What the corpus says about Mean Girls (2004)

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 (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Knocked Up ↔ Mean Girls · programming · Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle. · "Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'. · "I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls. · "I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious. · "You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Cruel Intentions · theme · Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99. · "That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Secret Admirer ↔ Mean Girls · theme · The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek. · "Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:29:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · theme · Regina George is framed as the legacy of the original Heather (Kim Walker), the first Heather killed. · "Regina George. To me is the legacy of the 3 Heathers and Heathers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · theme · Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick. · "It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:11:54 · Juliet Litman (0.55)] Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · theme · Mean Girls is described as part Heathers and part after-school special; the ending was pushed away from Heathers toward the relatable. · "This movie is like part Heathers and part after school special."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:35:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Lanthimos films are read as his takes on familiar genres; The Favourite is his Mean Girls. · "Like the favorite is his version of Mean Girls."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility. · "The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie"
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · craft · The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy. · "the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:09:26 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Freaky Friday · career · Freaky Friday made $92 million; Lohan's run went Freaky Friday, Confessions, Mean Girls, then the wheels came off. · "Uh, did confessions of a teenage drama queen, then it goes well on that mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:26:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ The Hot Chick · career · McAdams had been in Canada and The Hot Chick before Mean Girls made her career. · "She was in the hot chick, but I didn't see that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:16:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ↔ Wayne's World · people · Wayne's World, Mean Girls and Tommy Boy are the nominees for best Lorne Michaels movie; Mean Girls wins as he lets talent paint the canvas. · "Wayne's World, Mean Girls and Tommy Boy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:16:45 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Mean Girls ↔ Tommy Boy · people · Tommy Boy is the third Lorne Michaels nominee, whose stars also did not peak as expected. · "All 3 of those, I feel like the stars didn't really hit the peak you thought they were going to."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:39:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Spring Breakers · people · Claudia from Party of 5 looking grown up in Mean Girls was a 2004 shock, like Vanessa Hudgens in Spring Breakers. · "It was kind of like when Vanessa Hudgens was in spring breakers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:51:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen · people · Lohan said she had just played Confessions and Freaky Friday, not the cool girl, which is why she wanted Regina. · "I just played in Confessions of a teenager drama queen in Freaky Friday, not the cool girl in school."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:53:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ The Girl Next Door · people · Cuthbert's other film, with Paul Dano in the cast, is called a great teen movie (transcribed 'Backstore'). · "Backstore is a great teen movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:19:27 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ She's All That · verdict · Asked for a favorite high school movie, one guest picks She's All That, itself a ripoff of an earlier film. · "I like really loved she's all that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:04:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Wedding Crashers · verdict · Debating McAdams' Apex Mountain, they weigh Wedding Crashers as the third of her trilogy with career power. · "So at the end, by the end of the trilogy of this notebook wedding crashers, she has so much career power at that point"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:07:27 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · industry · Easy A bridges the 1997-2004 wave of teen movies (peaking with Mean Girls) and the Netflix-era revival. · "from 1997 to like 2004-ish peaking with mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · industry · The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes. · "We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables"

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Easy A · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Heathers · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Mean Girls · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Knocked Up · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ The Favourite · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:01:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Mean Girls is dated April 30, 2004, but fans celebrate Mean Girls Day on October 3rd, after the line about the date; Simmons only learned of it while researching. · "People think Mean Girls Day is October 3rd, but actually it came out on April 30th."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Mean Girls · fun · Most rewatchable scene picks: the talent show (Jingle Bell Rock), the sabotage montage, the four-way phone call, the lunch scene, the burn book blowup, Tim Meadows in the gym; Simmons picks the burn book blowup into the gym. · "Um, the burn book blowout bra."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:25:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Amanda picks the first lunch scene as most rewatchable: Regina introducing the Plastics in about three minutes. · "I think I'm going with the 1st lunch scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:34:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Mean Girls · fun · It was an early meme movie, with Tumblr-era life and even the Obama campaign using Mean Girls memes. · "the Obama campaign was using mean girl means and it had this 2nd internet life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:35:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Worst-aged: four-way phone calls, Africa/jungle references, the coach plotline; Simmons notes teens would group FaceTime now. · "There's just nobody would ever have a 4 way call now"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:37:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Soundtrack rant: the film is aimed at young women but the music sounds like a deodorant commercial; no hip-hop in 2004; probably budget. · "instead of actually being good."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Clueless · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[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 Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Transformers · lineage · Since the host does not give Transformers and Spider-Man grief for echoing earlier versions, he will not give it to Mean Girls. · "I guess if I'm not going to give Transformers and Spider-Man shit about that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Superbad ↔ Knocked Up · programming · Bill points out Superbad came out two months after Knocked Up. · "And by the way, Superbag came out 2 months after this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · craft · Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once. · "I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations."
[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 · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read) · programming · Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much. · "This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie."
[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 · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch. · "The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee"
[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 · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:11:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ The League (TV) · programming · Bill says Knocked Up may be the most high-profile fantasy moment in a movie, since The League is a TV show. · "It might be the most high profile fantasy moment."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Easy A ↔ Book Smart · theme · Book Smart (like Easy A) has supportive parents who show up, played by Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow. · "Like we saw this in book and book smart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies. · "It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] 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] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[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

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 Mean Girls (2004) 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 Mean Girls (2004) 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 · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Knocked Up ↔ Mean Girls · programming · Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle. · "Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'. · "I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls. · "I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious. · "You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Cruel Intentions · theme · Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99. · "That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Secret Admirer ↔ Mean Girls · theme · The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek. · "Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:29:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · theme · Regina George is framed as the legacy of the original Heather (Kim Walker), the first Heather killed. · "Regina George. To me is the legacy of the 3 Heathers and Heathers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · theme · Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick. · "It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:11:54 · Juliet Litman (0.55)] Heathers ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · theme · Mean Girls is described as part Heathers and part after-school special; the ending was pushed away from Heathers toward the relatable. · "This movie is like part Heathers and part after school special."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:35:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Lanthimos films are read as his takes on familiar genres; The Favourite is his Mean Girls. · "Like the favorite is his version of Mean Girls."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Favourite ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility. · "The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie"
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · craft · The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy. · "the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:09:26 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Freaky Friday · career · Freaky Friday made $92 million; Lohan's run went Freaky Friday, Confessions, Mean Girls, then the wheels came off. · "Uh, did confessions of a teenage drama queen, then it goes well on that mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:26:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ The Hot Chick · career · McAdams had been in Canada and The Hot Chick before Mean Girls made her career. · "She was in the hot chick, but I didn't see that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:16:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ↔ Wayne's World · people · Wayne's World, Mean Girls and Tommy Boy are the nominees for best Lorne Michaels movie; Mean Girls wins as he lets talent paint the canvas. · "Wayne's World, Mean Girls and Tommy Boy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:16:45 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Mean Girls ↔ Tommy Boy · people · Tommy Boy is the third Lorne Michaels nominee, whose stars also did not peak as expected. · "All 3 of those, I feel like the stars didn't really hit the peak you thought they were going to."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:39:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Spring Breakers · people · Claudia from Party of 5 looking grown up in Mean Girls was a 2004 shock, like Vanessa Hudgens in Spring Breakers. · "It was kind of like when Vanessa Hudgens was in spring breakers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:51:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen · people · Lohan said she had just played Confessions and Freaky Friday, not the cool girl, which is why she wanted Regina. · "I just played in Confessions of a teenager drama queen in Freaky Friday, not the cool girl in school."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:53:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ The Girl Next Door · people · Cuthbert's other film, with Paul Dano in the cast, is called a great teen movie (transcribed 'Backstore'). · "Backstore is a great teen movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:19:27 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ She's All That · verdict · Asked for a favorite high school movie, one guest picks She's All That, itself a ripoff of an earlier film. · "I like really loved she's all that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:04:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Wedding Crashers · verdict · Debating McAdams' Apex Mountain, they weigh Wedding Crashers as the third of her trilogy with career power. · "So at the end, by the end of the trilogy of this notebook wedding crashers, she has so much career power at that point"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:07:27 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · industry · Easy A bridges the 1997-2004 wave of teen movies (peaking with Mean Girls) and the Netflix-era revival. · "from 1997 to like 2004-ish peaking with mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · industry · The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes. · "We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables"
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Easy A · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Heathers · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Mean Girls · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ Knocked Up · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mean Girls ↔ The Favourite · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:01:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Mean Girls is dated April 30, 2004, but fans celebrate Mean Girls Day on October 3rd, after the line about the date; Simmons only learned of it while researching. · "People think Mean Girls Day is October 3rd, but actually it came out on April 30th."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Mean Girls · fun · Most rewatchable scene picks: the talent show (Jingle Bell Rock), the sabotage montage, the four-way phone call, the lunch scene, the burn book blowup, Tim Meadows in the gym; Simmons picks the burn book blowup into the gym. · "Um, the burn book blowout bra."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:25:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Amanda picks the first lunch scene as most rewatchable: Regina introducing the Plastics in about three minutes. · "I think I'm going with the 1st lunch scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:34:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Mean Girls · fun · It was an early meme movie, with Tumblr-era life and even the Obama campaign using Mean Girls memes. · "the Obama campaign was using mean girl means and it had this 2nd internet life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:35:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Worst-aged: four-way phone calls, Africa/jungle references, the coach plotline; Simmons notes teens would group FaceTime now. · "There's just nobody would ever have a 4 way call now"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:37:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Mean Girls · fun · Soundtrack rant: the film is aimed at young women but the music sounds like a deodorant commercial; no hip-hop in 2004; probably budget. · "instead of actually being good."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Clueless · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[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 Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Transformers · lineage · Since the host does not give Transformers and Spider-Man grief for echoing earlier versions, he will not give it to Mean Girls. · "I guess if I'm not going to give Transformers and Spider-Man shit about that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Superbad ↔ Knocked Up · programming · Bill points out Superbad came out two months after Knocked Up. · "And by the way, Superbag came out 2 months after this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · craft · Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once. · "I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations."
[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 · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read) · programming · Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much. · "This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie."
[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 · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch. · "The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee"
[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 · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:11:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ The League (TV) · programming · Bill says Knocked Up may be the most high-profile fantasy moment in a movie, since The League is a TV show. · "It might be the most high profile fantasy moment."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Easy A ↔ Book Smart · theme · Book Smart (like Easy A) has supportive parents who show up, played by Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow. · "Like we saw this in book and book smart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies. · "It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies."
[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] 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] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[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
[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 Mean Girls (2004); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mean Girls (2004) 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.