What the corpus says about Clueless (1995)

The 54 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 (11)

[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’ · 1:08:45 · 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 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’ · 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."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:18 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Clueless (the host's read) · career · The hit rescued Heckerling's career and so gave us Clueless. · "she kind of rescued her entire career, and because of that, we get clueless"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · verdict · Clueless sits at number one for Amanda; Easy A's Emma Stone is her number two among teen-movie leads. · "Number 2 for me is Emma Stone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:20:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · timeless social dynamics · Clueless and The Princess Bride are named alongside Mean Girls as films that will live on because they capture transcendent social dynamics. · "Clueless is like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Clueless (the host's read) · reference · Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it. · "to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:20:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Alicia Silverstone ↔ Clueless · career · Silverstone is lightning in a bottle in Clueless but never had a soaring career after. · "she really, she hasn't really had a soaring career after that."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:54 · unknown (0.30)] Twink Caplan ↔ Clueless · people · Caplan is a regular in Heckerling's movies and co-producer, and becomes a teacher in Clueless. · "A regular in all of her movies and also becomes like a co-producer on her movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:17:25 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Alicia Silverstone ↔ Clueless · cost of fame · Stories about Silverstone being anorexic on the Clueless set are cited as devastating, tying her fate to Lohan's. · "stories about Alicia Silverstone just being so anorexic on set of Clueless are like pretty, are like pretty devastating"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Clueless ↔ Mean Girls · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Clueless ↔ Easy A · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (35)

[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 · ‘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 · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · 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"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Baby's Day Out (the host's read) · lineage · The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out. · "I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Heat · theme · Collateral pairs Tom Cruise with Jamie Foxx the way Heat pairs two titans, Pacino and De Niro. · "in the same way that heat is like Pacino and De Niro, like together, finally, like 2 Titans of movies in our life."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet. · "Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read) · lineage · Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era. · "that this had a Dell comics color adaptation"
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Thief’ · 0:57:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Thief ⇒ Collateral (the host's read) · craft · Mann later circled back to blues in Collateral after trying all-blues for Thief. · "but then circled back in collateral"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Kirstie Alley ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Her Cheers character is a man-written career woman chasing rich men; the film writes the same character with intelligence and compassion. · "this feels like the same character boat written like intelligently and compassionately."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[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 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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · Collateral is a great two-hander with Cruise playing against type as the heavy. · "playing against type and playing the heavy"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ↔ Cleopatra · theme · Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much. · "Cleopatra was like the end of an error"
[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’ · 0:56:33 · 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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40)] Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus · theme · Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to. · "Hail Caesar, which is mocking that"
[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 · ‘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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:46:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Miles Davis · craft · Collateral features Miles Davis and Audioslave, and Cruise talks about jazz in one of the weirdest scenes of the 2000s. · "Tom Cruise talking about his appreciation for jazz"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40)] Sergei Prokofiev ↔ Spartacus · craft · Kubrick played a Prokofiev concerto on set to draw Strode's final close-up out of him. · "The music was a Prakofi of Concerto, a haunting passage."
[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 · ‘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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] In the Cut ↔ Collateral · craft · The speaker notes In the Cut was shot by Dion Beebe, the cinematographer of Collateral, and praises how it looks. · "Love how it looks. This film shot by Dion Bebe, by the way. one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · craft · The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied. · "similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale"
[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 · ‘Easy A’ · 0:49:20 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ One Tree Hill · theme · Mary Ann's clean-teen Christianity recalls the virgin-professing 'clean teens' of One Tree Hill. · "And that also reminded me of one Tree Hill, where they had the clean teens"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:20 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Collateral · craft · Beebe is one of the heroes of the 2000s for Collateral. · "one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)

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 Clueless (1995) 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 Clueless (1995) 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 · ‘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’ · 1:08:45 · 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 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’ · 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."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:18 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Clueless (the host's read) · career · The hit rescued Heckerling's career and so gave us Clueless. · "she kind of rescued her entire career, and because of that, we get clueless"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · verdict · Clueless sits at number one for Amanda; Easy A's Emma Stone is her number two among teen-movie leads. · "Number 2 for me is Emma Stone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:20:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · timeless social dynamics · Clueless and The Princess Bride are named alongside Mean Girls as films that will live on because they capture transcendent social dynamics. · "Clueless is like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Clueless (the host's read) · reference · Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it. · "to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:20:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Alicia Silverstone ↔ Clueless · career · Silverstone is lightning in a bottle in Clueless but never had a soaring career after. · "she really, she hasn't really had a soaring career after that."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:54 · unknown (0.30)] Twink Caplan ↔ Clueless · people · Caplan is a regular in Heckerling's movies and co-producer, and becomes a teacher in Clueless. · "A regular in all of her movies and also becomes like a co-producer on her movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:17:25 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Alicia Silverstone ↔ Clueless · cost of fame · Stories about Silverstone being anorexic on the Clueless set are cited as devastating, tying her fate to Lohan's. · "stories about Alicia Silverstone just being so anorexic on set of Clueless are like pretty, are like pretty devastating"
[pairs] Clueless ↔ Mean Girls · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Clueless ↔ Easy A · said 2 times in 1 episode
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · 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"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Baby's Day Out (the host's read) · lineage · The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out. · "I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Heat · theme · Collateral pairs Tom Cruise with Jamie Foxx the way Heat pairs two titans, Pacino and De Niro. · "in the same way that heat is like Pacino and De Niro, like together, finally, like 2 Titans of movies in our life."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet. · "Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read) · lineage · Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era. · "that this had a Dell comics color adaptation"
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Thief’ · 0:57:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Thief ⇒ Collateral (the host's read) · craft · Mann later circled back to blues in Collateral after trying all-blues for Thief. · "but then circled back in collateral"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Kirstie Alley ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Her Cheers character is a man-written career woman chasing rich men; the film writes the same character with intelligence and compassion. · "this feels like the same character boat written like intelligently and compassionately."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[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 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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · Collateral is a great two-hander with Cruise playing against type as the heavy. · "playing against type and playing the heavy"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ↔ Cleopatra · theme · Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much. · "Cleopatra was like the end of an error"
[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’ · 0:56:33 · 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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:09:25 · unknown (0.40)] Hail, Caesar! → Spartacus · theme · Hail, Caesar! mocks the self-important Hollywood epic that Spartacus belongs to. · "Hail Caesar, which is mocking that"
[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 · ‘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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:46:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Miles Davis · craft · Collateral features Miles Davis and Audioslave, and Cruise talks about jazz in one of the weirdest scenes of the 2000s. · "Tom Cruise talking about his appreciation for jazz"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:14:15 · David Sims (0.40)] Sergei Prokofiev ↔ Spartacus · craft · Kubrick played a Prokofiev concerto on set to draw Strode's final close-up out of him. · "The music was a Prakofi of Concerto, a haunting passage."
[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 · ‘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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] In the Cut ↔ Collateral · craft · The speaker notes In the Cut was shot by Dion Beebe, the cinematographer of Collateral, and praises how it looks. · "Love how it looks. This film shot by Dion Bebe, by the way. one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · craft · The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied. · "similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale"
[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 · ‘Easy A’ · 0:49:20 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] Easy A ↔ One Tree Hill · theme · Mary Ann's clean-teen Christianity recalls the virgin-professing 'clean teens' of One Tree Hill. · "And that also reminded me of one Tree Hill, where they had the clean teens"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:20 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Collateral · craft · Beebe is one of the heroes of the 2000s for Collateral. · "one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."
[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] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point
[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 Clueless (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Clueless (1995) 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.