What the corpus says about Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Revenge of the Nerds (1984) 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 Revenge of the Nerds (1984) 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 · The Color of Money · 3:12:43 · unknown (0.30)] Tough Guys ↔ Revenge of the Nerds · people · Tough Guys was directed by Jeff Kanew, who also made Revenge of the Nerds. · "That is crazy, the director of Revenge of the Nerds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:11:52 · unknown (0.30)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Revenge of the Nerds · people · The 1980s Captain America TV movie starred Matt Salinger, who was a brutish rival in Revenge of the Nerds. · "Who was the Jock and Revenge of the Nerds?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · A real period home interior and a Nazi-chase beat read as very Rocketeer. · "It's very rocketeer."
[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)

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 Revenge of the Nerds (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Revenge of the Nerds (1984) 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.