What the corpus says about Saturday Night Live (1975)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Saturday Night Live (1975) 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 Saturday Night Live (1975) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:13:21 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Saturday Night Live · theme · The creature too awful to live begging 'kill me' is a funny trope, like an Eddie Murphy SNL sketch. · "The the SNL, uh, uh, Eddie Murphy cake."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:29:04 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Saturday Night Live · contrast · The empath crew reminds the speaker of the SNL Christopher Walken Trivial Psychic sketch. · "It's honestly like that SNL sketch with Christopher Walken, Trivial Psychic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:16:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Saturday Night Live ↔ Eddie Murphy · programming · Being on SNL meant Eddie brought it every week; his movies were not shot 18 months earlier, he was appointment viewing. · "oh, he was like on television every weekend was appointment viewing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."
[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] 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'
[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 Saturday Night Live (1975); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Saturday Night Live (1975) 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.