What the corpus says about Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

The 36 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 (7)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls. · "I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one."
  2. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · After Fast Times she refused to be pigeonholed in female teen sex comedies, leading to Johnny Dangerously. · "I don't want to get pigeonholed into the like female coming of age teen sex comedy."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:32:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Color of Money ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · In 1986 audiences knew Forest Whitaker only as the guy from Fast Times, and this was his 'I'm on the map' part. · "hey, the guy from Fast Times. That was the reaction"
  4. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:14:38 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · spinoff · Heckerling made three films that spawned TV shows, including Clueless and Fast Times. · "Amy Heckerling has created 3 films that spawn TV shows."
  5. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] David Lynch ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · Cameron Crowe approached Lynch to direct Fast Times. · "He was also approached by Cameron Crowe to direct Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
  6. [Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:10:19 · David Sims (0.45)] Jennifer Jason Leigh ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · In Flesh+Blood she feels like the Fast Times girl transposed to the medieval period. · "she kind of just feels like the Fast Times of Brisbane High Girl transposed into this time."
  7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:56:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Judge Reinhold ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · Reinhold's rise runs from Fast Times (1982) through Ruthless People; Vice Versa was his solo breakout attempt that failed. · "Vice versa was his big chance to break out on his own. Didn't work, and then the wheels kind of came off after that."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ↔ Look Who's Talking · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:06:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High · fun · Cameron Crowe went undercover in high school as a grown-up to learn how teens talked. · "he actually went undercover in high school as a grown up to try to learn how people were talking."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

  1. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Baby's Day Out (the host's read) · lineage · The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out. · "I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie."
  2. [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."
  3. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
  4. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet. · "Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers."
  5. [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."
  6. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
  7. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Kirstie Alley ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Her Cheers character is a man-written career woman chasing rich men; the film writes the same character with intelligence and compassion. · "this feels like the same character boat written like intelligently and compassionately."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
  9. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
  10. [Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
  12. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
  13. [The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
  14. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious. · "You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls."
  16. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Cruel Intentions · theme · Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99. · "That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable."
  18. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
  19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Secret Admirer ↔ Mean Girls · theme · The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek. · "Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston"
  20. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

  1. [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
  2. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
  3. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
  4. [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)

  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

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 Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 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 Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 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 · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:02:07 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons proposes a championship-belt lineage of smart teen movies starting with Fast Times and running through Mean Girls. · "I feel like Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the 1st one."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:40:03 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · After Fast Times she refused to be pigeonholed in female teen sex comedies, leading to Johnny Dangerously. · "I don't want to get pigeonholed into the like female coming of age teen sex comedy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:32:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Color of Money ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · In 1986 audiences knew Forest Whitaker only as the guy from Fast Times, and this was his 'I'm on the map' part. · "hey, the guy from Fast Times. That was the reaction"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 0:14:38 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · spinoff · Heckerling made three films that spawned TV shows, including Clueless and Fast Times. · "Amy Heckerling has created 3 films that spawn TV shows."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] David Lynch ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · Cameron Crowe approached Lynch to direct Fast Times. · "He was also approached by Cameron Crowe to direct Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:10:19 · David Sims (0.45)] Jennifer Jason Leigh ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · In Flesh+Blood she feels like the Fast Times girl transposed to the medieval period. · "she kind of just feels like the Fast Times of Brisbane High Girl transposed into this time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:56:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Judge Reinhold ↔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High · career · Reinhold's rise runs from Fast Times (1982) through Ruthless People; Vice Versa was his solo breakout attempt that failed. · "Vice versa was his big chance to break out on his own. Didn't work, and then the wheels kind of came off after that."
[pairs] Fast Times at Ridgemont High ↔ Look Who's Talking · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:06:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Fast Times at Ridgemont High · fun · Cameron Crowe went undercover in high school as a grown-up to learn how teens talked. · "he actually went undercover in high school as a grown up to try to learn how people were talking."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Baby's Day Out (the host's read) · lineage · The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out. · "I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie."
[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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40)] Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet. · "Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers."
[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 · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:11:43 · unknown (0.30)] Kirstie Alley ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Her Cheers character is a man-written career woman chasing rich men; the film writes the same character with intelligence and compassion. · "this feels like the same character boat written like intelligently and compassionately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 2:14:39 · Hillary Busis (0.40)] Parenthood ↔ Look Who's Talking · theme · Parenthood, number seven that week, is a more mature parenting film; parenting movies are rarer than pregnancy movies. · "There's a lot more pregnancy movies than like actual parenting movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Easy A ↔ Mean Girls · theme · Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious. · "You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Mean Girls ↔ Cruel Intentions · theme · Cruel Intentions is argued to be a smart teen movie because it comments on the genre; Simmons says it is an adult movie using teens, coming on Rewatchables 99. · "That's actually an adult movie that's using teens, which is what makes it so weird and uncomfortable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Secret Admirer ↔ Mean Girls · theme · The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek. · "Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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 Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 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.