What the corpus says about Look Who's Talking (1989)

What was said about it (25)

1. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Baby's Day Out (the host's read) · lineage · The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out. · "I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie."
2. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet. · "Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers."
3. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
4. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:23:21 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Johnny Dangerously · career · Heckerling came off two disappointments, Johnny Dangerously and European Vacation, and needed a can't-miss hit. · "she was basically coming off of 2 things that didn't help her career and was like, I need a movie that's a can't miss hit."
5. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · After Fast Times she refused to be pigeonholed in female teen sex comedies, leading to Johnny Dangerously. · "I don't want to get pigeonholed into the like female coming of age teen sex comedy."
6. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:18 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Clueless (the host's read) · career · The hit rescued Heckerling's career and so gave us Clueless. · "she kind of rescued her entire career, and because of that, we get clueless"
7. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:36:14 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Over the Hedge · people · Willis's voice side gigs make Look Who's Talking the first of several voice jobs. · "he has multiple like voice performances because he's also in Beavis and Butthead"
8. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:43:27 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Honey, I Shrunk the Kids · industry · The big baby head plus the title sells the movie in one image the way Honey I Shrunk the Kids does. · "the big baby head and look who's talking as the title in a very honey, I shrunk the kid's way where you're like, you've told me everything I need to know."
9. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:06:56 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Barbie · industry · Number one for five straight weeks with similar takes, compared to the cultural impact of Barbie. · "it was like the Barbie of its moments."
10. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:07:37 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers · industry · Halloween 5 opened at number two on LWT's opening weekend. · "It is Halloween 5, the revenge of Michael Myers."
11. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:16:45 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · industry · The film became Columbia's highest-grossing overseas film, passing Kramer vs. Kramer. · "This was conclusively Columbia's highest grossing film overseas. They had never had a film, performed this well outside of America. It usurped Kramer versus Kramer."
12. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:14:38 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · spinoff · Heckerling made three films that spawned TV shows, including Clueless and Fast Times. · "Amy Heckerling has created 3 films that spawn TV shows."
13. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:41:46 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Mean Streets · aspiration · Heckerling saw the hit potential but wanted to make something like Mean Streets, not a cute family movie. · "I can see how this would be a hit, but I kind of want to do like mean streets."
14. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:42:00 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ The Whoopie Boys · alternative offer · Heckerling was offered The Whoopie Boys at Paramount and chose talking baby over it. · "I don't want to do the whoopie boys, and I don't want to do talking baby, but talking baby, it is."
15. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:50:36 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Knocked Up · pregnancy-movie problem · Pregnancy comedies like Knocked Up and Juno are structurally unable to let the character abort, and the film too felt progressive for 1989 in this regard. · "there's always a problem with any pregnancy movies, a problem with knocked up as a problem with Juno"
16. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:22 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ He's Just Not That Into You · joke · Molly stays in love with Segal; nobody had yet written 'he's just not that into you' and the reply credits Greg Behrendt. · "Well, nobody had written, he's just not that into you yet."
17. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:34:23 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Peanuts · baby aging · Mikey's age inconsistency is compared to Linus and Rugrats babies aging. · "It's so similar to when Linus got rerun in Peanuts"
18. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:02:14 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Look Who's Talking Too · TV cut · The Look Who's Talking Too TV cut reportedly adds 20 minutes of restored scenes. · "look who's talking to has one of those like weird fabled, the TV cut of the movie has 20 extra minutes in it."
19. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:03:06 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Baby Geniuses · reboot obstacle · Baby Geniuses bombing may have shown the audience appetite for talking babies had run out. · "Well, like baby geniuses was a pretty big bomb."
20. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:15:13 · unknown (0.30)] Tully ↔ Look Who's Talking · motherhood film · Tully was treated as a novelty for tackling early motherhood but its twist hurts it. · "That movie just shouldn't have a twist."
21. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:21:22 · David Sims (0.50)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · post-credit shock · The Joan Rivers end-credit reveal is likened to Clea appearing in Doctor Strange's credits. · "as shocking as Joan Rivers voicing a baby at the end of look who's talking."
22. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Kirstie Alley ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Her Cheers character is a man-written career woman chasing rich men; the film writes the same character with intelligence and compassion. · "this feels like the same character boat written like intelligently and compassionately."
23. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:21:13 · unknown (0.30)] Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read) · roman a clef · Kirstie Alley's character Molly shares a name with Heckerling's daughter and echoes Ramis's leave-my-wife promise. · "Kirsty Alli's character is named Molly. Amy Heckerling and Harold Ramos's illegitimate daughter is named Molly."
24. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:24:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read) · autobiographical · The speakers say the film is Heckerling's personal grievance about Ramis, who fathered her daughter Molly while Neil Israel believed the child was his. · "The child that Neil Israel thought was his own was actually the byproduct of a years-long affair that she had had with Harold Ramos."
25. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:49:39 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Amy Heckerling · authorship · Griffin ties the show's criterion that a director's movies reflect one person to this film, which feels personal despite studio calculation. · "everything about this feels like it was made by one person."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · said 2 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Look Who's Talking ↔ Look Who's Talking Too · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:43:22 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Original title was Daddy's Home; the studio pitch worked because the talking baby hook sold a woman's story, a Trojan horse for a personal movie. · "The film was originally called Daddy's Home."
2. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:47:24 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Highest-grossing film worldwide in Columbia history at the time and Travolta's biggest since Grease; made on about $8 million, $4 million of it to Travolta and Alley, grossing about $300 million worldwide. · "$8000000 movie that my 300000000 worldwide."
3. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:49:21 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Mikey was played by four babies; Bruce Willis was shown footage and told to riff. · "Mikey, the baby, was played by 4 different babies."
4. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:49:32 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · The dialogue was dubbed over footage of babies; Willis got a cut of the gross and about $10 million, and there was almost nothing for him to do but riff. · "Bruce Willis. got a percentage of the box office for his role."
5. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:50:16 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · The sperm were vinyl with little fishing weights dropped in a tank with an underwater cameraman. · "they sperm was a vinyl sperm and little fishing weights, and they dumped it in a tank and they had an underwater cameraman."
6. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:34 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Sony considered Travolta box office poison and was afraid to release it, until it tested very well. · "They considered Travolta box office poison."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (3)

1. [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."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:17:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Barbie · lineage · Linney studied 1950s Sears catalogs for her poses, as Gerwig consulted for Barbie. · "Greta Irwig consulted where for Barbie because she wanted to create that world"
3. [The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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'
2. [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
3. [speaker] Hillary Busis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · Vanity Fair senior editor and mother of two who had never seen Look Who's Talking as a kid; Disney Channel kid who knows the sequels. She enjoyed it as a breezy watch and gets annoyed by crib and Demerol logic. She watched mid-90s Manhattan sitcoms as a child. · stances: The film is a breezy, good watch; The talking-baby part is only about 10 percent of the film; Kids' media of her youth was Disney reissues and Nickelodeon

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [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)
2. [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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Look Who's Talking (1989) 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 Look Who's Talking (1989) 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 · Look Who's Talking · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Baby's Day Out (the host's read) · lineage · The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out. · "I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet. · "Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:23:21 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Johnny Dangerously · career · Heckerling came off two disappointments, Johnny Dangerously and European Vacation, and needed a can't-miss hit. · "she was basically coming off of 2 things that didn't help her career and was like, I need a movie that's a can't miss hit."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · After Fast Times she refused to be pigeonholed in female teen sex comedies, leading to Johnny Dangerously. · "I don't want to get pigeonholed into the like female coming of age teen sex comedy."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:18 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Clueless (the host's read) · career · The hit rescued Heckerling's career and so gave us Clueless. · "she kind of rescued her entire career, and because of that, we get clueless"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:36:14 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Over the Hedge · people · Willis's voice side gigs make Look Who's Talking the first of several voice jobs. · "he has multiple like voice performances because he's also in Beavis and Butthead"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:43:27 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Honey, I Shrunk the Kids · industry · The big baby head plus the title sells the movie in one image the way Honey I Shrunk the Kids does. · "the big baby head and look who's talking as the title in a very honey, I shrunk the kid's way where you're like, you've told me everything I need to know."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:06:56 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Barbie · industry · Number one for five straight weeks with similar takes, compared to the cultural impact of Barbie. · "it was like the Barbie of its moments."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:07:37 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers · industry · Halloween 5 opened at number two on LWT's opening weekend. · "It is Halloween 5, the revenge of Michael Myers."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:16:45 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · industry · The film became Columbia's highest-grossing overseas film, passing Kramer vs. Kramer. · "This was conclusively Columbia's highest grossing film overseas. They had never had a film, performed this well outside of America. It usurped Kramer versus Kramer."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:14:38 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · spinoff · Heckerling made three films that spawned TV shows, including Clueless and Fast Times. · "Amy Heckerling has created 3 films that spawn TV shows."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:41:46 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Mean Streets · aspiration · Heckerling saw the hit potential but wanted to make something like Mean Streets, not a cute family movie. · "I can see how this would be a hit, but I kind of want to do like mean streets."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:42:00 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ The Whoopie Boys · alternative offer · Heckerling was offered The Whoopie Boys at Paramount and chose talking baby over it. · "I don't want to do the whoopie boys, and I don't want to do talking baby, but talking baby, it is."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:50:36 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Knocked Up · pregnancy-movie problem · Pregnancy comedies like Knocked Up and Juno are structurally unable to let the character abort, and the film too felt progressive for 1989 in this regard. · "there's always a problem with any pregnancy movies, a problem with knocked up as a problem with Juno"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:22 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ He's Just Not That Into You · joke · Molly stays in love with Segal; nobody had yet written 'he's just not that into you' and the reply credits Greg Behrendt. · "Well, nobody had written, he's just not that into you yet."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:34:23 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Peanuts · baby aging · Mikey's age inconsistency is compared to Linus and Rugrats babies aging. · "It's so similar to when Linus got rerun in Peanuts"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:02:14 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Look Who's Talking Too · TV cut · The Look Who's Talking Too TV cut reportedly adds 20 minutes of restored scenes. · "look who's talking to has one of those like weird fabled, the TV cut of the movie has 20 extra minutes in it."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:03:06 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Baby Geniuses · reboot obstacle · Baby Geniuses bombing may have shown the audience appetite for talking babies had run out. · "Well, like baby geniuses was a pretty big bomb."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:15:13 · unknown (0.30)] Tully ↔ Look Who's Talking · motherhood film · Tully was treated as a novelty for tackling early motherhood but its twist hurts it. · "That movie just shouldn't have a twist."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:21:22 · David Sims (0.50)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · post-credit shock · The Joan Rivers end-credit reveal is likened to Clea appearing in Doctor Strange's credits. · "as shocking as Joan Rivers voicing a baby at the end of look who's talking."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Kirstie Alley ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Her Cheers character is a man-written career woman chasing rich men; the film writes the same character with intelligence and compassion. · "this feels like the same character boat written like intelligently and compassionately."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:21:13 · unknown (0.30)] Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read) · roman a clef · Kirstie Alley's character Molly shares a name with Heckerling's daughter and echoes Ramis's leave-my-wife promise. · "Kirsty Alli's character is named Molly. Amy Heckerling and Harold Ramos's illegitimate daughter is named Molly."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:24:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read) · autobiographical · The speakers say the film is Heckerling's personal grievance about Ramis, who fathered her daughter Molly while Neil Israel believed the child was his. · "The child that Neil Israel thought was his own was actually the byproduct of a years-long affair that she had had with Harold Ramos."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:49:39 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Amy Heckerling · authorship · Griffin ties the show's criterion that a director's movies reflect one person to this film, which feels personal despite studio calculation. · "everything about this feels like it was made by one person."
[pairs] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Look Who's Talking ↔ Look Who's Talking Too · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:43:22 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Original title was Daddy's Home; the studio pitch worked because the talking baby hook sold a woman's story, a Trojan horse for a personal movie. · "The film was originally called Daddy's Home."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:47:24 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Highest-grossing film worldwide in Columbia history at the time and Travolta's biggest since Grease; made on about $8 million, $4 million of it to Travolta and Alley, grossing about $300 million worldwide. · "$8000000 movie that my 300000000 worldwide."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:49:21 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Mikey was played by four babies; Bruce Willis was shown footage and told to riff. · "Mikey, the baby, was played by 4 different babies."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:49:32 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · The dialogue was dubbed over footage of babies; Willis got a cut of the gross and about $10 million, and there was almost nothing for him to do but riff. · "Bruce Willis. got a percentage of the box office for his role."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:50:16 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · The sperm were vinyl with little fishing weights dropped in a tank with an underwater cameraman. · "they sperm was a vinyl sperm and little fishing weights, and they dumped it in a tank and they had an underwater cameraman."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:51:34 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking · fun · Sony considered Travolta box office poison and was afraid to release it, until it tested very well. · "They considered Travolta box office poison."
[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 · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:17:27 · unknown (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ Barbie · lineage · Linney studied 1950s Sears catalogs for her poses, as Gerwig consulted for Barbie. · "Greta Irwig consulted where for Barbie because she wanted to create that world"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
[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
[speaker] Hillary Busis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · Vanity Fair senior editor and mother of two who had never seen Look Who's Talking as a kid; Disney Channel kid who knows the sequels. She enjoyed it as a breezy watch and gets annoyed by crib and Demerol logic. She watched mid-90s Manhattan sitcoms as a child. · stances: The film is a breezy, good watch; The talking-baby part is only about 10 percent of the film; Kids' media of her youth was Disney reissues and Nickelodeon
[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 Look Who's Talking (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Look Who's Talking (1989) 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.