Superbad (2007)

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Wikidata Q679611, film, IMDb tt0829482, TMDB 8363: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 5 more episodes agree.

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What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Weird Science: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read). Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Weird Science: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Connected to

Seth Rogen: 3 lines career ×2 verdict ×1

  1. career (career): Seth Rogen → Superbad. Bill says Seth Rogen won the movie: leading-man credibility plus a hit he wrote two months later.
    “a movie that he wrote coming out and also being a huge hit”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:25:36 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Weird Science: 3 lines lineage ×2 craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Superbad → Weird Science. Both end with the two friends going off with girls separately and reconvening, the friendship being the real subject.
    “Superbat ends with the 2 guys separately going with these girls that they like and then reconvening at the end”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)

This Is the End: 2 lines people ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): This Is the End → Superbad. Hottest take: This Is the End beats Knocked Up and Superbad because it does not end by affirming the nuclear family.
    “It's better than Superpad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:47:54 · Craig Horlbeck (0.45 sure it was them)

Dave Krumholtz: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Dave Krumholtz → Superbad. Krumholtz is in all of these movies.
    “Crumholz is in all of these movies, though.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:48:56 · Bill Simmons (0.35 sure it was them)

Easy A: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Easy A → Superbad. Easy A is described as coming straight off Superbad in Stone's rise.
    “Yes, so Emma Stone, she's come to us. Straight off, super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:03:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Greg Mottola: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Greg Mottola → Superbad. Juliet notes Adventureland's director Greg Mottola also directed Superbad.
    “directed by Greg Matola, also directed, super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:50 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)

Jonah Hill: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (typecasting): Jonah Hill → Superbad. Hill was known as an Apatow player from Superbad, making his dramatic Moneyball casting a hard pivot.
    “easily best known as kind of an Appatau player off the huge success of Super Bad, and he was Academy Award nominated for this role.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:13:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Judd Apatow: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Judd Apatow → Superbad. Craig says Apatow gave all these guys their own movie, such as Superbad for Jonah Hill.
    “He like gave Jonah Hill his movie super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)

Knocked Up: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Superbad → Knocked Up. 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’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (lived-in look): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Superbad. Older comedies like Superbad feel lived in, unlike shiny modern streaming movies.
    “when I watch super bad. I'm like, I feel like I'm there at a normal high school”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:59 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

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career (4)

  1. career (career): Judd Apatow → Superbad. Craig says Apatow gave all these guys their own movie, such as Superbad for Jonah Hill.
    “He like gave Jonah Hill his movie super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Seth Rogen → Superbad. Bill says Rogen peaked around Knocked Up plus Superbad two months later, so he could green-light anything.
    “he can get anything greenlit that he'd ever want.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:09:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Seth Rogen → Superbad. Bill says Seth Rogen won the movie: leading-man credibility plus a hit he wrote two months later.
    “a movie that he wrote coming out and also being a huge hit”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:25:36 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Easy A → Superbad. Easy A is described as coming straight off Superbad in Stone's rise.
    “Yes, so Emma Stone, she's come to us. Straight off, super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:03:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Superbad → Weird Science. Both end with the two friends going off with girls separately and reconvening, the friendship being the real subject.
    “Superbat ends with the 2 guys separately going with these girls that they like and then reconvening at the end”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Superbad → Weird Science. Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Superbad. Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): This Is the End → Superbad. The Superbad reunion scene is fan service with a twist; Michael Cera as the crazy coke head.
    “The fan service, like the super bad reunion scene, like they did a good job giving everybody what they wanted and like twisting it a little bit”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:40:57 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Dave Krumholtz → Superbad. Krumholtz is in all of these movies.
    “Crumholz is in all of these movies, though.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:48:56 · Bill Simmons (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Greg Mottola → Superbad. Juliet notes Adventureland's director Greg Mottola also directed Superbad.
    “directed by Greg Matola, also directed, super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:50 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. people (typecasting): Jonah Hill → Superbad. Hill was known as an Apatow player from Superbad, making his dramatic Moneyball casting a hard pivot.
    “easily best known as kind of an Appatau player off the huge success of Super Bad, and he was Academy Award nominated for this role.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:13:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Superbad → Knocked Up. 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’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (lived-in look): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Superbad. Older comedies like Superbad feel lived in, unlike shiny modern streaming movies.
    “when I watch super bad. I'm like, I feel like I'm there at a normal high school”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:59 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): This Is the End → Superbad. Hottest take: This Is the End beats Knocked Up and Superbad because it does not end by affirming the nuclear family.
    “It's better than Superpad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:47:54 · Craig Horlbeck (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Seth Rogen → Superbad. Hall of Fame plaque for Rogen goes to Superbad: 'that's like his baby'.
    “I mean, that's like his baby.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

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