What the corpus says about You've Got Mail (1998)

The 54 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (23)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake. · "Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical. · "She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture. · "I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ Julie & Julia · theme · Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films. · "And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle. · "The Apple and sleepless in Seattle."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:59:28 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Ryan's loneliness is only hinted at in Sleepless but is the persistent subject here. · "This movie's so much more honest about how sad she is."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:57:29 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · craft · Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring. · "3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:01:09 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Godfather · craft · Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen. · "There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:31:34 · David Sims (0.40)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · craft · Both Hanks-Ryan films are experiments on the rom-com: one withholds the couple until the last scene, the other puts them together and makes them unpleasant. · "sleepless in Seattle is obviously like, can you create a rom-com with chemistry between the 2 actors without them ever actually communicating until the last scene of the movie."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:01:15 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · This film's quotes are longer and less snappy than When Harry Met Sally's. · "This movie doesn't have like something like when Harry Met Sally is so snappy."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:17:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · contrast · Sleepless in Seattle has a more convoluted plot yet runs an hour 45; You've Got Mail runs too long. · "Like sleepless in Seattle, which has a more convoluted plot than this, is an hour 45."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Shop Around the Corner · contrast · In every earlier version the rivals are coworkers whose jobs are at stake; here they run rival businesses and she is not poor. · "So so much of the rivalry between the 2 characters is they're fighting for who becomes the most valuable employee of this store because if one of them nudges out the other, their entire life might be ruined."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:42:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Net · contrast · You've Got Mail has aged far better than The Net, which claimed to understand the internet. · "Like it has aged so much better than a movie like the net."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · contrast · You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out. · "you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Kate & Leopold ↔ You've Got Mail · career · Ryan ended the millennium with her third go-round with Hanks and Ephron in You've Got Mail. · "So she ends off the millennium with like fucking 3rd time around with Hanks, Efron again, just doing the exact thing."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:34:19 · Bobby Finger (0.60)] Enough Said ↔ You've Got Mail · verdict · Enough Said is Bobby's favorite rom-com since You've Got Mail, with the same messy, deceitful lovers. · "the brom-com that I think is my favorite, since you've got mail, is probably enough said, which I think captures this dynamic pretty closely"
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:08:26 · unknown (0.00)] Nancy Meyers ↔ You've Got Mail · contrast · Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not. · "Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end."
  22. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.30)] Greg Kinnear ↔ You've Got Mail · career · After the film Kinnear keeps being the obstacle in someone else's romance. · "He plays the Baxter in that."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Greg Kinnear ↔ You've Got Mail · industry · Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene. · "Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

  1. [pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · said 4 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · said 3 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ The Shop Around the Corner · said 3 times in 1 episode
  4. [pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ Hanging Up · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:02:43 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail · fun · The garnish caviar scene is pure Ephron etiquette advice, slipped into a movie. · "She even puts it in a freaking movie that says, the caviar is a garnish."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:07:57 · Bobby Finger (0.85)] You've Got Mail · fun · Lindsey and Bobby ran an annotated, pop-up-video style screening at Housing Works with a raffle of items Ephron donated; Bobby met his husband there. · "Because it's the day I met my husband?"
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:13:45 · Lindsey Weber (0.40)] You've Got Mail · fun · To fit a hard out the screening cut the Dabney Coleman and father subplot and nobody noticed. · "And we cut the Dabney Coleman subplot."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:21:08 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail · fun · A cut serial-killer-on-rooftops subplot survives in fragments; the final reference explains why he ghosted her. · "they caught the rooftop killer and they're like, well, that explains it, and then they're done."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:41:13 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail · fun · AOL let the filmmakers use the title free; two years on it was overplayed and three years on AOL was bombing. · "And then AOL let them use it free."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] You've Got Mail · fun · The fall leaves in the movie are CGI because they shot in the summer, per the commentary track by Ephron and Schuler Donner. · "They're like, all of the fall stuff is CGI, baby."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:05:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Dr. Melissa is the stable fiance archetype that rom-coms usually give to the guy, like Bill Pullman in Sleepless in Seattle and Greg Kinnear in You've Got Mail. · "It's like Bill Palman in Seattle and Greg Canair and you got mail."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:52 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ Nora Ephron (the maker said so) · lineage · Ephron said she and Delia loved the original film and its musical version. · "Nor Efron goes, oh, Delia and I, that's one of our favorite movies ever and one of our favorite musicals ever."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Meg Ryan ↔ Hanging Up · programming · The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode. · "hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon."
  5. [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."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Whole Nine Yards · programming · The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy. · "That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick. · "Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Pitch Black · programming · Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better. · "It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up."
  9. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Mixed Nuts · theme · Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship. · "movies that are like, this is a household movie."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70)] Harry Connick Jr. ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms. · "it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ Unstrung Heroes · theme · Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up. · "There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ One Fine Day · theme · Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist. · "It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ American Beauty · theme · Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last. · "And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

  1. [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
  2. [speaker] Bobby Finger · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since. · stances: You've Got Mail is his favorite movie; He misses Nora Ephron rom-coms specifically; New York specificity is what makes the film work
  3. [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'
  4. [speaker] Lindsey Weber · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · A co-creator of the Housing Works annotated screening. Defends Ephron's influence on how all rom-coms look now, and loves the film's casting. Likes how Ephron blends sweetness with real sadness. · stances: Every modern rom-com is made the Ephron way; The film is a long-time personal favorite; Ephron's casting is flawless

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [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)
  2. [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

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished You've Got Mail (1998) 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 You've Got Mail (1998) 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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake. · "Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical. · "She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture. · "I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ Julie & Julia · theme · Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films. · "And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle. · "The Apple and sleepless in Seattle."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:59:28 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Ryan's loneliness is only hinted at in Sleepless but is the persistent subject here. · "This movie's so much more honest about how sad she is."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:57:29 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · craft · Three scenes appear almost verbatim in all three screen versions, including the friend's line about her coloring. · "3 scenes that exist almost verbatim in all 3 movie versions, which are the scene with the friend, the Dave Chappelle scene where he takes a look at her."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:01:09 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Godfather · craft · Ephron habitually references movies that men love, such as The Godfather (going to the mattresses), Casablanca, and The Dirty Dozen. · "There's also the godfather, you know, the, which is a classic Efron thing, like Casablanca, um, Harry Metzali, and the Dirty Dozen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:31:34 · David Sims (0.40)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · craft · Both Hanks-Ryan films are experiments on the rom-com: one withholds the couple until the last scene, the other puts them together and makes them unpleasant. · "sleepless in Seattle is obviously like, can you create a rom-com with chemistry between the 2 actors without them ever actually communicating until the last scene of the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:01:15 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · This film's quotes are longer and less snappy than When Harry Met Sally's. · "This movie doesn't have like something like when Harry Met Sally is so snappy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:17:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · contrast · Sleepless in Seattle has a more convoluted plot yet runs an hour 45; You've Got Mail runs too long. · "Like sleepless in Seattle, which has a more convoluted plot than this, is an hour 45."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Shop Around the Corner · contrast · In every earlier version the rivals are coworkers whose jobs are at stake; here they run rival businesses and she is not poor. · "So so much of the rivalry between the 2 characters is they're fighting for who becomes the most valuable employee of this store because if one of them nudges out the other, their entire life might be ruined."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:42:03 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ The Net · contrast · You've Got Mail has aged far better than The Net, which claimed to understand the internet. · "Like it has aged so much better than a movie like the net."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · contrast · You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out. · "you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:24:22 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Kate & Leopold ↔ You've Got Mail · career · Ryan ended the millennium with her third go-round with Hanks and Ephron in You've Got Mail. · "So she ends off the millennium with like fucking 3rd time around with Hanks, Efron again, just doing the exact thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:34:19 · Bobby Finger (0.60)] Enough Said ↔ You've Got Mail · verdict · Enough Said is Bobby's favorite rom-com since You've Got Mail, with the same messy, deceitful lovers. · "the brom-com that I think is my favorite, since you've got mail, is probably enough said, which I think captures this dynamic pretty closely"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:08:26 · unknown (0.00)] Nancy Meyers ↔ You've Got Mail · contrast · Meyers was starting then and would have paired everyone off at the end; Ephron did not. · "Nancy Myers is starting, you know, around the same time as this movie's coming out and she's like, yeah, baby, everyone's going to be together at the end."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.30)] Greg Kinnear ↔ You've Got Mail · career · After the film Kinnear keeps being the obstacle in someone else's romance. · "He plays the Baxter in that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Greg Kinnear ↔ You've Got Mail · industry · Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene. · "Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends."
[pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ The Shop Around the Corner · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] You've Got Mail ↔ Hanging Up · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:02:43 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail · fun · The garnish caviar scene is pure Ephron etiquette advice, slipped into a movie. · "She even puts it in a freaking movie that says, the caviar is a garnish."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:07:57 · Bobby Finger (0.85)] You've Got Mail · fun · Lindsey and Bobby ran an annotated, pop-up-video style screening at Housing Works with a raffle of items Ephron donated; Bobby met his husband there. · "Because it's the day I met my husband?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:13:45 · Lindsey Weber (0.40)] You've Got Mail · fun · To fit a hard out the screening cut the Dabney Coleman and father subplot and nobody noticed. · "And we cut the Dabney Coleman subplot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:21:08 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail · fun · A cut serial-killer-on-rooftops subplot survives in fragments; the final reference explains why he ghosted her. · "they caught the rooftop killer and they're like, well, that explains it, and then they're done."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:41:13 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail · fun · AOL let the filmmakers use the title free; two years on it was overplayed and three years on AOL was bombing. · "And then AOL let them use it free."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:46:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] You've Got Mail · fun · The fall leaves in the movie are CGI because they shot in the summer, per the commentary track by Ephron and Schuler Donner. · "They're like, all of the fall stuff is CGI, baby."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:05:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Dr. Melissa is the stable fiance archetype that rom-coms usually give to the guy, like Bill Pullman in Sleepless in Seattle and Greg Kinnear in You've Got Mail. · "It's like Bill Palman in Seattle and Greg Canair and you got mail."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:52 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ Nora Ephron (the maker said so) · lineage · Ephron said she and Delia loved the original film and its musical version. · "Nor Efron goes, oh, Delia and I, that's one of our favorite movies ever and one of our favorite musicals ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Meg Ryan ↔ Hanging Up · programming · The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode. · "hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Whole Nine Yards · programming · The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy. · "That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick. · "Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Pitch Black · programming · Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better. · "It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Mixed Nuts · theme · Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship. · "movies that are like, this is a household movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70)] Harry Connick Jr. ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms. · "it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ Unstrung Heroes · theme · Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up. · "There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ One Fine Day · theme · Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist. · "It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ American Beauty · theme · Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last. · "And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later."
[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] Bobby Finger · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · Calls You've Got Mail his favorite movie and watches it a few times a year. Loves the elevator scene and the hospitality and New Yorkiness of Ephron's writing. Misses Ephron-style rom-coms, not rom-coms in general; Enough Said is his favorite since. · stances: You've Got Mail is his favorite movie; He misses Nora Ephron rom-coms specifically; New York specificity is what makes the film work
[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] Lindsey Weber · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · A co-creator of the Housing Works annotated screening. Defends Ephron's influence on how all rom-coms look now, and loves the film's casting. Likes how Ephron blends sweetness with real sadness. · stances: Every modern rom-com is made the Ephron way; The film is a long-time personal favorite; Ephron's casting is flawless
[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 You've Got Mail (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend You've Got Mail (1998) 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.