What the corpus says about When Harry Met Sally (1989)

The 60 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 (16)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:04:02 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · Craig defines the com-rom: comedy about romance rather than romance with comedy. · "I love it, because it's instead of a romance that has comedy, it's comedy about romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:04:10 · Craig Horlbeck (0.75)] Knocked Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · Craig says the newer movies focus on the men while the earlier ones focus on the women. · "The men are the kind of the focuses and the early ones it's focused on the women."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] When Harry Met Sally ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · contrast · Bill says Harry Met Sally is genuinely funny, unlike Pretty Woman or the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies; My Best Friend's Wedding is funny but not hilarious. · "My best friend's wedding is funny, but it's not like, it's not like hilarious."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Pretty Woman · contrast · Juliet calls Harry Met Sally an anomaly among 89-05 rom-coms because the writing is so sharp and it has a real vibe. · "But Harry Mitzally is an anomaly because the writing is so, so sharp."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:01:15 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · This film's quotes are longer and less snappy than When Harry Met Sally's. · "This movie doesn't have like something like when Harry Met Sally is so snappy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:59:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · When Harry Met Sally is also built on phone conversations yet has chemistry. · "so much of that movie is phone conversations, and it does feel like there's chemistry between those people."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman ↔ When Harry Met Sally · verdict · Amanda ranks Pretty Woman second among romantic comedies behind When Harry Met Sally. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick. · "Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70)] Harry Connick Jr. ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms. · "it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:16:28 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Meg Ryan ↔ When Harry Met Sally · career · When Harry Met Sally is named as Ryan's breakthrough into the beloved-star persona. · "But then, like, obviously, when Harry Man Sally is like the breakthrough, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:35:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rosanna Arquette ↔ When Harry Met Sally · what-if · Could have been the lead in When Harry Met Sally. · "She could have been when Harry met Sally easily."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Knocked Up · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] When Harry Met Sally ↔ You've Got Mail · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Pretty Woman · said 2 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (34)

[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:23 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ Kevin Hart remake of About Last Night (the host's read) · programming · About Last Night was remade with Kevin Hart. · "They remade it with Kevin Hart and Michael Healey."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake. · "Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Pretty Woman ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable. · "prep for next week's rewatchable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:58:45 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ↔ Rob Lowe · programming · Recommended homework for Craig: a rom-com dramedy set in Chicago. · "I'd be interested if you and Liz saw that one."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical. · "She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Pretty Woman · programming · Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:58:51 · David Sims (0.40)] Sexual Perversity in Chicago ⇒ About Last Night (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night is a remake of an earlier version drawn from a Chicago play. · "About last night is a remake of the actual version of sexual perverses in Chicago."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture. · "I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ About Last Night · theme · Ferris is argued as the Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies, alongside Blues Brothers and About Last Night. · "is this is this Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:21:02 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · Both have absurd premises that work because the human emotion works. · "Pretty woman's absurd."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ Julie & Julia · theme · Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films. · "And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle. · "The Apple and sleepless in Seattle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read) · lineage · Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up. · "And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:59:28 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Ryan's loneliness is only hinted at in Sleepless but is the persistent subject here. · "This movie's so much more honest about how sad she is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] 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
[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] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 When Harry Met Sally (1989) 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 When Harry Met Sally (1989) 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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:04:02 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · Craig defines the com-rom: comedy about romance rather than romance with comedy. · "I love it, because it's instead of a romance that has comedy, it's comedy about romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:04:10 · Craig Horlbeck (0.75)] Knocked Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · Craig says the newer movies focus on the men while the earlier ones focus on the women. · "The men are the kind of the focuses and the early ones it's focused on the women."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] When Harry Met Sally ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · contrast · Bill says Harry Met Sally is genuinely funny, unlike Pretty Woman or the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies; My Best Friend's Wedding is funny but not hilarious. · "My best friend's wedding is funny, but it's not like, it's not like hilarious."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Pretty Woman · contrast · Juliet calls Harry Met Sally an anomaly among 89-05 rom-coms because the writing is so sharp and it has a real vibe. · "But Harry Mitzally is an anomaly because the writing is so, so sharp."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:01:15 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · This film's quotes are longer and less snappy than When Harry Met Sally's. · "This movie doesn't have like something like when Harry Met Sally is so snappy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:59:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ When Harry Met Sally · contrast · When Harry Met Sally is also built on phone conversations yet has chemistry. · "so much of that movie is phone conversations, and it does feel like there's chemistry between those people."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman ↔ When Harry Met Sally · verdict · Amanda ranks Pretty Woman second among romantic comedies behind When Harry Met Sally. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick. · "Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70)] Harry Connick Jr. ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms. · "it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:16:28 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Meg Ryan ↔ When Harry Met Sally · career · When Harry Met Sally is named as Ryan's breakthrough into the beloved-star persona. · "But then, like, obviously, when Harry Man Sally is like the breakthrough, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:35:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rosanna Arquette ↔ When Harry Met Sally · what-if · Could have been the lead in When Harry Met Sally. · "She could have been when Harry met Sally easily."
[pairs] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Knocked Up · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] When Harry Met Sally ↔ You've Got Mail · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Pretty Woman · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ↔ This Boy's Life · programming · Ryan's and Simmons' double-feature choice is This Boy's Life, not a fun night in. · "It's not a very pleasant one, but it's boys' life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:23 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ Kevin Hart remake of About Last Night (the host's read) · programming · About Last Night was remade with Kevin Hart. · "They remade it with Kevin Hart and Michael Healey."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:36:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Shop Around the Corner ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Warner Brothers inherited the Turner library and the producer picked The Shop Around the Corner to remake. · "Lauren Schuler Donner looks at the library and goes, huh, shop around the corner."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Pretty Woman ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable. · "prep for next week's rewatchable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Rocco and His Brothers · programming · A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature. · "Give me some Visconti."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:58:45 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ↔ Rob Lowe · programming · Recommended homework for Craig: a rom-com dramedy set in Chicago. · "I'd be interested if you and Liz saw that one."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] She Loves Me (stage musical) ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin lists the earlier versions the story had been through, including the musical. · "She loves me shop around the corner and in the summertime."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Pretty Woman · programming · Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] A Bronx Tale ⇒ The Sopranos (the host's read) · lineage · Ryan argues A Bronx Tale influenced The Sopranos more than any other movie, with Sonny and Tony Soprano close in how they hold the neighborhood. · "I think Bronx Tale... influenced the Sopranos more than any other movie, but I don't think people think that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:58:51 · David Sims (0.40)] Sexual Perversity in Chicago ⇒ About Last Night (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night is a remake of an earlier version drawn from a Chicago play. · "About last night is a remake of the actual version of sexual perverses in Chicago."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:38:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Ninotchka ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · Ephron borrowed the idea of rivals who are two sides of one coin from a Lubitsch picture. · "I mean she's pulling from like a different Lubich movie, which is here are 2 people who are opposite sides of the coin, don't realize they get along that way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:20 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ About Last Night · theme · Ferris is argued as the Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies, alongside Blues Brothers and About Last Night. · "is this is this Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:21:02 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · Both have absurd premises that work because the human emotion works. · "Pretty woman's absurd."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Boyz n the Hood · theme · Both appear on Simmons' list of eight father-son movies. · "Bronx Tale, Kramer versus Kramer. He got game, Field of Dreams, Catch me if you can, the Godfather, Lion King, and Boys in the Hood."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:03:50 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ Julie & Julia · theme · Ephron's last film is her overt food movie, though food runs through all her films. · "And obviously her last movie is her like overt food movie."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] A Bronx Tale ↔ He Got Game · theme · Both are listed among the best father-son movies, with He Got Game the speaker's favorite. · "He got game is my favorite father-son movie."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:07 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Another memorable Ephron food moment: the apple in Sleepless in Seattle. · "The Apple and sleepless in Seattle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · Catch Me If You Can is argued to be sneakily a father-son film. · "I think that's like the sneaky theme in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read) · lineage · Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up. · "And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:59:28 · unknown (0.00)] You've Got Mail ↔ Sleepless in Seattle · theme · Ryan's loneliness is only hinted at in Sleepless but is the persistent subject here. · "This movie's so much more honest about how sad she is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] At Close Range ↔ A Bronx Tale · theme · At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals. · "That's an amazing father-son movie."
[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] 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
[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] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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 When Harry Met Sally (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend When Harry Met Sally (1989) 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.