What the corpus says about The Simpsons (TV)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Simpsons (TV) 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 The Simpsons (TV) 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 — Patreon · The Shining · 2:35:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ The Simpsons (TV) (the host's read) · parody · The Simpsons parodied the film; the speaker knew its elements from parodies first. · "I feel like I'd seen so many parodies of different elements of this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:29:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ The Simpsons (TV) (the host's read) · parodied · The Simpsons reference this film a lot. · "But the Simpsons reference is clockwork orange. a lot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone. · "Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:22:08 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · The contrapuntal needle drop descends from Singin' in the Rain in Clockwork Orange and Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs. · "all the way back to singing in the rain in Clockwork Orange or stuck in the middle with you in, in, in, in Reservoir dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90)] Stephen King ↔ The Shining · lineage · The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project. · "trying to do the thing Stephen King hated"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:20:24 · unknown (0.30)] Anthony Burgess ⇒ A Clockwork Orange (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Burgess's novel, and Kubrick found he had to change very little. · "Kubrick reads the book and is like, I didn't have to do much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem. · "You're doing a sequel to The Shining."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:22:36 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Vinyl ↔ A Clockwork Orange · lineage · The speakers note there is an unwatchable Warhol version of this same book. · "Well, of course, you know, you mentioned Warhol, but of course there's the unwatchable Warhol version of this book."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Stephen King ⇒ The Shining (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie. · "This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 1:28:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.80)] A Clockwork Orange ⇒ Her Smell (the maker said so: Alex Ross Perry, the writer of Her Smell, speaking on this episode) · lineage · The speaker says the film's five-act structure was a huge inspiration while writing Her Smell. · "This movie, I think, and this was a huge inspiration in when I was writing her smell."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining. · "Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:33:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Kael's charge that Clockwork Orange was prurient and pitied only Alex is applied to Star 80 and Snyder. · "I think the only sympathy that you see from the filmmaker is with Paul Snyder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45)] The Shining ⇒ Bobby's World (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining. · "And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:02 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · Strangelove, 2001, and this film are the clearest examples of his theme of technology that hastens man's downfall. · "Dr. Strangelove in 2001. And this movie are very literal examples of that, of that theme for sure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Shining ⇒ Doctor Sleep (the host's read) · lineage · Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film. · "it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick"
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A Clockwork Orange · theme · The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course. · "And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel. · "Ready player one, they go to the hotel."
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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
[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)

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 The Simpsons (TV); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Simpsons (TV) 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.