What the corpus says about Wayne's World (1992)

The 49 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 (8)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:07:39 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] The Doors ⇒ Wayne's World (the host's read) · lineage · Wayne's World 2 depends on knowing Oliver Stone's The Doors, as Weird Science depends on knowing The Road Warrior. · "We talked a lot about Wayne's World 2 and we're like, it's very, very dependent on knowing Oliver Stone's the Doors movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 2:10:11 · David Sims (0.30)] Wayne's World ↔ Wayne's World 2 · lineage · One is great and profound; two is funny, stupid bullshit. · "I think Wayne's World 2 is funny, stupid bullshit, but I think Wayne's World one is like great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:05:22 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World · theme · Both 90s SNL-era comedies would not work now because the era is gone. · "I don't think this movie works now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:06:43 · unknown (0.40)] Wayne's World ↔ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me · contrast · Wayne's World grew from an SNL character audiences knew; Austin Powers was new. · "It's not based on an SNL character."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:48 · Wesley Morris (0.85)] The Player ↔ Wayne's World · contrast · Wesley pairs the two 1992 releases as opposite poles of fourth-wall-breaking commentary on the thing you are watching. · "this is the same year that Wayne's world came out."
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:35:25 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Wayne's World · product placement · Wayne's World's product-placement bit is condensed to one scene whereas Talladega's is constant. · "But this movie, it's ever present."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:40:33 · unknown (0.40)] Rob Lowe ↔ Wayne's World · career · Lowe and Myers had history from Wayne's World. · "they also have an amazing you know, history together from Wayne's World."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Wayne's World ↔ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:23:15 · unknown (0.40)] Wayne's World · fun · It came out on Valentine's Day, February 14th, a date-night choice. · "It was a Valentine's Day movie."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:04:08 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · programming · DVD momentum from the first made the sequel open bigger than the first's total. · "DVD could actually get momentum for a sequel"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Blades of Glory · programming · Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies. · "No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:15:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Doors · lineage · Simmons ties The Doors (1991) to the era of re-examining 60s and 70s figures in the most fun way. · "the doors, which we did in the rewatchables, that came out like 91"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World 3 · programming · Myers skipped Wayne's World 3 to develop Austin Powers. · "He didn't do a 3rd Wayne's World War film so he could develop this movie"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb. · "Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:08 · unknown (0.40)] Our Man Flint ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Austin Powers draws on 60s spy movies like Our Man Flint and Michael Caine films. · "a couple of other movies like Armand Flint, the James Coburn movie from the 60s"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder. · "Or just watch Days of Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:12 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Caine ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Clearly based in part on a bunch of Michael Caine movies. · "There's a bunch of Michael Kane movies that it's clearly based on."
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Road House · lineage · Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House. · "I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales. · "that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:09:48 · unknown (0.40)] Dr. No ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Bond is the blueprint for Austin Powers; Dr. Evil is Blofeld. · "Dr. Evil being Blofeld and all that stuff, it's just kind of lost on the audience and it still works."
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Mini-Me/Scott Evil fight calls back to the toilet sequence in the first movie. · "Great callback to the toilet sequence in the in the 1st movie"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Seinfeld · theme · Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one. · "it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Player ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · theme · Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors. · "So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:10:09 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ The Brady Bunch Movie · theme · Part of 90s nostalgia-mining comedy (Brady Bunch, Addams Family). · "this nostalgia mining comedy"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers. · "I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[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 · 'The Player' · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Greta Scacchi ↔ The Player · theme · Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists. · "But that character is soon going to be like in movies."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito

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 Wayne's World (1992) 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 Wayne's World (1992) 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’ · 1:07:39 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] The Doors ⇒ Wayne's World (the host's read) · lineage · Wayne's World 2 depends on knowing Oliver Stone's The Doors, as Weird Science depends on knowing The Road Warrior. · "We talked a lot about Wayne's World 2 and we're like, it's very, very dependent on knowing Oliver Stone's the Doors movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 2:10:11 · David Sims (0.30)] Wayne's World ↔ Wayne's World 2 · lineage · One is great and profound; two is funny, stupid bullshit. · "I think Wayne's World 2 is funny, stupid bullshit, but I think Wayne's World one is like great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:05:22 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World · theme · Both 90s SNL-era comedies would not work now because the era is gone. · "I don't think this movie works now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:06:43 · unknown (0.40)] Wayne's World ↔ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me · contrast · Wayne's World grew from an SNL character audiences knew; Austin Powers was new. · "It's not based on an SNL character."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:48 · Wesley Morris (0.85)] The Player ↔ Wayne's World · contrast · Wesley pairs the two 1992 releases as opposite poles of fourth-wall-breaking commentary on the thing you are watching. · "this is the same year that Wayne's world came out."
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:35:25 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Wayne's World · product placement · Wayne's World's product-placement bit is condensed to one scene whereas Talladega's is constant. · "But this movie, it's ever present."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:40:33 · unknown (0.40)] Rob Lowe ↔ Wayne's World · career · Lowe and Myers had history from Wayne's World. · "they also have an amazing you know, history together from Wayne's World."
[pairs] Wayne's World ↔ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:23:15 · unknown (0.40)] Wayne's World · fun · It came out on Valentine's Day, February 14th, a date-night choice. · "It was a Valentine's Day movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:04:08 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · programming · DVD momentum from the first made the sequel open bigger than the first's total. · "DVD could actually get momentum for a sequel"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Blades of Glory · programming · Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies. · "No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:15:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Doors · lineage · Simmons ties The Doors (1991) to the era of re-examining 60s and 70s figures in the most fun way. · "the doors, which we did in the rewatchables, that came out like 91"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Wayne's World 3 · programming · Myers skipped Wayne's World 3 to develop Austin Powers. · "He didn't do a 3rd Wayne's World War film so he could develop this movie"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb. · "Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:08 · unknown (0.40)] Our Man Flint ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Austin Powers draws on 60s spy movies like Our Man Flint and Michael Caine films. · "a couple of other movies like Armand Flint, the James Coburn movie from the 60s"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder. · "Or just watch Days of Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:07:12 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Caine ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Clearly based in part on a bunch of Michael Caine movies. · "There's a bunch of Michael Kane movies that it's clearly based on."
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Road House · lineage · Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House. · "I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales. · "that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:09:48 · unknown (0.40)] Dr. No ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Bond is the blueprint for Austin Powers; Dr. Evil is Blofeld. · "Dr. Evil being Blofeld and all that stuff, it's just kind of lost on the audience and it still works."
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ⇒ Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (the host's read) · lineage · Mini-Me/Scott Evil fight calls back to the toilet sequence in the first movie. · "Great callback to the toilet sequence in the in the 1st movie"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Seinfeld · theme · Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one. · "it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Player ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · theme · Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors. · "So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:10:09 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ The Brady Bunch Movie · theme · Part of 90s nostalgia-mining comedy (Brady Bunch, Addams Family). · "this nostalgia mining comedy"
[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 · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers. · "I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[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 · 'The Player' · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Greta Scacchi ↔ The Player · theme · Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists. · "But that character is soon going to be like in 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] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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 Wayne's World (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Wayne's World (1992) 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.