What the corpus says about Pretty Woman (1990)

The 59 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 (15)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Pretty Woman ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable. · "prep for next week's rewatchable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:21:02 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · Both have absurd premises that work because the human emotion works. · "Pretty woman's absurd."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Pretty Woman · contrast · Juliet calls Harry Met Sally an anomaly among 89-05 rom-coms because the writing is so sharp and it has a real vibe. · "But Harry Mitzally is an anomaly because the writing is so, so sharp."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman ↔ When Harry Met Sally · verdict · Amanda ranks Pretty Woman second among romantic comedies behind When Harry Met Sally. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · industry · The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes. · "We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Pretty Woman · programming · Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:10:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Pretty Woman · career · 1990 was Gere's comeback year after nearly a decade of bombs: he was the eighth choice for everything. · "He is like the 8th choice for every movie after the other 7 people have passed."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Pretty Woman · career · Pretty Woman is Gere's apex, and it comes the same year as Internal Affairs. · "I mean, Pretty Woman is Richard Gears, Apex."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:40:12 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Richard Gere ↔ Pretty Woman · career · Gere's comeback came with Internal Affairs and Pretty Woman the same year. · "Richard Gere had 7 straight years of terrible movies and was dead and then Internal Affairs and Pretty Women completely arrived them"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman ↔ Julia Roberts · people · Pretty Woman launched Julia Roberts, one of Amanda's favorite movie stars. · "obviously also launches one of my favorite movie stars, Julia Roberts"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:32:28 · unknown (0.40)] Garry Marshall ↔ Pretty Woman · people · Marshall directed Pretty Woman and is called a titan of television (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley). · "Gary Marshall, obviously, a titan of television."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:48:41 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Lindsay Lohan ↔ Pretty Woman · what-if · Asked whether Lohan could have starred in Pretty Woman at 23; they say no, her power was suburban edge, not hard exterior and soft center. · "Could she have done Pretty Woman if Pretty Woman was 20 years later?"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Pretty Woman ↔ Working Girl · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Pretty Woman ↔ When Harry Met Sally · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:31:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman · fun · Amanda wonders about wearing a Pretty Woman polka-dot dress to a wedding where younger guests may miss the reference. · "I was internet shopping to avoid the world the earlier today, and then there was a brand polka address"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:08:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Pretty Woman · fun · Amanda's husband claims her favorite movie is Pretty Woman, which she says is not even in her top 50 rom-coms. · "I was like, what have I ever talked to you about Pretty Woman in my entire life?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (33)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
[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 — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb. · "Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:27:11 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Sandlot ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Bill wants to do a Rewatchables on The Sandlot. · "We have to do rewatchables on the sandlot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick. · "Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales. · "that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Player ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · theme · Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors. · "So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage. · "And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70)] Harry Connick Jr. ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms. · "it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05."
[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 Player' · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Greta Scacchi ↔ The Player · theme · Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists. · "But that character is soon going to be like in movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[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 Player' · 1:24:23 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Player ↔ Jean-Luc Godard · theme · Wesley says withholding the nudity you paid to see is a Godardian frustration of the male gaze. · "it's very Godartian, that, that kind of frustration of the, of, I mean, let's just go there for 12nd."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines

The shows' running bits (2)

[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] 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 Pretty Woman (1990) 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 Pretty Woman (1990) 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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Pretty Woman ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable. · "prep for next week's rewatchable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:21:02 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · Both have absurd premises that work because the human emotion works. · "Pretty woman's absurd."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60)] When Harry Met Sally ↔ Pretty Woman · contrast · Juliet calls Harry Met Sally an anomaly among 89-05 rom-coms because the writing is so sharp and it has a real vibe. · "But Harry Mitzally is an anomaly because the writing is so, so sharp."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman ↔ When Harry Met Sally · verdict · Amanda ranks Pretty Woman second among romantic comedies behind When Harry Met Sally. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · industry · The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes. · "We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Pretty Woman · programming · Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:10:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Pretty Woman · career · 1990 was Gere's comeback year after nearly a decade of bombs: he was the eighth choice for everything. · "He is like the 8th choice for every movie after the other 7 people have passed."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Richard Gere ↔ Pretty Woman · career · Pretty Woman is Gere's apex, and it comes the same year as Internal Affairs. · "I mean, Pretty Woman is Richard Gears, Apex."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:40:12 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Richard Gere ↔ Pretty Woman · career · Gere's comeback came with Internal Affairs and Pretty Woman the same year. · "Richard Gere had 7 straight years of terrible movies and was dead and then Internal Affairs and Pretty Women completely arrived them"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman ↔ Julia Roberts · people · Pretty Woman launched Julia Roberts, one of Amanda's favorite movie stars. · "obviously also launches one of my favorite movie stars, Julia Roberts"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:32:28 · unknown (0.40)] Garry Marshall ↔ Pretty Woman · people · Marshall directed Pretty Woman and is called a titan of television (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley). · "Gary Marshall, obviously, a titan of television."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:48:41 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Lindsay Lohan ↔ Pretty Woman · what-if · Asked whether Lohan could have starred in Pretty Woman at 23; they say no, her power was suburban edge, not hard exterior and soft center. · "Could she have done Pretty Woman if Pretty Woman was 20 years later?"
[pairs] Pretty Woman ↔ Working Girl · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Pretty Woman ↔ When Harry Met Sally · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:31:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pretty Woman · fun · Amanda wonders about wearing a Pretty Woman polka-dot dress to a wedding where younger guests may miss the reference. · "I was internet shopping to avoid the world the earlier today, and then there was a brand polka address"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:08:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Pretty Woman · fun · Amanda's husband claims her favorite movie is Pretty Woman, which she says is not even in her top 50 rom-coms. · "I was like, what have I ever talked to you about Pretty Woman in my entire life?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
[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 — Patreon · The Game · 1:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ The Player · programming · Two 90s satirical thrillers about soulless titans of industry caught in a trap of their own design. · "In terms of like 90s, uh, sort of vaguely satirical thrillers"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95)] The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read) · lineage · Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb. · "Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:27:11 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Sandlot ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Bill wants to do a Rewatchables on The Sandlot. · "We have to do rewatchables on the sandlot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick. · "Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke. · "Going back to singing in the rain."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales. · "that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Player ↔ Network · lineage · In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic. · "But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Player ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · theme · Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors. · "So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage. · "And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70)] Harry Connick Jr. ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms. · "it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05."
[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 Player' · 1:10:45 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] Greta Scacchi ↔ The Player · theme · Wesley says the 'quirky artist' love-interest type in The Player is a cliche that will soon be replaced by teachers and gallerists. · "But that character is soon going to be like in movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[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 Player' · 1:24:23 · Wesley Morris (0.80)] The Player ↔ Jean-Luc Godard · theme · Wesley says withholding the nudity you paid to see is a Godardian frustration of the male gaze. · "it's very Godartian, that, that kind of frustration of the, of, I mean, let's just go there for 12nd."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[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] 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 Pretty Woman (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Pretty Woman (1990) 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.