What the corpus says about Wedding Crashers (2005)

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What was said about it (13)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:04:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Old School ↔ Wedding Crashers · theme · Old School starts the R-rated comedy boom that runs through Wedding Crashers, Superbad, Step Brothers, and The Hangover. · "This sets off an era from 03 all the way through, and the R-rated comedy boom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:21:25 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Wedding Crashers · craft · Vaughn's snarky tone in the boat scene is comedy Vince, like Wedding Crashers. · "Like his general tone is just like he's in wedding crashers in domestic disturbance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:42:38 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Wedding Crashers · craft · Vaughn's odd throwing in the catch scene is odd because he looks athletic in Wedding Crashers football. · "Because he's not bad in wedding crashers playing football."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Wedding Crashers ↔ Knocked Up · craft · Bill says Wedding Crashers and Mean Girls became genuinely funny, which is what Apatow figured out. · "I think the thing Appatau figured out on wedding crashers and Mean Girls and some of these other things was, they became genuinely funny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:01:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Old School ↔ Wedding Crashers · craft · Both open with a wedding; Bill calls it his open-your-movie-with-a-wedding theory. · "This movie also nicely slots into my open your movie with a wedding theory."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:32:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Wedding Crashers · contrast · Backyard football compared: Big Chill or Wedding Crashers. · "This or Wedding Crashers?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:16:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Wedding Crashers · contrast · Most Rewatchables picks are quotable fun like Wedding Crashers; this movie is different. · "a lot of the movies we do on this show are like wedding crashers."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:25:56 · unknown (0.40)] You, Me and Dupree ↔ Wedding Crashers · industry · Dupree did weirdly well riding the post-Wedding Crashers comedy wave. · "Does weirdly well because it's that post-wedding crashers thing."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:38:44 · David Sims (0.50)] David Dobkin ↔ Wedding Crashers · career · His pre-Judge filmography is ugly, misjudged comedies with regressive politics, which makes a serious drama odd. · "his filmography is mostly ugly, misjudged comedies that have regressive social politics."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:37:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Wedding Crashers ↔ David Dobkin · people · Dobkin directed this monster hit, which they say is misogynistic and unfunny but well shot. · "It is very well shot, though. I will say it looks nice."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 0:15:30 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Will Ferrell ↔ Wedding Crashers · people · Ferrell as Chaz in Wedding Crashers is called the best part. · "Literally the most best part of Wedding Crashers?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:47:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Vince Vaughn ↔ Wedding Crashers · verdict · Chris argues Vaughn's apex is Wedding Crashers, a year after Old School, when he is clearly a star not a fluke. · "Now it's not a fluke."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Wedding Crashers ↔ Domestic Disturbance · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Wedding Crashers ↔ Old School · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (36)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ The Good Son · programming · The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode. · "Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:04:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Will Ferrell ↔ Old School · lineage · Frank the Tank is an extension of his SNL Dodge Stratus guy, the suburban insanity of domesticity. · "Frank the Tank is kind of the Dodge Stratus extension."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
[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’ · 0:03:48 · 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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House. · "It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:18 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Changing Lanes · lineage · Changing Lanes is named as another 2000s 'from hell' picture (road rage from hell) alongside Domestic Disturbance. · "Oh yeah. With Sam Jackson and Ben Affleck, the road rage from hell."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son. · "it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ One Hour Photo · lineage · One Hour Photo is cited as the 2000s photo-developer-from-hell entry in the same cycle. · "You get one hour photo with Robin Williams."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Stripes · lineage · Old School sits in the Animal House-to-early-80s run of comedy plus nudity that includes Stripes. · "there is a run, basically, that starts with Animal House and goes all the way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read) · lineage · Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all. · "Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather. · "Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie. · "Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Single White Female · theme · The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear. · "there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it. · "I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York. · "It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers."
[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 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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Zoolander · theme · Zoolander is now beloved, but the post-9/11 audience was not ready for a comedy. · "Even though the movie's beloved now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:42:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Old School 2 (unmade sequel script) · lineage · A 2006 sequel script about spring break was turned down by Ferrell and Vaughn as repetitive. · "It felt like it was repeating."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
[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’ · 0:13:40 · 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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:17:46 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Domestic Disturbance · theme · The movie is mashed from TV-movie formulas: an ABC after school special about a first dad and his son. · "It's basically an ABC after school special of like the 1st dad trying to keep his relationship with his son."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] 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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

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 Wedding Crashers (2005) 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 Wedding Crashers (2005) 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 · ‘Old School’ · 0:04:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Old School ↔ Wedding Crashers · theme · Old School starts the R-rated comedy boom that runs through Wedding Crashers, Superbad, Step Brothers, and The Hangover. · "This sets off an era from 03 all the way through, and the R-rated comedy boom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:21:25 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Wedding Crashers · craft · Vaughn's snarky tone in the boat scene is comedy Vince, like Wedding Crashers. · "Like his general tone is just like he's in wedding crashers in domestic disturbance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:42:38 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Wedding Crashers · craft · Vaughn's odd throwing in the catch scene is odd because he looks athletic in Wedding Crashers football. · "Because he's not bad in wedding crashers playing football."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Wedding Crashers ↔ Knocked Up · craft · Bill says Wedding Crashers and Mean Girls became genuinely funny, which is what Apatow figured out. · "I think the thing Appatau figured out on wedding crashers and Mean Girls and some of these other things was, they became genuinely funny."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 1:01:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Old School ↔ Wedding Crashers · craft · Both open with a wedding; Bill calls it his open-your-movie-with-a-wedding theory. · "This movie also nicely slots into my open your movie with a wedding theory."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:32:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Wedding Crashers · contrast · Backyard football compared: Big Chill or Wedding Crashers. · "This or Wedding Crashers?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:16:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Wedding Crashers · contrast · Most Rewatchables picks are quotable fun like Wedding Crashers; this movie is different. · "a lot of the movies we do on this show are like wedding crashers."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:25:56 · unknown (0.40)] You, Me and Dupree ↔ Wedding Crashers · industry · Dupree did weirdly well riding the post-Wedding Crashers comedy wave. · "Does weirdly well because it's that post-wedding crashers thing."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:38:44 · David Sims (0.50)] David Dobkin ↔ Wedding Crashers · career · His pre-Judge filmography is ugly, misjudged comedies with regressive politics, which makes a serious drama odd. · "his filmography is mostly ugly, misjudged comedies that have regressive social politics."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:37:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Wedding Crashers ↔ David Dobkin · people · Dobkin directed this monster hit, which they say is misogynistic and unfunny but well shot. · "It is very well shot, though. I will say it looks nice."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 0:15:30 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Will Ferrell ↔ Wedding Crashers · people · Ferrell as Chaz in Wedding Crashers is called the best part. · "Literally the most best part of Wedding Crashers?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:47:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Vince Vaughn ↔ Wedding Crashers · verdict · Chris argues Vaughn's apex is Wedding Crashers, a year after Old School, when he is clearly a star not a fluke. · "Now it's not a fluke."
[pairs] Wedding Crashers ↔ Domestic Disturbance · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Wedding Crashers ↔ Old School · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 1:33:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ The Good Son · programming · The Good Son (another from-hell movie, already done) is the following week's episode. · "Well, we did this out of sequence, but good, uh, the good sun, which we've already done is coming next week"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:04:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Will Ferrell ↔ Old School · lineage · Frank the Tank is an extension of his SNL Dodge Stratus guy, the suburban insanity of domesticity. · "Frank the Tank is kind of the Dodge Stratus extension."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:17:39 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Inside Man ↔ Do the Right Thing · programming · Sometimes perfection happens, and Inside Man is cited as another. · "I mean, sometimes there's perfection like inside man is perfection."
[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’ · 0:03:48 · 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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House. · "It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Red Hook Summer (the host's read) · lineage · Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel. · "he made a movie called Red Hook Summer."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:18 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Changing Lanes · lineage · Changing Lanes is named as another 2000s 'from hell' picture (road rage from hell) alongside Domestic Disturbance. · "Oh yeah. With Sam Jackson and Ben Affleck, the road rage from hell."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son. · "it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:05:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ One Hour Photo · lineage · One Hour Photo is cited as the 2000s photo-developer-from-hell entry in the same cycle. · "You get one hour photo with Robin Williams."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Stripes · lineage · Old School sits in the Animal House-to-early-80s run of comedy plus nudity that includes Stripes. · "there is a run, basically, that starts with Animal House and goes all the way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Wes Anderson (the host's read) · lineage · Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all. · "Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather. · "Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie. · "Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence. · "Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death"
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Single White Female · theme · The cycle can be read as 80s-90s anxiety (AIDS, a foreign presence coming in) and class/yuppie fear. · "there's like the AIDS crisis and movies like single white female and this idea of like some foreign presence coming in and changing your life"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it. · "I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Eleanor Bumpurs ⇒ Do the Right Thing (the host's read) · lineage · The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York. · "It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers."
[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 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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:11:56 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Zoolander · theme · Zoolander is now beloved, but the post-9/11 audience was not ready for a comedy. · "Even though the movie's beloved now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:42:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Old School 2 (unmade sequel script) · lineage · A 2006 sequel script about spring break was turned down by Ferrell and Vaughn as repetitive. · "It felt like it was repeating."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ Inside Man (the host's read) · lineage · In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages. · "In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages."
[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’ · 0:13:40 · 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 · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:17:46 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Domestic Disturbance · theme · The movie is mashed from TV-movie formulas: an ABC after school special about a first dad and his son. · "It's basically an ABC after school special of like the 1st dad trying to keep his relationship with his son."
[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] 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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[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 Wedding Crashers (2005); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Wedding Crashers (2005) 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.