What the corpus says about There's Something About Mary (1998)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished There's Something About Mary (1998) 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 There's Something About Mary (1998) 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 · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:48:03 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ There's Something About Mary · physical comedy · Leatherface moves and runs like Warren, the character in There's Something About Mary. · "I have leatherface moves and acts like Warren and there's something about Mary."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:08:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] There's Something About Mary ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · groundwork · Farrelly brothers hits like Mary laid the ground for Road Trip and the R-rated wave. · "All of those kind of laid the ground for, uh, road trip."
[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 · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:30:52 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ The Last House on the Left · programming · Chris picks Last House on the Left for a double feature as an equally disturbing snapshot of movie history. · "I'll probably go last house on the left, although it is equally disturbing"
[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 · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Deliverance · programming · A guest pick for a double bill: road trip gone wrong. · "Oh, my God. Road trip gone wrong."
[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 · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · programming · Bill pairs it with Halloween to compare how much Halloween cribbed from Chainsaw. · "I went Halloween just to compare and contrast like how much Halloween, crib done, chainsaw, all that stuff."
[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 · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday borrowed the seemingly friendly helper who turns out hostile and the killer who keeps getting back up. · "a seemingly friendly helper who ends up being not friendly, the Texas chainsaw move."
[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 · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:47:50 · unknown (0.30)] Friday the 13th ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · lineage · The cemetery-warning figure at the start of Chain Saw parallels Ralph. · "The guy in the beginning at the cemetery at Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he kind of warns everybody of what's to come."
[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 · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Halloween (the host's read) · lineage · Halloween felt like it invented modern horror, but on rewatch Chainsaw is the real ground zero. · "whenever I watch Chainsaw, I'm like, no, actually this is ground zero."
[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 · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:03:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Night of the Living Dead ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · Hooper saw the line down the block for Night of the Living Dead and decided to make a horror film with his own ideas about Vietnam-era America. · "Toby Hooper, who directed Chainsaw Massacre, went and saw Night of the Living Dead."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:43:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Wayne's World 2 ↔ Old School · lineage · Asked which comedy sequel they'd want, Old School 2 beats Wedding Crashers 2; Wayne's World 2 is the great comedy sequel. · "I think is a genius movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:17:18 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Ed Gein ⇒ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the host's read) · lineage · The film was a little influenced by Ed Gein, whose skin masks and grave digging fascinated Hollywood. · "it was a little influenced by the great Ed Geen."
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The 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 There's Something About Mary (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend There's Something About Mary (1998) 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.