The Cable Guy (1996)

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Wikidata Q824133, film, IMDb tt0115798, TMDB 9894: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Matthew Broderick as actor (‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan); 3 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Came from

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.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

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

The Killer: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (callback joke): The Cable Guy ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here).
    “that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70 sure it was them)

Connected to

Ben Stiller: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Ben Stiller → The Cable Guy. After Reality Bites, Stiller's career took off and he became the biggest star of the five.
    “Then he ended up, I think he did cable guy, and then his own career took off, and he ended up becoming the biggest star of the 5 of them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:01 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Matthew Broderick: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (persona inversion): Matthew Broderick → The Cable Guy. Within ten years Broderick is playing Cameron-like weak men in The Cable Guy, inverting his Ferris persona.
    “within 10 years, he's in the cable guy basically just playing Cameron.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Killer: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (callback joke): The Killer → The Cable Guy. The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here).
    “that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70 sure it was them)

Twister: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Twister → The Cable Guy. Chris pushes back that The Cable Guy, a notorious failure, still made 104 million, and Twister made 495 million.
    “I mean, Twister made 495.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What About Bob?: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (vibe): What About Bob? → The Cable Guy. Annoying-houseguest dynamic similar to The Cable Guy.
    “It's sort of a cable guy vibe, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:33:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Ben Stiller → The Cable Guy. After Reality Bites, Stiller's career took off and he became the biggest star of the five.
    “Then he ended up, I think he did cable guy, and then his own career took off, and he ended up becoming the biggest star of the 5 of them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:01 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (persona inversion): Matthew Broderick → The Cable Guy. Within ten years Broderick is playing Cameron-like weak men in The Cable Guy, inverting his Ferris persona.
    “within 10 years, he's in the cable guy basically just playing Cameron.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Twister → The Cable Guy. Chris pushes back that The Cable Guy, a notorious failure, still made 104 million, and Twister made 495 million.
    “I mean, Twister made 495.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:09:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (callback joke): The Killer → The Cable Guy. The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here).
    “that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (vibe): What About Bob? → The Cable Guy. Annoying-houseguest dynamic similar to The Cable Guy.
    “It's sort of a cable guy vibe, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:33:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

None.

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.