What the corpus says about The Breakfast Club (1985)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (20)

  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’ · 0:17:25 · 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."
  3. [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."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Another movie with no black people that did not need any. · "Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people."
  5. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85)] Bring It On ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism. · "it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did. · "And they're the Breakfast Club, right?"
  7. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Breakfast Club · craft · Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club. · "It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age."
  8. [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."
  9. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ The Breakfast Club · verdict · Speaker defends Breakfast Club and calls Planes, Trains a masterpiece, while Sixteen Candles is too gross. · "But breakfast club I stand behind."
  10. [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."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:35:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · industry · Anthony Michael Hall's Pryor-style drunk scene was test-driven in The Breakfast Club, so execs wanted more of it in the next movie. · "They, uh, they soft tested the Richard Pryor too."
  12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:44:13 · Kyle Brandt (0.40)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · industry · Making Weird Science was reportedly the condition for Hughes being allowed to make The Breakfast Club. · "this was how he was allowed to make the Breakfast Club if he also agreed."
  13. [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."
  14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · sibling film · The two were basically filmed simultaneously at Shermer High, which also hosts Weird Science and Sixteen Candles. · "Ferris Bewer and Breakfast Club were basically filmed simultaneously in Shermer High."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ The Breakfast Club · trailer vibe · The speaker pitched The Social Network to a friend as Breakfast Club meets Zodiac. · "and saying like, it looks like Breakfast Club meets Zodiac."
  16. [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."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:18:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] John Kapelos ↔ The Breakfast Club · career · Kapelos plays Dino here and the custodian in The Breakfast Club. · "Yeah, I mean, he's the custodian in the Breakfast Club."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] John Hughes ⇒ The Breakfast Club (the host's read) · career · Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys. · "my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways"
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:00:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Paul Gleason ↔ The Breakfast Club · what-if · Gleason, Dick Vernon in Breakfast Club, was considered for Rooney; hosts debate if that is too distracting. · "Paul Gleason considered. For the role of Ed Rooney."
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:03:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Alan Ruck ↔ The Breakfast Club · what-if · Ruck had previously auditioned for Bender. · "Ruck had previously editioned for what role? Bender, right?"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] The Breakfast Club ↔ Weird Science · said 5 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] The Breakfast Club ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · said 4 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (29)

  1. [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."
  2. [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."
  3. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:48 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ American Pie · lineage · It followed American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That. · "It arrived not long after hits like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and She's All That."
  4. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:11 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Twilight Zone (TV) · lineage · The script's surreal twists reminded Fields of The Twilight Zone. · "The Donny Darko script also reminded Fields of one of his favorite TV shows, The Twilight Zone."
  5. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
  6. [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."
  7. [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."
  8. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:02:59 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bring It On ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Both fit 2000's optimistic can-do spirit; Brockovich is called the most 2000 movie. · "which is probably the most 2000 movie to actually come out in the year 2000."
  9. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
  10. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
  11. [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."
  12. [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."
  13. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · theme · Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence. · "Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens."
  14. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Even Anchorman, set in the 1970s, evokes the out-of-control early 2000s. · "Even a comedy like Anchorman managed to evoke the out of control feeling of the early 2000s."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ WarGames · lineage · Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated. · "I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile."
  17. [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."
  18. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:12:37 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Jessica Bendinger ⇒ Bring It On (the maker said so: her own interview, quoted on the show) · theme · Her hip hop journalism at Spin shaped the film's theme of white kids imitating black artists. · "Years later, when she got into the world of cheerleading, she saw that pattern repeating itself."
  19. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · theme · Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence. · "Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
  21. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ Her · lineage · Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one. · "Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing."
  22. [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."
  23. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:54 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ She's All That · theme · Like those films it had teen angst but stayed hopeful about life. · "Movies that had plenty of teen angst, but that were ultimately pretty hopeful about life in general."
  24. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:08 · Richard Kelly (0.85)] Richard Kelly ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Kelly says cinema can undo tragedy, unlike life: movies as time machines. · "We can undo tragedy in cinema, but, sadly, in life, we don't have those tools."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
  26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
  27. [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."
  28. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear. · "Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911."
  29. [The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear. · "Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911."

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] 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
  3. [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
  4. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
  5. [speaker] Adam Fields · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · Producer drawn to realistic teen dialogue in the Hughes mold and surreal Twilight Zone-style twists. He is a hustler who will plant a story to build buzz. · stances: Don't open Sundance; wait until people have seen bad movies; Kelly could handle actors despite being a rookie
  6. [speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics

The shows' running bits (3)

  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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
  3. [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 The Breakfast Club (1985) 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 Breakfast Club (1985) 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 · ‘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’ · 0:17:25 · 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’ · 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 · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Another movie with no black people that did not need any. · "Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85)] Bring It On ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism. · "it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:30:14 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · The misfit team facing a deadline plays like the Breakfast Club or a group project nobody did. · "And they're the Breakfast Club, right?"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Breakfast Club · craft · Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club. · "It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age."
[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."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:34:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planes, Trains and Automobiles ↔ The Breakfast Club · verdict · Speaker defends Breakfast Club and calls Planes, Trains a masterpiece, while Sixteen Candles is too gross. · "But breakfast club I stand behind."
[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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:35:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · industry · Anthony Michael Hall's Pryor-style drunk scene was test-driven in The Breakfast Club, so execs wanted more of it in the next movie. · "They, uh, they soft tested the Richard Pryor too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:44:13 · Kyle Brandt (0.40)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · industry · Making Weird Science was reportedly the condition for Hughes being allowed to make The Breakfast Club. · "this was how he was allowed to make the Breakfast Club if he also agreed."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ The Breakfast Club · sibling film · The two were basically filmed simultaneously at Shermer High, which also hosts Weird Science and Sixteen Candles. · "Ferris Bewer and Breakfast Club were basically filmed simultaneously in Shermer High."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ The Breakfast Club · trailer vibe · The speaker pitched The Social Network to a friend as Breakfast Club meets Zodiac. · "and saying like, it looks like Breakfast Club meets Zodiac."
[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’ · 1:18:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] John Kapelos ↔ The Breakfast Club · career · Kapelos plays Dino here and the custodian in The Breakfast Club. · "Yeah, I mean, he's the custodian in the Breakfast Club."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] John Hughes ⇒ The Breakfast Club (the host's read) · career · Hughes is a cross between Hall's Breakfast Club character and Cameron, and did his best writing for those guys. · "my guess would be he was kind of a cross between Anthony Michael Hall's breakfast club character and Cameron in a lot of ways"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:00:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Paul Gleason ↔ The Breakfast Club · what-if · Gleason, Dick Vernon in Breakfast Club, was considered for Rooney; hosts debate if that is too distracting. · "Paul Gleason considered. For the role of Ed Rooney."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:03:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Alan Ruck ↔ The Breakfast Club · what-if · Ruck had previously auditioned for Bender. · "Ruck had previously editioned for what role? Bender, right?"
[pairs] The Breakfast Club ↔ Weird Science · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Breakfast Club ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[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 · ‘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 Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:48 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ American Pie · lineage · It followed American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That. · "It arrived not long after hits like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and She's All That."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:11 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Twilight Zone (TV) · lineage · The script's surreal twists reminded Fields of The Twilight Zone. · "The Donny Darko script also reminded Fields of one of his favorite TV shows, The Twilight Zone."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
[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’ · 0:12:38 · 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 Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:02:59 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bring It On ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Both fit 2000's optimistic can-do spirit; Brockovich is called the most 2000 movie. · "which is probably the most 2000 movie to actually come out in the year 2000."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[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 · ‘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 Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · theme · Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence. · "Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Even Anchorman, set in the 1970s, evokes the out-of-control early 2000s. · "Even a comedy like Anchorman managed to evoke the out of control feeling of the early 2000s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ WarGames · lineage · Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated. · "I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile."
[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 Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:12:37 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Jessica Bendinger ⇒ Bring It On (the maker said so: her own interview, quoted on the show) · theme · Her hip hop journalism at Spin shaped the film's theme of white kids imitating black artists. · "Years later, when she got into the world of cheerleading, she saw that pattern repeating itself."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · theme · Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence. · "Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ Her · lineage · Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one. · "Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing."
[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 Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:54 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ She's All That · theme · Like those films it had teen angst but stayed hopeful about life. · "Movies that had plenty of teen angst, but that were ultimately pretty hopeful about life in general."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:08 · Richard Kelly (0.85)] Richard Kelly ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Kelly says cinema can undo tragedy, unlike life: movies as time machines. · "We can undo tragedy in cinema, but, sadly, in life, we don't have those tools."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[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 Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear. · "Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear. · "Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911."
[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] 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] 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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Adam Fields · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · Producer drawn to realistic teen dialogue in the Hughes mold and surreal Twilight Zone-style twists. He is a hustler who will plant a story to build buzz. · stances: Don't open Sundance; wait until people have seen bad movies; Kelly could handle actors despite being a rookie
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Breakfast Club (1985); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Breakfast Club (1985) 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.