Richard Pryor

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q294912: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Some Kind of Hero, which Miami Vice - Pilot Episode credits them on.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Weird Science (1985); Bird (1988); n/a. Count them as actor (4 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Mad Max 2 (1981): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they were tied to as impersonated by Anthony Michael Hall: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Weird Science (1985), which they were tied to as impersonated by Anthony Michael Hall: Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie.
    “It comprises 10% of the whole movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Al Feldstein: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they were tied to as impersonated by Anthony Michael Hall: Al Feldstein ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein.
    “this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Superbad (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they were tied to as impersonated by Anthony Michael Hall: Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
    “Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Breakfast Club (1985): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they were tied to as impersonated by Anthony Michael Hall: The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
    “Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Oingo Boingo: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Weird Science (1985), which they were tied to as impersonated by Anthony Michael Hall: Weird Science ⇒ Oingo Boingo (the host's read). The speaker imagines the title song was written after the band was told the plot and shown the film, Frankenstein vibe included.
    “I'm making this movie. It's about these 15 year old kids that create basically like the perfect woman and she comes out of the computer and has sex with them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Superbad (2007): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Weird Science (1985), which they were tied to as impersonated by Anthony Michael Hall: Weird Science ⇒ Superbad (the host's read). Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
    “Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Richard Pryor. Pryor and Bill Murray visibly wait for their moment to steal a scene; Eddie is present and connected instead.
    “Richard Pryor was like this and Bill Murray can be like this where you can tell that they're waiting for their moment to do the thing that they're going to do that steals the scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:18 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Anthony Michael Hall → Richard Pryor. Hall does a Richard Pryor impression in the Chet-stairs scene; Hughes and Hall both loved Pryor.
    “He's basically doing a richer Pryor impersonation”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:35:16 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (almost-cast): Bird → Richard Pryor. For years Richard Pryor was supposed to play Charlie Parker before Forest Whitaker did.
    “One for years was supposed to be Richard Pryor, portraying Charlie Parker, and it ultimately became Forrest Whitaker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:28 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.