What the corpus says about Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) 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 Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) 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 · ‘Misery’ · 0:57:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Dracula the Musical award is borrowed from Sarah Marshall; given to the Misery books. · "We relate, so in, in, uh, forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:09:29 · unknown (0.30)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Get Him to the Greek (the host's read) · lineage · Get Him to the Greek is the quasi-sequel/spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. · "They made kind of a spinoff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:24:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Knocked Up ↔ Forgetting Sarah Marshall · contrast · Imagining Alison's life after the movie, Bill says she might meet a better guy than Rogen and it becomes a Forgetting Sarah Marshall situation. · "and it becomes a forgetting Sarah Marshall situation where."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:09:05 · unknown (0.30)] Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay ↔ Forgetting Sarah Marshall · verdict · Hosts disagree over whether Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is the best or worst of the series. · "It's Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay, which I think is the best of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:21:20 · Craig Horlbeck (0.85)] Knocked Up ↔ Forgetting Sarah Marshall · what-if · Craig's double feature: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, to spend time with the supporting guys. · "So I would go like forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:17:37 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Judd Apatow ↔ Forgetting Sarah Marshall · career · Craig says Apatow then gave Segel his own movie in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. · "Then he gives Siegel it and forgetting Sir Marshall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:21:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60)] Jason Segel ↔ Forgetting Sarah Marshall · career · Craig says he wants a Segel movie after seeing a glimpse of him, so would double-feature Forgetting Sarah Marshall. · "Give me Siegel now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:50:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mila Kunis ↔ Forgetting Sarah Marshall · people · Kunis has history with these guys from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. · "Yeah, she was like in for forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:58:28 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mila Kunis ↔ Forgetting Sarah Marshall · what-if · Bill says Mila Kunis auditioned for Alison, didn't get it, but Apatow remembered her for Forgetting Sarah Marshall. · "We know Mila Kunis auditioned and didn't get it, but Jed Appatau remembered her and put her around forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[pairs] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ↔ Knocked Up · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Knocked Up ↔ Mean Girls · programming · Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle. · "Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · Reiner's run: Stand By Me leads to When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. · "It leads to, um, stand by me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Superbad ↔ Knocked Up · programming · 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 · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read) · programming · Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much. · "This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:51:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Misery ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · programming · Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter came back to back, two great thriller characters in 12 months. · "Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter, back to back ears."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch. · "The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:11:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ The League (TV) · programming · Bill says Knocked Up may be the most high-profile fantasy moment in a movie, since The League is a TV show. · "It might be the most high profile fantasy moment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Stand by Me · programming · Simmons' double feature is Stand By Me and Misery. · "I would do standby me in misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:44 · Brian Koppelman (0.60)] Misery ↔ The Dead Zone · programming · Koppelman's double feature is Dead Zone and Misery. · "Dead zone and misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'. · "I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:57:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Misery · programming · Pick 10 (round 4), category action/horror/thriller: Best of the bunch; Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Goldman, Reiner. · "I'll take misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies. · "It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:04 · unknown (0.50)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · They would fold Reiner's Stand by Me and Misery into a Stephen King series. · "So stand by me in misery, both go into a king."
[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] 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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] 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 Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) 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.