongside the 1986 supporting actor race. · "Lucas, Ferris Bueller, Platoon. Iconic one year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:53:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · pop-culture integration · The Star Wars theme and the I Dream of Jeannie song are woven into the film though they do not belong to it. · "literally the I dream of Jeannie song and the Star Wars theme appear in the movie, and those songs don't belong to the movie, and yet they do at the same time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:56:30 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · easter egg · A Simple Minds Don't You Forget About Me poster appears in Ferris's room, a year after Breakfast Club, as Hughes building his own universe. · "the simple minds. Don't you forget about me, poster, one year after Breakfast Club, which I love like Hughes making his own universe."
[pairs] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Easy A · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:31:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Cameron's house is in Lake Forest, near the Bears and Bulls facilities, five minutes from Michael Jordan's. · "I know where Cameron Fry's house is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:27:41 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Bill's 2009 mailbag timeline test: fit the whole day (Sears Tower, exchange, art museum, Chez Louis, Wrigley, parade, car repair) into under 8 hours. He challenged readers to reenact it; no one did. · "I challenged everyone in 2009 to to, I was like, all right, 3 high school or college people, just try to reenact this and see if you can do this in 8 hours."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:31:03 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Most Rewatchable Scene nominees: the they bought it monologue, Cameron deciding to leave, Ferris picking up Sloane, the Abe Froman call, the Star Wars Ferrari joyride, the art museum, Cameron destroying the car, and Ferris sprinting home. · "My winner for this is I'm going to break rewatchables tradition for the 1st time in 110 episodes"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:38:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Bill's pick: the parking attendants' joyride in the Ferrari set to Star Wars music, one of the hardest he has ever laughed. · "It probably made me laugh top 4 hardest ever in a movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:41:41 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · The Cameron-destroys-the-Ferrari debate: Bill loves the car and sees no excuse; Chris in his 40s says Cam is getting executed by his dad; Sean sees it as angsty teen anger. · "Cam's gonna get a socket wrench to the eye if his dad is coming home, man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:53:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off · fun · Hosts argue the film may be the best use of pop music in a movie: The Smiths-style museum cover, the English Beat chase, and the Yello opener. · "is this the best use of pop music in a movie ever?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ Sneakers · programming · The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie. · "this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:46:09 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Marvin's Room · programming · Juliet's first coed theater outing was Marvin's Room, in contrast to seeing teen movies with friends. · "The 1st movie I saw with like boys and girls, like it was like a co-ed group outing was Marvin's room, which is so depressing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:08:38 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Gilbert Hill ↔ 48 Hrs. · lineage · Giving Black actors the most powerful job in a nearly all-white movie with 30 seconds of screen time started with 48 Hrs. · "giving black people in a movie with no black people the most powerful job"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:23 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ Kevin Hart remake of About Last Night (the host's read) · programming · About Last Night was remade with Kevin Hart. · "They remade it with Kevin Hart and Michael Healey."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · programming · Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie. · "I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] John Hughes ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage. · "But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:55:07 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ 48 Hrs. · craft · 48 Hrs. has the same joke about a bad guy liking shooting cops more than getting laid. · "48 hours has that with Ganz."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:58:45 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ↔ Rob Lowe · programming · Recommended homework for Craig: a rom-com dramedy set in Chicago. · "I'd be interested if you and Liz saw that one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · lineage · Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School. · "You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:52:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore version) ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · The movie nods to the Scarlet Letter and its puritanical heritage; Olive jokes about watching the Demi Moore version. · "does its best or at least at times nods to the Scarlet letter and kind of like, you know, the puritanical heritage"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Alan Ruck (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat. · "Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad. · "Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Election ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein. · "the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character."
[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
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Kyle Brandt · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · A Hughes-head who has pushed to cover Weird Science for about five years; loves the quotability, Gary's dad and Chet, and 80s mall and party scenes. Cannot stand Lisa's behavior and the lead's line readings, and is bothered that the Chicago-area setting ignores the 85 Bears. · stances: Weird Science deserves a rewatch and has the best 80s title theme song; Downey or Hall should have been the Wyatt/lead pairing; Chicago-suburbs Hughes-verse details matter
[speaker] Shea Serrano · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · The franchise's biggest fan, loves family, Dom, Letty and stunts, and the first film as the centerpiece. Shrugs at villains and wants smaller street-racing again. · stances: The Fast and the Furious is number one; Tokyo Drift is the keystone; Worst moments are still really fun
[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 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) 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.