What the corpus says about Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

What was said about it (9)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ⇒ Big Top Pee-wee (the host's read) · lineage · The 1985 film has a sequel, Big Top Pee-wee, and a 2016 Netflix follow-up less successful for speaker. · "Pee-wee's big holiday in 2016, a little bit less successful for me."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:58:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Austin Powers (second film) · lineage · The movie-within-a-movie finale predates the Tom Cruise-plays-Austin Powers gag by ten years. · "this is 10 years before the Tom Cruise playing Austin Powers joke in the 2nd Austin Powers movie."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Come On, Come On · theme · All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife. · "all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:26:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Frankenweenie ⇒ Pee-wee's Big Adventure (the host's read) · career · Frankenweenie became Burton's live-action reel that got him hired on Pee-wee. · "that becomes his director's reel for live action that gets him hired on peewee"
6. [Blank Check · After Hours · 2:19:38 · unknown host (0.40)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ After Hours · people · Pee-wee's Big Adventure was number 3 at the 1985 box office, directed by the man considered for After Hours. · "directed by a guy who was considered for directing this film."
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Tim Burton ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · career · Pee-wee set Burton up as a significant filmmaker, though his last five or six films baffle the speaker. · "Incredibly strange film obviously sets up Tim Burton as one of the more significant filmmakers of the 80s and 90s."
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:55:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Paul Reubens ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · people · The film grew out of the Pee-wee Herman Show and co-written with Phil Hartman. · "co-written with Phil Hartman"
9. [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Tim Burton ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · rebound · Burton stepped aside for Scorsese and immediately rebounded onto Pee-wee, which came out the same year. · "And then he just like immediately rebounds onto Pee Wee, which comes out the same year or the year after this."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ After Hours · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (3)

1. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:28:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure · fun · Third place in 1985 box office; hosts wink about covering it eventually. · "Wink, wink"
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure · fun · A man goes across hell on earth to get his bike back; it taught speaker you can do anything in a movie. · "And he goes across hell on earth to get his bike back."
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:58:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure · fun · The finale features a Hollywood version of Pee-wee with James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild. · "James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild portray Pee Wee and Dottie"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

1. [Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ira Glass's This American Life ⇒ Come On, Come On (the host's read) · lineage · The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster. · "I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster"
3. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Ira Glass ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode) · lineage · Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills. · "Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · theme · Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child). · "you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on."
11. [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
12. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · craft · Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women. · "this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women"
13. [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."
14. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton's films · craft · Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do. · "So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
15. [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:35:09 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ⇒ The Lovebirds (the host's read) · lineage · The Lovebirds tried to be the After Hours of its day but never works. · "on paper, you were like, yeah, sure, it's been too long since someone tried to make after hours."
16. [The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton · craft · An uncle who does not know how to parent makes every scene like a Keaton movie. · "it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [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
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

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [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)
2. [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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 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 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 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 · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ⇒ Big Top Pee-wee (the host's read) · lineage · The 1985 film has a sequel, Big Top Pee-wee, and a 2016 Netflix follow-up less successful for speaker. · "Pee-wee's big holiday in 2016, a little bit less successful for me."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:58:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Austin Powers (second film) · lineage · The movie-within-a-movie finale predates the Tom Cruise-plays-Austin Powers gag by ten years. · "this is 10 years before the Tom Cruise playing Austin Powers joke in the 2nd Austin Powers movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:56:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ Come On, Come On · theme · All the feel-good picks are about when you see them, like Come On, Come On and Afterlife. · "all of these movies for me are about when you see them, just like, come on, come on, is about when you see them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:26:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Frankenweenie ⇒ Pee-wee's Big Adventure (the host's read) · career · Frankenweenie became Burton's live-action reel that got him hired on Pee-wee. · "that becomes his director's reel for live action that gets him hired on peewee"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:19:38 · unknown host (0.40)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ After Hours · people · Pee-wee's Big Adventure was number 3 at the 1985 box office, directed by the man considered for After Hours. · "directed by a guy who was considered for directing this film."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Tim Burton ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · career · Pee-wee set Burton up as a significant filmmaker, though his last five or six films baffle the speaker. · "Incredibly strange film obviously sets up Tim Burton as one of the more significant filmmakers of the 80s and 90s."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:55:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Paul Reubens ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · people · The film grew out of the Pee-wee Herman Show and co-written with Phil Hartman. · "co-written with Phil Hartman"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Tim Burton ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · rebound · Burton stepped aside for Scorsese and immediately rebounded onto Pee-wee, which came out the same year. · "And then he just like immediately rebounds onto Pee Wee, which comes out the same year or the year after this."
[pairs] Pee-wee's Big Adventure ↔ After Hours · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:28:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure · fun · Third place in 1985 box office; hosts wink about covering it eventually. · "Wink, wink"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure · fun · A man goes across hell on earth to get his bike back; it taught speaker you can do anything in a movie. · "And he goes across hell on earth to get his bike back."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:58:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Pee-wee's Big Adventure · fun · The finale features a Hollywood version of Pee-wee with James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild. · "James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild portray Pee Wee and Dottie"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ira Glass's This American Life ⇒ Come On, Come On (the host's read) · lineage · The radio-producer device is in the Ira Glass tradition, not the conspiracy podcaster. · "I think it's a little bit more in the tradition of Ira Glass than it is necessarily in the tradition of the conspiracy theory podcaster"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:14:04 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Ira Glass ⇒ Come On, Come On (the maker said so: Mike Mills interview on the episode) · lineage · Johnny is a WNYC-style old-school radio journalist; Ira Glass is a big influence on Mills. · "Ira Glass has been like a big influence, big hero to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point. · "In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:40 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] After Hours ↔ Bringing Out the Dead · programming · Another nighttime Scorsese movie. · "Another nighttime Scorsese movie bringing out the dead."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Come On, Come On ↔ Ghostbusters: Afterlife · theme · Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen. · "which is, um, a podcast character of its own"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Into the Night · programming · Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time. · "I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:02:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · theme · Mills says Come On, Come On, 20th Century Women and Beginners are about primary family relationships (dad, mom, child). · "you have a dad film and a mom film and now in come on, come on."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:33:22 · unknown host (quoting Minion) (0.35)] Joseph Minion ↔ After Hours · lineage · Minion wrote it under the spell of Kafka, Welles' The Trial, Mamet plays, Henry Miller and Mailer. · "I was under the spell of Kafka. I was obsessed with Orson Welles as the trial."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Come On, Come On ↔ Beginners · craft · Come On, Come On is the most stripped down of Mills's movies versus the busyness of Beginners and 20th Century Women. · "this was the most stripped down of his movies relative to kind of some of the like busyness, the kind of intentional busyness of beginners and 20th century women"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:34:18 · unknown host (0.40)] After Hours ⇒ The Night Before (the host's read) · lineage · After Hours is the template for modern one-crazy-night New York comedies, none of which reach it. · "It is one of those movies that kind of is like unofficially remade every 5 years."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton's films · craft · Mills made Johnny an uncle so every scene plays like a Buster Keaton movie of not knowing what to do. · "So it's like a it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:35:09 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ⇒ The Lovebirds (the host's read) · lineage · The Lovebirds tried to be the After Hours of its day but never works. · "on paper, you were like, yeah, sure, it's been too long since someone tried to make after hours."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:04:45 · Mike Mills (0.90)] Come On, Come On ↔ Buster Keaton · craft · An uncle who does not know how to parent makes every scene like a Keaton movie. · "it's like a Buster Keaton movie all of a sudden, you know?"
[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
[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] 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
[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)
[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 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 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.