What the corpus says about Mad magazine

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Mad magazine 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 Mad magazine 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 · Batman (1966) · 0:30:16 · David Sims (0.40)] The Batman ↔ Mad magazine · lineage · The film's comedy is Mad magazine style: cram in as many jokes as possible. · "it's this sort of mad magazine comedy where it's like fit in as many jokes as you can."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 1:06:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mad magazine · fun · Tarantino made a full-length faux Mad magazine just for a framed prop. · "Let's do 50 pages that nobody will see about Mad magazine."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:57:15 · unknown (0.30)] Mad magazine · fun · Mad's Jedi parody joked about the Emperor's lightning: wait till you see his electricity bill. · "wait till you see his electricity bill."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Batman ↔ The Flash · programming · The Batman is not in the same world as the other Batmen; DC is carving out separate zones. · "Matt Reeves comes in and is just like, I don't really want this Batman to be in the same world as the other Batman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:15:13 · David Sims (0.50)] The Batman ↔ Batman: Mask of the Phantasm · programming · The humor peaks with the first film and declines across the series; Phantasm and Lego Batman are partial exceptions. · "humor peaks with the 1st one, just decline, basically."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:03:19 · David Sims (0.45)] Batman (franchise) ↔ The Batman · programming · Reeves' film was well reviewed enough that DC may do more of it, the hosts hoping for fun elsewhere. · "I think we're now in Reevesville."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:03:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Batman ↔ The Sound of Music · programming · A UK sing-along Sound of Music (Prince Charles Theater) turned into a Rocky Horror-style costume event. · "It became this rocky horror adjacent thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:11:56 · David Sims (0.45)] Batman: Mask of the Phantasm ↔ The Batman · programming · The 'Not All Batman' series continues with Mask of the Phantasm in 20 days. · "Tune in for Batman Maska Phantasm for the thrilling conclusion"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:49:34 · unknown (0.40)] Gilda ↔ The Batman · lineage · A speaker says watching Gilda will help understand the next Batman, with Scarlett Johansson rumored as Gilda Dent. · "And then you'll be able to understand the Batman too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:08:26 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] The Batman ⇒ Batman Forever / Batman & Robin (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin says Schumacher's Batman films are directly shaped by the Adam West show's pairing and cliffhanger style. · "Joel Schumacher is very influenced by the Adam West show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:11:37 · David Sims (0.50)] Batman (1943 serial) ⇒ The Batman (the host's read) · lineage · A New York screening of the 1943 Lewis Wilson serial caused bat fever and led Fox to greenlight the movie. · "someone screened that in New York City and it was such a phenomenon."
[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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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 Mad magazine; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mad magazine 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.