What the corpus says about MacGruber (2010)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished MacGruber (2010) 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 MacGruber (2010) 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 · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:27:30 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ MacGruber · joke · A joke that the abrupt jump-cut ending is a MacGruber edit and that Kubrick was ripping off MacGruber; not a real claim. · "And Kubrick was actually ripping off McGruber"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 1:28:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Bob Newhart ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker feels Newhart's one-sided phone-call format and his 1960 albums were a heavy influence on the President's call with the Soviet premier. · "I feel like a heavy influence on the way the president's phone call with Russia play out in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[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 · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:29:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Tootsie · theme · Speaker says Strangelove and Tootsie are both extremely funny but feel important to the industry. · "Well, this movie and Totsie have a lot in common, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:31:14 · unknown (0.30)] Dr. Strangelove ↔ Network · theme · Network is called another movie that gets an impossible tone right, with dramatic actors rather than comedians. · "But that's another movie that's similarly like this gets sort of an impossible tone right."

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 MacGruber (2010); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend MacGruber (2010) 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.