What the corpus says about The Great Outdoors (1988)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Great Outdoors (1988) 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 The Great Outdoors (1988) 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 · After Hours · 2:22:19 · Alison Sivitz (0.30)] Volunteers ↔ The Great Outdoors · easily confused · A speaker mixes up Volunteers and The Great Outdoors; Volunteers is where Hanks met Rita Wilson. · "I always give volunteers and great outdoors confused because great outdoors is Annette Benning's debut film"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:34:30 · Van Lathan (0.60)] The Edge ↔ The Great Outdoors · bear movie · Van's favorite bear movie is probably The Edge, though The Great Outdoors is one of his favorites ever; Bart was in both. · "Although the Great Outdoors is one of my favorite movies of all time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:37:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ The Great Outdoors · 80s wagoner / lake-house comedy · The 80s station wagon shows up in many comedies, including The Great Outdoors and Harry and the Hendersons; also lake-house small-town dreaming. · "there was one in the gray outdoors"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Cliffhanger · programming · Cliffhanger is the pick to pair with The Edge, being outdoors. · "I was thinking cliffhanger."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:46:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Pacific Heights · lineage · Sean calls What About Bob? a logical successor to Pacific Heights, part of the late-80s/early-90s 'from hell' subgenre where a transactional acquaintance won't leave your life. · "Think of this movie as a logical successor to Pacific Heights. It is it is the same thing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ The Ghost and the Darkness · programming · Ghost and the Darkness, from around the same time, is another animal-stalking pairing. · "You could also talk me to Ghost in the Darkness because this came right around this time or they're chasing the killer lions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:12:11 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ In Treatment · lineage · A 10-episode remake would be hard; In Treatment is the nearest show, tracking patients over years. · "I mean, in treatment was the show and treatment was kind of sort of like this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Edge ↔ Trespass · programming · Trespass is suggested as a double-bill pick. · "you remember that movie Trespass?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:13:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ Meet the Fockers · lineage · Bill's sequel idea: Analyze That, Meet the Fockers. · "Analyze that, meet the Fokkers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:25:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Art Linson ↔ The Edge · lineage · Linson, a 90s producer, wrote a book whose big section is the making of The Edge. · "And the big part of the book is about him putting together the edge."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:34:07 · unknown (0.30)] What About Bob? ↔ Frank Grimes · theme · Dreyfuss's therapist is likened to Frank Grimes, the lone person who sees the intolerable guy for what he is. · "He's the only one who understands that this person is intolerable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:03:10 · Van Lathan (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Cast Away · theme · Man-against-nature survival movies hook the viewer because you imagine what you would do. · "there's very few movies where you're not locked in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:17:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Analyze This · theme · Both are silly-seeming comedies staffed by hugely accomplished crews, which makes them better. · "a ton of people that are incredibly accomplished working on a movie that seems really silly and it makes the movie that much better."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:41:32 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Halloween H2O · theme · The rule of three, that the Black guy dies when three are left, was subverted by LL Cool J in H2O and Deep Blue Sea. · "LL Cool J survived twice."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:39 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Bob's pretending to be someone else to track the doctor is likened to Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt spycraft. · "Jason Bourne, like CIA detective skills to go in there and pretend to be somebody else, Ethan Hutt skills"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:20 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Lost · theme · Bill is always in for survival stories: Lost, Castaway, Yellowjackets, this movie. · "I'm just in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ The Good Son · theme · Bill says the lake house is one thing, but the house in The Good Son was probably made up; leads to Culkin evil-kid horror. · "Here's here's where this game ends when you see the house from the good house from the good son."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:23 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Yellowjackets · theme · Yellowjackets is now a whole show about trying to survive. · "and then we have yellow jackets, which now is a whole show about people trying to survive"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:35:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Michael Ballhaus ↔ What About Bob? · craft · Sean says Ballhaus shoots the scene of Siggy scaring Bob like a horror scene, with two heads in the frame, one in back and one in front. · "that's Michael Bauhaus. He's shooting that scene like it's a horror scene, you know, like the 2 heads in the frame, like one in the back and one in the front."
[speaker] Alison Sivitz · latest sketch, Blank Check · After Hours · After Hours is her number one Scorsese film; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is the runner-up. Loves Ann Dowd, weirdo New York texture and Catherine O'Hara; offers an AIDS-crisis reading of the film. Dislikes veneers and blepharoplasty looks, and being called young. · stances: After Hours is her favorite; Modern actors look too polished compared to this cast; The film is a covert AIDS-crisis 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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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 The Great Outdoors (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Great Outdoors (1988) 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.