What the corpus says about This Is the End (2013)

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 (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:47:07 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · programming · Hitler-in-comedy debate: they just did Hitler in Last Crusade. · "We just did Hitler in Last Crusade."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Pineapple Express · programming · Pineapple Express is the pick for best double feature with This Is the End. · "It's gotta be pineapple."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:07:20 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation · programming · Best comedy sequel chat: Christmas Vacation over European Vacation. · "Christmas vacation maybe."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] This Is the End ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · lineage · Celebrities playing exaggerated versions of themselves with real insults leaking through is a Larry Sanders move. · "This has so many Larry Sanders moments where it's like, They're celebrities, but they're, they're playing like exaggerated or shticky versions of themselves"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · The movie grew out of the 8-minute short Rogen and Goldberg made. · "It was based on a short that, uh, Rogan and Goldberg did called Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:29:25 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Blood Red (unmade Pineapple Express 2) · lineage · The Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse homemade footage echoes the planned Pineapple Express 2, Blood Red. · "If they were going to make it, it was going to be blood red."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:03:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · A weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express; Pineapple Express is the double feature pick. · "this is kind of like a weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express anyway."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:07:15 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Neighbors ↔ This Is the End · theme · Neighbors is the last gasp of the Apatow arc where the guy realizes he has to grow up, one last big blast. · "neighbors is kind of like the last gasp of that where it's like these people who have a kid who, like, haven't party in a while, but like they have one last big blast."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:15:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Knocked Up ↔ This Is the End · theme · Rogen and Goldberg add heart: the pull of sacrifice for a friend runs from Superbad and Knocked Up into this film. · "sacrificing yourself for like the greater good was super bad with knocked up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The film takes the one-crazy-night party movie and marries it to Night of the Living Dead. · "taking one crazy night party, like Project Decks or Days and Confused, and then marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Night of the Living Dead · theme · Party movie plus zombie-style siege movie. · "marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:11:15 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Neighbors 2 · contrast · Neighbors 2 called the nadir of 2010s comedy. · "Neighbors 2, which is the Nadir of comedy in the 2010."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:48:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Knocked Up · contrast · Knocked Up ends with growing up; This Is the End does not. · "They don't grow up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:02:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Neighbors · career · Neighbors is the last gasp of the Rogan-era group of comedies; This Is the End is the end of that run. · "this was like the end to the group of those guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:02:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ The Interview · career · The Interview is the one other time this group was together after This Is the End. · "because it kind of never happened again after this, there was the interview."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Eastbound & Down ↔ This Is the End · career · Kenny Powers as a houseguest; the public's perception of McBride from Foot Fist Way and Eastbound. · "what if Kenny Powers was just like at our house, you know?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:38:02 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Moneyball · career · Hill's line to God invoking Moneyball. · "I'm Jonah Hill, for Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:40:51 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Scarface · career · Dick-measuring line 'Scarface style' called great. · "Except Scarface, that was great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:59:15 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · career · Apex Mountain check: Jonah Hill, Wolf and This Is the End the same year, probably worth Moneyball. · "I mean, this is Wolf and this is the end, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:40:57 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Superbad · people · 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’ · 0:47:54 · Craig Horlbeck (0.45)] This Is the End ↔ Superbad · verdict · 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’ · 0:10:56 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Dumb and Dumber To · industry · After Neighbors the sequels arrive. · "And then we go into sequels, 22 Jump Street, Dumb and Dumber 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:38:21 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ The Bodyguard · industry · Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard worked in as period nostalgia. · "I like that they worked Whitney Houston in the bodyguard into this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Project X · what-if · One crazy night party like Project X married to Night of the Living Dead; Project X offered as a double feature. · "Oh, I was gonna say Project X."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Charlie Kaufman ⇒ This Is the End (the maker said so: came up in the research) · lineage · Goldberg said the film was meant to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman. · "He said the whole point of this movie, they're just trying to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:26:04 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Jonah Hill · career · Hill moved to Moneyball and left comedy. · "He's kind of trying to get away, but you people like he probably should apologize for."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Superbad · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Knocked Up · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Neighbors · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Pineapple Express · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:12:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] This Is the End · fun · The pitch: celebrities play themselves at the apocalypse, with a demon with a 10-foot penis; the cockiest pitch ever. · "I think this is the end might be the the most the most cocky movie pitch ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] This Is the End · fun · Last movie rented at a Blockbuster before it closed on November 9, 2013; a fitting end to 30 years of video-store comedy. · "This was the last movie ever rented in a blockbuster before Blockbuster closed on November 9, 2013."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] This Is the End · fun · Blockbuster, video-store tie: comedies from video stores. · "Thought that was kind of fitting because this is 30 years of running comedies from video stores."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:18:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End · fun · Budget about $40M (they all took pay cuts), grossed about $126M; mostly three sets. · "$40000000 budget made 126."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:18:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End · fun · Turned up in the leaked Sony documents as a $50M profit. · "this is the end made $50000000 in profit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:30:50 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] This Is the End · fun · Most rewatchable scene: the McBride-Franco porno magazine fight, 'one of the 5 funniest scenes in 30 years', surely improvised and chopped from a 10-minute argument. · "I'm sure that was like a 10 minute argument that they just chopped down to too many."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (14)

[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 · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ↔ Neighbors · programming · Rogen and Goldberg avoided sequels, unlike the 2014-16 wave. · "these guys didn't make a lot of sequels, which I think is great about them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ↔ Neighbors · programming · Rogen and Goldberg avoided sequels, unlike the 2014-16 wave. · "these guys didn't make a lot of sequels, which I think is great about them."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · 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 · ‘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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read) · lineage · 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 · ‘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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Superbad ↔ Weird Science · craft · 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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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
[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

The shows' running bits (1)

[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 This Is the End (2013) 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 This Is the End (2013) 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 · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:47:07 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · programming · Hitler-in-comedy debate: they just did Hitler in Last Crusade. · "We just did Hitler in Last Crusade."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Pineapple Express · programming · Pineapple Express is the pick for best double feature with This Is the End. · "It's gotta be pineapple."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:07:20 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation · programming · Best comedy sequel chat: Christmas Vacation over European Vacation. · "Christmas vacation maybe."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] This Is the End ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · lineage · Celebrities playing exaggerated versions of themselves with real insults leaking through is a Larry Sanders move. · "This has so many Larry Sanders moments where it's like, They're celebrities, but they're, they're playing like exaggerated or shticky versions of themselves"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · The movie grew out of the 8-minute short Rogen and Goldberg made. · "It was based on a short that, uh, Rogan and Goldberg did called Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:29:25 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Blood Red (unmade Pineapple Express 2) · lineage · The Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse homemade footage echoes the planned Pineapple Express 2, Blood Red. · "If they were going to make it, it was going to be blood red."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:03:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · A weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express; Pineapple Express is the double feature pick. · "this is kind of like a weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express anyway."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:07:15 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Neighbors ↔ This Is the End · theme · Neighbors is the last gasp of the Apatow arc where the guy realizes he has to grow up, one last big blast. · "neighbors is kind of like the last gasp of that where it's like these people who have a kid who, like, haven't party in a while, but like they have one last big blast."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:15:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Knocked Up ↔ This Is the End · theme · Rogen and Goldberg add heart: the pull of sacrifice for a friend runs from Superbad and Knocked Up into this film. · "sacrificing yourself for like the greater good was super bad with knocked up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The film takes the one-crazy-night party movie and marries it to Night of the Living Dead. · "taking one crazy night party, like Project Decks or Days and Confused, and then marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Night of the Living Dead · theme · Party movie plus zombie-style siege movie. · "marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:11:15 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Neighbors 2 · contrast · Neighbors 2 called the nadir of 2010s comedy. · "Neighbors 2, which is the Nadir of comedy in the 2010."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:48:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Knocked Up · contrast · Knocked Up ends with growing up; This Is the End does not. · "They don't grow up."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:02:07 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Neighbors · career · Neighbors is the last gasp of the Rogan-era group of comedies; This Is the End is the end of that run. · "this was like the end to the group of those guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:02:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ The Interview · career · The Interview is the one other time this group was together after This Is the End. · "because it kind of never happened again after this, there was the interview."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Eastbound & Down ↔ This Is the End · career · Kenny Powers as a houseguest; the public's perception of McBride from Foot Fist Way and Eastbound. · "what if Kenny Powers was just like at our house, you know?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:38:02 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Moneyball · career · Hill's line to God invoking Moneyball. · "I'm Jonah Hill, for Moneyball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:40:51 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Scarface · career · Dick-measuring line 'Scarface style' called great. · "Except Scarface, that was great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:59:15 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · career · Apex Mountain check: Jonah Hill, Wolf and This Is the End the same year, probably worth Moneyball. · "I mean, this is Wolf and this is the end, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:40:57 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Superbad · people · 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’ · 0:47:54 · Craig Horlbeck (0.45)] This Is the End ↔ Superbad · verdict · 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’ · 0:10:56 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Dumb and Dumber To · industry · After Neighbors the sequels arrive. · "And then we go into sequels, 22 Jump Street, Dumb and Dumber 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:38:21 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ The Bodyguard · industry · Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard worked in as period nostalgia. · "I like that they worked Whitney Houston in the bodyguard into this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Project X · what-if · One crazy night party like Project X married to Night of the Living Dead; Project X offered as a double feature. · "Oh, I was gonna say Project X."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Charlie Kaufman ⇒ This Is the End (the maker said so: came up in the research) · lineage · Goldberg said the film was meant to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman. · "He said the whole point of this movie, they're just trying to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:26:04 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Jonah Hill · career · Hill moved to Moneyball and left comedy. · "He's kind of trying to get away, but you people like he probably should apologize for."
[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Superbad · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Knocked Up · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Neighbors · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] This Is the End ↔ Pineapple Express · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:12:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] This Is the End · fun · The pitch: celebrities play themselves at the apocalypse, with a demon with a 10-foot penis; the cockiest pitch ever. · "I think this is the end might be the the most the most cocky movie pitch ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] This Is the End · fun · Last movie rented at a Blockbuster before it closed on November 9, 2013; a fitting end to 30 years of video-store comedy. · "This was the last movie ever rented in a blockbuster before Blockbuster closed on November 9, 2013."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] This Is the End · fun · Blockbuster, video-store tie: comedies from video stores. · "Thought that was kind of fitting because this is 30 years of running comedies from video stores."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:18:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End · fun · Budget about $40M (they all took pay cuts), grossed about $126M; mostly three sets. · "$40000000 budget made 126."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:18:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End · fun · Turned up in the leaked Sony documents as a $50M profit. · "this is the end made $50000000 in profit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:30:50 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] This Is the End · fun · Most rewatchable scene: the McBride-Franco porno magazine fight, 'one of the 5 funniest scenes in 30 years', surely improvised and chopped from a 10-minute argument. · "I'm sure that was like a 10 minute argument that they just chopped down to too many."
[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 · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ↔ Neighbors · programming · Rogen and Goldberg avoided sequels, unlike the 2014-16 wave. · "these guys didn't make a lot of sequels, which I think is great about them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ↔ Neighbors · programming · Rogen and Goldberg avoided sequels, unlike the 2014-16 wave. · "these guys didn't make a lot of sequels, which I think is great about them."
[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 · ‘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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · 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 · ‘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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read) · lineage · 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 · ‘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 · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50)] Superbad ↔ Weird Science · craft · 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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 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."
[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] 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
[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
[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 This Is the End (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend This Is the End (2013) 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.