What the corpus says about The Goodbye Girl (1977)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Goodbye Girl (1977) 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 The Goodbye Girl (1977) 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 · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:23:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ The Goodbye Girl · industry · Richard Dreyfuss won the Best Actor Oscar over Travolta for The Goodbye Girl; Simmons calls it a do-over. · "And then our winner, Richard Dreyfus and the Goodbye Girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:23:30 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Stephen Bishop ↔ The Goodbye Girl · craft · Kimmel says he was thinking about The Goodbye Girl because he heard its Stephen Bishop song on yacht rock. · "I heard the song on, on yacht rock or something in the Stephen Bishop song."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:51:04 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Dance Fever · programming · Kimmel adds Dance Fever, the syndicated dance show, as a thing that aged well from the film's influence. · "I was going to throw in Denny Terrio's Dance Fever show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:26:36 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Good Times · programming · Kimmel's live ABC recreation specials led to the Good Times mention. · "Oh, since we're talking about good times."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:17:23 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Nik Cohn ⇒ Saturday Night Fever (the host's read) · lineage · The film comes from a 1976 New York magazine article, later admitted to be mostly fabricated. · "this article written by Nick Cohen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:28:04 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Ebert, read aloud, ties the film to Little Italy as Scorsese saw it in Mean Streets: characters with few aims and no way out. · "it reminds him of New York's Little Italy, as Martin Scorsese saw it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:19 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.50)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Airplane! (the host's read) · lineage · Airplane! parodies this film's romance scene three years later with Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. · "The airplane parody scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:50:52 · Jimmy Kimmel (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Mad Magazine's Saturday Night Fever parody (the host's read) · lineage · Kimmel says he read the Mad parody before he saw the movie. · "I think maybe I probably read the parody of the movie before I saw the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original. · "I'm glad it exists."
[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] Jimmy Kimmel · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · Grew up on the soundtrack and loves Travolta, the TV era and 70s TV icons (Good Times, Kotter). Defends comedians for awards and Woody Allen. Is a sucker for family anecdotes (his Italian Brooklyn-adjacent roots, Aunt Chippy) and cannot stand fake New York accents. · stances: The film is a time capsule of Bay Ridge; Opening credits are the most rewatchable scene; Woody Allen should have won Best Actor; The film would not be made now
[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 The Goodbye Girl (1977); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Goodbye Girl (1977) 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.