What the corpus says about What About Bob? (1991)

The 50 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 (26)

[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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:45:12 · Van Lathan (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ National Lampoon's Vacation · craft · Both reflect a time when comedies let protagonists do outrageous things; Clark Griswold kidnaps people at the end of Vacation. · "Well, vacation was like that too. Remember, at the end, Clark Chris, like he kidnaps people."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:45:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Parenthood · craft · Parenthood used a school-shooting imagery as a comedic device, another example of things no longer made. · "Or even parenthood where they use a school shooting for a comedic device."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:25:50 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Ghostbusters · career · Ebert called it Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984. · "Said it was Bill Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:23:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] What About Bob? ↔ Mr. Holland's Opus · people · Both are Richard Dreyfuss movies where he plays an asshole; Sean traces his heel turn from nice-guy hero to the worst guy in the movie, starting here. · "No one has had a heel turn. Like Richard Dreyfuss. And it starts with what about Bob?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:46:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Ordinary People · people · Alvin Sargent, who wrote Ordinary People, provided the story for What About Bob?, which signals respect for therapy. · "the story for the movie comes from Alvin Sargent. Alvin Sargent was the writer of ordinary people."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:59:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Bugsy ↔ What About Bob? · industry · The loaded 1992 Oscars (Hopkins, De Niro, Nolte, Williams, Beatty) explain Murray's lack of a nomination for Bob. · "we've talked in previous episodes about how loaded the 1992 Oscars was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:00:34 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Lost in Translation · industry · Murray's one nomination came for Lost in Translation; the group disputes who beat him. · "Who beat him for Lost in Translation?"
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:33:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] What About Bob? ↔ The Cable Guy · vibe · Annoying-houseguest dynamic similar to The Cable Guy. · "It's sort of a cable guy vibe, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:04:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ The Odd Couple · straight man / crazy man · The premise is another straight-guy-vs-crazy-guy movie like The Odd Couple and The In-Laws, but Murray makes it special. · "We've seen movies like this before, the odd couple, the in-laws."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:12:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · year context · 1991 box office: Terminator 2 was number one, with What About Bob? in the top 16. · "Terminator 2 is the number one movie from that year, which we've done on there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:15:01 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] What About Bob? ↔ Good Will Hunting · therapist movies · Bill's therapist Mount Rushmore includes both, along with Analyze This and Ordinary People. · "Movies that had to include a therapist used in some profound way in the actual plot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Kiss of Death ↔ What About Bob? · podcast wishlist · Sean would want in on a Kiss of Death rewatchables episode. · "That's a fucking hilarious movie."
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:38:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Lost in America ↔ What About Bob? · rewatchables wishlist · Van pitches Lost in America as an episode; the group has not done it. · "Albert Brooks and Gary Marshall talking in the casino is like one of my 5 favorite scenes of all time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:48:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Mrs. Doubtfire · prior episode · Williams's 1987-93 run as one of the two biggest stars was discussed on Mrs. Doubtfire. · "We did this when we did Mrs. Doubtfire."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:56 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ As Good as It Gets · OCD treatment · Bob's improvement by pursuing the doctor is compared to Helen Hunt making Nicholson less OCD. · "So it's almost like Helen Hunt and as good as it gets, making Nicholas and less OCD."
[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 · ‘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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:08:08 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Will Ferrell ↔ What About Bob? · what-if · Only Will Ferrell, in his view, could also have played Bob over 35-40 years; but Murray has a character-actor gear Ferrell may lack. · "I actually think Will Ferrell would have also crushed this part."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:08:27 · Van Lathan (0.90)] Phil Hartman ↔ What About Bob? · what-if · In a reboot Van would cast Phil Hartman as the Dreyfuss character. · "I actually would cast Phil Hartman as the Richard Dreyfuss character."

Fun items about it (1)

[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:34:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] What About Bob? · fun · Spielberg bought print ads and held screenings to run a best-actor campaign for Bill Murray. · "he held screenings and he like bought print ads."

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:16:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Analyze This ↔ The Sopranos · theme · The Sopranos has basically the same mob-boss-in-therapy premise and cut the legs out of Analyze This's legacy. · "the Sopranos completely cut the cut the legs out of that movie from a legacy standpoint because the Sopranos is basically the same premise"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] The Matrix ↔ Ghostbusters · programming · The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix. · "We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Matt Damon · programming · Good Will Hunting plus its Damon/Affleck/Williams Oscar campaign started Amanda's interest in the stories around movies. · "I think the 1st time I was aware of all of that was Goodwill Hunting"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Good Will Hunting · theme · Peter Brand is like the wizard of math everyone is waiting to have his big moment. · "I thought a lot about Goodwill hunting, watching this movie the 2nd time, you know, like the wizard who just kind of needs to tap into everything and all the math"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Laszlo Kovacs ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it. · "It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] 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] 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
[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

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)

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 What About Bob? (1991) 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 What About Bob? (1991) 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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:45:12 · Van Lathan (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ National Lampoon's Vacation · craft · Both reflect a time when comedies let protagonists do outrageous things; Clark Griswold kidnaps people at the end of Vacation. · "Well, vacation was like that too. Remember, at the end, Clark Chris, like he kidnaps people."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:45:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Parenthood · craft · Parenthood used a school-shooting imagery as a comedic device, another example of things no longer made. · "Or even parenthood where they use a school shooting for a comedic device."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:25:50 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Ghostbusters · career · Ebert called it Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984. · "Said it was Bill Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:23:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] What About Bob? ↔ Mr. Holland's Opus · people · Both are Richard Dreyfuss movies where he plays an asshole; Sean traces his heel turn from nice-guy hero to the worst guy in the movie, starting here. · "No one has had a heel turn. Like Richard Dreyfuss. And it starts with what about Bob?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:46:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Ordinary People · people · Alvin Sargent, who wrote Ordinary People, provided the story for What About Bob?, which signals respect for therapy. · "the story for the movie comes from Alvin Sargent. Alvin Sargent was the writer of ordinary people."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:59:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Bugsy ↔ What About Bob? · industry · The loaded 1992 Oscars (Hopkins, De Niro, Nolte, Williams, Beatty) explain Murray's lack of a nomination for Bob. · "we've talked in previous episodes about how loaded the 1992 Oscars was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:00:34 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Lost in Translation · industry · Murray's one nomination came for Lost in Translation; the group disputes who beat him. · "Who beat him for Lost in Translation?"
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:33:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] What About Bob? ↔ The Cable Guy · vibe · Annoying-houseguest dynamic similar to The Cable Guy. · "It's sort of a cable guy vibe, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:04:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ The Odd Couple · straight man / crazy man · The premise is another straight-guy-vs-crazy-guy movie like The Odd Couple and The In-Laws, but Murray makes it special. · "We've seen movies like this before, the odd couple, the in-laws."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:12:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] What About Bob? ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · year context · 1991 box office: Terminator 2 was number one, with What About Bob? in the top 16. · "Terminator 2 is the number one movie from that year, which we've done on there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:15:01 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] What About Bob? ↔ Good Will Hunting · therapist movies · Bill's therapist Mount Rushmore includes both, along with Analyze This and Ordinary People. · "Movies that had to include a therapist used in some profound way in the actual plot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Kiss of Death ↔ What About Bob? · podcast wishlist · Sean would want in on a Kiss of Death rewatchables episode. · "That's a fucking hilarious movie."
[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 · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:38:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Lost in America ↔ What About Bob? · rewatchables wishlist · Van pitches Lost in America as an episode; the group has not done it. · "Albert Brooks and Gary Marshall talking in the casino is like one of my 5 favorite scenes of all time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:48:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] What About Bob? ↔ Mrs. Doubtfire · prior episode · Williams's 1987-93 run as one of the two biggest stars was discussed on Mrs. Doubtfire. · "We did this when we did Mrs. Doubtfire."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:56 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ As Good as It Gets · OCD treatment · Bob's improvement by pursuing the doctor is compared to Helen Hunt making Nicholson less OCD. · "So it's almost like Helen Hunt and as good as it gets, making Nicholas and less OCD."
[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 · ‘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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:08:08 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Will Ferrell ↔ What About Bob? · what-if · Only Will Ferrell, in his view, could also have played Bob over 35-40 years; but Murray has a character-actor gear Ferrell may lack. · "I actually think Will Ferrell would have also crushed this part."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:08:27 · Van Lathan (0.90)] Phil Hartman ↔ What About Bob? · what-if · In a reboot Van would cast Phil Hartman as the Dreyfuss character. · "I actually would cast Phil Hartman as the Richard Dreyfuss character."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:34:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] What About Bob? · fun · Spielberg bought print ads and held screenings to run a best-actor campaign for Bill Murray. · "he held screenings and he like bought print ads."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 0:16:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Analyze This ↔ The Sopranos · theme · The Sopranos has basically the same mob-boss-in-therapy premise and cut the legs out of Analyze This's legacy. · "the Sopranos completely cut the cut the legs out of that movie from a legacy standpoint because the Sopranos is basically the same premise"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] The Matrix ↔ Ghostbusters · programming · The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix. · "We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Good Will Hunting ↔ Matt Damon · programming · Good Will Hunting plus its Damon/Affleck/Williams Oscar campaign started Amanda's interest in the stories around movies. · "I think the 1st time I was aware of all of that was Goodwill Hunting"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Moneyball ↔ Good Will Hunting · theme · Peter Brand is like the wizard of math everyone is waiting to have his big moment. · "I thought a lot about Goodwill hunting, watching this movie the 2nd time, you know, like the wizard who just kind of needs to tap into everything and all the math"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Laszlo Kovacs ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it. · "It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[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] 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] 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
[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
[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 What About Bob? (1991); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend What About Bob? (1991) 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.